Sanjeev Shrestha

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 [...]

A small donation can make a big difference to opensource developers who devote few hours a day to help a community of users. I also develop extensions for Joomla and release it for others to use. Joomlaguru.com.np is one of my site that is devoted to help Joomla users. Small or Big, donations matter to [...]

I recently released jQuery plugin for Joomla on joomlaguru.com.np. This is a simple plugin that allows user to use jQuery in Joomla and is based on my tutorial here. This plugin works in two modes and allows user a flexibility to replace or use jquery in conjunction with mootools.  This plugin is released under GNU/GPL [...]

I have created a google analytics plugin for Joomla. This plugin is simple and inserts google analytics code into joomla pages. This plugin is released under GNU/GPL license. The plugin is free and available from www.joomlaguru.com.np

Good news and Congratulations to every Joomligans – The most awaited Joomla 1.6 is in its alpha 2. I personally believe this will be better joomla than ever. Better navigation, better organization of contents and better extension development environment and many more. The most important thing in this joomla for me is ACL management, still [...]

Have you wondered, if there was an easy way to find past and future dates in PHP? I had to work on something similar and to tell the truth I did not know that we had easy way around. Yes, I used to create my own library for this, silly me .

I recently had to work with .htaccess to redirect user to their homepage based on subdomain. The requirement was simple and is seen here and there and ofcourse everywhere now a days in different social networks. The requirement was redirecting http://username.domain.tld to http://domain.tld/user.php?u=username. This is just an example (Not similar to url I used). So [...]

I hear different people saying different things about multi-threading in PHP. Some say it cannot be done, no way and others say yes, it can be done. But I say, it cannot be done purely but we can implement pseudo multithreading. That is we can fake multi threading in PHP.
So how do we do [...]

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 [...]

Charts are useful and more informative way of representing data in a website. There are many commercial and opensource components and libraries available to implement charts in a website. Most of them are flash based and very attractive. There may be cases where you don’t want or can’t use flash based charts. So what are [...]