Check Joomla Updates Programmatically  ? is that possible ? Yes its possible in Joomla , I think you guys noticed the Joomla administrator panel that shows new update  available!. This latest version checking is handled by Joomla “com_joomlaupdate”.

There are several version of Joomla available like Stable release , Short Term Support (STS) and Long Term Support (LTS)etc. Now Joomla latest versions like [label style=”3″]Joomla 3.x[/label] all are LTS model and there is no STS from [label style=”3″]Joomla 3.x[/label] .

In WordPress we will get direct link to download, But Joomla don’t have such a link until now. So checking latest Joomla version programmatically using this method.

Check Joomla Updates Programmatically  working based on few XML files check the following options.

[code style=”1″]

// “Long Term Support (LTS) branch – Recommended”

http://update.joomla.org/core/list.xml

// “Short term support (STS) branch”

http://update.joomla.org/core/sts/list_sts.xml

// “Testing”

http://update.joomla.org/core/test/list_test.xml

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In Joomla Admin panel this checking is in “com_joomlaupdate” Also Joomla using its updater library for parsing the XML to show the download link and other details.

The file name and path is [label style=”3″] libraries\joomla\updater\update.php [/label]

The function is [code style=”1″]loadFromXML()[/code] .

Then simply check the view file in [label style=”3″] administrator\components\com_joomlaupdate\views\default\[/label] of  “com_joomlaupdate” have the following sections.

[code style=”1″]

$model = $this->getModel();

$this->assign(‘updateInfo’, $model->getUpdateInformation());

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Then simply check the model function “getUpdateInformation()” it loads the above Joomla update library and parsing the XML to read the latest version of Joomla.

I hope this article gives some idea about Check Joomla Updates Programmatically.

Happy reading ..  🙂 🙂 🙂