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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 2. Getting Started with Plugin Development FREE CHAPTER 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

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Modules are very useful to display the content on your website in various positions. These module positions are defined in your template. Modules are easier to visualize than plugins, so they are used more often, and they are significantly less complex than components. Modules are often used to display some information from a component, but they can be completely stand-alone and display whatever content you like.

Like with plugins, before we create a module, we need to know what we are trying to achieve. Let's assume that you have a website that has multiple administrators who maintain the content of the site and all of them have access to install new extensions. As a super administrator, you'd like to keep an eye on what these other administrators are up to, so you would like to have an easy way to see when new extensions have been installed on the website. You took a look on the JED and didn't find a suitable module, so you've decided to create a simple module that will...

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