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So alot of things are changing for Joomla 1.5 and I ran across one of those last night. For redirecting we used “mosRedirect()” in Joomla 1.0. There is a “josRedirect()”, but I was having issues with it last night after I got the latest nightly build. After some research I found “$mainframe->redirect()” which worked flawlessly. Johan confirmed that “$mainframe->redirect()” is the better way to go. Moral of the story “mosRedirect” is now “$mainframe->redirect()”.

During the LinuxWorld SF conference, I had a chance to sit down with the two lead developers of Joomla, Johan and Louis, and chat with them about Joomla 1.5 and some ideas that we and other members of the community have for new features in 1.5.  During the course of a lunch, Louis talked about having people begin to think of Joomla not as a content management system, but rather as a framework for building Web applications.

Pretty powerful stuff.

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With Joomla 1.5 Beta about to be released, I’m sure many of you have downloaded the nightly build and have played around with it. Well, I have and its been a learning process. So I will begin posting what I learn.

Here is a little hack to make Joomla 1.0 template to work on Joomla 1.5. All you need to do to convert a Joomla 1.0 template to Joomla 1.5 is to change the templateDetails.xml file.

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