Developing the Joomla! Component and Understanding its Structure
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Joseph L. LeBlanc | November 2007 | Joomla! MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP
In this article by Joseph L. LeBlanc, you will learn about the architecture, design, and requirements of a general Joomla! component. You will also see how the component gets executed and is registered with the database. At the end, you will learn to create toolbars.
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Joseph L. LeBlanc | July 2008 | Joomla! MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP
Modules in Joomla can always help us to add special functionality or special features to our website. In this article by Joseph LeBlanc, we will see how to create and configure a basic module and centralize data access and output using helper classes. We will also have a look at how to select different display options using layouts.
Read Module Development in Joomla in fullIdentifying Key Elements for Joomla! Template Design
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Tessa Blakeley Silver | October 2007 | Joomla! MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP Web Development
In the world of Joomla! websites where everyone has the same modules to work with, the three main things that will differentiate your site from all the others are the color scheme, graphic element style, and module placement.
In this article by Tessa Blakeley Silver, we will identify the key elements of a Joomla! template and discuss what considerations to make when contemplating your own design. You'll pick up some tips and tricks to help you define your color scheme and graphic style, as well as learn some standard techniques for optimizing and extracting images from your design while preparing to code it up.
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| December 2008 | Joomla! MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP
Before you begin with coding, there are a few files and folders that have to be created, as well as a query that has to be run. This will not only allow you to build Joomla! components, but will also help you try different features without extensive configuration. The component in this article will be called restaurants.
After installing your basic Joomla! component and making the website ready, there are a few additional features that you can include. One of them came up with the idea of allowing visitors to send reviews to their friends through email. Another could be adding audio reviews in addition to text. We can also begin to look into ways of expanding the market for the software. Internationalizing the component now will make it easy to translate the user interface later.
In the following article by Joseph L. LeBlanc, we will be taking a look at including the following additional features :
- Sending emails
- Managing languages
- Creating translations
- Handling file uploads
Customizing Plugins in Joomla! 1.5x (Part 2)
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Daniel Chapman | October 2009 | Joomla! Content Management Open Source PHP
Read Part One of Customizing Plugins in Joomla! 1.5x here.
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Daniel Chapman | August 2009 | Joomla! Content Management Open Source PHP
Plugins are an essential, but rarely noticed part of a successful Joomla!-based business. Plugins are very flexible and can execute for various purposes at many different times. Part of this article by Daniel Chapman will be to look at these purposes and times, and understand how they can affect our web site by going through the following topics:
- plugin composition and operation
- plugin types
- plugin events
- plugin ordering
- plugin customization
We will also make some changes to an existing plugin so that it better meets our needs.
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Tessa Blakeley Silver | July 2009 | Joomla! Content Management Open Source
In this article by Tessa Blakeley Silver, we'll go over jdoc tags for templates, the standard CSS class and id rules that Joomla! outputs, how module and template override files are organized, as well as useful Joomla! PHP code you can use in your template to aid in making it more user-friendly and dynamic. Of course, wherever possible, we'll let get to know the relevant Joomla! documentation links to bookmark, to give you in-depth detail and save you a little time searching through the Joomla! documentation site and the Web.
Read Joomla! 1.5 Template Reference: Part 1 in fullJoomla! 1.5 Template Reference: Part 2
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Tessa Blakeley Silver | July 2009 | Joomla! Content Management Open Source
Read Part One of Joomla! 1.5 Template Reference here.
Read Joomla! 1.5 Template Reference: Part 2 in fullAJAX/Dynamic Content and Interactive Forms in Joomla!
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Tessa Blakeley Silver | June 2009 | Joomla! Content Management Open Source
In this article by Tessa Blakeley Silver, we're going to take a look at the most popular methods to get you going with AJAX in Joomla!, using extensions and plugins, in order to help you include dynamic self-updating content and create interactive forms in your Joomla! site. While we're at it, we'll also look at some cool JavaScript toolkits, libraries, and scripts you can use to appear Ajaxy.
Read AJAX/Dynamic Content and Interactive Forms in Joomla! in fullPreventing Remote File Includes Attack on your Joomla Websites
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Tom Canavan | May 2009 | Joomla! Open Source
There are many types of attacks that can happen to a website. In a previous article, Preventing SQL Injection Attacks on your Joomla Websites was discussed. In this article by Tom Canavan, we will take a look at how Remote File Include(RFI) attacks occur, and how it can be prevented.
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