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I am working on a freelancer site that will use Joomla as the base. I would like to create a custom component for the freelancer functionality and was wondering if there is a way to convert an existing freelancer PHP program (specifically Ilance) into a Joomla component. I have a license for Ilance and thought about using the wrapper in Joomla for it. But this option will not work for me. Instead, I would like to add all the functionality of Ilance into Joomla without creating it from scratch.

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  • No it is not possible convert it to a component. Not sure how you script is written, but Joomla components are MVC based. – Lodder Jul 04 '14 at 16:19
  • You'll have to either rewrite Ilance the Joomla way, or as you said, write a wrapper and leave the Ilance code untouched. Neither will be easy, but the lesser of two evils is the wrapper option (think updates). Happy coding! – Vlad Preda Jul 04 '14 at 16:23

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OFC you can do that. Joomla components should be MVC but they don't need to. They can actually be any (crappy) code you want. That's why everyone calls himself a pro joomla developer ;) You only need to work your way into creating the basic joomla bootstrapper file and some installation xml and off you go.

Mike
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