Stage 1 Alpha · Opens Monday, November 9, 2026

The Mafia Line for Joomla 6+

One license covers the whole line: CRM, commerce, mail, forms and the social proof layer, built for Joomla 6 and tied together through the CRM.

$99 one payment · lifetime license · 25 sites · every Mafia product included

Buy Stage 1 Alpha What is in the alpha

Alpha runs through January 1, 2027. After that the alpha terms close to new buyers and Stage 2 beta follows at a higher price. Soft licensing: licenses gate upgrades, existing installs do not get shut down.

The Line

Stage 1 Alpha is the front door. The line behind it is the roadmap made visible: one license, every product, all of it tying into the CRM.

MafiaCRM

The CRM hub of the line. Contacts, campaigns and automation behind a 76-route API, with one suppression list every sender honors.

MafiaCart

Commerce for Joomla: catalog, cart, orders and coupons, with its own SEO layer in the box.

MafiaSMTP

The shared sending layer the rest of the line sends through: 13 mail providers, encrypted credential storage, routing and fallback.

MafiaForm

Forms with the form protection standard built in, feeding straight into the CRM.

MafiaSocial

The social proof layer: popups, reviews and live proof, tied into the CRM.

MafiaSEO

SEO for the line: MafiaCart ships its SEO layer in the box today, and the dedicated SEO product is on the roadmap.

MafiaTickets

Support ticketing for the line, on the roadmap, tied into the CRM like everything else.

See the full roadmap · Release notes

JoomlaMafia Is Back

Details: Written by: Matthew Murphy; Category: Blog; Published: 30 October 2026; Hits: 46

Back in 2008 I started JoomlaMafia as DrDigital. The idea was simple: write the Joomla guides I wished somebody had written for me, and share the components and modules I was building along the way. Mafia Icons came out of this site. So did a lot of late nights.

The site went dark years ago and the domain got away from me. On October 30, 2026 I bought joomlamafia.com back, dug the archive out of the Wayback Machine, and rebuilt the whole thing on Joomla 6 with Gantry 5 on PHP 8.4, wearing the same black and red the site had in 2010.

Stage 1 Alpha

Details: Written by: Matthew Murphy; Category: Site Pages; Published: 07 November 2026; Hits: 49

Stage 1 alpha opens Monday November 9, 2026 and runs through January 1, 2027. After January 1, the alpha terms close to new buyers and Stage 2 beta follows at a higher price.

Model-View-Controller (MVC)

Details: Written by: Matthew Murphy; Category: How-To Guides; Published: 03 December 2011; Hits: 112

Model-view-controller (MVC) is an architectural pattern used in software engineering. In complex computer applications that present lots of data to the user, one often wishes to separate data (model) and user interface (view) concerns, so that changes to the user interface do not impact the data handling, and that the data can be reorganized without changing the user interface. The model-view-controller solves this problem by decoupling data access and business logic from data presentation and user interaction, by introducing an intermediate component: the controller. It is common to split an application into separate layers: presentation (UI), domain, and data access. In MVC the presentation layer is further separated into view and controller. MVC encompasses more of the architecture of an application than is typical for a design pattern.

1.5.9 Update

Details: Written by: Matthew Murphy; Category: How-To Guides; Published: 27 February 2009; Hits: 86

Its been awhile since we really added anything new to the site. Today we have the first update for the new year.