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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

Making your module responsive


Since Joomla! 3 is mobile-friendly by default, you should also make your module mobile-friendly too. Mobile devices have very small screens, so we can hide the unnecessary details and just show the important information to the mobile users, but still show the additional information to our desktop users. We can take advantage of Bootstrap and apply some classes that will do all the hard work. Obviously this assumes that the user's template is using Bootstrap.

Edit the file /administrator/modules/mod_latestextensions/tmpl/default.php and modify the class on the type and ID columns as follows. Don't forget to get rid of the template override from the previous section, otherwise you are not going to see your changes.

<?php
defined('_JEXEC') or die;

?>

<div class="latestextensions<?php echo $moduleclass_sfx ?>">
  <div class="row-striped">
    <?php foreach ($list as $item) : ?>
      <div class="row-fluid">
        <div class...
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