Professional Joomla walks the reader through Joomla, an open content management system that is rapidly growing in popularity. Readers will quickly advance from installation, integration, and set-up topics to digging into the underlying PHP and MySQL whose flexibility is driving the growth of the platform. Readers will explore load balancing, log tracking, and even search engine optimization. From a user standpoint, Joomla offers tremendous ease of use and simplicity. The elegant dashboard based upon the KDE interface allows content to be updated in minutes and data to flow freely from outside…mehr
Professional Joomla walks the reader through Joomla, an open content management system that is rapidly growing in popularity. Readers will quickly advance from installation, integration, and set-up topics to digging into the underlying PHP and MySQL whose flexibility is driving the growth of the platform. Readers will explore load balancing, log tracking, and even search engine optimization. From a user standpoint, Joomla offers tremendous ease of use and simplicity. The elegant dashboard based upon the KDE interface allows content to be updated in minutes and data to flow freely from outside sources. Administrators and developers have he capability to customize virtually every aspect of the platform. For this reason extra attention is given to topics like plug-ins, the API, design and skinning, and integration with existing databases, websites, and web services.
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Autorenporträt
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.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgements.Introduction.Chapter 1: Introducing Joomla!Chapter 2: The Finer Points of Installation and Configuration.Chapter 3: Developing Custom Templates.Chapter 4: Adding and Modifying Available Extensions.Chapter 5: Developing Simple Extensions: Modules.Chapter 6: Advanced Extensions: Components.Chapter 7: Joomla! and Ajax.Chapter 8: Design Patterns and Joomla!Chapter 9: Hooking into the Joomla! Foundation: Plug-Ins.Chapter 10: Building Joomla! Communities.Chapter 11: Managing a Professional Deployment.Chapter 12: Interfacing with Outside Content.Chapter 13: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM).Chapter 14: Joomla! Security.Chapter 15: What Joomla! Can't Do.Chapter 16: Spotlight on Successful Joomla! Sites.Index.
