We use JomSocial and Kunena for member sites.  Quite a lot in fact.  A great alternative to JomSocial's discussions is to use Kunena and an excellent plugin, JS G-Kunena by latitudweb.com.  This allows JomSocial's entire group discussion system to be replaced by Kunena, automatically creates forums when groups are created and links all discussions through to posts within the forum for the given group.

What it doesn't do is remove any subscriptions a user has to the respective forum when they leave a group.  Our users didn't like this, so we wrote a plugin that does exactly that.

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As discussed in our previous blog about Adding Customer Registration Fields to Joomla and JomSocial using jos_user, the documentation on how to use and customise JomSocial's own validation system is somewhat sketchy.  Well... almost non-existent!

After some investigation, we've discovered more about how it works, how it can be used, and how it can be modified and re-used to create valiation rules for your own custom registration fields.

All this can be done without any real knowledge of Javascript, AJAX or JQuery.  All you need is a little basic programming know how (and a healthy dose of patience).

We've started using YooTheme's Zoo 2.0 CCK pretty heavily with some of our projects.  Despite a couple of behaviours that we found surprising (no method of displaying child category items in Category views), it's an excellent tool with a very powerful feature - custom elements.

We needed to integrate Azrul's JomComment into our Zoo driven site and as there is no integration available, we thought we'd share what we found.

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It may sound like a simple task - how do I create a blank page in Joomla so I can just full the page with my own modules and not show any content?

Surprisingly, the standard Joomla package (as of version 1.5.18) doesn't have a menu item that will allow you to do this.  Or at least, it's not obvious.

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Ever needed to populate the password field in Joomla's jos_user table but didn't know how?  Neither did we, but we found out.

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