Joomla 1.0.x : How it works

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I gave this presentation in skills camp pune last year. I am sharing the slides here, in hope some one still find it useful even though joomla 1.5 is released last month.

In this presentation I talked about how Request flow in a joomla application. I also explained the entity relationship diagram (ERD) of joomla, that i created by reverse engineering the joomla database,  reading the code and off course searching the internet.

The most difficult part to understand was user rights management part of the database. It is based on phpGACL library, reading their help files helped get clear idea about right management in joomla. Access Control chapter in joomla website also helped.

and here is the recorded session of same.

Joomla as a framework

Request flow in Joomla

Database and User Managment in Joomla

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12 Responses to “Joomla 1.0.x : How it works”

  1. June 11, 2008 12:24 pm sandeep says

    Hi Amit,

    I was going through your presentation on joomla. It is really useful. I have few questions on joomla which you may be able to clarify if you don’t mind. The first one is:

    1. I was going through the source code and I saw $my variable for which I couldn’t find where it is initially instantiated.
    2. Do you have anymore docs which you thik will be helpful for a novice like me.

  2. June 11, 2008 12:29 pm Amit Kumar Singh says

    Hi Sandeep,

    $my is initialized in initSessionAdmin function in joomla.php file. yes i have few more things with me, if you could let me know i might link them for you.

  3. June 11, 2008 1:25 pm sandeep says

    That will be wonderful. It will really help me.

    Regarding my question, how the function initSessionAdmin is called? I see a reference to loadbotGroup function in index.php which in turn uses $my declared as global. But where actually $my gets created.

    And is the function above executed for normal users as well?

    Thanks a lot for your time.

    Sandeep

  4. June 12, 2008 4:11 am Amit Kumar Singh says

    sandeep, $my is also initialized in index.php file. search for this “$my = $mainframe->getUser();”. No initSessionAmin function is not used for noraml user.

    exactly what you need?

  5. July 1, 2008 2:30 pm Shaf says

    Hi Amit,

    Could I have the copy of the presentation please. Or is there anyway I can view a clearer version of it in fullscreen?

    Thanks

  6. July 1, 2008 3:28 pm Amit Kumar Singh says

    yup, i will mail it to you.

  7. January 2, 2009 10:55 pm Gaurav Chaudhary says

    Hi Amit,

    Wonder Full presentation. I am developing a developing the custom login utility. I am able to login into joomla site by my custom scripts for user registration. But now i want the session ID of the logged in user to get appropriate data from my tables. Exploring session table of joomla i found that session data is stored in this table and $my variable can be used for accessing the session data but i am not able to access the data through $my variable and am not getting the clue of the problem. Can you suggest me some solution please. Also can i get a copy of your presentation so that i can understand the joomla framework efficiently.

    Thanks for your help.

    Gaurav

  8. January 3, 2009 10:55 am Amit Kumar Singh says

    gaurav,
    you can download the presentation from the slideshare.net.

  9. January 3, 2009 9:33 pm Gaurav Chaudhary says

    Thanks for quick reply.

    I got following error while trying to download your presentation :(

    This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

    −

    NoSuchKey
    The specified key does not exist.
    how-joomla-works-11928648519882-1.ppt
    EF76B72EAA2E0057
    −

    7+CPjQks00lPjceqcu1HaxyGP5czUsTbO2Irb+LBoeHjpu4YECqqCmqliGDuJxqG

    Please look into this

    Thanks

    Gaurav

  10. April 21, 2009 12:29 pm kashyapi says

    hello sir, m doing my project with joomla. Now i need to show the relations between the tables for my report work and its getting difficult for me to get the exact parent child relationships between the tables. can u please help me out….!!!

    Thanks in advance

    kashyapi

  11. May 6, 2009 5:32 pm Damith says

    Hi Amit,

    I’m also interested about joomla and how does it work. It’s a great presentation and I learned lot of things.

    It’ll be more helpful if I can get the ppt slides. Can you please send me those. I tried to download it through slideshare.net but it returns an error.

    Please send me the slides… :D

    Thank you,

    Damith

  12. October 12, 2009 4:16 pm suren says

    if you don’t mine send some clear detail about joomla media manager

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