Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Development using JoomlaCode.org and SVN
Chapter 2: Keeping Extensions Secure
Chapter 3: Working with the Database
Chapter 4: The Session and the User
Chapter 5: Multilingual Recipes
Chapter 6: Interaction and Styling
Chapter 7: Customizing the Document
Chapter 8: Customizing the Backend
Chapter 9: Keeping it Extensible and Modular
Chapter 10: JObjects and Arrays
Chapter 11: Error Handling and Reporting
Chapter 12: Files and Folders
Index
- Chapter 1: Development using JoomlaCode.org and SVN
- Setting up a JoomlaCode.org project
- Managing members of a JoomlaCode.org project
- Setting up JoomlaCode.org Subversion
- Understanding the Subversion skeleton
- Understanding revisions in Subversion
- Understanding the Subversion process
- Checking out a Subversion repository using TortoiseSVN
- Editing a working copy using TortoiseSVN
- Inspecting changes using TortoiseSVN
- Updating a working copy and resolving conflicts using TortoiseSVN
- Committing changes using TortoiseSVN
- Exporting a working copy using TortoiseSVN
- Chapter 2: Keeping Extensions Secure
- Writing SQL safe queries
- Writing SQL-safe LIKE string comparison queries
- Using the token
- Making a filename safe
- Making a directory path safe
- Making a path safe
- Safely retrieving request data
- Getting a value from an array
- Chapter 3: Working with the Database
- Executing a query
- Loading the first cell from the result of a query
- Loading the first record from a query
- Loading more than one record from a query
- Handling DBO errors
- Creating a JTable
- Creating a new record using a JTable
- Updating a record using a JTable
- Reading an existing record using a JTable
- Deleting a record using a JTable
- Checking a record in and out (record locking) using a JTable
- Modifying record ordering using a JTable
- Publishing and unpublishing a record using a JTable
- Incrementing a record hit counter using a JTable
- Chapter 4: The Session and the User
- Getting the session handler
- Adding data to the session
- Getting session data
- Checking for session data
- Checking the session token
- Getting the user
- Determining if the current user is a guest
- Getting the user's name and username
- Getting the user's group ID and type
- Restricting a user's access using Public, Registered, and Special
- Getting the user's parameters
- Setting the user's parameters
- Extending and editing user parameters
- Sending an email to the user
- Chapter 5: Multilingual Recipes
- Creating a translation
- Translating some text
- Determining the character length of a UTF-8 string
- Removing leading and trailing UTF-8 whitespace
- Comparing UTF-8 strings
- Finding a UTF-8 string in a UTF-8 string
- Executing a regular expression on a UTF-8 string
- Reversing a UTF-8 string
- Extracting a substring from a UTF-8 string
- Replacing occurrences of a UTF-8 string in a UTF-8 string
- Accessing characters in a UTF-8 string by position
- Converting a string from one encoding to another
- Creating a UTF-8 aware database installation script
- Chapter 6: Interaction and Styling
- Getting page and component parameters
- Adding CSS to a page
- Overriding component templates
- Adding JavaScript to a page
- Creating a modal window
- Generating modal content
- Updating an element using Ajax and MooTools
- Updating an element based on a form using Ajax and MooTools
- Providing an Ajax response from a component
- Enabling pagination in a list of items
- Chapter 7: Customizing the Document
- Setting the document title
- Setting the document generator
- Setting the document description
- Adding metadata to the document
- Changing the document character set
- Changing the document MIME type
- Controlling client caching of responses
- Creating a PDF in a component
- Creating an RSS or Atom feed in a component
- Outputting a RAW document from a component
- Using a custom JDocument in a component (PHP 5 only)
- Chapter 8: Customizing the Backend
- Disabling the menu bar
- Setting the toolbar title and icon
- Adding common item manipulation buttons to the toolbar
- Adding common itemized manipulation buttons to the toolbar
- Adding custom buttons to the toolbar
- Adding spacers and dividers to the toolbar
- Adding a help system to a component
- Creating a filter header for tabular data in an MVC component
- Filtering tabular data in an MVC component
- Creating toggle-enabled order column headers for tabular data in an MVC component
- Ordering tabular data in an MVC component
- Chapter 9: Keeping it Extensible and Modular
- Loading plugins
- Invoking a plugin
- Creating a Joomla! search plugin
- Creating your own library and import function
- Installing a plugin programmatically during a component installation
- Managing categories the easy way
- Defining JParameters using XML
- Creating a JParameter object
- Rendering a JParameter object
- Saving JParameter data
- Getting and setting values in a JParameter object
- Defining your own JParameter type
- Chapter 10: JObjects and Arrays
- Getting a JObject property
- Getting all of the public JObject properties
- Setting a JObject property
- Setting a batch of JObject properties
- Reporting an error in a JObject
- Getting an error from a JObject
- Getting all errors from a JObject
- Converting an object to an array
- Converting an array to an object
- Getting a column from a multidimensional array
- Getting a value from an array
- Casting all elements of an array to integers
- Sorting an array of objects
- Imploding an array
- Chapter 11: Error Handling and Reporting
- Raising an error-level J!error
- Raising a warning-level J!error
- Raising a notice-level J!error
- Enqueuing a message
- Changing the default J!error handling
- Handling and raising a bespoke J!error
- Logging errors and events using JLog
- Throwing exceptions with PHP 5
- Catching exceptions with PHP 5
- Chapter 12: Files and Folders
- Checking whether a file or folder exists
- Reading a file
- Deleting a file or folder
- Copying a file or folder
- Moving and renaming files and folders
- Creating a folder
- Uploading files to Joomla!
- Reading a directory structure
- Changing file and folder permissions
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