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Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

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Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

Overview of this book

Ever wondered how all the great-looking, feature packed, amazing Joomla! sites are made? Would you like to add image transitions, popups, scrolls, AJAX forms, image galleries, no-page reloads to your website, but are worried that they will be difficult to implement? To make any Joomla! site look more professional, interactive, and interesting you need the ease and power of jQuery.This book will help you to use the jQuery library with the Joomla! CMS. It will take you through adding jQuery functionality to the Joomla! CMS and show how to use it to make the modules and themes more dynamic, interactive, and responsive, and add effects to your Joomla! site.The book starts by showing a plain Joomla! site without any JavaScript enhancement or features, then accompanies you through the process of site enhancement.First you will learn how to make use of third-party extensions to include jQuery features into your site. These can be image galleries, jQuery powered menus, tooltips, and many, many more. Later on you will learn how to modify your template to add some features to your Joomla! site, You will also learn to build your own jQuery-powered Joomla! extensions, and how to pack them so that you can use them in any project you like. Further, you will learn to create your own modules and components.By the end of this book, you will have learned how to enhance any Joomla! site with JavaScript and jQuery.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Concept of plugin—what is a Joomla! plugin and how does it work?


As I have said previously, plugins are the smallest of Joomla! extensions and they work in a different way.

Components are placed usually in the central part of our site and are mostly used to display and organize our site content, such as articles, photo galleries, and even the products of a shop.

Modules tend to be smaller in complexity, work along components, and appear surrounding the central zone of our site.

Both these types of extensions show site visitors a wide variety of content, information, images, and so on.

Plugins work in a different fashion and, usually, more than displaying content, they are used to modify them. For this purpose, plugins are called in response to some Joomla! or user-defined events.

Joomla! events are a bit of a complex concept, but let's keep...