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Developing Extensions for Joomla! 5

You're reading from   Developing Extensions for Joomla! 5 Extend your sites and build rich customizations with Joomla! plugins, modules, and components

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804617991
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Carlos M. Cámara Mora Carlos M. Cámara Mora
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Developing Components
2. Chapter 1: Planning Your Component FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Developing the Backend of a Basic Joomla! Component 4. Chapter 3: Developing the Frontend of a Basic Joomla! Component 5. Chapter 4: Creating Forms in Joomla! 6. Chapter 5: Harnessing the Power of Joomla! in Your Component 7. Chapter 6: Adding a Web Service API to Your Component 8. Part 2: Developing Modules and Plugins
9. Chapter 7: Developing a Module 10. Chapter 8: Developing a Joomla! Plugin 11. Chapter 9: Adding a CLI to Your Extension 12. Part 3: Extending Templates
13. Chapter 10: Creating Unique Web Applications with Template Overrides 14. Chapter 11: Creating a Child Template in Joomla! 15. Part 4: Distributing Your Extensions
16. Chapter 12: Testing Your Extensions 17. Chapter 13: Security Practices in Joomla! 18. Chapter 14: Distributing Your Joomla! Extensions 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about adding automatic tests to your development so that you have more durable code. You also learned about unit testing using PHPUnit and how to start adding unit tests to your Joomla! extensions. Then, you discovered how TDD works and learned how to add more development dependencies to your project using PHP Composer.

We focused on system testing using the Codeception framework to check that our projects behave as expected and we learned a simple and effective way to use PhpBrowser for our tests.

Finally, you learned about accessibility and how to start identifying issues in your extensions using your browser. You also learned how to do keyboard testing, which is a simple test you can start doing right away on all your developments.

So far, we have learned how to develop extensions in Joomla! and we have trusted Joomla! for security. But as developers, we need to pay special attention to this matter and create secure web applications...

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