Joomla Guru Nepal - Joomla Developer, Joomla Expert

With Great power comes great responsibility, yes! it fits aptly with Nooku Framework. To leverage the power of Nooku, it requires you to follow some conventions for naming your classes, files, folders, tables and fields too. Let us explore more class naming conventions in detail.

Classes Naming Convention

It depends on what you are naming, it varies if you are naming a component or module or a plugin. If the class is a part of Component, the general syntax is Com<YourComponentName><M/V/C><FileName>.

I think Nooku framework is better. But what is Nooku Framework? Nooku Framework is a new engine, that runs alongside Joomla's own framework. I have been working with Nooku for sometime now and to be true it is many miles ahead of Joomla! core framework. Joomla! 1.5 Framework was major revolution in Joomla history. It changed many things since Joomla 1.0. It changed how we worked with Joomla extensions, how we thought of MVC and moreover it changed how we use Joomla!. But Nooku takes it few steps further.

Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your Web site sing. But for many people, the true power of Joomla! lies in the application framework that makes it possible for developers all around the world to create powerful add-ons that are called Extensions. An Extension is used to add capabilities to Joomla! that do not exist in the base core code. Here are just some examples of the hundreds of available Extensions:

com_memorials is a free component that can be used to display memorials in your site. The live demo of this component can be seen on www.suicideireland.com. This site uses the memorial component from joomlaguru.com.np. and Actually the memorial component was developed for suicideireland.com and is released in public so that other may benefit from the component.

The memorial component is simple component, that allows you to create and display memorials on your site. People can register and post memorials for their late beloved ones.

Elements are of utmost importance in Joomla development. Elements allows you to create custom parameter type that you can use in your metadata files. Metadata files are xml files that are used to provide configuration parameters to your component, module, plugin or even views. Metadata files for your views are used configure menu links that that will use that view.

In this short tutorial, I will tell about creating elements and using it differently on different places. Elements are special files that generally adds value to parameters. For this tutorial, I will create a color element that  can be used in different components, modules, plugins where color selection is done through a color picker. I will use moorainbow as web color picker.

Also note, I am creating this element for my adsensebingo module. Hence this code has been tested and used.

OSDonate is a simple module that collects donations through paypal on your joomla sites. This module is simple to setup and you can get it up and running within a minute. This module is free to use and is released under GNU/GPL.

Version1.0 is the first version of this module and the demo is available on this site itself. If you like this module , you can  consider contributing a small amount to joomlaguru.com.np.

OSJQuery is a simple plugin that allows to use jQuery in Joomla. This plugin is based on tutorial published at http://www.sanjeevshrestha.com.np/2009/05/using-jquery-with-joomla/. This plugin works in two modes and allows user a flexibility to replace or use jquery in conjunction with mootools.

This plugin is released under GNU/GPL and is free as in free beer!

OSAnalytics a simple Joomla plugin that inserts Google Analytics Code into Joomla Sites. The plugin installs in seconds and you are ready to track your Joomla Sites with Google Analytics. This plugin is released under GNU/GPL license.

Twitter box is a simple twitter module for Joomla. This module loads the tweets from the twitter account that is set from the module parameters page.And hence the twitter account can only set by administrator. This module is free to use and is released under GNU/GPL.

Version  1.1 now also includes the timeline selection. The administrator can select from User, Home or Friends timeline to show.

Version 1.2 has included error handler which will not destroy other site contents if tweet could not be loaded.