joomla2.5

I'm starting off with both php and Joomla development, and finding it difficult working within Joomla to do some fairly simple stuff. Went through the Joomla MVC example and Lynda (and have built a few simple views so far). I have a helper file/class/function that outputs all the userids that exist in the "completed" table so I can display a link for either a new record based on that user or edit an existing user's record. I've already used a different function in this helper file successfully in a different part of the component ( Joomla: Write and call a helper function in a component ).

I'm creating a simple Joomla 2.5 module that will have an html form. mod_mymodule/tmpl/default.php : <form method="post" id="myemailform" action=""> <label for="ReferralName">Enter Name:</label><input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo modCamcloudReferralHelper::getReferralName(); ?>"> <label for="ReferralEmail">Enter Email Address:</label><input type="text" name="email"> <label for="ReferralMessage">Enter Message (optional):</label><textarea class="message"></textarea> <span class="countdown"></span> <button type="submit" value="Send Email">Send Email</button> <?php echo JHtml::_('form

I'm writing a Joomla 2.5 component that I had been developing in Joomla 1.7. I have been using code like this: $user = JFactory::getUser(); $groups = $user->get('groups'); The $groups array would contain a list of ids with the group name as the index. Joomla 2.5 seems to have scrapped this functionality. I have been unable to find out how to get the group names without directly querying the database. Is there any method for getting a list of the groups a user is a member of without having to resort to querying the database? The code I generated below gets the names of all the groups the user

I have a simple Joomla controller, but I can't redirect anything. According to the documentation: class MyController extends MyBaseController { function import() { $link = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_foo&ctrl=bar'); $this->setRedirect($link); } } //The url contains & html escaped character instead of "&" This should work, but I get a malformed URL. Is there something I'm missing here? Why is Joomla converting all the "&" characters into & 's? How am I suppose to use setRedirect? Thank you Alright, I fixed it. So if anyone needs it: instead of $link = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_foo

I have two fields in my admin/componsents/com_xxxxx/models/forms/xxxxx.xml file. these feed into an input form for administrators on the back end of Joomla 2.5 <field name="f_start" type="calendar" class="inputbox" required="true" format="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" default="0000-00-00 09:30:00" label="COM_xxxxx_F_START" description="COM_xxxxx_F_START_DESC" filter="safehtml" /> <field name="f_end" type="calendar" class="inputbox" required="true" format="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" default="0000-00-00 19:30:30" label="COM_xxxxx_F_END" description="COM_xxxxx_F_END_DESC" filter="safehtml" /> These are essentially

Below code allows me to show the user's name in the profile page of the Joomla profile of a user. Given that I have overridden the template to get the look and feel I want. $user =& JFactory::getUser(); if (!$user->guest) { echo 'You are logged in as:<br />'; echo 'Real name: ' . $user->name . ''; } My problem is I allow user to update his or her profile. After he updates the his name, database is updated correctly but it does not show the updated name in the profile page. When I go through Joomla docs I found out that user data is stored in the session(JFactory::getUser()). If I print_r($