Hello all - I require advice with reference to certain functionality of this CMS

[Atomant]

My name is Rob Joyce.
I am the QA Manager for iJoomla.com
I perform the QA on all of there products and I lead the development of some of their products which are outsourced to my company.

The information I need to know for beginners.
Is the framework the same as the Joomla 1.0.x framework?
If not, what differs please.

I would like to start with the installers.
I can already tell that the installer works differntly.
If someone can provide advise on writing installeds, I'll write a small tutorial for this site to asssist budding developers in there works.

[datahell]

Welcome Rob.
Many people have asked the same questions as you, so if you search the forum you will find many usefull information regarding the Elxis - Mambo/Joomla differences. We tried make Elxis to look like mambo/joomla and to be as compatible as could be with them. The only thing that is 100% compatible is frontend templates. Everything else needs to be checked for compatibility and the code to be altered.

Most important changes are in:
- Database management (we use ADODB layer, so all queries must be compatible with ADODB)
- Language system/Multi-linguism
- Access system
- File handling
- Various Elxis implementations (login templates, tools, bridges, etc)

Notice: Never think that something is compatible with Elxis if you just don't see any errors. Code must be checked in any occassion before tring to install an extension from a source other than elxis.org.


For the installers:
For compatibility with any database type we use XML schema files during the instalaltion. So instead of writing hardcoded mysql queries on installation xml/php files, create an XML schema. It is much easier and you will have a component able to be installed under any database type elxis/ADODB supports! See component stargallery as an example.

Note: Elxis installer requires files not to be inside a subdirectory in the zip file but in the root folder. Of course you can have folders but your root files should not be inside any directory in the zip file.