Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development -- Table of Contents -- Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- Preface -- History -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Introduction to Joomla! -- Overview -- Joomla! 1.5 Framework -- Framework layer -- Libraries -- Framework -- Plugins -- Application layer -- Extension layer -- Extension types and their uses -- Components -- Modules -- Plugins -- Languages -- Templates -- Tools -- Extension Manager -- Requirements -- Joomla Extension Directory (JED) -- Development tools -- JoomlaCode.org -- Coding standards -- phpDocumentor -- J!Dump -- Summary -- 2. Getting Started -- A quick object lesson -- Inheriting from JObject -- Design Patterns -- Predefined constants -- The Joomla! process -- Working with JRequest -- From Request to Response -- Load Core -- Libraries -- Build application -- The session -- Initialize application -- Multilingual support -- UTF-8 string handling -- Route application -- URI structure -- Dispatch application -- Render application -- Send response -- Directory structure -- Summary -- 3. The Database -- The core database -- Database structure -- Database naming conventions -- Database Prefix -- Table names -- Column names -- Creating a component table -- Additional points to consider -- Dates -- Parsing data -- Dealing with multilingual requirements -- Using the database -- JDatabase::query() -- Writing queries -- JDatabase::load methods -- loadResult( ) : string -- loadResultArray( numinarray : int=0 ) : array -- loadRow( ) : array -- loadAssoc( ) : array -- loadObject( ) : stdClass -- loadRowList( key : int ) : array -- loadAssocList( key : string='' ) : array.

loadObjectList( key : string='' ) : array -- JDatabase::ADOdb methods -- JTable -- Creating the JTable subclass -- Creating a new record -- Reading a record -- Updating a record -- Deleting a record -- Checking a record in or out -- Ordering -- Publishing -- Hits -- Parameter fields -- Summary -- 4. Extension Design -- Supporting classes -- Helpers -- Using and building getInstance() methods -- Using the registry -- Saving and loading registry values -- The user -- User parameters -- The session -- The browser -- Assets -- Extension structure -- The structure of a component -- Component directory structure -- Component file structure -- index.html -- Entry point -- Controller -- Views -- Models -- Tables -- Component class names -- Backend (/administrator/components) -- Frontend ( /components ) -- Setting up a component sandbox -- SQL install and uninstall files -- Install and uninstall scripts -- Component XML manifest file -- The structure of a module -- Module directory structure -- Module file structure -- index.html -- Module entry point -- Helper -- Layouts -- Module class names -- Frontend (/modules) -- Setting up a module sandbox -- Module XML manifest file -- The structure of a plugin -- Plugin directory structure -- Setting up a plugin sandbox -- Extension packaging -- Summary -- 5. Component Design -- Component design -- The MVC software design pattern -- Model -- View -- Controller -- Connecting the dots -- Building the MVC component -- Building the component frontend -- Building the entry point -- Building the controller -- Building the frontend model -- Building the frontend view -- Building the view layouts -- Default layout -- List layout -- Rendering other document types -- Feed -- PDF -- RAW -- Updating the manifest -- Building the component backend -- Building the backend entry point -- Building the controller -- Display task.

Edit task -- Add task -- Save task -- Cancel task -- Remove task -- Building the backend model -- Building the table -- Building views -- View #1 -- The layout -- View #2 -- The layout -- Updating the manifest -- Dealing with component configuration -- Help files -- Routing -- Summary -- 6. Module Design -- First steps -- Standalone modules -- Modules and components working together -- Frontend and backend module display positions -- Module settings (parameters) -- Helpers -- Layouts (templates) -- Media -- Translating -- Summary -- 7. Plugin Design -- Events -- Listeners -- Registering listeners -- Handling events -- Listener function -- Listener class -- Plugin groups -- Authentication -- Content -- Editors -- Editors-xtd -- Search -- System -- User -- XML-RPC -- Loading plugins -- Using plugins as libraries (in lieu of library extensions) -- Translating plugins -- Dealing with plugin settings (parameters) -- File naming conflicts -- Summary -- 8. Rendering Output -- Improving components -- Component backend -- Toolbars -- Submenu -- The joomla.html library -- behavior -- email -- form -- grid -- image -- list -- menu -- select -- Component layouts (templates) revisited -- Admin form -- Layout improvements -- Adding a WYSIWYG editor -- Iterative layout templates -- Itemized data -- Pagination -- Ordering -- Filtering and searching -- Summary -- 9. Customizing the Page -- Application message queue -- Redirecting the browser -- Component XML metadata files and menu parameters -- Using menu item parameters -- Modifying the document -- Page title -- Pathway -- JavaScript -- CSS -- Metadata -- Custom header tags -- Translating -- Translating text -- Defining translations -- Debugging translations -- Using JavaScript effects -- JPane -- Tooltips -- Fx.Slide -- Summary -- 10. APIs and Web Services -- XML -- Parsing -- Editing -- Saving -- AJAX -- Response.

