| 16 July 2009
Posted in General Joomla News

I'm currently so busy with Jobs! and I'm also working on my 3th baby. I'm currently working on a component which is going to have similar functionality to Yahoo Answes web site. 80% of it is completed

I did not have a chance to watch the Andrew Eddie's presentation about Joomla 1.6 until yesterday.

I want share my optinions about this as a developer and as a Joomla web site owner (I've 3 Joomla made other than instantphp.com)

1. Significant upgrade in server requirements : Joomla 1.6 will need minimum PHP 5.2 and MySQL 5.0.4 . I think this is a good decision that Joomla developer team made. I've personaly left using php 4 and mysql 4 a long time ago

2. The legacy mode will be gone: All extensions must run Joomla 1.6 native. Some small changes to the code will be required to bring extensions in line with the new Access Control List features. You will not be able to run Joomla 1.0 components in legacy as you were in Joomla 1.5.

3. Access Control List features improved : New terms and features coming to the J! world with The Access Control List (ACL). The term are

• Rule Type 1 - Permissions related to actions, such as managing languages and the installer: What can I do?
• Rule Type 2 - Permissions related to content, such as adding and publishing articles: What can I do to a particular thing?
• Rule Type 3 - Permissions related to actions related to access levels, such as allowing the public to view all articles: What can I see?

4. The default template layouts will change: For templates a legacy will be provided to use Joomla 1.5 templates in Joomla 1.6 . Templates must be re-worked with Joomla 1.5

5. The 'Sections' will be removed completely and as a result of this URLs will change: Sections will be moved to categories. Users will ablke to have nested categories. This will effect the frontend layout and the arrangement of menu items. Nested categories will now be supported for each core extension (articles, banners, newsfeeds, contacts, weblinks).

Because of the sections are removed the URLs will be changed.

URL changing is a nightmare for me. All of my web sites were Joomla 1.0 .I have moved them to Joomla 1.5 nearly 6 months ago and I got success about keeping the all urls with playing core J! content router. (Old web sites were using OPENSEF and I've created the same URLs with playing J! content router). But How I'm going to do the same with J! 1.6, I've no idea

Nightmare about URLs and Joomla 1.6 continues for me

You can download the presentation notes and or watch the video on Andrew Eddie's blog ( The Art of Joomla ) like i've done :)

Edit 18th July: I'm adding some screenshots and information about the lknAnswers - Yahoo Answers Clone regarding the Jason's comment

The general features
* Users will be able to add/edit/delete questions
* Users will be able to give answers/delete/edit/own answers
* Question Owner will be able to choose best answers
* Point system will be active. Users will be able to get points whenever they give answers or choosen best answer
* Users will be able subscribe answers
* Rss will be active for all parts of the component
* Tag system is avaible
*Template system will avaible. You can develop your own template
* Users will have their own profile. Community builder plugin is avaible. You can choose the community builder profiles instead of lknAnwers
* Advanced Search will be avaible
* Moderator system will be avaible . Site owner will be able to define Super Moderator (for every part of the component) and category moderator.

Moderator system is the only unfinished issue. The other thinks that i've mentioned above is finished. You can have a look the screenshots below.

Home Page	Question Detail Pages	User Detail Pages 1	User Detail Pages 2	Advanced Search