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Hi all,

I've been reading the documentation and following the topics for quite a while now, but it came to a stage that I can not find a solution anymore. (God I hope I missing something and someone will post me a link that I miss and everything will be solved!!)

First of all I am on Joomla 1.0.x with good HTML/CSS and little php/MySQL skills.

I am working in a non-profit organization as a web designer. When I've been approached for a new website, I did a research and decided to move the CMS from drupal to Joomla. As we are non-profit we don't have sources for a developer, and you can imagine my skills were the reason that I want to change.

I've been working on the site for a month now, almost finished everything, homepage, events, news, search, contact... except one thing;

I have a section that contains 8 categories and I need to have a custom layout for all the content items(it is a profile page) that go under these categories. My problem is if I reach the custom layout using Page Class Suffix, it doesn't allow the frontend user to put the suffix when they create the content. (or maybe my solution was here but I miss it)

So I move to Joomla extensions to see if anything was out there for me to solve my problem, but after installing and experiencing many of them I realize that I should be creating a custom component to meet all my needs. (or maybe I'm wrong) Cause I need a page that I can show video, pictures, texts and events that belongs to this certain person.

In the end I've decided to give a go to Jumi module that allows you to include php scripts into the modules position and/or content articles. As with my little knowledge of php I have created a website something similar to this one before and so I did the same and created php pages that call the categories I need and lists the content items. Everything is on the screen except it is not possible to view a content item from the list of items. Lets say my php code lists all the items belongs to a category and when I click on of the title it doesn't call my "view" page. So I can only include a php file inside the content item using Jumi module, however I am getting errors whatever I did from includes/frontend.php file.

I would like to post my code maybe I can find some suggestions but first of all I wanted to be sure if I am doing the right thing. To be honest I am really desperate and behind the schedule at the moment and I want to know What I can do? If it is the case to writing a custom component that allows me to do everything I need, I am a bit negative.... (skills and time wise)

I appreciate any suggestions/solution, please I don't have anyone else to ask???????????