Chapter 10. Extending your Component with Plugins and Modules
In this chapter, we are going to create a few plugins and modules that extend the functionality of our component com_folio. You will learn how components, modules, and plugins interact with each other, and how to create some common plugins and modules that often accompany a component.
You will learn the following:
- How to create a search plugin
- How to create a smart search plugin
- How to create modules that display data from your component
- Integrating Joomla! 3.1 tags into your component
Creating a search plugin
The com_search component is the legacy search component in the Joomla! core that is still widely used, but will eventually be phased out and replaced with com_finder (smart search). ...
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