Professional Joomla! by Dan Rahmel

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  • Pub. Date: October 2007
  • 500pp
  • Sales Rank: 413,968

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    • Pub. Date: October 2007
    • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
    • Format: Paperback, 500pp
    • Sales Rank: 413,968

    Synopsis

    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
    * The process of creating a module from scratch
    * Ways to use Ajax to add dynamic data retrieval to Joomla!
    * Techniques for using design patterns to solve common programming problems
    * How to create and retain a virtual community
    * Procedures for tuning a Joomla! site for both Search EngineOptimization (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.

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    Biography

    Dan Rahmel is an author best known for his work with database systems, PHP, and Visual Basic. He has more than a dozen years of experience designing and implementing information systems and client-server solutions using MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, and Visual FoxPro. He began work as a writer for various magazines, including DBMS, American Programmer, and Internet Advisor. He is the author of more than a dozen books, and his writing has been translated into numerous languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. In 2006, Focal Press issued a special edition of Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking: Practical Techniques for the Guerilla Filmmaker (Focal Press, 2004) for release in India.

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    June 25, 2009: I'm a web programmer tasked with learning Joomla while moving an existing static web site onto it. I understand PHP, CSS, and the MVC pattern quite well. This book was less than useless -- it was a time-waster that set me back at least a day on the project and taught me almost nothing.

    From their buzzwords "Professional" and "programmer-to-programmer", I expected to learn something about the detailed inner workings of Joomla -- how the interface works and how it directly relates to code in modules, components, and templates. Most of this information simply isn't there, and anything useful you can find is brief, disorganized, buried in irrelevant filler content, and even a little confusing.

    The author spends several paragraphs on the topic of IE not being standards compliant; and he spends several PAGES on how to create a rounded-rectangle appearance using CSS and Photoshop (I found this to be nothing less than an insult); and several CHAPTERS on how to build a successful web site and community -- important topics, but having very little to do with PROGRAMMING.

    It's clear that Wrox slapped this thing together with enough filler to make it look substantial. That's deceit for you. Avoid this book. I'm returning it today.