Carol Motley, Executive Director, Pittsylvania County Economic Development
Over the years I have worked with several web sites developers in attempts to have a site that was user friendly and at the same time was specific to our profession and our clients. Buentec was the first and only one who understood what I wanted and created the site I had been seeking for years.
Chesapeake Bay Ltd.
Joomla Hacks
This is a new area of our site. We are going to use it to publish how-to's for Joomla! developers. When we come accross something that is not straight forward, we will be documenting our discoveries here. If you aren't au-fait with PHP, MySQL and Joomla!, this stuff probably isn't for you...
MySQL Remote Access
Written by David Parrish
Certainly not strictly a Joomla! thing... You may want to use a remote client for database administration and modifications, or perhaps you have need to integrate a desktop application with the database that runs your website. Whatever the reason, if you need to access a MySQL database remotely, doing so is pretty simple if know how.Custom Components and SEF URLs
Written by David Parrish
If you are writing your own components, there a couple of things that you need to do to make the component work with the Joomla! built-in SEF functionality and 3rd party SEF components. We learned the hard way.Custom Access for Groups in Joomla!
Written by David Parrish
One of the more limiting things in Joomla! is the way that user and group access is handled. In order for a backend Joomla! user to have access to modules and components they have to be set up as either an Administrator or Super Administrator. The problem is that this gives them access to a host of capabilities that the average content owner should not mess with. By altering gacl.class.php you can alter the default Joomla! access control and specifically define the role for individual users or groups. Here is how it is done.