Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Joomla! Extension Development: An Overview
Chapter 2: Getting Started with Component Development
Chapter 3: Backend Development
Chapter 4: Frontend Development
Chapter 5: JTable, JHTML, and JUser
Chapter 6: Module Development
Chapter 7: Expanding the Project
Chapter 8: Using JavaScript Effects
Chapter 9: Behind the Scenes: Plug-ins
Chapter 10: Configuration Settings
Chapter 11: Email, Languages, and JFile
Chapter 12: Packing Everything Together
Index

• 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

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