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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

Where do I start?


To get started with plugin development, first we need to decide what problem we are trying to solve or what functionality we are trying to implement.

Let's assume that you have a website with various phone numbers listed on the site, and that this site is popular with people who access the site through a smartphone. Currently, to call one of the numbers, the user has to remember the number to dial it, or perhaps they jot it down on a piece of paper or attempt to select and copy the number through their browser. This is not very user-friendly, a much better way to do this would be to change the phone number to a click-to-call link, so the user can just click the phone number and their phone will call it. Now, you could go through the website and manually change all the phone numbers to these links, but that would be inconvenient. Assuming our phone number is in the format 1234-5678, we could change it to this HTML code to create a click-to-call link.

<a href="tel: 1234...
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