| Description |
1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Joomla! 5 is a groundbreaking CMS that helps you take a significant leap into the world of content management systems. Joomla! 5 features a variety of impressive new features that align with current web standards and enable you to experience lightning-fast performance for optimal web page optimization, leverage the new code architecture, and tap into the WebService API, among others. This book takes you on a journey of extending Joomla's capabilities by developing your own extensions. The chapters not only explain the key concepts behind Joomla's architecture but also equip you with the latest techniques for crafting components and plugins. You'll discover how to leverage existing features within Joomla! to empower your extensions and create tailored solutions. The book takes you from the initial stages of planning your extension development to a fully featured finished product. As you advance, you'll learn invaluable techniques for testing your extension, addressing common issues, and preparing it for publication. The concluding chapters of this comprehensive guide teach you how to test your extension for common issues, along with how to publish the extension for everyone to use. By the end of this book, you'll have the confidence and skills to complete the cycle of extension development. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Developing Components -- Chapter 1: Planning Your Component -- Understanding what a Joomla! component is -- Translating your problem into an application -- Identifying your elements -- A real-world example -- Defining your component database structure -- A quick look at the Joomla! database -- Adding database tables for entities -- Adding extra information columns to tables -- Reflecting relationships in the database -- Creating tables in the database -- Adding mock data to your database |
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Defining the content of our mock data -- Automating mock data generation -- Importing mock data into the database -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 2: Developing the Backend of a Basic Joomla! Component -- Technical requirements -- Component file architecture -- Building a component's backend -- Creating our component repository structure -- Creating a manifest file -- Testing a minimum component on Joomla! -- Developing a list view for a component -- Adding the view for projects data -- Adding a model to the projects view -- Showing the list of projects |
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Developing an edit item view for our component -- Creating a Project view -- Adding a model to retrieve and save data -- Adding a controller to our Project entity -- Creating a layout for our edit project view -- Changes to our manifest file -- Testing the component -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 3: Developing the Frontend of a Basic Joomla! Component -- Technical requirements -- Developing a frontend list view for our component -- Coding the list view -- Adding CSS and JS to our component -- Adding our own styles and JavaScript to our component -- Joomla!'s Web Asset Manager |
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Loading assets with HtmlHelper -- Developing a frontend item view for our component -- Adding the model for the frontend item view -- Adding the layout for the item detail -- Adding a menu item for our views -- Adding friendly URLs to our component -- Translating parameters into a friendly URL -- Translating SEF URLs into variables for our component -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 4: Creating Forms in Joomla! -- Technical requirements -- Defining forms in Joomla! -- Adding general options to our extensions -- Adding search and filter capabilities to our listings |
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Editing or adding individual items -- Using standard Joomla! Form fields -- Using the Editor form field type -- Using the accessiblemedia field type -- Creating select options from database tables -- Defining custom form field types -- How to use the subform field type -- Validating user input on the client side -- Validating user input on the server side -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 5: Harnessing the Power of Joomla! in Your Component -- Technical requirements -- Reviewing what Joomla! features you can use in your component -- Adding an ACL to our component |
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Joomla! (Computer file)
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Web sites -- Authoring programs.
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Web site development.
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Sites Web -- Systèmes-auteur. |
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Sites Web -- Développement. |
| Added Author |
Teeman, Brian, writer of foreword.
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