Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development: Creating Modules, Components, and Plugins with PHP

Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development: Creating Modules, Components, and Plugins with PHP author: Joseph L. LeBlanc rating: asin: 1847191304 binding: Paperback list price: $34.99 USD amazon price: $31.49 USD

Joomla! is the award winning Content Management System. I like it. I am using it for over two years. I found Joomla! when I was searching desperately for a CMS to develop a site for one of my clients. First, I started wit Mambo. Then oneday found Joomla! Its seemed promising. So I adopted that.Joomla! is very much extensible. You can extend its functionalities by adding components, modules and plugins. For the programmers' Joomla! gives OOP structure. I have tried several times to develop such a component. Only document available that time was tutorial at Joomla! website.This book by Packt Publishing gives comprehensive understanding of Joomla! Component Development. This book gives you clear picture of how Joomla! component works and how you can build one of your own. The book foloowed tutorial style and teaches you developing a single project. It would be better if some other examples were available showing a path to developing some complex natured component. However, this book gives you opportunity to start with the component development. Once this is done, you may move forward to using some other APIs, web services, and try integrate some other PHP applications into Joomla!