Learning Joomla! 3 Extension Development

Learn to create custom Joomla! components, plugins, modules, and templates with this comprehensive video course, covering everything from building basic components to advanced features.

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Brief Summary

This course teaches you how to create your very own Joomla! components, plugins, modules, and templates. You'll start from scratch and learn everything from building a basic component to adding cool features like dynamic data and search options. Perfect for beginners!

Key Points

  • Create custom Joomla! components, plugins, modules, and templates.
  • Step-by-step tutorial for building a basic component with frontend editing.
  • Build content and search plugins for your component.
  • Develop a module to display recipes.
  • Design a template using Bootstrap CSS.

Learning Outcomes

  • Build a basic Joomla! component to manage recipes.
  • Create content and search plugins for enhanced functionality.
  • Develop a module to display selected recipes.
  • Learn to use Bootstrap CSS for template design.
  • Add advanced features like RSS feeds and print views.

About This Course

Create your own custom Joomla! components, plugins, modules, and template extensions

This video course provides you with a step-by-step tutorial for building a basic component with frontend editing. You will also learn how to build both content and search plugins for your component, how to build a module to display data from your component, and finally how to build a template using Bootstrap CSS.

The course starts by teaching you how to build a basic, bare bones component for inserting and displaying recipes using the minimum amount of code that is needed for a component. No component is complete without search and content plugins. You will start off by building standard search and smart search plugins, a content plugin for inserting our component’s data into a content item, and adding code to insert other plugins’ data into our display page. The plugins will make our recipes searchable on the site and will enable the insertion of recipes into content articles.

You will then move on to build a basic module, add standard field types, and finally add a custom field type when standard fields are not enough. The module will display select recipes from our collection. Finally, you will also learn how to build a template that uses Twitter Bootstrap’s CSS.

Learning Joomla! 3 Extension Development makes it fast and easy to develop your own custom Joomla! components, plugins, modules, and templates.

About the Author

Donna Vincent has been developing websites since 2004, and she has been using the Joomla! platform since 2006. In 2009, she began developing custom Joomla! extensions for her clients. She is also an EDI and barcode programmer. Donna lives and works in the New York City area and enjoys food photography when not building websites.

  • Build a component to save, retrieve, and display custom data

  • Add dynamic data with the model-view-controller to display the page and language file

  • Add finishing touches to the component which include a router file, print view, and RSS feed

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4.9 course rating
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Paul B.
1.5
7 months ago

complexity is overwhelming.

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Glenn D. Z.
3.0
2 years ago

Er wordt mooi uitgelegd hoe components moet worden opgebouwd maar men geeft totaal niet meer informatie over de code die wordt gebruikt en wat het precies doet.

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Michal K.
3.0
3 years ago

Too litle expainde code

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Andi L. D.
5.0
3 years ago

Very good to get a basic view of Joomla development, as there is not many Joomla advanced development courses atm this is one of the better explained ones. It's a fast in-depth overview.

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ui-avatar of Jian Yang
Jian Y.
5.0
3 years ago

Very handful workshop lessons.

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ui-avatar of Alvaro Justo Michel Barrera
Alvaro J. M. B.
4.0
3 years ago

It has some jumps and some ideas get into the air, but analyzing is not really bad but takes more time for finish the example

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ui-avatar of Kyler Gates
Kyler G.
5.0
4 years ago

Quick pace but includes resources to follow along.

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Andrew G.
2.0
4 years ago

It would be were the files up to date and the author responding to questions. Obviously nothing has happened in five years, so close to asking for a refund.

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ui-avatar of Pavel Zapolski
Pavel Z.
3.5
4 years ago

not bad so far

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ui-avatar of Hakan Lager
Hakan L.
2.0
4 years ago

It don't explain anything ...

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