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    Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook: LITE
    Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook: LITE
    Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook: LITE
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    Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook: LITE

    By James Kennard

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    This book is in Packt’s Cookbook series. A Packt Cookbook contains recipes for solutions to the most important problems you face when working with a topic. Inside the Cookbook you will find: A straightforward and easy to follow format, A selection of the most important tasks and problems, Carefully organized instructions for solving the problem efficiently, Clear explanations of what you did, Details for applying the solution to other situations.This book is for PHP developers who have spent time attempting to extend or customize Joomla with PHP code. This book has been designed with specific Joomla! development problems in mind, and it is expected that you are comfortable using PHP code to extend and customize Joomla!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateMay 19, 2011
    ISBN9781849516174
    Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook: LITE
    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. Examples of his work can be found on his personal website www.webamoeba.co.uk.

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      Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook - James Kennard

      Table of Contents

      Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook: LITE

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Working with the Database

      Introduction

      Executing a query

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Loading the first cell from the result of a query

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Loading the first record from a query

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Loading more than one record from a query

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Handling DBO errors

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Creating a JTable

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Creating a new record using a JTable

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Updating a record using a JTable

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Reading an existing record using a JTable

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      Deleting a record using a JTable

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      Checking a record in and out (record locking) using a JTable

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Modifying record ordering using a JTable

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      Publishing and unpublishing a record using a JTable

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      Incrementing a record hit counter using a JTable

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      2. Interaction and Styling

      Introduction

      Getting page and component parameters

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Adding CSS to a page

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      A sneaky shortcut

      Overriding component templates

      How to do it...

      How it works…

      There's more...

      Adding JavaScript to a page

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Big scripts

      See also

      Creating a modal window

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Overriding options on a per-window basis

      See also

      Generating modal content

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Updating an element using Ajax and MooTools

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Updating an element based on a form using Ajax and MooTools

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Providing an Ajax response from a component

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Enabling pagination in a list of items

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      3. Customizing the Backend

      Introduction

      Disabling the menu bar

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Setting the toolbar title and icon

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Adding common item manipulation buttons to the toolbar

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Adding common itemized manipulation buttons to the toolbar

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Adding custom buttons to the toolbar

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Adding spacers and dividers to the toolbar

      How to do it...

      See also

      Adding a help system to a component

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Creating a filter header for tabular data in an MVC component

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Filtering tabular data in an MVC component

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Creating toggle-enabled order column headers for tabular data in an MVC component

      How to do it...

      See also

      Ordering tabular data in an MVC component

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      Index

      Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook: LITE

      Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook: LITE

      Copyright © 2011 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.

      Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information.

      First published: April 2011

      Production Reference: 1130411

      Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. 32 Lincoln Road Olton Birmingham, B27 6PA, UK.

      ISBN 978-1-849516-16-7

      www.packtpub.com

      Cover Image by Karl Moore ( <karl.moore@ukonline.co.uk> )

      Credits

      Author

      James Kennard

      Reviewers

      Rob Clayburn

      Kevin Devine

      Acquisition Editor

      Douglas Paterson

      Technical Editors

      Hithesh Uchil

      Indexer

      Hemangini Bari

      Production Coordinator

      Melwyn D'sa

      Cover Work

      Melwyn D'sa

      About the Author

      James Kennard is an accomplished programmer with proven experience in many different types of organizations. He has worked as a private consultant, and has worked in the public and private sectors for the likes of Logica and the National Library of Wales. He has over six years of experience working with Joomla!, previously Mambo. As an active member of the Joomla! community, he maintains a popular open source helpdesk component and wrote the popular book Mastering Joomla! 1.5 extension and framework development, also available from Packt Publishing.

      About the Reviewers

      Rob Clayburn, along with running his company, Pollen 8 Design Ltd, is heavily involved as a project leader in Fabrik, an open source Joomla application builder, which allows users to rapidly prototype and create web applications.

      As an avid and experienced web developer, Rob strives in all his projects to balance sound programming practices, intuitive UI design, and eye-catching graphics.

      During his career, he has developed various web, mobile, and kiosk applications for clients ranging from a 3D kiosk game for The London Planetarium to various web applications, including a portfolio creator site and a geo-spatial social network.

      Kevin Devine has been developing web sites using Joomla! since 2006 when he accepted a full-time position with PICnet. Based in Washington, D.C, PICnet is a web development company serving non-profit organizations across the United States. He also devotes time to the Joomla! project as a member of the Bug Squad, a co-maintainer of the 1.5.x release, and a member of the Joomla! Security Strike Team.

      Preface

      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.

      The book focuses on three important topics—working with the database, styling your pages, and customizing the backend of your Joomla! site. Within these chapters you will find all the answers you need for these topics.

      This book can be used in different ways. It can be used by the pro Joomla! developer looking for a

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