NYCPHP Meetup

[Ajai Khattri]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Kenneth Downs wrote:

> But Andromeda has no real UI component.  So we wrote a compatibility 
> layer that opens up the world of Joomla templates for our use.  Now I 
> can download a Joomla template, put it into my Andromeda app, and I have 
> a UI.  So we have Joomla templates but no Joomla.

OK, now I understand (even if I think its weird ;-)

> One of the attractions of these templates is they often have nifty 
> drop-down menus, animated menus, and so forth.  But the template is 
> trying to read from a Joomla table, which ain't there!  So I modify the 
> database retrieval code to pull menu information from the Andromeda 
> source instead. 
> 
> So this leads to my question:  Do all joomla templates read from the 
> same menu table?  If they do, then what works for one will work for 
> another.  That's what I'm trying to figure out.

As far as Ive seen (and Ive built several sites with Joomla), most 
templates don't include much code and usually just call a function to have 
Joomla drop a component in a page. For menus this is the menu component.

So the real question is whether the menu component in Joomla always pulls 
data from the same table. Im inclined to say yes, based on the fact that 
the database schema doesn't change very much and the menu component is a 
standard part of Joomla.


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Aj. (ajai at bitblit.net)
Systems Administrator / Developer