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Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

You're reading from   Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery Enhance your Joomla! Sites with the power of jQuery extensions, plugins, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849512046
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Let's Start Making a Better Site—Images FREE CHAPTER 2. Site Content—Our Next Step 3. Embedding Rich Media Features with Joomla! Plugins 4. One Last Look at Joomla! jQuery Modules 5. Refactoring Our Site 6. Getting Our Hands on Coding JavaScript 7. Creating Our Own Modules 8. Building Complete Solutions, Modules, and Components 9. Going Further with Our Component Development 10. Problems and Usability Index

Concept of plugin—what is a Joomla! plugin and how does it work?


As I have said previously, plugins are the smallest of Joomla! extensions and they work in a different way.

Components are placed usually in the central part of our site and are mostly used to display and organize our site content, such as articles, photo galleries, and even the products of a shop.

Modules tend to be smaller in complexity, work along components, and appear surrounding the central zone of our site.

Both these types of extensions show site visitors a wide variety of content, information, images, and so on.

Plugins work in a different fashion and, usually, more than displaying content, they are used to modify them. For this purpose, plugins are called in response to some Joomla! or user-defined events.

Joomla! events are a bit of a complex concept, but let's keep...

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