Joomla! with Flash Build stunning, content-rich, and interactive websites with Joomla! 1.5 and Flash CS4. Suhreed Sarkar BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by andrew mayo on 7th November 2009 2406 W. 16th Street, , Wilmington, , 19806 Joomla! with Flash Copyright © 2009 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book. 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ISBN 978-1-847198-24-2 www.packtpub.com Cover Image by Vinayak Chittar ([email protected]) This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by andrew mayo on 7th November 2009 2406 W. 16th Street, , Wilmington, , 19806 Credits Author Editorial Team Leader Suhreed Sarkar Akshara Aware Reviewers Project Coordinator Jose Argudo Srimoyee Ghoshal Sonia Muñoz Indexers Monica Ajmera Acquisition Editor Usha Iyer Hemangini Bari Development Editor Proofreaders Swapna Verlekar Kevin McGowan Chris Smith Technical Editor Kartik Thakkar Production Coordinator Adline Swetha Jesuthas Copy Editor Leonard D'Silva Cover Work Adline Swetha Jesuthas This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by andrew mayo on 7th November 2009 2406 W. 16th Street, , Wilmington, , 19806 About the Author Suhreed Sarkar—an IT consultant, a trainer, and a technical writer—after completing Marine engineering, he served on board a ship for two years and then started his journey into the world of IT with an MCSE in Windows NT 4.0 track. Later, he studied business administration and earned an MBA from the University of Dhaka. He has a bunch of BrainBench certifications on various topics including PHP4, Project Management, RDBMS Concepts, E-Commerce, Web Server Administration, Internet Security, Training Development, Training Delivery and Evaluation, and Technical Writing. As a trainer, he has taught courses on system administration, web development, e-commerce, and MIS. He has consulted for several national and international organizations including the United Nations and has helped clients in building and adopting their web portals, large scale databases, and management information systems. At present, he is working on building a framework for the education sector MIS and is promoting the use of ICTs in education. Suhreed is a renowned technical author in Bengali having dozens of books published on subjects covering web development, LAMP, networking, and system administration. He authored the Zen Cart: E-commerce Application Development, and Joomla! E-commerce with VirtueMart books. Both of them are published by Packt Publishing. While not busy with hacking some apps, blogging on his blog (www.suhreedsarkar. com), reading the philosophy of Bertrand Russell or management thoughts of Peter F. Drucker, he likes to spend some special moments with his family. Suhreed lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by andrew mayo on 7th November 2009 2406 W. 16th Street, , Wilmington, , 19806 Acknowledgement Firstly, I am grateful to the Joomla! community and the developers and maintainers of the extensions discussed in this book, as without them, the book could not have been written. I would like to thank the Packt team for their excellent professional support, and a special thanks to Usha Iyer, Swapna Verleker, Srimoyee Ghoshal, and Kartik Thakkar who have helped me throughout the whole process. I express my heartiest gratitude to the reviewers for providing their insightful comments on the first draft of this book. I thank my family and friends for being patient while I was working on this book. This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by andrew mayo on 7th November 2009 2406 W. 16th Street, , Wilmington, , 19806 About the Reviewers Jose Argudo is a web developer from Valencia, Spain. After finishing his studies, he started working for a web designing company. After six years of working for that company and others, he decided to start working as a freelancer. Now, after some years have passed, he thinks that it's the best decision he has ever made, a decision that lets him work with the tools he likes, such as Joomla!, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, JQuery, and other well-known open source technologies. For the last few months, he has also been reviewing some of the books for Packt Publishing, such as Magento 1.3 Theme Design, Magento: Beginner's Guide, Magento Development with PHP, Joomla! SEO, and Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development. If that weren't enough, he is also writing a book on CodeIgniter for Packt Publishing—a book he is putting all his efforts on. To Silvia and Luis. Sonia Muñoz is a web developer from Spain. She has completed the Superior Computer Systems Management course and is now willing to start with another of Superior Development's computer application courses. She has worked with tools like PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, CodeIgniter, Joomla, Photoshop, and Dreamweaver. After finishing her studies, she would like to set up her own web development business. This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by andrew mayo on 7th November 2009 2406 W. 16th Street, , Wilmington, , 19806 This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by andrew mayo on 7th November 2009 2406 W. 16th Street, , Wilmington, , 19806 This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by andrew mayo on 7th November 2009 2406 W. 16th Street, , Wilmington, , 19806 I dedicate this book to my father-in-law, Abul Hossain This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by andrew mayo on 7th November 2009 2406 W. 16th Street, , Wilmington, , 19806 This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by andrew mayo on 7th November 2009 2406 W. 16th Street, , Wilmington, , 19806