Joomla! Is the world's hottest open-source content management system, and the winner of the 2006 Open Source CMS Prize. While Joomla! is packed with features, its greatest quality is that it is extremely extensible, allowing any number of complex applications to be cleanly integrated. Shopping carts, forums, social networking profiles, job boards, and real estate listings are all examples of extensions developers have written for Joomla!. All of these can run off one Joomla! Site, Joomla Extension Development while only one database, template, and core need to be maintained. When you build an extension to Joomla!, it will inherit the look and feel of the overall site. Any type of program that can be coded in PHP is a potential component waiting to be written!

Creating Extenstion For Joomla

If you're eager to start creating extensions for Joomla!, this book is for you. Walk through the development of complete Joomla! Components and modules with this tutorial for PHP programmers. Written for Joomla! Version 1.5 and tested against pre-final releases, this book will get you started coding your first extensions as quickly as possible, Joomla Extension Development adds the features that will make your work look professional!

Joomla Extension Applications

Joomla is the world's hottest open-source content management system the winner of the 2006 Open Source CMS Prize. While Joomla is packed with features, its greatest quality is that it is extremely extensible, allowing any number of complex applications to be cleanly integrated. Forums, Joomla Extension Development social networking profiles, job boards, and real estate listings are all examples of extensions developers have written for Joomla!.All of these can run off one Joomla! Site, while only one database, template, and core need to be maintained. When you build an extension to Joomla!, it will inherit the look and feel of the overall site.

Extension

Joomla! Extensions are easy to build and even easier to distribute. They're the ideal method for incorporating existing PHP code into the Joomla! Framework or adding new functionality. This session will cover the differences between the three extension types and when to use each. Joomla Extension Development also discover how a component, module, and plug-in come together to create the Podcast Suite: a Joomla! Based platform for publishing podcasts.

Extension Components

Checks that your settings are consistent with a good Development environment. This makes sure that you are developing in a common development environment using full PHP tags and full error reporting with the default 8M of memory. If you develop in a environment that does not meet these requirements then some people may have issues when using your components.