Professional Joomla [PHP CMS]

483 Pages·2007·13.34 MB·English

by  Dan Rahmel

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Joomla!
Dan Rahmel
Wiley Publishing, Inc.
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Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Chapter 1: Introducing Joomla! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2: The Finer Points of Installation and Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 3: Developing Custom Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Chapter 4: Adding and Modifying Available Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Chapter 5: Developing Simple Extensions: Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Chapter 6: Advanced Extensions: Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Chapter 7: Joomla! and Ajax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Chapter 8: Design Patterns and Joomla!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Chapter 9: Hooking into the Joomla! Foundation: Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Chapter 10: Building Joomla! Communities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Chapter 11: Managing a Professional Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Chapter 12: Interfacing with Outside Content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Chapter 13: Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
and Search Engine Marketing (SEM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Chapter 14: Joomla! Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Chapter 15: What Joomla! Can’t Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Chapter 16: Spotlight on Successful Joomla! Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
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I’d like to dedicate this book to the noble spirit of contributors to the Joomla! project.
They make the Web a better place for us all.
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About the Author
Dan Rahmelis an author best known for his work with database systems, PHP, and Visual Basic. He has
more than a dozen years of experience designing and implementing information systems and client-server
solutions using MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, and Visual FoxPro. He began work as a
writer for various magazines, including DBMS, American Programmer, and Internet Advisor. He is the author
of more than a dozen books, and his writing has been translated into numerous languages, including
Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. In 2006, Focal Press issued a special edition of Nuts
and Bolts Filmmaking: Practical Techniques for the Guerilla Filmmaker(Focal Press, 2004) for release in India.