Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Joomla! Extension Development: An Overview
• Why extend Joomla!?
• Customization versus extension
• How to extend Joomla!
• Components
• Modules
• Plugins
• Topic overview
• Creating toolbars and list screens
• Maintaining a consistent look, and reducing repetitive code by using HTML functions
• Accessing the database and managing records
• Security, and the preferred way of getting request variables
• Menu item control
• Controlling the logic flow within a component
• Configuration through XML parameters
• Packaging and distributing
• Our example project
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Getting Started with Component Development
• Joomla!'s component structure
• Executing the component
• Joomla!'s division of frontend and backend
• Registering your component in the database
• Creating toolbars
• Creating a second toolbar
• Available toolbar buttons
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Backend Development
• Creating the database table
• Creating a table class
• Coding with MVC
• Creating the review form
• Processing the data
• Creating a list screen
• Editing records
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Frontend Development
• Listing the reviews
• Displaying a review
• Generating search-engine-friendly links
• Building URL segments
• Parsing URL segments
• Adding comments
• Displaying comments
• Summary

• Chapter 5: JTable, JHTML, and JUser
• Overriding JTable methods
• Adding a check() function
• Overriding the bind() function
• Adding ordered records
• Recording traffic
• Checking out and checking in records
• Getting user information
• Generating elements with JHTML
• Pre-filled lists
• Running content plug-ins
• Using JHTML in the backend
• Setting access
• Setting ordering
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Module Development
• Registering the module in the database
• Creating and configuring a basic module
• Recruiting some helpers
• Trying some different layouts
• Mixing it up
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Expanding the Project
• Publishing records
• Unpublishing reviews
• Deleting records
• Adding Apply
• Requiring specific fields
• Using pagination to break up long lists
• Searching
• Adjusting the model
• Adjusting the view
• Migrating toolbars to views
• Managing comments
• Linking the comments controller
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Using JavaScript Effects
• Modal boxes
• Configuring the modal box
• The raw format and MVC
• Tool tips
• Sliding panes
• Customizing Google Maps
• Interactive maps
• Using jQuery
• Writing jQuery code
• Using jQuery with MooTools
• Always load MooTools first
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Behind the Scenes: Plug-ins
• Database queries
• A simple link plug-in
• What events can be registered?
• System
• Search
• Authentication
• User
• Editor-xtd
• Editor
• Content

• An information box plug-in
• Searching the reviews
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Configuration Settings
• Adding parameters to extensions
• Parameters for modules
• What parameters are available for use?
• Parameters for plug-ins
• Parameters for components
• Adding parameters to the list view
• Adding parameters to the single view
• Adding component global parameters
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Email, Languages, and JFile
• Sending emails
• Linking the form
• Sending email
• Adding a success message
• Managing languages
• Creating translations
• Debugging languages
• Translating the frontend
• Handling file uploads
• Using the original filename
• Summary

• Chapter 12: Packing Everything Together
• Listing all of the files
• Packaging the module
• Packaging the plug-ins
• Packaging the component
• Including SQL queries
• Creating backend menu items
• Extra installation scripts
• Distribution
• Summary

• Index