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| Professional Joomla! (Programmer to Programmer)
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Author: Dan Rahmel
Publisher: Wrox
Release Date: 2007-10-01
ISBN-10: 0470133945
ISBN-13: 9780470133941
List Price: $39.99
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As a major force in the world of affordable, advanced web site deployment, Joomla! has become the most important noncommercial Content Management System (CMS) in the world. The number of Joomla! downloads and add-ons continues to grow at lightning pace, spurring the need for a resource that explores the diverse needs of professional Joomla! developers. This book fills that void by covering the two main areas of the Joomla! field--development and deployment--with a focus on the new Joomla! version 1.5 and all the features it provides.
Seasoned author Dan Rahmel walks you through the process of creating all three types of Joomla! extensions (modules, components, and plug-ins), explains how best to use Ajax technology, and shows you how to adopt design patterns and incorporate source code control. You'll examine the underlying technologies (PHP, Apache, etc.) that can be tuned to offer the best system performance, and you'll explore interfacing with outside content, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) setup, and much more. You'll even delve into the internal structure of the Joomla! framework, and obtain a unique behind-the-scenes education so that you can modify and extend Joomla! to meet the needs of you and your customers.
What you will learn from this book
* How each server of a Joomla! system can be installed and configured for maximum performance
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The process of creating a module from scratch
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Ways to use Ajax to add dynamic data retrieval to Joomla!
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Techniques for using design patterns to solve common programming problems
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How to create and retain a virtual community
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Procedures for tuning a Joomla! site for both Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Management (SEM)
Who this book is for
This book is for web developers, hobbyists, web designers, bloggers, corporate content creators, and support specialists who are looking to build a more robust web site. Basic skills in the area of PHP programming are necessary.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
Once again, Wrox rocks. Well worth the 30 bucks if you value your time.
| Customer Rating: | A new phenomena like the Joomla! content management system doesn't come along very often. When better ways of doing things first happen, there is a recognizable pattern. The experts dismiss the item, the mainstream press ignores the item, and all the while the first users blissfully take advantage of the situation. Examples include AutoCAD in 1985, Turbo Pascal in 1986, the Internet itself in 1992, and I'll let you fill in the rest.
Now that Joomla has reached the ripe old age of 1.5, Dan Rahmel's book is the first to gently guide the novice towards whatever level he hopes to reach, from simple user to commercial developer.
The examples are not always in sync with the latest 1.5 release, but that happens when you have an evolving product. And it is sometimes dificult to figure out just what reader expertise is presumed in the areas of Server Tech, PHP, SQL, HTML and CSS.
In site design, and in training others in site design, I've personally experienced the same difficulties, finally adopting a philosophy of "pick up what you need as you need it" that seems to work. You know the PHP/SQL/HTML/CSS/??? that you use, and you learned it because you needed it. It's not always pretty out there.
For real basics we have the online Joomla docs and wiki. These are improving daily, but are not all that easy to learn from.
For real in-depth we have the forums. It seems like there are a thousand users and developers like the author who not only know this stuff, but are quite willing to share the knowledge with the world. (And of course, a few jerks to make life interesting)
For an organized plan for the beginning user and developer we have this book. Well beyond a Dummies text. Not quite a cookbook. |
Lacking in depth
| Customer Rating: | This is a light read containing a reasonable amount of guidance on editing templates and a regurgitation of the stuff you can get by googling joomla 1.5 (with many edit errors).
However, there is very little meat with almost nothing covering any of the underlying principles and a terrible guide to writing a component (that ignores MVC entirely).
Its not worth the money I paid for it. |
Terrific for beginning to modify Joomla templates!!
| Customer Rating: | Although I have been involved in many forms of application development (including 20 years of various Oracle products) over the years I haven't used PHP or MySQL before begining to develop a Joomla website. To me this book has been exactly what I've been looking for! I'm not looking to make a career of Joomla development but I want to add functionality to the JSN Epic Pro template I've been using and this is answering my questions nicely.
I haven't experienced a problem with the way things are described. To me it has seemed very clear and has guided me through one topic after another very well. I went through several resources on the Internet and I'm still glad I picked this up. I am experimenting with MySQL database modifications and creation of new Joomla extensions. So far it's been very smooth. I had picked up "Mastering Joomla 1.5" by James Kennard and found it inaccessable because it assumed more PHP background than I have. I can imagine that would be a good guide for someone who has used these technologies but I'm very content starting with this.
For someone in my category I would definitely recommend purchasing it. |
Very good book
| Customer Rating: | | this book is ver clear and well done, it explains all the covered topics with simple but effective examples. The topics are all about Joomla 1.5 so don't buy it if you're interested in Joomla 1.0 |
This is a good book.
| Customer Rating: | Well, I have to say that this is a good book. I has very good examples and gives you more than you could ever find surfing the web, for hours, trying to find relevant info by yourself.
Most of all, it covers security issues that you don't hear about very often. It takes you from the basics of installation, to advanced levels in terms of management and best practices, among other things. I can't expect to have the author reinvent the wheel.
This book is not called "The unknown practices" nor " The Secrets of Joomla". You wont find Joomla "top secret information here", but the author delivers what he promises and you can see the table of contents before you buy.
I bought it, I have been using Joomla for a year, I am a PHP coder and found it very useful. My sites are much better now because of this book.
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