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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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Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782168379
Length 458 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Tim Plummer is a Joomla! enthusiast and extension developer who has been building websites for over ten years, and specializing in Joomla! since 2008. Tim has developed and maintained several popular components, modules, and plugins, which are listed on the Joomla! Extension Directory, in addition to his day job in IT for a multinational manufacturer. Tim lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife, Tamlyn, who runs her own design agency and two kids, Zane and Ava-Lily, who keep Tim very busy. At university Tim studied Engineering, and he has a Bachelor of Engineering in Telecommunications Engineering degree, however his passion in IT has been his career focus. Tim is very active in the Joomla! community; in January 2012 Tim took on the convener role for the Sydney Joomla! User Group (JUG), and he has been coorganizer for the annual Joomla!Day Sydney conference since 2011, taking on the coordinator role in 2013. Tim has run Joomla! development workshops at Joomla! Day conferences and various JUG groups throughout Australia, and is a regular presenter at the Sydney JUG.
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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

Chapter 3. Getting Started with Module Development

In this chapter, you are going to build your first Joomla! module. Initially, you will build a simple module for the backend of Joomla! 3, and then you will adapt it to also support Joomla! 2.5. After that, you will convert it to a frontend module and extend it with translations, other cool features such as alternative layouts, and making the module responsive. By the end of this chapter, you should know enough to be able to start creating your own modules for Joomla!. You will learn the following things in this chapter:

  • How to make your first module

  • How to make your module backwards compatible for Joomla! 2.5

  • How to translate your module

  • How to support alternative layouts

  • How to override templates for modules

  • How to use Bootstrap for responsive layout

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Tim Plummer is a Joomla! enthusiast and extension developer who has been building websites for over ten years, and specializing in Joomla! since 2008. Tim has developed and maintained several popular components, modules, and plugins, which are listed on the Joomla! Extension Directory, in addition to his day job in IT for a multinational manufacturer. Tim lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife, Tamlyn, who runs her own design agency and two kids, Zane and Ava-Lily, who keep Tim very busy. At university Tim studied Engineering, and he has a Bachelor of Engineering in Telecommunications Engineering degree, however his passion in IT has been his career focus. Tim is very active in the Joomla! community; in January 2012 Tim took on the convener role for the Sydney Joomla! User Group (JUG), and he has been coorganizer for the annual Joomla!Day Sydney conference since 2011, taking on the coordinator role in 2013. Tim has run Joomla! development workshops at Joomla! Day conferences and various JUG groups throughout Australia, and is a regular presenter at the Sydney JUG.
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