Blog entries tagged Plugins

Embedding Videos in Joomla Content

Trevor M. — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Embedding videos inside your Joomla content is easy. There are several Joomla plugins that make it a snap.

The plugin I would suggest is called the AllVideos (by JoomlaWorks), and can be downloaded for free at www.joomla.org.

Once you have installed the plugin, you will need to enable it by going to the "Plugin Manager" in the backend of your Joomla site (/administrator).

Below are some of the plugins features:

1. Dozens of video providers supported, Read More...

Writing a Joomla 1.5 Content Plugin

Garrett Bluma — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:00:00 +0100

This article will show you how to build a quick plugin to replace some text in an article before it get's displayed to the user.

Intro

Lately I've been writing a number of content plugins for Joomla. They're pretty simple, but basically it allows you to transform the content at a number of points in Joomla's process of editing, saving, and displaying of that content. In theory you could use it to do anything but it's common to replace text and/or add special content into the articlesRead More...

Write an Advanced Joomla 1.5 Authentication Plugin (Part 2)

Garrett Bluma — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:00:00 +0100

In my previous article Write an Advanced Joomla 1.5 Authentication Plugin I went over how to integrate Joomla with an alternate login system (i.e. legacy code from a previous project)

This is good, but we don't need to stop here. We can improve the authentication plugin by attaching session data from our legacy system and essentially merge our legacy session with our joomla session.

For example if we have a database table for session data with the following fields:

session_Read More...

Write an Advanced Joomla 1.5 Authentication Plugin

Garrett Bluma — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Why Joomla's (or any CMS's) login system alone isn't enough

In the support of any long-lived project, chances are pretty good that you'll need to adapt the project to meet the requirements of another system. One specific area which I want to focus on is authentication-- that is, being able to extend Joomla's standard authentication system to support an alternate user table.

The problem we have is a CMS (Joomla) that needs to integrate with another project. This alternate project has iRead More...