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| + | Once you have read the tutorial and/or tried the example component, you can focus more on the specifics of your component with additional articles. These are listed on the [[Portal:Component Development|Component Development Portal]] or any of the supporting Portals for Development(Plugins, Modules or Templates). | ||
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Revision as of 08:24, 27 February 2014
A component is a kind of Joomla! extension. Components are the main functional units of Joomla!; they can be seen as mini-applications. An easy analogy would be that Joomla! is the operating system and the components are desktop applications. Created by a component, content is usually displayed in the center of the main content area of a template (depending on the template).
Most components have two main parts: an administrator part and a site part. The site part is what is used to render pages of your site when they are requested by your site visitors during normal site operation. The administrator part provides an interface to configure and manage different aspects of the component and is accessible through the Joomla! administrator application.
Joomla! comes with a number of core components, like the content management system, contact forms and Web Links.
See also: Module, Plugin, Template
Recommended Reading[edit]
Developers[edit]
There are many articles, tutorials, references and FAQs which focus on component development. If this is your first time developing a component for Joomla, you should start with the Absolute Basics of How a Component Functions. If needed, you can visualise the control flow of a component with these diagrams.
Next, you will want to read our 
MVC tutorial → Developing a Model-View-Controller Component
Once you have read the tutorial and/or tried the example component, you can focus more on the specifics of your component with additional articles. These are listed on the Component Development Portal or any of the supporting Portals for Development(Plugins, Modules or Templates).