Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 Beta 1

	Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 Beta 1
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Book Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Terms, Concepts, and Deliberations
Chapter 2: Installation
Chapter 3: A Tour of Your New Website
Chapter 4: Customizing Joomla!
Chapter 5: Components and Extensions
Chapter 6: Writing Your Own Joomla! Templates
Chapter 7: Your Own Components, Modules, and Plug-Ins
Chapter 8: A Website with Joomla!
Chapter 9: Bonus Templates
Appendix A: Online Resources
Index

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Chapter 7: Your Own Components, Modules, and Plug-Ins

Let's say you want to solve a problem with Joomla!, but there are no ready-made components for it yet. For instance, you are a car dealer and you need a listing of your used vehicles on your website that you can administer with the Joomla! administration or you need a list of your branches. Simply extend Joomla!'s functionality with new components, modules, and plug-ins. What looks quite difficult at first can actually be accomplished with beginner-level knowledge of PHP.
I am sure you can figure out what you have to do after your experience with building templates. The emphasis this time, however, is not on layout but on programming. But before we really get going, let's work on a simple "Hello World" component.

Chapter 7: Your Own Components, Modules, and Plug-Ins
- Sample Helloworld Component
  - A Home for Helloworld
  - Making Use of the Joomla! Framework
  - A Little more Functionality
  - Separation of HTML Output and Programming Logic
- An Example Component
  - The MySQL Table
  - The Front End
    - auto.php
    - auto.html.php
  - Integration into the Main Menu
  - The Joomla! Administration
    - The Component Table
    - admin.auto.php
    - auto.class.php
    - admin.auto.html.php
    - toolbar.auto.php
    - toolbar.auto.html.php
  - Test
  - Creating an Installation Package
    - auto.xml
- Modules
  - Source code
    - mod_auto.xml
  - Installation
  - View on the Website
- Plug-Ins
  - Source Code
  - View on the Website
- Summary

Paperback 380 pages
Released: February 2007
ISBN: 1847192386
ISBN 13: 978-1-847192-38-7

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