Learning Joomla! 3 extension development
If you have ideas for additional Joomla 3! features, this book will allow you to realize them. It’s a complete practical guide to building and extending plugins, modules, and components. Ideal for professional developers and enthusiasts. Clear steps to create your own plugins, modules, and component...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, UK :
Packt Pub
2013.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627895806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Learning Joomla! 3 Extension Development
- Table of Contents
- Learning Joomla! 3 Extension Development
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgement
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
- Why subscribe?
- Free access for Packt account holders
- Preface
- What this book covers
- What you need for this book
- Who this book is for
- Conventions
- Reader feedback
- Customer support
- Downloading the example code
- Errata
- Piracy
- Questions
- 1. Before you Start
- Extension types and their uses
- Plugins
- Modules
- Components
- Languages
- Templates
- Libraries
- Packages
- Joomla! versions that your extensions should support
- What's new in Joomla! 3
- Licensing and GPL
- What business model should I adopt?
- Tools you need to develop the Joomla! extensions
- Coding standards
- Legacy MVC versus new MVC
- Upgrading a Joomla! 2.5 component to make it Joomla! 3 compatible
- To fork or not to fork?
- Summary
- 2. Getting Started with Plugin Development
- Plugin types
- Plugin event triggers
- Where do I start?
- Creating the installation XML file
- Creating the plugin PHP file
- Zip it up and install your plugin
- Adding the parameters to our plugin
- Adding the language files
- Summary
- 3. Getting Started with Module Development
- Where do I start?
- Backend versus frontend modules
- Backend modules' installation location
- Frontend modules' installation location
- Creating the installation XML file
- Creating the module PHP file
- Creating the view
- Connecting to the database
- Zip it up and install your module
- Packaging your module for distribution
- Backwards compatibility for Joomla! 2.5
- Making changes to the installation XML file
- Adding the CSS styles
- Packaging for distribution.
- Converting to the site module
- Translating your module
- Adding a help file
- Template overrides
- Watch out when updating
- Alternative layouts
- Making your module responsive
- Summary
- 4. Getting Started with Component Development
- Where do I start?
- Creating the component installation XML file
- Creating a simple component
- Creating the entry point
- Creating the access XML file
- Creating the config XML file
- Setting up the database
- Discover the extension
- Creating the controllers
- Creating the model for the list view
- Creating the model for the edit view
- Creating a form
- The form XML file
- JForm field types
- Accesslevel
- Cachehandler
- Calendar
- Captcha
- Category
- Checkbox
- Checkboxes
- Chromestyle
- Color
- Combo
- Componentlayout
- Contentlanguage
- Contenttype
- Databaseconnection
- Editor
- File
- Filelist
- Folderlist
- Groupedlist
- Headertag
- Helpsite
- Hidden
- Imagelist
- Integer
- Language
- List
- Media
- Menu
- Menuitem
- Modulelayout
- Moduleorder
- Moduleposition
- Moduletag
- Password
- Plugins
- Radio
- Rules
- Sessionhandler
- Spacer
- Sql
- Tag
- Tagnested
- Tel
- Templatestyle
- Text
- Textarea
- Timezone
- Url
- User
- Usergroup
- Creating a view
- The list view
- The view.html.php file
- The helper file
- The view layout file
- The edit view
- The view.html.php file
- The view layout file
- Installer script
- Zip it up and install your component
- Summary
- 5. Backend Component Development - Part 1
- Adding additional fields
- Adding fields to the model
- Category field
- State field
- Media field
- Company field
- Phone field
- URL field
- Description field
- Language strings for new fields
- Adding fields to the view
- Alternative method for displaying fields in the view.
- Adding fields to the database
- Adding columns to your view
- Adding simple columns
- Click to sort by column
- Status column
- Ordering column
- Toolbar buttons and component options
- Component options
- View filters and search
- Sidebar filters
- Changing delete to trash
- Filters and search
- Summary
- 6. Backend Component Development - Part 2
- Pagination
- Adding views and submenu items
- The categories view
- The preview view
- Submenus
- Access Control List (ACL)
- Global permissions
- Component permissions
- Category permissions
- Article permissions
- Access level
- Multi-database support
- Summary
- 7. Frontend Component Development
- Getting started on the frontend
- Creating a view
- Adding CSS
- Adding sample images
- Creating another view
- Menu item parameters
- Adding a category filter on our menu
- Using component options
- Width and height parameters
- Translating your component
- Updating data from the frontend
- Creating the list view
- Creating the edit form
- Using ReCaptcha in your component
- ReCaptcha without JForm
- Using our click-to-call plugin with this component
- Integrating a third-party comments extension
- Summary
- 8. Security - Avoiding Common Vulnerabilities
- Why you should care about security
- Path disclosure
- SQL injection
- Local File Inclusion
- Remote File Inclusion
- Cross-site scripting
- Cross-site Request Forgery
- Some quick advice
- Summary
- 9. Packing Everything Together
- Creating a package
- Setting up an update server
- Managing database changes
- Updating the PHP files
- Getting listed on the JED
- Summary
- 10. Extending your Component with Plugins and Modules
- Creating a search plugin
- Creating a smart search plugin
- Creating a featured portfolio module
- Adding tags to our component
- Summary
- Index.
