£16.99
per month
Video
Aug 2013
1hr 41mins
1st Edition
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Comprehensive coverage of Joomla! extension development
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Hands-on tutorials with real-world examples
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Expert instruction from experienced Joomla! developers
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Learn essential skills for building powerful Joomla! websites
Create your own custom Joomla! components, plugins, modules, and template extensions
About This Video
• Build a basic component and add options to it for greater flexibility and control of your data
• Build plugins for your component and use modules to display data from your component
In Detail
Joomla! 3 speeds up custom development like no other web platform. Building your own custom Joomla! components, plugins, modules, and templates has never been so easy! With this easy-to-follow, hands-on course, you can have your first component up and running today.
This video course provides you with a step-by-step tutorial for building a basic component with frontend editing. You will also learn how to build both content and search plugins for your component, how to build a module to display data from your component, and finally how to build a template using Bootstrap CSS.
The course starts by teaching you how to build a basic, bare bones component for inserting and displaying recipes using the minimum amount of code that is needed for a component. No component is complete without search and content plugins. You will start off by building standard search and smart search plugins, a content plugin for inserting our component’s data into a content item, and adding code to insert other plugins’ data into our display page. The plugins will make our recipes searchable on the site and will enable the insertion of recipes into content articles.
You will then move on to build a basic module, add standard field types, and finally add a custom field type when standard fields are not enough. The module will display select recipes from our collection. Finally, you will also learn how to build a template that uses Twitter Bootstrap’s CSS.
Learning Joomla! 3 Extension Development makes it fast and easy to develop your own custom Joomla! components, plugins, modules, and templates.
Ideal for web developers, Joomla! enthusiasts, and anyone looking to enhance their Joomla! websites with custom extensions and templates. Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and PHP is recommended.
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Build Joomla! components, modules, plugins, and templates
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Handle databases, dynamic data, and forms
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Implement categories, publishing options, and SEF URLs
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Configure ACL, batch processing, and frontend editing
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Create custom templates with module positions