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 [...]

Here comes the pain again! IE6. IE6 is a pain to general user but it has caused greater pain to web developers and web designers. IE6 was released in 2001 and it is almost a decade, we are still using it. Seriously, we need to upgrade. If you please, you can join the stop IE6 [...]

This tutorial is the continuation of my previous tutorial on Building MVC-model-view-controller component in Joomla1.5 – Part 1. In this tutorial, I will talk about the directory structure of a component. All components should be created under components folder. This applies to both administrator and user part of Joomla. A component under the root components [...]

Do you own a site that needs to be updated regularly? Or Do you want your site to boast of useful tips, news that is scattered all over the internet in various websites? If Yes and you are willing to do less manual work for all those tedious job, then JoomRSS should be your answer. [...]

I regularly hear few of my friends expressing their agony they face when they try to upload large files with php using HTML Forms. I tell them about .htaccess files, and they really enjoy the solution. Many hosting providers limit the file upload size from 2 MB to 8MB and it is really a big [...]

In the past few years, PHP has emerged as one of the A-list programming languages, taking its place alongside Java and the .NET Framework as one of the most popular languages for developing web sites. In fact, PHP is currently used to create some of the highest volume web sites in the world, including Yahoo!, [...]