Summary
Congratulations if you have made it this far. You have now built your first Joomla! component, and although it doesn't do much yet, we will be building on this in the next couple of chapters. In Chapter 5, Backend Component Development – Part 1 and Chapter 6, Component Development – Part 2, we will continue the development of the backend of our component, then in Chapter 7, Frontend Component Development, we will create the frontend.
In this chapter, you have learned how to:
Create the files required for a simple component
Install your component and register it in the Joomla! database
Create a database table to store the data for our component
Create a very simple view to list the data
Create a basic edit form to add and edit data
We've also touched on language files, ACL, and also picked up a few Bootstrap tips. Although we have only looked at the backend so far, a lot of what you've learned will be applied to the frontend later. You should now understand the difference between a component...
