jQuery is great. In previous posts, I have written at length about my admiration for jQuery and how it helped lay the foundation for modern Javascript with it’s intuitive API. I was using jQuery for my AZDirectory module for things like event handlers and AJAX calls. I wanted to remove the jQuery dependency, and replacing …
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Continue readingJoomla’s Email Protection Script in an AJAX ResponseVersion 5.4.0 of the A-Z Directory module was a complete refactoring of the Javascript, eliminating the jQuery and Bootstrap dependencies. Most of the module Javascript dealt with AJAX calls, click events, and basic DOM manipulation. Converting these functions from jQuery to native Javascript was fairly straightforward. The functionality of displaying a modal if a user clicks on the contact name, and supporting the tabs and sliders within that modal, was where the real challenge lied.
Continue readingThe A-Z Directory Module – Version 5.3.5With regret, I am no longer able to support the LinkedIn Company Updates Joomla module. Originally published in March 2016, the version 1.0 of the LinkedIn API that it was built upon has been deprecated. In order to use version 2.0, and specifically to use the r_organization_social permission, I had to submit an application to …
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Continue readingSunsetting LinkedIn Company UpdatesJoomla was generating a Category Blog layout for Uncategorised articles even though an explicit menu item was not created to do so.
Continue readingJoomla 2-uncategorised RedirectsI’ve used this technique on several different projects, all relating to fetching Joomla article content via an Ajax call and appending tmpl=component at the end of the URL. As I’ve lamented before, adding tmpl=component does display only the contents of the page without the surrounding context, but it also loads the jQuery and Bootstrap frameworks.
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