Components are undoubtedly the most complex extensions, and, as a result, the hardest to implement. Before jumping in head first, it can be a good idea to examine existing components to see how they are constructed. The Web Links component is used as an example because it demonstrates many of the common aspects of a component and does so with a relatively simple and easy-to-understand data structure.
The MVC pattern consists of three parts, the model, view, and controller. Getting to grips with how these interact with one another is fundamental to creating well-formed components.
We investigated the use of the different document formats: feed, HTML, PDF, and RAW. Enabling a component to render the same data in several formats requires very little effort and can make a component far more successful.
Understanding how menu items override the component configuration is imperative when dealing with the component configuration. Administrators also sometimes misunderstand the approach; we...