Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Joomla!
• Overview
• History
• Requirements
• Extension Types and Their Uses
• Components
• Modules
• Plugins
• Languages
• Templates
• Tools
• Extension Manager
• JED and JoomlaCode.org
• Development Tools
• J!Code
• J!Dump
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Getting Started
• The Application and Document
• Request to Response
• The Process
• URI Structure
• Directory Structure
• Libraries
• A Quick Lesson in Classes
• Inheriting from JObject
• Working with the Request
• The Factory
• The Session
• Predefined Constants
• Multilingual Support
• UTF-8 String Handling
• Coding Standards
• phpDocumentor
• Summary

• Chapter 3: The Database
• The Core Database
• Extending the Database
• Table Prefix
• Schema Conventions
• Common Fields
• Schema Example
• Dealing with Multilingual Requirements
• Querying the Database
• Writing Queries
• Getting Results
• loadResult( ) : string
• loadResultArray( numinarray : int=0 ) : array
• loadAssoc( ) : array
• loadAssocList( key : string='' ) : array
• loadObject( ) : stdClass
• loadObjectList( key : string='' ) : array
• loadRow( ) : array
• loadRowList( key : int ) : array
• Using ADOdb
• JTable
• CRUD
• Manipulating Common Fields
• Publishing
• Hits
• Checking Out
• Ordering
• Parameter Fields
• Date Fields
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Component Design
• Setting up a Sandbox
• The Structure
• The MVC
• Building a Model
• Building a View
• Building a Controller
• Building an MVC Component
• Rendering Other Document Types
• Feed
• PDF
• Raw
• Dealing with Component Configuration
• Elements and Parameters
• Extending JElement
• Using Custom JElement Classes
• Help Files
• Routing
• Packaging
• XML Manifest File
• SQL Install and Uninstall Files and Queries
• Install and Uninstall Files
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Module Design
• Setting Up a Sandbox
• First Steps
• Standalone Modules
• Modules and Components Working Together
• Frontend and Backend Module Display Positions
• Module Settings (Parameters)
• Helpers
• Layouts (Templates)
• Media
• Translating
• Packaging
• XML Manifest File
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Plugin Design
• Setting Up a Sandbox
• Events
• Listeners
• Registering Listeners
• Handling Events
• Plugin Groups
• Authentication
• Content
• Editors
• Editors-xtd
• Search
• System
• User
• XML-RPC
• Loading Plugins
• Using Plugins as Libraries (in Lieu of Library Extensions)
• Translating Plugins
• Dealing with Plugin Settings (Parameters)
• Packaging
• XML Manifest File
• File Naming Conflicts
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Extension Design
• Supporting Classes
• Helpers
• Using and Building getInstance() Methods
• Using the Registry
• Saving and Loading Registry Values

• The User
• User Parameters

• The Session
• The Browser
• Assets
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Rendering Output
• The joomla.html Library
• Behavior
• Email
• Grid
• Image
• List
• Menu
• Select
• Building Component HTML Layouts (Templates)
• Iterative Templates
• Component Backend
• Admin Form
• Toolbar
• Sub-Menu
• Itemized Data
• Pagination
• Ordering
• Filtering and Searching
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Customizing the Page
• Application Message Queue
• Redirects
• Component XML Metadata Files and Menu Parameters
• Using Menu Item Parameters
• Modifying the Document
• Page Title
• Pathway/Breadcrumb
• JavaScript
• CSS
• Metadata
• Custom Header Tags
• Translating
• Translating Text
• Defining Translations
• Debugging Translations
• Using JavaScript Effects
• JPane
• Tooltips
• Fx.Slide
• Summary

• Chapter 10: APIs and Web Services
• XML
• Parsing
• Editing
• Saving
• AJAX
• Response
• Request
• LDAP
• Email
• File Transfer Protocol
• Web Services
• Building a Web Service (XML-RPC Plugin)
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Error Handling and Security
• Errors, Warnings, and Notices
• Return Values
• Customizing Error Handling
• Dealing with CGI Request Data
• Preprocessing CGI Data
• Escaping and Encoding Data
• Escaping and Quoting Database Data
• Encode XHTML Data
• Regular Expressions
• Patterns
• Matching
• Replacing
• Access Control
• Menu Item Access Control
• Extension Access Control
• Attacks
• How to Avoid Common Attacks
• Using the Session Token
• Code Injection
• XSS (Cross Site Scripting)
• File System Snooping
• Dealing with Attacks
• Log Out and Block
• Attack Logging
• Notify the Site Administrator
• Summary

• Chapter 12: Utilities and Useful Classes
• Dates
• File System
• Paths
• Folders
• Files
• Archives
• Arrays
• Trees
• Log Files
• Summary

• Appendix
• Classes
• JObject
• Properties
• Constructors
• Methods
• JUser
• Properties
• Constructors
• Methods
• JModel
• Properties
• Constructors
• Methods
• JView
• Properties
• Constructors
• Methods
• JController
• Properties
• Constructors
• Methods
• JTable
• Properties
• Constructors
• Methods
• JError
• Methods
• JDocument
• Properties
• Constructors
• Methods
• JApplication
• Properties
• Constructors
• Methods
• JURI
• Properties
• Constructors
• Methods
• JLanguage
• Properties
• Constructors
• Methods
• JLanguageHelper
• Methods
• JText
• Methods
• JElement
• Properties
• Constructors
• Methods
• JParameter
• Properties
• Constructors
• Methods
• JCache
• Properties
• Constructors
• Methods
• JMail
• Constructors
• Methods
• JMailHelper
• Methods
• JFactory
• Methods
• JRegistry
• Properties
• Constructors
• Methods
• JSession
• Properties
• Constructors
• Methods
• JRoute
• Methods
• JMenu
• Properties
• Constructors
• Methods
• JPathway
• Properties
• Methods
• JDatabase
• Properties
• Constructors
• Methods
• Parameters (Core JElements)
• Configuration

• Index