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Learning Joomla! 3 Extension Development

You're reading from   Learning Joomla! 3 Extension Development If you have ideas for additional Joomla 3! features, this book will allow you to realize them. It's a complete practical guide to building and extending plugins, modules, and components. Ideal for professional developers and enthusiasts.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782168379
Length 458 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Timothy John Plummer Timothy John Plummer
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Learning Joomla! 3 Extension Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Before you Start FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Plugin Development 3. Getting Started with Module Development 4. Getting Started with Component Development 5. Backend Component Development – Part 1 6. Backend Component Development – Part 2 7. Frontend Component Development 8. Security – Avoiding Common Vulnerabilities 9. Packing Everything Together 10. Extending your Component with Plugins and Modules Index

Zip it up and install your component


Since we built this component directly on your site, you can already use it, but you will probably want to be able to distribute this component to other people and allow them to install it on their websites. Create a new folder on your desktop called com_folio_v1.0.0, and copy into this the following files:

  • /administrator/components/com_folio/folio.xml

  • /administrator/components/com_folio/index.html

  • /administrator/components/com_folio/script.php

Also create the folders admin and site.

Copy into the site folder an index.html file. We haven't built a frontend to our component yet.

Copy into the admin folder the entire contents of /administrator/components/com_folio/ including all files and folders, but exclude folio.xml and script.php as we already have these in the root folder of the component package.

Your com_folio_v1.0.0 folder should contain the following files and folders:

  • /admin/controllers/folio.php

  • /admin/controllers/folios.php

  • /admin/controllers...

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