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!JoomlaComments is a well known Joomla! component that allows you to have comments on your Joomla! site articles. The links are by default set to nofollow and it's not possible to set this in component's configuration.

When a user signs in in Joomla, he is automatically redirected at homepage.

This article explains you how to add a hack in Joomla 1.5, to redirect the user to the page of your choice after he signed in. It may be useful, especially if you want the user to do a specific action (e.g. : to post an article, a picture, subscribe to your services, etc.). From back-end, you may specify a Joomla! page for redirection, but no custom URL.

RSS feeds became essential for blogs and any other website that publishes content on a regulary basis. It's a good way to broadcast your content and allow your visitors to follow your blog by suscribing to your feeds.

If you are running an online community, you may have to show the age of a user, depending on the date of birth he provided on its profile. There are several solutions for it, but sometimes, it may be useful to get this information directly from the MySQL query.

If you work on Flash projects, there is a trick that you should know (if you don't already know it). The user may always, as it is default set, zoom in and zoom out in a flash SWF file. He can also do what he wants with the timeline reading (rewind, pause, stop, play), etc... but there is a way to get rid of this problem.

It's very simple, but useful; for instance, when you make a listing of articles on a page, but you only want to display a preview of the content of each article. Here is a small PHP function for text truncation :