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Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5

By : Hagen Graf
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Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5

By: Hagen Graf

Overview of this book

<p>Joomla! started as a fork from Mambo in 2005, when many of the original developers of the Mambo CMS moved to working on Joomla! It has rapidly grown in popularity and, according to its own description, is a "Cutting Edge Content Management System and one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management systems in the world. It is used world-wide for anything from simple homepages to complicated corporate websites. It is easy to install, easy to manage and very reliable."<br /><br />While the Joomla! CMS has the flexibility and power needed for complex, full-featured web applications, it is also simple to use to create basic websites. Its powerful, extensible template system can deal many different data types and control of user access, approval of content, scheduling of content display, and rich administrative controls are all included.</p>
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5
Credits
About the Author
Preface
3
A Tour of Your New Website
5
Configuration of Joomla! Administration
Online Resources
Template Modules
How Do I switch an Image (Logo) in the Template?
Joomla! API
Forgot the Admin Password
Security Without Global Variables
Index

The com_auto Administration


The pure display of data on the website was relatively simple; administration of the data, by its nature, is a little more complicated. As administrator, you have to be able to display, modify, insert, delete, and publish data. This involves significantly more interactivity than there was in the simple listing on the website.

The Component Table

Joomla!, by the way, administers all menu items of the component in the [prefix]components table. The menu items of all of the components in the administration area have to be recorded here as well. The com_auto component was also entered there:

A graphic that is to be displayed next to the menu is also recorded there ('js/ThemeOffice/component.png'). You will find the graphics in the [pathto-Joomla]/includes/js/ThemeOffice folder.

You need several files to be able to create the administration component. You will find the following files in the [pathtoJoomla]/administration/components/com_auto/ folder:

  • /administration/components...