Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development Second Edition

The Professional's Guide to Programming Joomla!

Key Features

• In-depth guide to programming Joomla! 1.5 Framework
• Design and build secure and robust components, modules, and plugins
• Customize the document properties, add multilingual capabilities, and provide an interactive user experience
• Includes a comprehensive reference to the major areas of Joomla!‚Äôs common classes, variables, and constants crucial for creating Joomla! Extensions.

Book Description

What you will learn

• Understand the structure and design of the Joomla! 1.5 framework and how it operates at its core to develop efficient and well-designed extensions for Joomla!
• Extend the database conventions for the database schema and common fields
• Access and manipulate the database with the help of JDatabase and JTable classes
• Design extensions that work within the Joomla! structure
• Incorporate User, Session, Request, and Browser classes in extensions
• Organize your code with the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern
• Build your own components to manage and present a specific set of data
• Enhance our component by creating a module, which will add new functionality to our frontend
• Modify your system‚Äôs functionality without the need to alter existing code
• Discover how to add pagination, ordering, filtering, and searching to make your extensions more user-friendly, and increase the chances of having successfully created a commercially winning or freely available extension
• Improve your extensions by customizing the document properties, adding multilingual capabilities, and providing an interactive user experience
• Access remote third-party services from an application with Joomla!‚Äôs API (Application Programming Interface) and web service
• Master the techniques of error handling and access control to prevent malicious attacks on your systems

Who this book is for

PHP developers who want to understand how Joomla! Works, with a view to advanced customization or extension development, and who want to learn how to work with the Joomla! Framework.