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Developing Extensions for Joomla! 5
Developing Extensions for Joomla! 5

Developing Extensions for Joomla! 5: Extend your sites and build rich customizations with Joomla! plugins, modules, and components

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Key benefits

  • Discover the complete cycle of extension development from conception to release
  • Leverage built-in features such as categories, ACL, and custom fields to enrich your extensions
  • Learn how to build extensions that integrate with the Joomla! API and the new Joomla! CLI
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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.

Who is this book for?

This book is for Joomla! developers and web designers who want to extend the functionalities of Joomla! and find innovative ways to customize their content management systems, e-commerce websites, business websites, and more. Basic familiarity with Joomla! will help you get the most out of this book.

What you will learn

  • Find out how to plan the development of a new extension from scratch
  • Understand the basic structure of a Joomla! extension
  • Get to grips with the Joomla! Forms system
  • Use Joomla! features effectively to enrich your extensions
  • Discover how to add a WebService API to your extension
  • Create a Joomla! CLI command for your extension
  • Develop a Joomla! Child Template for your projects
  • Test your extensions before the release

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Marian Oct 01, 2024
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Specific knowledge presented in an accessible way. If you combine reading the book with analysis and testing of specific solutions, you will significantly increase the level of understanding of Joomla! in general. Highly recommended
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RAMON PARDO LOPEZ Jun 18, 2024
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Olivier Buisard Dec 12, 2023
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As a Joomla platform developer, I have found the book very helpful and most accurate. It does go through all concepts and development of extensions, from conception to distribution.The order in which concepts are explained feels logical and, I must admit, even taught me a few things. The author goes beyond instructing us on what to do, he explains the rationale behind specific coding practices.I did notice a missing piece for the extension's installer script (where the installer could extend from a known class) but nothing that would jeopardize the quality of this book.I do recommend it to anyone who wants to dive into the improvements made to Joomla since Joomla 4.
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Amazon Kunde Dec 10, 2023
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Joomla! Erweiterungen zu programmieren ist einfach, Joomla! Erweiterungen richtig zu programmieren und dabei vollumfänglich sich die Vorteile des Joomla!-Frameworks zunutze zu machen ist eine andere Geschichte. Mit der Version 4+ hat Joomla! einen großen Schritt in seiner Codebase gemacht und es wurden viele neue gute Programmier-Paradigmen eingeführt, die es dem gemeinen Programmierer sehr viel einfacher macht, Dinge umzusetzen, wenn er denn von diesen Neuerungen wüsste. Und genau hier kommt dieses Buch ins Spiel.Es zeigt anhand eines Real-World Beispiels, wie man nach den neuen Paradigmen Komponenten, Module und Plugins programmiert und diese miteinander interagieren lässt. Auch wichtige Bereiche wie eine API-Implementierung und das Nutzen von Core-Mitteln wie Kategorien und Custom Fields werden abgedeckt. Viel Stoff, der ein bisschen Einarbeitungszeit benötigt um durchstarten zu können. Wer sich an die Anleitung im Buch hält wird hinterher eine überdurchschnittlich gute Erweiterung in den Händen halten, die sich keinem Vergleich scheuen muss.Wichtig zu Wissen ist, dass das Buch so ziemlich alle "Was muss ich tun?" Fragen beantwortet und einen strukturiert durch den kompletten Prozess der Entwicklung leitet aber es nicht immer einen Fokus auf das "Warum sollte ich das so machen?" legt. Deshalb empfiehlt es sich definitiv, wenn man das Buch gelesen hat, sich weitergehend mit den genutzten Paradigmen zu beschäftigen um für ich das "Warum" zu erschließen.Ein kleiner Kritikpunkt ist, dass es zwar ein Kapitel über "Security Practises" gibt aber z.B. das darin vorgestellte "Prepared Statements" (was ein sehr wichtiges Sicherheitskonzept in der heutigen Zeit ist) selbst nicht in dem Code für das Buch verwendet wird. Auch wurden Beispielimplementiationen des Workflows und von Schedule Tasks nicht behandelt, die, wie ich finde, nette Zusatzfunktionen liefern.Allem in allem ist das aber meckern auf hohem Niveau. Das Buch ist zur Zeit das beste auf dem Markt und jedem zu empfehlen der Joomla!-Erweiterungen richtig programmieren will.
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Malcolm Lyon Aug 13, 2024
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Having been developing extensions for Joomla! ever since Joomla! 1.5 I knew I was now doing a lot of things the wrong way. I had to rewrite a lot of code for Joomla! 4 and 5, but I found that online documentation was horribly patchy, frequently contradictory, and sometimes just wrong. Getting hold of this book put an end to my woes. It is clearly written, gives helpful examples for a huge range of situations, and also does an excellent job of explaining a lot of the theory behind the practice in Joomla! 5. I'm no expert, but I sense that the author knows what he is talking about and feel confident that when he presents a solution, it is genuinely the "right" solution. I would highly recommend it to anyone writing their own extensions for Joomla! 5. My only complaint is that there are occasional small typos in the code examples (the dreaded missing semi-colon, etc), so do beware. Otherwise definitely a must-have.
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