Having been working on auto-blogging with WordPress for a few months now and I wondered aloud as to whether there was anything that could match some of the auto-blogging plugins available in Joomla. I was quite chuffed to discover a tool called Feed Gator. Apparently its been around since Joomla 1.0 days; I didn’t know that, [...]
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Joomla – fetching ‘GET’ Variable the proper way
So apparently there’s a lot of security risks in using our traditional $_GET['item'] within our custom developed modules / extensions. I for one am guilty of using a lot of GETs simply because they’re easy and pretty straight forward. So in order to dispense the ‘risk’ and combat some known exploits we’re advised to use [...]
Joomla
My first real love. In that time it was called Mambo. I must say that I wasn’t too happy with the split that eventually gave birth to Joomla. Mambo means ‘King’ in my native language (shona) and Joomla! means nothing… According to the founders of Joomla! : Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), [...]
