Component Development
From Joomla! Documentation
Recommended Reading
General
- Joomla Beginning Developer Course
- Setting up your workstation for Joomla! development
- Secure coding guidelines
Specific
Developing a Model-View-Controller (MVC) Component 
- Developing a Model-View-Controller Component - Part 1
- Developing a Model-View-Controller Component - Part 2 - Adding a Model
- Developing a Model-View-Controller Component - Part 3 - Using the Database
- Developing a Model-View-Controller Component - Part 4 - Creating an Administrator Interface
- Developing a Model-View-Controller Component - Part 5 - Basic Backend Framework
- Developing a Model-View-Controller Component - Part 6 - Adding Backend Actions
Developing a Model-View-Controller (MVC) Component 
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Other component topics
- File Structure and Naming Conventions
- Component Program Flow. UML sequence diagrams showing the control flow for a component.
- Component parameters
- Components:xml installfile. An example component XML installation file.
- Manifest files for the installation of extensions
- Adding SEF URL support to your component
- Using JPagination in your component
- Supporting plugins in your component
- Adding sortable columns to a table in a component
- How to use the JPane classes in a component
- How to use the editor in a component
- Adding Javascript moo.fx to your component
- Creating a toolbar for your component
- Adding view layout configuration parameters
- How to implement XML-RPC in a component
- Using multiple models in an MVC component
- Ajax using MooTools
- How to create a modal form field
- JController and its subclass usage overview
- Managing Component Updates with Joomla!1.6 - Part 1
Tutorials
List of all articles belonging to the categories "Tutorials" AND "Component Development"
- Accessing the current user object
- Adapting a Joomla 1.5 extension to Joomla 2.5
- Adding ACL rules to your component
- Adding AJAX to your component
- Adding JavaScript and CSS to the page
- Adding Joomfish functionality to custom components
- Adding a multiple item select list parameter type
- Adding custom fields to the article component
- Adding print pop-up functionality to a component
- Adding sortable columns to a table in a component
- Adding view layout configuration parameters
- Avoiding web browser same origin policy in Ajax applications
- Boxchecked validation
- Building Joomla Extensions with Apache Ant
- Client-side form validation
- Creating a System Plugin to augment JRouter
- Creating a file uploader in your component
- Creating a modal form field
- Creating a toolbar for your component
- Developing a MVC Component
- Display error messages and notices
- Extension Installer
- Extension development using eclipse and ant
- Extension development using eclipse and phing
- Handling out of sequence responses in MooTools Ajax
- How Joomla pieces work together
- How do you set up Joomla! on Win XP for local testing?
- How to add breadcrumbs
- How to add custom filters to components
- How to create DOCX views
- How to create a custom button
- Managing Component Updates with Joomla!2.5 - Part 1
- Supporting SEF URLs in your component
- Supporting plugins in your component
- Using JPagination in your component
- Using multiple models in an MVC component
- Using own library in your extensions
- Using the JHtmlTabs class in a component
- Using the JToolBar class in the frontend
- Using the editor in a component
FAQ
List of all articles belonging to the categories "FAQ" AND "Component Development"
- Extensions GPL notices
- Extensions distribution
- Extensions name
- How can you view a live site while developing, but hide it from others?
- How do you add a PayPal button?
- How do you list your extension in the extensions site?
- How do you set up Joomla! on Win XP for local testing?
- How to determine browser capabilities
- How to implement XML-RPC in a component
