Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook
James Kennard experience with #Joomla! 1.5 development enables him to share his insights effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to problems, questions, and common tasks encountered in the design and implementation of #Joomla! 1.5 extensions.
Kennard’s cookbook is an excellent resource for novices and experts alike. I did start reading it and really appreciate the way the information are presented. While I develop for #Joomla! since many years, I was surprised by the number of things that I was not using in all my projects. It is not for beginners, but those who have worked a little with #Joomla! will learn a lot on its internals. Beginer
This book has helped me be a better developer, let me explain how:
- Examples are easy to understand, and really found in 80% of components, plugins and modules.
- I did discover a lot of existing API code, that did reduce my overall coding effort and code size by 30%
- I did add quickly new functionalities like RSS frontend, better paging presentation of data in no time. In fact, a lot faster than without having been not helped by this book.
- Starting at chapter 3, the book contains some tips about how to deals with the Requests and Users and how to keep #Joomla secure through those practices.
My only regret, is how fast I went to this interesting book, even if it weight 360 pages, It was such a pleasure that I wish the book was even bigger! You can expect some direct results soon in my next components releases.
Book Content
360 pages that cover the following topics:
- Make your extensions extensible, add extensions points to allow third parties to customize your extension
- Create international extensions by enabling multilingual capabilities, solving some UTF8 pitfalls.
- Improve the user experience by adding Ajax
- Work with the file system, interrogate existing files and folders and store data in the file system
- Create Atom and RSS feeds to keep users up-to-date
- Build more than just HTML pages – create PDF documents, Atom Feeds, and more!
- Utilize the power of Subversion to maintain your source code
- Dynamically extend your database tables using JParameter to make your extensions more flexible
- Execute database queries and handle returned data in order to access and modify your data
- Handling errors
- Take control of your workflows by using #JoomlaCode.org to manage your #Joomla! projects
Nota
This book is published and sold by Packt Publishing. A donation is made to the Joomla! project with every copy sold as per the Packt Publishing Open Source Project Royalties scheme.
