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Joomla! is the world's hottest open-source content management system. Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your website sing. Many Joomla! developers face common implementation hurdles, some might want to rapidly extend the Joomla! core functionality or might want to create new and exciting extensions.
This book has a "wealth" of solutions for problems that Joomla! developers face regularly. It provides step-by-step mini examples which show how to overcome common design and implementation problems when creating Joomla! extensions. It will help you setup a sustainable collaborative development environment using the powerful free services offered by JoomlaCode.org.
This book can be used in different ways. It can be used by the pro Joomla! developer looking for a specific solution to a problem and can also be used by a novice developer looking for an insight into an area of common problems, such as effectively handling errors in Joomla! Readers who choose to read an entire chapter will first be given a brief overview of the topic in hand and its role and importance when developing for Joomla! The Recipes contained within the chapter will introduce the reader to specific problems and provide hands-on solutions. It provides solutions for core design topics including security, data access, users, sessions, and multilingual capabilities.
This practical book, packed with plenty of code samples, and tips and tricks, will help you to quickly implement solutions for common Joomla! 1.5 programming design problems.
This book has a "wealth" of solutions for problems that Joomla! developers face regularly. It provides step-by-step mini examples which show how to overcome common design and implementation problems when creating Joomla! extensions. It will help you setup a sustainable collaborative development environment using the powerful free services offered by JoomlaCode.org.
This book can be used in different ways. It can be used by the pro Joomla! developer looking for a specific solution to a problem and can also be used by a novice developer looking for an insight into an area of common problems, such as effectively handling errors in Joomla! Readers who choose to read an entire chapter will first be given a brief overview of the topic in hand and its role and importance when developing for Joomla! The Recipes contained within the chapter will introduce the reader to specific problems and provide hands-on solutions. It provides solutions for core design topics including security, data access, users, sessions, and multilingual capabilities.
This practical book, packed with plenty of code samples, and tips and tricks, will help you to quickly implement solutions for common Joomla! 1.5 programming design problems.
About the Author
James Kennard
James Kennard is a computer programmer. He has worked with various PHP and MySQL applications, since 2002. He quickly discovered Mambo/Joomla! because of its flexible extension manager. James currently maintains one open-source Joomla! component, which has been translated into over fifteen languages. Moreover, he has plans to build two more open-source components.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Great for novices and experts alike
4 Dec 2009
Format:Paperback
Kennard's cookbook is an excellent resource for novices and experts alike. The book covers some very common issues with Joomla 1.5 sites that have implications for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). These include how to set document titles, and add meta-data, for example (Chapter 7). For novices, however, it would be helpful to not only explain how to perform these activities, but why one should be concerned with them in the first place. On the topic of SEO, for example, most search engines are much more concerned with descriptive document titles than with accurate meta-data.
For experts, this book goes beyond the typical cookbook of solutions, but in organizing them around larger, significant issues. For example, he covers solutions associated with multilingual sites (Chapter 5) and in writing plugins that are extensible and modular (Chapter 9) to ensure portability and re-use.
Kennard also explains how how to set up a formalized [...] project (Chapter 1), While this is excellent information, I would recommend moving this information to the end of the book, perhaps even as an appendix.
Even if you're working on one of your first Joomla sites or projects, this book will pay for itself. In particular, novices should pay attention to chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12. Because Chapter 11 discusses error handling, I would recommend that new developers start there. Oftentimes frustration with a project arises not from having to troubleshoot, but by not providing yourself with the necessary error handling and reporting to really understand what is happening. This is excellent material.
Overall, the benefits of this book far outweigh what I would consider minor revisions for a second edition. Although I would like to see this book be a little more novice-friendly (add definitions, explanations of relevance, perhaps a glossary), I would still recommend it to both novices and experts alike.
For experts, this book goes beyond the typical cookbook of solutions, but in organizing them around larger, significant issues. For example, he covers solutions associated with multilingual sites (Chapter 5) and in writing plugins that are extensible and modular (Chapter 9) to ensure portability and re-use.
Kennard also explains how how to set up a formalized [...] project (Chapter 1), While this is excellent information, I would recommend moving this information to the end of the book, perhaps even as an appendix.
Even if you're working on one of your first Joomla sites or projects, this book will pay for itself. In particular, novices should pay attention to chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12. Because Chapter 11 discusses error handling, I would recommend that new developers start there. Oftentimes frustration with a project arises not from having to troubleshoot, but by not providing yourself with the necessary error handling and reporting to really understand what is happening. This is excellent material.
Overall, the benefits of this book far outweigh what I would consider minor revisions for a second edition. Although I would like to see this book be a little more novice-friendly (add definitions, explanations of relevance, perhaps a glossary), I would still recommend it to both novices and experts alike.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Excellent Source For people wanting to develop Joomla Extensions
9 Oct 2009
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
WOW.
This is the book I have been looking for. I have not read the authors' previous work, but this one is excellent. I actually read (mainly skimmed it) in one evening and now am ready to get down to brass tacks of working through the examples. It is not for beginners, but those who have worked a little with Joomla will learn a lot on the internals of Joomla from this book.
Although the author calls it a "cookbook" it does not follow the usual format of a "cookbook". The information builds from chapter to chapter.
I must say that in the first chapter, he talks about his web site [...], but it is in the interest of introducing developers to good open source and distributed development practices. And his discussion of the Subversion code versioning workflow is the Best I have ever seen on the subject. It is a shame that he concentrates on a Subversion tool only available on Windows, but usually Mac or Linux users are familiar with tools available to them.
The second chapter explores "Safe" SQL queries using the Joomla Framework and Joomla API's and how to keep your Extensions secure by primarily using Joomla APIs. Old dawgs like me learned some new tricks from this one.
Chapter 3 goes into further detail on working with the Database, and the following chapter deals with working with the Requests and Users and how to keep Joomla secure through those practices.
I could go on outlining this book, but the table of contents will give one a good idea of what this book has.
The one thing I do wish he had included was an appendix that gathered all the important API's and Joomla Constants in one place. This book is excellent, but the Joomla project is JUST getting around to putting good documentation on-line.
This is the book I have been looking for. I have not read the authors' previous work, but this one is excellent. I actually read (mainly skimmed it) in one evening and now am ready to get down to brass tacks of working through the examples. It is not for beginners, but those who have worked a little with Joomla will learn a lot on the internals of Joomla from this book.
Although the author calls it a "cookbook" it does not follow the usual format of a "cookbook". The information builds from chapter to chapter.
I must say that in the first chapter, he talks about his web site [...], but it is in the interest of introducing developers to good open source and distributed development practices. And his discussion of the Subversion code versioning workflow is the Best I have ever seen on the subject. It is a shame that he concentrates on a Subversion tool only available on Windows, but usually Mac or Linux users are familiar with tools available to them.
The second chapter explores "Safe" SQL queries using the Joomla Framework and Joomla API's and how to keep your Extensions secure by primarily using Joomla APIs. Old dawgs like me learned some new tricks from this one.
Chapter 3 goes into further detail on working with the Database, and the following chapter deals with working with the Requests and Users and how to keep Joomla secure through those practices.
I could go on outlining this book, but the table of contents will give one a good idea of what this book has.
The one thing I do wish he had included was an appendix that gathered all the important API's and Joomla Constants in one place. This book is excellent, but the Joomla project is JUST getting around to putting good documentation on-line.
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