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Developing Extensions for Joomla! 5

By : Carlos M. Cámara Mora
5 (2)
Book Image

Developing Extensions for Joomla! 5

5 (2)
By: Carlos M. Cámara Mora

Overview of this book

Joomla! 5 is a groundbreaking CMS that helps you take a significant leap into the world of content management systems. Joomla! 5 features a variety of impressive new features that align with current web standards and enable you to experience lightning-fast performance for optimal web page optimization, leverage the new code architecture, and tap into the WebService API, among others. This book takes you on a journey of extending Joomla's capabilities by developing your own extensions. The chapters not only explain the key concepts behind Joomla's architecture but also equip you with the latest techniques for crafting components and plugins. You’ll discover how to leverage existing features within Joomla! to empower your extensions and create tailored solutions. The book takes you from the initial stages of planning your extension development to a fully featured finished product. As you advance, you'll learn invaluable techniques for testing your extension, addressing common issues, and preparing it for publication. The concluding chapters of this comprehensive guide teach you how to test your extension for common issues, along with how to publish the extension for everyone to use. By the end of this book, you’ll have the confidence and skills to complete the cycle of extension development.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Developing Components
8
Part 2: Developing Modules and Plugins
12
Part 3: Extending Templates
15
Part 4: Distributing Your Extensions

Creating alternative layouts

Overriding views is a great way to adapt our views for every project in Joomla!. Having the capability to replace the whole markup of our view is very powerful and provides great flexibility to Joomla! site integrators. However, template overrides affect the whole site. What happens if we want to offer our projects card view and accordion view on different areas of the same site? This is when adding different item views makes sense.

Adding an alternative menu item for a component view

In Joomla!, we can define different layouts for our views in the overrides folder. To see this, let’s move our template override to a new item type for the component.

First, create the /templates/cassiopeia/html/com_spm/projects/alternative.xml file inside Joomla! with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<metadata>
    <layout title="COM_SPM_VIEW_PROJECTS_ALTERNATIVE
&...