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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

Coding a basic admin zone


Well, we have made some good advances in building our component, but still much work needs to be done. One of these important steps, which still needs to be done, is the creation of an admin zone for our component.

With an admin zone, we will be able to insert, edit, and delete records, and also list them, with no knowledge of SQL.

So, let's get started with our admin zone. First we are going to create a folder inside the administrator/components folder of our Joomla! installation. This folder will be called com_tinynews (exactly as in the frontend part). In this folder, we will create two empty files: index.html and tinynews.php.

We can take a look to our component admin zone. If you remember, when working with our frontend, we were able to take a look at our component by using the following URL:

http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_tinynews.

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