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The A-Z Directory Module – Version 7.0.0

Updating the AZDirectory module for compatibility with Joomla 4 was more challenging than expected. The primary issue was respecting the start and finish publishing date/times assigned to a contact.

Joomla’s Email Protection Script in an AJAX Response

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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The A-Z Directory Module – Version 5.3.5

Version 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.

Sunsetting LinkedIn Company Updates

With 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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Joomla 2-uncategorised Redirects

Joomla was generating a Category Blog layout for Uncategorised articles even though an explicit menu item was not created to do so.