Year: May 2013
Author: Dan Rahmel
Genre: CG WEB Programming
Publisher: APress
Language: English
Format: PDF
Interactive table of contents: No
Number of pages: 396
If you've opened this book, I imagine you already appreciate how easy Ioomla! makes it for you to run your web site or blog. Like me, you may be astonished that the excellent Ioomla! developers have created such a solid, professional content management system and then made it free for all the world to use. Similar to its open-source cousin WordPress, Ioomla! has grown from being used on a few hundred rudimentary web sites to literally having millions of advanced site deployments.
Joomla! has evolved to become such a comprehensive system that you can literally do anything on a Ioomla! site that is possible on an expensive, custom web site. And most of the time, there is a free extension available that augments the Joomla! core to do exactly what you want-with your only investment being the time it takes to install and configure.
If you've read my other book, Beginning Joomla!, you have already seen the possibilities available to you if you go beyond the basic features of Joomla!. This book will take you up to the next levels. Whether you've created a small Ioomla! site that you want to polish into a gem or you run a huge site that is straining to make that next growth step, this book will show you how to push Ioomla! to its limits and beyond. I have written the book so you can add tremendous capabilities to your Ioomla! site whether you have any development training or not. It will cover everything from advanced server deployment to using sophisticated extensions to creating world-class templates. If you have a development background, the information and source code presented here will provide you with an advanced understanding of how the Joomla! system operates from a foundation level all the way up to using some of its cooler bells and whistles. If you've never written a line of code, as long as you can use a text editor as simple as Notepad, you can take advantage of most of the technology presented in this book.
I included all the source code in the text of the book because I find my learning experience frustrated if I have to leave the text to go look for some repository to examine the actual code. I like the code to be right where I can see it in context. That said, I wouldn't want you to have to tediously enter the numerous lines of source to get the various projects working. All the source code is available on the Apress web site and I have also created a project on Github at https://github.com/drahme1/Advanced-Joomla. I would love for you to fork the code and make enhancements. Ioomla! has flourished because of the number of people that have made significant contributions to the project from code to templates to tutorials. The real strength of Joomla! is the community. I hope you'll be one of us!
chapter 1: streamlining the Authoring Process .............................................................. ..1
chapter 2: customizing Joomla with Widgets ............................................................... ..25
chapter 3: constructing a Dynamic Template ............................................................... ..45
chapter 4: Using Template Overrides ............................................................................ ..97
chapter 5: Using Javascript and Ajax to Dynamically Load Page Elements ............... ..111
chapter 6: Joomla and Web Services .......................................................................... ..131
chapter 7: Joomla Security Administration ................................................................ ..159
chapter 8: Joomla Database Administration and configuration ................................. ..185
chapter 9: Testing a Site with ApacheBench, JMeter, and Selenium .......................... ..211
chapter 10: Using Development Tools ......................................................................... ..249
chapter 11: creating Joomla Menus, Articles, and categories with PHP .................... ..273
chapter 12: creating core Extensions ......................................................................... ..293
chapter 13: connecting Joomla and Facebook ........................................................... ..337
chapter 14: Development and Deployment ................................................................. ..355
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