October 2009 | Content Management, Cookbooks, Joomla!, Open Source, PHP
Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook is a new book from Packt that helps developers to implement simple but incredibly useful solutions for common Joomla! 1.5 programming design problems. Written by James Kennard, this is a hands-on solutions book that takes a practical approach to recipes by providing code samples, which can be extracted easily. It will help developers to swiftly extend the Joomla! core functionality to create new and exciting extensions.
Joomla! is the world’s hottest open source award-winning content management system platform, written in PHP, that uses the MySQL database system to store information. It enables developers to build professional websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! one of the most popular CMSes available.
Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook provides step-by-step mini examples to show how to overcome common design and implementation hurdles when creating Joomla! extensions. It can be used by both, professional as well as novice Joomla! developers. The Recipes contained within the book will introduce readers to specific problems and provide hands-on explanations. It also provides solutions for core design topics including security, data access, users and sessions.
With this book, users will learn to make extensions extensible and add extensions points, which will allow third parties to customize their extensions and create international extensions by enabling multilingual capabilities. They will discover beyond building HTML pages and will learn to create PDF documents, Atom Feeds and RSS feeds to improve user experience by adding Ajax and keeping them up-to-date. Additionally, they will be able to take control of their workflows by using JoomlaCode.org to manage their Joomla! projects.
A practical guide packed with plenty of code samples, and tips and tricks, this book is ideal for PHP developers who have experience of developing for Joomla! and wish to solve common Joomla! 1.5 programming problems quickly. The book is out now and available from Packt. To read more about it, please visit: www.packtpub.com/joomla-1-5-development-cookbook/book
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Quickly implement solutions for common Joomla! 1.5 programming design problems
For more information, please visit: http://www.packtpub.com/joomla-1-5-development-cookbook/book |
