Hi,

Been a programmer for many years now, but am new to Joomla.

I have a client whose current site is heavily coded with PHP and now he wants to integrate Joomla so he can maintain layouts / content himself.

Anyone know of a resource they could point me to? I've read Joomla books but none touch on this subject.

I have not read your book, but if this is discussed, i'd sure purchase it.

Thanks.

Gald you stopped by! My book is mainly about creating extensions from scratch using Joomla!'s native APIs. However, the nice thing about Joomla! is that you can start your code at components/com_yourcomponent/yourcomponent.php and pretty much do straight PHP from there. If the old application is trying to do anything like manage sessions or write custom HTTP/HTML headers, you'll need to strip that stuff out and hook into Joomla!'s framework. It really depends on the PHP app, but a lot of popular Joomla! components started out as existing PHP projects.

Good luck with your client!

Thank you.

I managed to get through everything and it works great. Here's my snag and i'm not sure if this is a book topic or not.

When you create a new account via Joomla!, it only collected your Name, email & password. What if i want to collect a persons address, state & zip?

Thanks,

Norm

For that, you'll want to create or use another extension. The Community Builder component does this sort of thing.

You could use the core user component, then have it redirect to a custom component on login where you could check to see if the address, state, and zip have been entered.

Hello Joseph

i am new to joomla and am shortly to start in helping to revamp a customer's website to include a CMS. But i'd like to retain the ability to integrate our own php into the project either alongside or interwoven with joomla. How can this be done please? Any suggestions, general or specific, gratefully received.
Cheers,

Mark Weatherill.

Hi Mark,

The simplest possible way of doing this would be to create your own component. To do so, go to the 'components' folder, then create a folder in the format of 'com_yourcomponentnamehere'. Within this folder, create a file named yourcomponentnamehere.php. At the top of this file, add this code:

Code:

defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access' );

(Add this line to the top of all your PHP files to prevent users from executing them directly.) After that, you can write whatever you need. You can execute the component by going to index.php?option=com_yourcomponentnamehere.