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A simple trick to login a Joomla! user by code rather than using a form.

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Here is some commands to type in your terminal (on Linux or macOS and maybe Windows)

1. Install latest Docker version on your machine
2. git clone https://github.com/alexandreelise/j4x-docker j4x
3. cd j4x && chmod 700 develop && ./develop up --build

Note: Change to app custom image name to suit your needs or any revelant information. It's a proof of concept still in dev stage.

It's a Joomla! 4 unofficial docker setup. For more information follow this link.

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During your Joomla! journey, you will from time to time have a problem that can be solved by: "The Power of the Guest"

In fact it is the Guest access level, that is by default in Joomla! core

The Power of the Guest relies upon the fact that we can show elements of our Joomla! site like (menus, articles, modules, etc...) just to guests (not logged in users)

Therefore we can tailor an awesome user experience just for our guests.

Don't hesitate to use this functionality in your Joomla! sites.

That's all for today! Take care

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A joomler friend asked me: "how to add $this->item->jcfields in a core module like mod_articles_latest"

I accepted the challenge and share with this post the results to the Joomla! community, the joomlers family.

Get right into the code well commented and ready to use.

How to do it

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A new Joomla! core juicy trick just for you.

Did you know that you can use multiple sql files for the install process of your custom component?

They are red sequentially following the order in the xml manifest file of your component

Here is an example. Pay close attention to the install part.

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After searching the web, the official website, php documentation and forums, I found, at last, the solution thanks to a friend's suggestion : "What if it was just the image background?"

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I know, I know. You will likely tell me that there will be conflicts by using custom fields by name because names are not necessarily unique.

But there is a solution for that. Using a naming convention for your custom fields. For example for article content custom fields you could use something like article-my-field.

Besides this convention. You can use this oneliner sample code rather than trying to memorize custom fields id by heart even if we might have written the ids down on a document it's a painful task.

Here is an attempt to simplify this task.

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As a Joomla! developer, in my opinion, there are 3 things to master:

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Assuming your plugin was a system plugin named helloworld. (plg_system_helloworld)

The base structure of the link to access to your plugin directly from your Joomla! website backend would therefore be: 

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An interesting API for developers wanting to monitor the behavior of their custom component or simply debug their extension analysing logs using SQL queries.

In this article I show you step by step how to achieve this database storage logger using a MySQL database.

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