Following the great success of the UK Joomla Developers course, we are pleased to announce that the handbook that was created for the course is now available for purchase from our website.

The handbook has 46 pages of information on developing Joomla Components and was used as the basis of the two day training course. It covers topics from the beginning, how to start writing a component, to advanced issues like pagination. There are many How To sections (almost half the manual!) and many code examples for you to follow.

Click the Icon below to view the first 5 pages of the handbook (Includes the Contents Page!)

Click here to Buy The Full 46-page Version Now!
The manual is intended for those with some degree of PHP knowledge - it is not a beginners manual but written by a developer for developers. The handbook is a PDF version only and will not be shipped in physical format to you. (We are in negotiation with a publisher though!!!)

We will update the manual from time to time with new hints and tricks - and customers will get those updated versions for free!

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I am pleased to announce that we are running another 2-day developers course for those that missed the first course. The content of the course will be the same as last weekend so previous attendees need not attend

This course, due to the short notice and the the venue is

STRICTLY LIMITED TO FIVE PEOPLE !!!
First 5 people to pay IN FULL will secure their place on the course.

The details are:

• Dates: Tuesday 10th October & Wednesday 11th October (2 days)
• Cost: £250.00+VAT Includes One Night Accomodation and bottomless coffee
• Venue: Basepoint Business Centre, Tewkesbury, (M5 J9), GL20 8SD, UK
• FREE WIRELESS at the venue! & cheap wireless at hotel.

We fully expect the course to booked out in a few days so BOOK EARLY to avoid disappointment.

To Secure your place, send GBP£293.75 (Which is £250+vat) to phil@phil-taylor.com using PayPal.com and then email your payment confirmation and your details to phil@phil-taylor.com. VAT receipt can be obtained on the day.

Any enquiries should be made by email to trevena@phil-taylor.com or call 0800 358 5498

(This is a course for PHP Developers, you must have PHP Experience to attend. This is not an officical Joomla training event)

What a great weekend! 26 of us crammed into a hot room with the air conditioning on maximum and 26 laptops pumping out the hot air into the room - fun!

The first ever UK Joomla Based PHP Developers course was a fantasic success with everyone really enjoying the two days in Gloucester. The hotel was very accomodating and the organisation by Trevena was the best.

From both verbal feedback, and the feedback forms we asked people to complete after the course, the content of the two days was at the right level for everyone, however to fit so much in we had to pass over some easier concepts a little fast! A 46 page companion manual was written by Phil Taylor which contained almost all of the subjects we covered. On the second day Phil provided the code examples for the admin side of the example component (that he wrote late on saturday night chatting to Brian near middnight!!) as it appeared that although this was a course on writing code, the delegates did not want to write code in the course hehe hehe hehe.

So we are still listening to the feedback:

• We will be announcing a NEW DATE for a course!! STRICTLY LIMITED TO 5 PEOPLE! - watch this space tomorrow! FIRST COME FIRST SERVED - The course dates will be within the next 4 weeks.
• We will be announcing a NEW consultancy service “Spend the day with Phil - One on One/Three “ - We will be allowing 4 days in the next four weeks where you can book Phil for the day and arrive at his office and spend the day getting custom individual training and mentoring on ANYTHING Joomla related! - again first come first served once dates announced.
• Our next full developers course will have more handouts and more real world code examples, and more take home examples
• There will be much LESS typing in new courses
• We will revise the seating arrangements so that the projector screen can be easily seen (Or put the young guys at the back and the glasses wearing guys at the front )

A special thanks to the Cheltenham and Gloucester Chase Hotel - the feedback was great for the rooms, breakfast and accomodation!

A special thanks to Brian Teeman for printing the posters and providing excellent support

A special thanks to Trevena for organising the course

A special thanks to Mark from Coos Creations for photos - used with (assumed) permission

A special thanks to all the developers that attended - I trust you enjoyed yourself and will make some great (secure) components!!!!

Today was the first day of the Joomla UK developers course in Tewkesbury UK.  All 26 delegates arrived (almost) on time thats to great organisation by Trevena. Take a look at Mark’s blog (He is a delegate on the course) where he has more photos.

How to turn register_globals off, components for joomla
There at least 2 ways of doing this, and your web host will probably not support or give you access to them both a good webhost would have already switched register_globals off for you.

- One way (most people cant do this)
If you have full access to your server you can locate your php.ini file and modify the value for register_globals = Off in the php.ini file, remember to restart apache afterwards.

-Another way (May work depending on the configuration of the server)
create, or edit any existing .htaccess file in the root of your webspace (in the same folder as Joomla’s configuration.php)
Add the following line to the .htaccess and save, the change is instant:

php_flag register_globals off

- Securing Joomla Further
Edit the file /globals.php and change

define( ‘RG_EMULATION’, 1 );

to

define( ‘RG_EMULATION’, 0 );

These steps will secure you a bit more and are HIGHLY recommended!

Exceeding all expectations, the UK Joomla Developer Course is almost fully booked - only a week and a bit after it was announced! If you know PHP but want to learn how to write Joomla Components then you need to BOOK NOW else the course will be fully booked.

The course is being held over a weekend (Accommodation provided in a top hotel) on the 16th and 17th September 2006 in Gloucestershire, UK.

http://www.phil-taylor.com/booknow

Our course in the UK on the 16-17th September is filling up fast!  We have had a great response and places are being booked up very fast! The location where the course will be held can only accomodate 20 places, therefore securing your booking by payment is essential (We have had over 30 requests for places, only full payment will secure a place so you really need to act fast!!)

We are planning on running more courses (Maybe even one in New York, USA next year!), however if you want to be part of our first ever course then you need to BOOK THIS WEEK or else be very disappointed

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER - Then we will invoice you - YOU MUST PAY IN FULL to SECURE YOUR PLACE

You can now make your booking for the Joomla Developers Course online by using the form below:

Joomla! Developers Course Booking Form

Calling all PHP developers and Joomla friends!

We are pleased to announce the dates and details of our first ever UK Joomla Developers Course. The course will be held over a weekend, the Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th September 2006 near Tewkesbury UK (M5 Motorway, Junction 9).

The cost including overnight accomodation, lunches, and endless tea and COFFEE will only be GBP£199.99 (+vat if applicable by law) per delegate. (Make sure you bring a laptop! Then you can take full advantage of the sessions that will be hands on!!)
The course will cover the following and a lot more!!!

• Setting up a local development platform (Installing PHP, Apache, MySQL) and tweaking for optimum Joomla development advantage
• How To: Create a custom component with 1 line of code! (aka dont be frightened by Joomla!)
• How To: Use the Database API (setQuery, LoadObjectList, LoadResult etc… also store() bind() load() delete(), use of extending mosDBTable with new class)
• Tips: Passing input to your component through forms
• use of hidden fields in posts, use of primary key id fields and impact on store() function
• Tips: mosTabs() use in custom components
• Security and performance of custom joomla components
• Special mainframe functions
• A Long indepth Q & A Session - come armed with questions about Joomla Development issues.
• An introduction to Joomla 1.5
• Coding examples and new ways between Joomla 1.0.x and Joomla 1.5
• and much more (Feel free to ask for a subject - we will try to include it)

We have now booked TWENTY ROOMS (20) only - so early booking is really essential

You can now make your booking for the Joomla Developers Course online by using the form below:

Joomla! Developers Course Booking Form