Cover -- Table of Content -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Joomla! Extension Development: An Overview -- Why extend Joomla!? -- Customization versus extension -- How to extend Joomla! -- Components -- Modules -- Plugins -- Topic overview -- Creating toolbars and list screens -- Maintaining a consistent look, and reducing repetitive code by using HTML functions -- Accessing the database and managing records -- Security, and the preferred way of getting request variables -- Menu item control -- Controlling the logic flow within a component -- Configuration through XML parameters -- Packaging and distributing -- Our example project -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Getting Started with Component Development -- Joomla!'s component structure -- Executing the component -- Joomla!'s division of frontend and backend -- Registering your component in the database -- Creating toolbars -- Creating a second toolbar -- Available toolbar buttons -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Backend Development -- Creating the database table -- Creating a table class -- Coding with MVC -- Creating the review form -- Processing the data -- Creating a list screen -- Editing records -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Frontend Development -- Listing the reviews -- Displaying a review -- Generating search-engine-friendly links -- Building URL segments -- Parsing URL segments -- Adding comments -- Displaying comments -- Summary -- Chapter 5: JTable, JHTML, and JUser -- Overriding JTable methods -- Adding a check() function -- Overriding the bind() function -- Adding ordered records -- Recording traffic -- Checking out and checking in records -- Getting user information -- Generating elements with JHTML -- Pre-filled lists -- Running content plugins -- Using JHTML in the backend -- Setting access -- Setting ordering -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Module Development -- Registering the module in the database.

Creating and configuring a basic module -- Recruiting some helpers -- Trying some different layouts -- Mixing it up -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Expanding the Project -- Publishing records -- Unpublishing reviews -- Deleting records -- Adding Apply -- Requiring specific fields -- Using pagination to break up long lists -- Searching -- Adjusting the model -- Adjusting the view -- Migrating toolbars to views -- Managing comments -- Linking the comments controller -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Using JavaScript Effects -- Modal boxes -- Configuring the modal box -- The raw format and MVC -- Tool tips -- Sliding panes -- Customizing Google Maps -- Interactive maps -- Using jQuery -- Writing jQuery code -- Using jQuery with MooTools -- Always load MooTools first -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Behind the Scenes: Plug-ins -- Database queries -- A simple link plug-in -- What events can be registered? -- System -- Search -- Authentication -- User -- Editor-xtd -- Editor -- Content -- An information box plug-in -- Searching the reviews -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Configuration Settings -- Adding parameters to extensions -- Parameters for modules -- What parameters are available for use? -- Parameters for plug-ins -- Parameters for components -- Adding parameters to the list view -- Adding parameters to the single view -- Adding component global parameters -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Email, Languages, and JFile -- Sending emails -- Linking the form -- Sending email -- Adding a success message -- Managing languages -- Creating translations -- Debugging languages -- Translating the frontend -- Handling file uploads -- Using the original filename -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Packing Everything Together -- Listing all of the files -- Packaging the module -- Packaging the plug-ins -- Packaging the component -- Including SQL queries -- Creating backend menu items.

Extra installation scripts -- Distribution -- Summary -- Index.