Joomla! 1.5 Documentation Resources

[leadict]

This is a review of Joomla! 1.5 documentation resources. It is aimed mainly to an intermediate experienced user level, so it includes news and articles from Developers Blogs and Main Site, but there are another great specific resources for developers (you can found these by clicking on links to JDN Framework and Wiki Areas).
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1. News of Joomla! 1.5 Status

• 1.1. Joomla! 1.5 feature complete
• 1.2. A quick development update
• 1.3. Joomla! 1.5 Beta Release Date Announced
• 1.4. One Giant Step for the Joomlasphere — Joomla! 1.5 Beta Released
• 1.5. The days after the 1.5 Beta release
• 1.6. Joomla! 1.5 beta 2 development status
• 1.7. Beta-2 announcement?
• 1.8. Joomla! 1.5 Beta-2 status
• 1.9. Joomla! 1.5 Beta-2 — The Developers' and Designers' Revolution!
• 1.10. The magic number for today is…50.000
• 1.11. Stick To The Code
• 1.12. The Road to RC
• 1.13. Joomla! 1.5 RC status
• 1.14. Joomla! RC1 — Austin... the Joomla! has Landed
• 1.15. The making of?Joomla! 1.5 RC
• 1.16. Future development of Joomla!
• 1.17. Joomla! 1.5 RC2 Endeleo Released - Happy Birthday Joomla!
• 1.18. Joomla! 1.5 RC3 — Codename Takriban

2. Global Overviews of Features

• 2.1. Joomla! 1.5 User Interface Features - Part 1
• 2.2. Joomla! 1.5 User Interface Features - Part 2
• 2.3. A short overview on the goodies in the 1.5-beta
• 2.4. Joomla! 1.5 beta-2 overview

3. Performance Tests

• 3.1. Joomla! performance testing

4. Framework and Libraries

• 4.1. New MVC framework in Joomla 1.5 too good?
• 4.2. (x)AJAX in Joomla! 1.5
• 4.3. Joomla! 1.5 will use Mootools as Javascript Framework

5. Installation and Migration

• 5.1. Migrating content to Joomla 1.5 (Outdated)
• 5.2. Migration Revisited
• 5.3. How it works: 1.0 to 1.5 Migration*
• 5.4. New Joomla! 1.5 Installation Manual*

(*See also: Joomla! 1.5 Help Site Docs)

6. Templates and Accessibility

• 6.1. Templates changes in Joomla! 1.1
• 6.2. Templates in Joomla! 1.5 - Part 1
• 6.3. Joomla! 1.5 - Template tutorial available
• 6.4. Joomla! 1.5 Accessibility - Buzz, Beez and templates
• 6.5. Joomla! 1.5 Accessibility - Look Ma no Itemid’s
• 6.6. Joomla! 1.5 Template Contest

7. Content Editor

• 7.1. Content Editor Unification
• 7.2. 3065 : A revision to remember

8. Languages and Internationalization

• 8.1. Implementation of UTF-8 in Joomla! 1.5
• 8.2. Update on 1.5 from a translator’s aspect (or what is still going to change)
• 8.3. Two XML files for language packs. Installer changes
• 8.4. PDF Fonts in Joomla 1.5
• 8.5. UTF-8 Matters
• 8.6. Joomla! in your language

9. Mambots-Plugins

• 9.1. Renaming mambots

10. Authentication and XML-RPC

• 10.1. GMail Authentication Plugin
• 10.2. Authentication Options: SSO vs SSI
• 10.3. LDAP and Joomla!
• 10.4. Joomla! 1.5 talks XML-RPC - Part 1
• 10.5. Joomla! 1.5 talks XML-RPC - Part 2

11. Another General Resources

• 11.1. So Really - What’s the Difference
• 11.2. Long Release Cycles versus Rapid Release Cycles
• 11.3. Open Source Does Matter ...
• 11.4. What?s the deal with templates?
• 11.5. Solving Problems: the Joomla! way
• 11.6. Joomla!, the GPL, and commercial organisations

Edit: Added latest news and articles - October 8th, 2007

[louis.landry]

Mod Note: Made this a sticky

Thank you for putting this together

Louis

[ralpher.ren]

Great! Thanks. Can someone provide the chm file for it?

[sg_57]

Sometimes (like now) I am always traveling, and cannot connect.

It would be great if someone could generate a .pdf or something which can be downloaded and viewed without being connected.

