Connect Your IDE to a Live Joomla Database Over SSH
Reading a live database through phpMyAdmin gets old quickly. Every IDE with database tooling can connect directly, and the connection should go through an SSH…
Development
Building for Joomla: APIs, packaging and developer tooling.
Package a Joomla Extension So It Installs and Updates Cleanly
An extension that installs is easy. An extension that installs, upgrades over its previous version without losing settings, and tells users when a new release…
Custom Fields or a Content Construction Kit?
Sooner or later a site needs content that is not an article — a property with a price and floor area, an event with a venue, a person with a role. The question…
Submit a Joomla Form With a File Upload Over Ajax
Posting a form with a file attached, without reloading the page, is about a dozen lines of JavaScript in Joomla 6. FormData collects the fields and the file…
Find the Top-Level Category of Any Joomla Category
Colour a section by its top-level category, load a different module set per branch, pick a header image by area of the site — all of these need the same thing…