Chapter 4. Getting Started with Component Development
This chapter is where the fun really starts; you are going to start building your first Joomla! component. At the end of this chapter you will have built a very simple component, which we will make much more complex in the following couple of chapters. In this chapter, we are going to create the building blocks of our component. We are not going to worry too much about all the functionality yet, you need to learn the basics first. If you haven't yet gone through the plugin and module examples in the previous chapters, I encourage you to go back and do them first, as we will be building on the knowledge you have already gained.
You will learn:
How to get started with component development
How to set up and connect to the database
The power of JForm
An overview of the 51 types of JForm fields
How to create views in your component
