To do development work in any framework, it is a good idea to first study the request flow. This basically answers the question ‘what happens between request send to server and request received from the server?’.
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You can download the request to response flow diagram as [download#14#nohits] or as [download#15#nohits].
Here is what happens in case of Joomla 1.5…