Links to section/category from a content item in Joomla

For version 1.0.x: normally, Joomla’s mosPathWay() and module would take care of generating links to sections and categories, but in case you ever needed to do it yourself:

First Joomla 1.5 module: Displaying contents from another webpage

For my first Joomla 1.5 module, I had to write a module that would get the contents from another webpage (actually, just a number) and display it in the module area.

Making Gallery2 Joomla component point to Gallery2 URL

Request: The excellent Gallery2 Bridge component/module for Joomla has one “shortcoming”: it points to the embedded Joomla component. Some applications/websites will require the Bridge’s functionality to embed the Gallery, but will want to link to Gallery2 and not the embedded component.