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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

Summary

Forms are a key aspect of the web. We need forms to request information from our users and we use that information to show them different data or to save this data in our web application. Joomla! offers a whole range of form fields, such as text, accessiblemedia, and subform, to create forms easily with different interfaces so that we can request this information in the easiest and most accessible way.

To trust our data, we need to be sure the information that’s submitted is in a valid format and it’s accurate. So, we must use validation to check the data that’s been submitted in our forms. This validation should happen on the client side to provide quicker feedback to the user. With Joomla’s client-side validation, we can add this validation by adding specific CSS classes or some JavaScript code. We also need to perform server-side validation to be fully sure the user is not bypassing our client validation. Joomla! helps us with this via the...