Request -- LDAP -- Email -- File transfer protocol -- Web services -- Building a web service (XML-RPC plugin) -- Summary -- 11. Error Handling and Security -- Errors, warnings, and notices -- Return values -- Customizing error handling -- Dealing with CGI request data -- Preprocessing CGI data -- Escaping and encoding data -- Escaping and quoting database data -- Encode XHTML data -- Regular Expressions -- Patterns -- Matching -- Replacing -- Access control -- Menu item access control -- Extension access control -- Attacks -- How to avoid common attacks -- Using the session token -- Code injection -- PHP code injection -- SQL injection -- XSS-Cross Site Scripting -- File system snooping -- Dealing with attacks -- Log out and block -- Attack logging -- Notify the site administrator -- Summary -- 12. Utilities and Useful Classes -- Dates -- Date and time parameter -- Time zone parameter -- File system -- Paths -- Folders -- Files -- Archives -- Arrays -- Trees -- Log files -- Summary -- A. Joomla! Core Classes -- JApplication -- Properties -- Inherited methods -- Deprecated methods -- Methods -- Constructor __construct -- close -- dispatch -- enqueueMessage -- getCfg -- getClientId -- getInstance -- getMenu -- getMessageQueue -- getName -- getPathway -- getRouter -- getTemplate -- getUserState -- getUserStateFromRequest -- initialise -- isAdmin -- isSite -- login -- logout -- redirect -- registerEvent -- render -- route -- setUserState -- triggerEvent -- JController -- Properties -- Inherited properties -- Inherited methods -- Methods -- Constructor __construct -- addModelPath -- addViewPath -- authorize -- display -- execute -- getModel -- getName -- getTask -- getTasks -- getView -- redirect -- registerDefaultTask -- registerTask -- setAccessControl -- setMessage -- setRedirect -- _addPath -- _createFileName -- _createModel -- _createView -- _setPath.

JDatabase -- Direct descendents -- Properties -- Inherited properties -- Inherited methods -- Methods -- Constructor __construct -- Destructor __destruct -- addQuoted -- connected -- debug -- explain -- getAffectedRows -- getCollation -- getConnectors -- getErrorMsg -- getErrorNum -- getEscaped -- getInstance -- getLog -- getNullDate -- getNumRows -- getPrefix -- getQuery -- getTableCreate -- getTableFields -- getTableList -- getTicker -- getUTFSupport -- getVersion -- hasUTF -- insertid -- insertObject -- isQuoted -- loadAssoc -- loadAssocList -- loadObject -- loadObjectList -- loadResult -- loadResultArray -- loadRow -- loadRowList -- nameQuote -- query -- queryBatch -- Quote -- replacePrefix -- setQuery -- setUTF -- splitSql -- stderr -- test -- updateObject -- ADOdb methods -- BeginTrans -- CommitTrans -- ErrorMsg -- ErrorNo -- Execute -- GenID -- GetCol -- GetOne -- GetRow -- PageExecute -- RollbackTrans -- SelectLimit -- JDocument -- Direct descendents -- Properties -- Inherited properties -- Inherited methods -- Methods -- Constructor __construct -- addScript -- addScriptDeclaration -- addStyleDeclaration -- addStyleSheet -- getBase -- getBuffer -- getCharset -- getDescription -- getDirection -- getGenerator -- getHeadData -- static getInstance -- getLanguage -- getLink -- getMetaData -- getModifiedDate -- getTitle -- getType -- loadRenderer -- render -- setBase -- setBuffer -- setCharset -- setDescription -- setDirection -- setGenerator -- setHeadData -- setLanguage -- setLineEnd -- setLink -- setMetaData -- setMimeEncoding -- setModifiedDate -- setTab -- setTitle -- setType -- _getLineEnd -- _getTab -- JDocumentRenderer -- Direct descendents -- Properties -- Inherited properties -- Inherited methods -- Methods -- Constructor __construct -- getContentType -- render -- JFactory -- Methods -- getACL -- getApplication -- getCache -- getConfig.

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