Developing Extensions for Joomla! 5

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Planning Your Component

Joomla! is an extensible Content Management System (CMS). For years, people have used Joomla! to build great websites, such as company websites, sites for associations, niche social networks, blogs, and school websites.

Joomla's popularity stems from the plenty of features and functionalities it comes with – content and user management, custom fields to expand your articles and create directories, and built-in search, among others.

Even so, despite all these great features, it does not solve all the problems you may face when building a web application. In this book, you are going to learn how to use Joomla! to build solutions while leveraging the Joomla! FrameworkTM to make your work easier. Throughout this book, we ...