Joomla! Revolution!



After faithfully serving the wider Melbourne Joomla community, the JoomlaMUG site is being reborn as the penultimate industry based hub for all things Joomla across Melbourne.

Why is this so?

This site has held the same position on major search engines since launch, and it's time to give something back to the community. This will benefit businesses, resellers, designers and end users of Joomla across Melbourne, Victoria and Australia.

This will include
  • SEO training for Joomla
  • Site critiques of new Australian Joomla based (or sister codebase) sites
  • A better job board, allowing reputation management between studios and clients.


Components 101 - Sydney User Group

Written by Patrick Jackson
Tuesday, 18 September 2007
Last week I learnt how to get started on writing my own component.

September's Sydney User Group meeting happened to be on while I was up there for work, so I called by last Tuesday to meet some Joomla folk in the Emerald City and see what Greg had to teach us about writing components.
Seems it's easier than at least I thought, and I hope to get around to writing a new component to do something handy soon. Greg took the group through how to modify the Hello World component to get to the point where you had changed the name of the component and enhanced the basic functionality... ok so it was just to show the Hello World text differently, but it was a start.

The Sydney User Group site has more detail and some files to get you started. Check it out...

The rest of the evening saw a bit of discussion on 1.5, the potential problems with transitions so far, and some comparisons about what different things people have done with Joomla.