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Do you know of any other project management tool? You’re welcome to share.

What is Codaset?

Codaset is a project management system for open source and private software projects, built around the Git source control system. It is designed to be useful, social, and to take the best of what is good about other similar services, and place that goodness into one nice, neat package.

Managing your software projects should not be so hard, so use Codaset and it won’t be!

• Hosted Git source control
• Source code and history viewer
• Issue/ticket management and bug tracking
• Project milestones
• Full featured wiki
• Self contained blog engine
• Advanced ticket workflow creation
• Custom ticket fields
• User roles and a fine grained permissions system
• Spam protection across all publicly posted content
• Activity timelines
• Twitter integration
• Close tickets with your Git commit messages
• Follow and befriend users, and bookmark projects
• And of course, loads more to come!

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Here are some of the GIT tutorials I have found:

1. Git Tutorial : Starting with git using just 10 commands

2. Git Tutorial Part II – Sharpen you Git-Fu with 10 more commands

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Below are some of the things I can think of where it will be useful:

1. Unit testing. You would now be able to unit test your components, plugins, modules from the command line. You can create different test cases and execute them on schedule.
2. Scheduled Jobs.  If you have some tasks that needs to be done by batch or thru cron and wanted to reuse a components class, this process will allow you to do just that.

Requirements

1. Installed Joomla ofcourse!

note: I am using Joomla 1.5

2. PHP which can run CLI (here’s a good article from SitePoint to get you started)

note: I am using PHP 5

3. In my sample, I have used SOBI2 (a business directory component)

How to execute:

1. Create a folder under your Joomla site (i.e. public_html/joomla_site/your_folder)

2. Follow the code sample below.

3. Execute your php script – php yourPHPScrcipt.php

Code sample:

First lets set the necessary constants then include the defines.php and framework.php. The defines.php and framework.php are necessary for us to access the Joomla Framework

// Set flag that this is a parent file
define( ‘_JEXEC’, 1 );
define( ‘DS’, DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR );
define(‘JPATH_BASE’, dirname(__FILE__).DS.”..”.DS.”..” );
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.’includes’.DS.’defines.php’ );
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.’includes’.DS.’framework.php’ );

If you need to run a component for example, you can include it as well. Here, I’m including the sobi2 class so that I can use it later.

//include com_sobi2
define( ‘_SOBI2_’, 1 );
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.’components’.DS.’com_sobi2′.DS.’sobi2.class.php’ );

Create a Joomla application of type site.

$mainframe =& JFactory::getApplication(‘site’);
$mainframe->initialise();

Once we have an application object, we need to call route of the Joomla application object we created “$mainframe”. But before we route, we can set some request variables that will be used by our component.

Routing is the process of examining the request environment to determine which component should receive the request. The component optional parameters are then set in the request object to be processed when the application is being dispatched.

//here I want to get all the listing from com_sobi2
$_REQUEST['sobi2Task'] = ‘showListing’;

$mainframe->route();

If  incase the component can be accessed only by a registered user, you may login by calling the login() of mainframe.

$mainframe->login(array( ‘username’ => ‘yourUserNameHere‘, ‘password’ => ‘yourPasswordHere‘ ));

We are now ready to execute our Joomla component. In my example, I am calling com_sobi2.

$mainframe->dispatch(“com_sobi2″);

I’m now able to access the components (i.e. com_sobi2) classess and do some real work.

//get a config object so we can easily access com_sobi2 configurations
$config =& sobi2Config::getInstance();
$my =& $config->getUser();
//create a sobi2 object,
//here I’m passsing a sobi2 Itemid so that the sobi2 object
//will contain information of one specific sobi2 item
$mySobi = new sobi2(14);
ob_start();
if($my->id !=0 && $config->checkPerm()) {
print_r($mySobi);
}
//logout once done
$mainframe->logout();
$output = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_flush();

For further reading: Joomla API executing order

Do you have any questions regarding this? Leave a comment

My inspirations came from:

1. Using the Joomla framework via command line
2. Taking advantage of Joomla Framework from Command Line

Keeping track of user ids and passwords for different websites is a a pain. OpenIDs aims to solve that issue by giving the user the power to use the same id on websites that support OpenIDs (i.e. Google, Facebook, Flickr, etc).

For developers who wanted to implement OpenID in their website, an easy way to do this is by using RPX. For Joomla developers, things just got easier with UltiRPX from ultijoomla. You can follow the instructions from their website on how to install and use UltiRPX – http://www.ultijoomla.com/faq/49-ulti-rpx/181-how-do-i-install-ulti-rpx

After installing, setting up the apiKey and enabling the plug-in and module, in no time I am now able to login using my Google account in my website! There are some minor issues I have found. See details below.

Issues I found with Ulti RPX:

1. The rpx apiKey is clearly shown in “view source“. From the RPX website, the api key should be kept as secret.

Fix: Remove the hidden <input> tags with name=”apiKey” in the UltiRPX module and component. After I have removed the hidden input tags, everthing still seems to be working fine.

2. The default template view for Ulti RPX module (view/tmpl/default.php) is missing an form end tag </form>.  Because of this all my other forms are not properly being rendered.

Fix: Add the missing form end tag </form> default template view for Ulti RPX module (view/tmpl/default.php)

I probably send these list to ultijoomla later as I am still running some tests. I hope you found this useful.