Thanks in advance.

sg

[ianmac]

What are you looking for specifically to be in the PDF?

Ian

BTW, leadict...  not sure if it was an oversight, but a few resources you missed - might be helpful to some developer resources - first, the developer's wiki, which is at http://dev.joomla.org/component/option, ... ,32/.  In there you can find many tutorials, tips and trick, and a api reference with working examples.  Also, api.joomla.org is the mechanically generated api reference.

[leadict]

I have missed the more obvious, very worked and useful resources for developers. My apologies, i had focused mainly in a intermediate experienced user level. I have updated it now, if there is another significant document that i overlooked, please let me know, or feel free to update the list directly.

Thanks Ian 

[Hackwar]

leadict, I have to say that I really admire your endurance in this. I would have given up about half way with this list. I really appreciate this valuable list. And to make you feel a bit better still: From all the bug reports, your detailed ones are the absolutely best. Love it.

[leadict]

leadict, I have to say that I really admire your endurance in this. I would have given up about half way with this list. I really appreciate this valuable list. And to make you feel a bit better still: From all the bug reports, your detailed ones are the absolutely best. Love it.

Hannes, thanks very much for the comments and sorry for the delay (I have updated the list according to the latest news).

Leandro

[ediaz]

This is in reference to the Joomla! 1.5 API Reference. I use the information in this reference list very often and I thank you for putting it together. I have been looking for the JToolBarHelper class info and does not appear anywhere in the reference. I know where is located within the joomla software but it seems to me that it should be included as part of the API reference for completeness. 

-ed

[ianmac]

JToolBarHelper is not a part of the framework and there for is not in the framework documentation.

Once we get the API docs into their new home on the wiki, we would welcome assistance in documenting classes such as these in addition to the framework classes.

Ian

[ediaz]

This is in reference to the Joomla! 1.5 API Reference. I was looking for the & JFactory::getDate() method information and is not shown. Is this correct? see: http://api.joomla.org/Joomla-Framework/JFactory.html.

[ianmac]

JFactory::getDate was added for Joomla! 1.5.2 in order to allow the framework to do transliteration of foreign dates on systems that do not have specific locales available.

The docs have not been regenerated since the change has been made. I'll look into this.

Thanks,
Ian

[ianmac]

Sorry... not sure what those statements even mean... can you clarify?

Ian

[jlabs]

If someone would like you can add this as a Joomla Resource link.
The articles are for a commercial extension.
But most users can learn from the articles with or without the extension.

http://www.m65.net/articles-joomla!-joo ... al-76.html

[3dsmax-stuff]

Thanks!
I use Template of Blogger Platform for my blog at 3dsmax-stuff.[URL banned].com
and write the "pager" on post by javascript ( Page Counter 1,2,3... as same as Joomla and WPress)

[alireza7131]

in the help of menu manager and in published colum writr taht"Whether the item has been published or not. You can change the Published state by clicking on the icon in this column " this translate have mistake and the current answer is the number of items of this menu taht published

[FrankA3]

This option in the list is giving a 404

11.5. Solving Problems: the Joomla! way

Looking for a document that says what needs to be done to make the basic installation modules appear in module manager.


Hmmm it seems all the links in the first post need an update

[ianmac]

Looking for a document that says what needs to be done to make the basic installation modules appear in module manager.

Can you explain exactly what you mean? Do you mean the list that you get when you click 'New' to create a New Module?

Ian

[FrankA3]

I only have 6 modules listed. The others are in the database but don't show in back end. See here for full story http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=430&t=319065

But as it was a very basic site no extensions just some articles I am going to just copy out the relevant articles files - install vanilla and restore the content. Odd that the migrator fails on such a basic site! But that is history now, thanks for asking.

[cjshaw]

A lot of these links are giving a 404 response. Please can they be updated!!!

[h2mao]

A lot of these links are giving a 404 response. Please can they be updated!!!

The same:

404 - Component not found

[slogic]

Most of links are dead.

[QertysXasder]

thanks for Joomla! 1.5 Documentation Resources!!!

[Tonie]

I unstickied this, most of the links were from before docs.joomla.org.

[ah010223]

Can it be recheck all the links? I am getting some ok but some are not. It may be server failure or other but such useful thread links should not be dead links.

Thanks in advanced.

[dam-man]

Some are dead links indeed, this is because you're answering an old post from 2008.
You should not do this. Lots of people will receive an email now.

Closed the topic, please start a new one.