Developing Extensions for Joomla! 5: Extend your sites and build rich customizations with Joomla! plugins, modules, and components

A comprehensive take on Joomla extensions from the conception to release showing you how to harness the full power of Joomla

Key Features

• Discover the complete cycle of extension development – from conception to release
• Take advantage of built-in features such as categories, tags, and custom fields to enrich your extensions
• Learn to build extensions that integrate with Joomla API and the new Joomla CLI

Book Description

Joomla 4 is a groundbreaking CMS, offering a significant leap in the world of content management systems. Joomla 4 introduces a host of impressive new features that align with current web standards and helps to experience lightning-fast performance for optimal web page optimization, leverage the new code architecture, tap into the WebServices API, and many others.

This book has been designed to take you on a journey of extending Joomla’s capabilities by developing your own extensions. This comprehensive guide not only explains the key concepts behind Joomla’s architecture but also equips you with the latest techniques for crafting components and plugins. You will discover how to leverage existing features within Joomla to empower your extensions and create tailored solutions. The book takes you from the initial stages of planning your extension development to a fully featured finished product. As we progress, you’ll learn invaluable techniques for testing your extension, addressing common issues, and preparing it for publication. In the last part of the book, you will learn how to test your extension for common issues, and we will show how to publish the extension for everyone to use it.

By the end of the book, you will be fully confident in your skills to complete the cycle of extension development.

What you will learn

• Learn how to plan the development of a new extension from Scratch
• Understand the basic structure of a Joomla extension
• Demystify the Joomla Forms system
• Explore how to use Joomla features effectively to enrich your extensions
• Discover how to add a WebService API to your extension
• Discover how to create a Joomla CLI command for your extension
• Create a Joomla Child Template for your projects
• Test your extensions before the release

Who This Book Is For

This book is for Joomla developers and Web designers who want to extend the functionalities of Joomla and find awesome ways to customize their content management systems, e-commerce websites, business websites, and so on. Basic familiarity with Joomla would be helpful to get most out of the book.

Table of Contents

1. Planning your Component
2. Developing the Backend of a Basic Joomla Component
3. Developing the Frontend of a Basic Joomla Component
4. Creating Forms in Joomla
5. Harnessing the power of Joomla in your component
6. Adding a Web Service API to your component
7. Developing a module
8. Developing a plugin
9. Adding a CLI to your component
10. Template Overrides
11. Creating a child template in Joomla
12. Testing your extensions
13. Security practices in Joomla
14. Prepare your extension for distribution
15. Distributing your extension