Recently on one of my Joomla projects a user complained that they used the Password Reset feature but they encountered an error in the final steps of the process. How does Joomla’s Password Reset feature work? Joomla’s Password Reset feature asks for the user’s email address which it checks for in the user account table [...]

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Over the last few weeks I’ve gotten increasingly busy (hence the lull in articles on this site) in customising certain Joomla components at work. One component I came across just last week is RokDownloads. This is a file-download management component for Joomla 1.5 and as the name suggests it rocks! Developed by the same team [...]

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Although Joomla is a very popular open source application for building content-rich web sites, the available documentation for version 1.0x leaves a lot to be desired. Currently working on a pretty big, and complicated, project involving multiple Joomla sites, I went off in search of relevant material that would help me design and build custom [...]

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When starting out in Joomla, either as a developer or site administrator, it’s likely one of the first questions to pop up will be what the difference between a Component and a Module is. Although it’s possible to ‘figure’ out what does what, it’s always a good idea to get the low-down from someone who’s [...]

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What version to use for a Joomla project is a question that requires some thought, primarily regarding the functionality you want your Joomla site to have. Joomla 1.0x has been around since about April 2004, with the latest version 1.015 released on 22nd February 2008, and because of this it has a large number of [...]

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