Joomla! Weekly News, 17-2008

Let’s see a few Joomla! news and tutorials I found this week.

photo credit: Kacper (tow.zwierz)

Here’s a nice official guide for beginners, Absolute beginners guide to Joomla.

Alledia listed 3 nice articles

• So, you want to speed up Joomla?
• Joomla and Magento. To Integrate or Not
• Joomla! Coding Practices: Tables and Primary Keys

As I found on My Joomla! News, the dev team has listed the 10 ten best Joomla! 1.6 whitepapers.

The top 5 is

• 5 Expansions to the User Management System (Draft)
• 4 User Interface Copy, Move, Delete, Trash Consistency
• 3 Library Installer
• 2 Access Management in Joomla! 1.6
• 1 Improve SQL query for a speedy joomla 1.6

That’s interesting, it seems that the next release of Joomla! will have a great improvement on speed, a new access management, a new user management system, a rework on the consistency of the user interface.

If you want to know more about the next Joomla! 1.6 release, here’s a list of the 52 whitepapers accepted by the Joomla! development team.

From GoodWebPractices, how to hide content from certain users.

Let’s list a few extensions released this week:

• DirectPHP for Section/Category Description, used to insert PHP code in the category/section description, in order to create it dinamically.
• Customers Who Bought… a VirtueMart plugin to create something similar to the Amazon store system that suggests products bought by users who bought the product you are viewing.
• Tabs Manager GK1, tabs to improve the site interaction.
• Google Adsense for Search Full, Google Adsense for search implementation for Joomla!.
• MH2 Treasury 2.0, to accept donations.
• loadmodule for Section/Category Description is able to load a module in the category/section description.
• PW Contact improves the contact form using a captcha to fight spam.
• Camp26 Smooth Gallery For J! 1.5, slideshow for Joomla! 1.5
• VirtueMart PayPal Subscriptions sell services in subscription with VirtueMart.
• SourisVerteMap to manage Google Maps with Joomla! 1.5
• Joomla! Hotel Booking Component to manage an hotel booking system

Here are 3 interesting Joomla! videos

• How to install Joomla! and VirtueMart
• How to fix a hacked Joomla! website
• Adding an image in a Joomla! article

Tags: Joomla, Joomla Weekly News, Joomla-1.5, Joomla-Extensions, Video, Video Joomla, Video Tutorial, VirtueMart

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