Whew!

I haven’t written on this blog since September 2010. I don’t really have much to say nowadays I guess.

That’s not why you’re here though, so let’s get down business.

I searched high and low whilst working on a Joomla module (Job Board) for a ready class that’ll work straight out the

box with the version of MooTools bundled with Joomla 1.5 (MooTools 1.12).

In the end, I built one from a couple of regular JavaScript snippets I found.
It uses the SimplePie PHP library to fetch the RSS feed and pass it on

to the MooTools class (Joomla also uses SimplePie for RSS).

The class – called MooFeed – also has an option: {remote:false} for when you’re fetching the feed from the same domain and want to bypass RSS fetching via PHP.

Usage

  var myFeed = new MooFeed ('MyDivID', url, {remote: true});

The “remote” option defaults to true when not specified.

Download the full source including demo

View the live demo

Last week’s release of Job Board 1.5.0 saw and influx of praise and encouragement from the Joomla! community.

I was also alerted to a couple of installation related and menu configuration issues, thanks to a couple of folks with a very sharp eye.

I want to (more…)

The long-promised Job listings component for Joomla has finally been released.

Follow this link (http://bit.ly/job_board) to try out the frontend demo and download the component and modules.

There are features I plan to add along the way (e.g. front-end job applicant profiles, language translations, etc.).

Suggestions and comments are highly encouraged.