Developing Extensions for Joomla! 5

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Developing Components

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Planning Your Component

Understanding what a Joomla! component is

Translating your problem into an application

Identifying your elements

A real-world example

Defining your component database structure

A quick look at the Joomla! database

Adding database tables for entities

Adding extra information columns to tables

Reflecting relationships in the database

Creating tables in the database

Adding mock data to your database

Defining the content of our mock data

Automating mock data generation

Importing mock data into the database

Summary

Further reading

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Developing the Backend of a Basic Joomla! Component

Technical requirements

Component file architecture

Building a component’s backend