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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

What happens if JavaScript is disabled?


This is something we should always take care of, as most of our visitors may have JavaScript disabled in their browsers. Throughout this book we haven't had enough time to take a look at it. So I hope that in this example we can take a look at the main aspects of this problem.

For this example, we are going to use a new little module called mod_tinyphotos. You can find the mod_tinyphotos.tar.gz file in the code bundle of Chapter 10 and at this point it's more or less in the middle of its development. It will be perfect for us then because we can practice with it. But first we need to install it, and as always, we can do that in our administrator screen from Extensions | Install/Uninstall.

Once we have our module installed, we can see it as a module called Tiny Photos, with all of our other modules in Extensions | Module Manager, as shown in the following screenshot:

Of course, we need to enable the Tiny Photos module and place it in the module position...