In part 1 of this series you could download the whole source which this tutorial is based on. This part and subsequent parts will make use of that source.... Read More
As I promised in part 3 of this series, this piece will be about user registration and login with all that it brings with it in the form of validation and so on.... Read More
In this series I will walk you through the code of a site that uses only Ajax and Scriptaculous to handle it’s completely windowed interface. Making an interface like this is not really good design, it’s only done here for the sake of teaching. It is kinda cool though. Especially if you have a big screen.... Read More
In this part we will take a look at how the main content area can change based on user actions. This is basically done in the same way we display menus with the difference that we have to give insert_item() dynamic data.... Read More
Before we begin I want to stress that this is not a newbie tutorial. If the current level is too much for you I recommend these tutorials: For the Zend Framework For Smarty... Read More
Background
I’ll make this short so we can get on with the tutorial: The reason I’m making this system is that we use Joomla 1.5 for our CMS related stuff here and Community Builder (A.K.A Joomlapolis) just don’t work very well with 1.5. Alas, for the current project I’m doing we need some basic blog and gallery functionality for each member and as far as I know there is no real replacement for Community Builder. Checking out typo3 alternatives didn’t work out well either. At a quick glance CWT Community didn’t seem to have the features I was looking for, neither did HOI Community. Any Community looked more promising but the alpha status didn’t really excite me.... Read More
