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by dinesh on Monday, 08 December 2008
Differences between joomla 1.0 and joomla 1.5
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PHP Related
Handling Input
| Old Way / Usage | New Way |
$id = mosGetParam( $_REQUEST, 'id', 0 ); | $id = JRequest::getVar( 'id', 0 ); |
Global Vars
| Old Way / Usage | New Way |
global $acl; | $acl =& JFactory::getACL(); |
global $mosConfig_live_site; | $mainframe->getCfg( 'live_site' ); |
global $database; | $database = $mainframe->getDBO(); // or: $database = &JFactory::getDBO(); |
Raising Errors
| Old Way / Usage | New Way |
mosNotAuth(); | JError::raiseError( 403, JText::_("ALERTNOTAUTH") ); |
| A fatal error | if (!$row->check()) {Â JError::raiseError( 500, $row->getError());} |
Including common files
| Old Way / Usage | New Way |
$mainframe->getPath( 'admin_html' ) | JApplicationHelper::getPath('admin_html') |
Internationalization Support
| Old Way / Usage | New Way |
echo _HELLO; | echo JText::_( 'Hello' ); |
| UTF8 Safe Lower Casing | Â |
Common Component Coding
| Old Way / Usage | New Way |
| List pagination | jimport('joomla.presentation.pagination');$pagination = new JPagination($total, $limitstart, $limit); |
File Handling
| Old Way / Usage | New Way |
| Listing files or folders mosReadDirectory(...) | JFolder::files(...) // or JFolder::files(...) |
Miscellaneous
| Old Way / Usage | New Way |
| Get the menu parameters in a component (frontend) | jimport('joomla.application.extension.component');$mParams = &JComponentHelper::getMenuParams(); // example: $pageclass_sfx = $mParams->get( 'pageclass_sfx' ); |
| Get the control (model, view, controller, renderer, template) parameters in a component (frontend) | jimport('joomla.application.extension.component');$cParams = &JComponentHelper::getControlParams(); // example: $viewName = $cParams->get('view_name'); |
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HTML Related
Buttons
The use of the BUTTON tag is prefered to INPUT.
| Old Way / Usage | New Way |
| Submit Button | <button onclick="this.form.submit();"><?php echo JText::_( 'Go' ); ?></button> |
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