Joomla 1.0 end-of-life is approaching and it's time for developers who sitll use Joomla 1.5's legacy mode to switch over to the native API.  I've prepared a detailed cheat sheet for what is required to convert your Joomla 1.0 based extensions to run natively on Joomla 1.5: Converting Old Extensions to Joomla 1.5.

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This layout override tutorial gives you a basis for overriding the output of the Joomla banners module. This simple example shows you how to add a title tag to the click link but also gives you a base for allowing addition customisation.

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If you are anything like me and maintain a few web sites, sometimes you forget to update the copyright year that you typically put in a footer module or embed in the template itself.  A tiny line of PHP code can fix this so you never have to worry about it again.

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Is there a way to have Joomla display a section like a table of contents in a book?  It turns out there is.  I wanted the Art of Joomla's Developer Reference to look like a table of contents, with each category being like a chapter and all the articles to display under each category as parts of the chapter.  I found that you can modify the Section Blog Layout with a layout override to achieve this effect - and I think it works quite well.

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Joomla is pretty good at hiding things from the public, and then exposing them once the user logs in.  However, what happens when you want to hide a module position, for example, when the user logs in.  I had this problem with The Art of Joomla site.  I put in a "Subscribe" module for people to sign up for my developer documentation but once they registered I didn't want it annoying them.  Well, it turns out that it's only a few lines of code in the main template file to hide it.

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