Joomla support

[rogerco]

Given that Joomla downloads of 2.0.4 are running slightly ahead of Drupal on SourceForge would it be worth requesting a specific Joomla issues board on here. I know there is a Joomla sub-board under Installation but that is intended for installation issues and there are lost of post install quirks and improvements that I would like to know about.

The obvious thing is getting ACL working with J1.5 which I gather isn't even planned in the next (2.1) major Civi release so I guess we are going to have to find hacks and workarounds for a long while yet.

The Joomla structure also lends itself to doing things like writing additional Joomla extensions which would provide front-end functionality independently of the CiviCRM code base (apart from the API) - obvious things include getting access to read and create activity records associated with contacts, and possibly an alternative approach to using CiviCRM on the Joomla frontend. If anyone is interested in cooperating on these or other ideas a Joomla sub-board might be a good place to start...or does such a place already exist elsewhere?

RogerCO

[Donald Lobo]

Download numbers are just one indicator (though not very reliable) of usage. We also have an ping back mechanism which gives us this information. Based on those numbers 66% of the user base is drupal and 34% is Joomla. I suspect this number is a bit more reliable

We dont have any joomla extensions built for CiviCRM specifically (though speleo has started one recently). Once there is some more progress on this, it might make sense to do so. I think it might be a bit early right now

lobo

[rogerco]

Fairy 'nuff.

Just in case anyone is watching this forum for Joomla related bits I have just posted a hack to use CiviCRM groups as access control lists in a Joomla installation - over in the developer discussion.

What I'd like next is a way of adding and viewing events associated with a contact from the front end - but there doesn't seem to be any exposure of contact-events to the front end so it'll be a bit more work.

RogerCO