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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, we learned how to put together all the work we have done in this book and create a package to distribute our extensions to the world.

We learned how to push changes to the user database structure to add new features or fix existing bugs. Joomla! helps a lot with this as it provides proper tags and mechanisms so that we can focus on the database code.

Finally, we learned how to create an update server to notify users about new releases and how to protect extension updates behind a paywall just using Joomla! code.

After all these chapters, I hope you found this content helpful and that you have a grasp of the basics regarding how to develop Joomla! solutions for your next projects.

In this book, we tried to provide a guide for extension development as close as possible to Joomla’s coding standards and architecture in the simplest way possible. A great way to learn more about Joomla! extension development is going to GitHub and helping with...

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