Elements are of utmost importance in Joomla development. Elements allows you to create custom parameter type that you can use in your metadata files. Metadata files are xml files that are used to provide configuration parameters to your component, module, plugin or even views. Metadata files for your views are used configure menu links that [...]

Yes! Joomla 1.5.x comes with mootools 1.1.x and it is a pity when you cannot use best of the latest mootools widgets with joomla 1.5.x.  To make the matter worse, you will rarely find forums and blogs that discusses about mootools 1.1. In this case you will definitely want to use mootools 1.2.x with Joomla [...]

I found a nice mootools code in David Walsh’s Blog. This code gathers all the siblings of an element but this code is compatible with mootools1.2 and above. I have modified the code a little to implement it in mootools1.1. Why mootools 1.1? because Joomla1.5 still uses mootools1.1. (Joomla1.6 will have mootools1.2). So here is [...]

Have you ever wanted to automatically ajaxify joomla links? This is to say if you ever wished that all the links would open with ajax request in your main component area! If yes, then read on! This small tutorial will teach you how to automatically implement ajax requests in every link on a joomla page. [...]

Joomla ! (till Ver 1.5.10)  by default supports mootools 1.11. The core is still not updated to use mootools 1.2x version. Now back to the topic. jQuery and Mootools are known to produce conflicts when used together. jQuery is more reliable and robust than mootools (It is my personal view)  but it is however not [...]

I see few of my colleagues struggling through long codes, just to implement simple show and  hide. Yes this can be done with simple javascript code, but the implementation is repetitive and cumbersome. Show and hide is used in almost every web site here and there. So this post should be helpful to those people [...]