Learning Joomla! 3 Extension Development-Third Edition

Key Features

• Clear steps to create your own plugins, modules, and components for Joomla 3
• Guides you through extending your components by allowing them to interact with modules and plugins
• Introduces you to packaging your extensions for distribution to other Joomla users
• Enables you to secure your extensions and avoid common vulnerabilities by gaining some white hat hacking experience

Book Description

What you will learn

• Extend Joomla using plugins
• Develop both frontend and backend modules
• Build a Joomla component that looks and behaves like the core components, to reduce the learning curve for your users
• Discover common security vulnerabilities and what you can do to avoid them
• Prepare your extensions for distribution
• Manage updates and set up an update server
• Integrate third party extensions in your component

Who this book is for

"Learning Joomla! 3 Extension Development" is for developers who want to create their own Joomla extensions. It is assumed you will have some basic PHP, HTML, and CSS knowledge, but you don't need any prior Joomla programming experience. This book will also be useful to people who just want to make minor customizations to existing Joomla extensions and build on the work of others in the open source spirit.