Advanced Joomla!

Advanced Joomla! teaches you advanced techniques for customizing a Joomla! CMS, including creating templates, administration, and building extensions. It will provide the technical know-how and a bonanza of information that will allow you to take your Joomla! sites to the next level.

Written by bestselling Beginning Joomla! author Dan Rahmel, Advanced Joomla! picks up right where Beginning Joomla! left off. Amongst other things, it shows you how to integrate advanced features into your Joomla! site, including social networking, blogging, and Google and Yahoo! web services; construct advanced Joomla! templates that use multiple stylesheets; use advanced administration techniques; and employ MySQL data reporting, remote deployment, and quality control using automated testing.

Advanced Joomla! assists content providers and web developers in all aspects of Joomla! content creation. For graphic artists and web designers, the professional template techniques and site organization information will prove invaluable. For developers who are weary of the often Byzantine documentation and hunger for clear organized information, Advanced Joomla! holds the key to unlocking the treasures of this advanced CMS system.

What you’ll learn

• Integrate advanced features into your Joomla! site, including social networking, blogging, and Google and Yahoo! web services.
• Construct advanced Joomla! templates that use multiple stylesheets; third-party frameworks including MooTools and Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library for interactive display; specialty definitions for mobile users; and more!
• Use advanced administration techniques, including various site-backup methods, integration of logins with other systems, and Joomla! site security
• Employ MySQL data reporting techniques, remote deployment, and quality control using automated testing with the free, open source tools such as Apache JMeter and Selenium.

Who this book is for

This book is for Joomla! or web developers/users who have read Beginning Joomla! or who are no longer Joomla! novices.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Streamlining the Authoring Process
Chapter 2. Customizing Joomla with Widgets
Chapter 3. Constructing a Dynamic Template
Chapter 4. Using Template Overrides
Chapter 5. Using JavaScript and Ajax to Dynamically Load Page Elements
Chapter 6. Joomla and Web Services
Chapter 7. Joomla Security Administration
Chapter 8. Joomla Database Administration and Configuration
Chapter 9. Testing a Site with ApacheBench, JMeter, and Selenium
Chapter 10. Using Development Tools
Chapter 11. Creating Joomla Menus, Articles, and Categories with PHP
Chapter 12. Creating Core Extensions
Chapter 13. Connecting Joomla and Facebook
Chapter 14. Development and Deployment