Features :

• Simple but incredibly useful solutions to real world Joomla! 1.5 development problems
• Rapidly extend the Joomla! core functionality to create new and exciting extension
• Hands-on solutions that takes a practical approach to recipes - providing code samples that can easily be extracted

In Detail

What you will learn from this book?

• Make your extensions extensible, add extensions points to allow third parties to customize your extension
• Create international extensions by enabling multilingual capabilities
• Build more than just HTML pages - create PDF documents, Atom Feeds, and more!
• Improve the user experience by adding Ajax
• Create Atom and RSS feeds to keep users up-to-date
• Utilize the power of Subversion to maintain your source code
• Execute database queries and handle returned data in order to access and modify your data
• Dynamically extend your database tables using JParameter to make your extensions more flexible
• Keep your gremlins at bay by handling errors the Joomla! way
• Work with the file system, interrogate existing files and folders and store data in the file system
• Take control of your workflows by using JoomlaCode.org to manage your Joomla! projects

Approach

This book contains recipes which define common problems and provide suggested solutions. This is not a book to read from cover-to-cover, it is hands-on solutions book that takes a practical approach to recipes - providing code samples that can easily be extracted and modified to suit the needs of the reader. Each recipe is presented as a separate entity and prior reading of other recipes is not required. Chapters provide categorization of recipes and give an introduction to the subject area with reference to the recipes contained within.

Who this book is written for?

This book is for PHP developers who have experience of developing for Joomla! It does not introduce developing extensions for Joomla!, it is assumed that the reader has prior knowledge of the subject and is looking for a quick guide to solve common problems quickly which commonly occur when developing for Joomla! It does not matter if you are an accomplished Joomla! developer or just starting out. For each scenario that this book addresses, there is an introductory explanation of the problem and an easy to implement solution. For the more accomplished developers recipes also include a discussion of the solution explaining how it works and how it can be further enhanced or customized.