J2.5:Developing a MVC Component/Introduction

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Requirements

You need Joomla! 1.6 or greater for this tutorial.

Introduction

Joomla !1.6 is constructed using three different applications:

• installation (used for installing Joomla)
• administrator (used for managing content)
• public (used for displaying content)

The installation application is used once. The administrator and public are used through the concept of components. Each component has two entry points:

• one is located in the components directory (it is used for displaying content)
• one is located in the administrator/components directory (it is used for managing content)

Both are called com_componentname/componentname.php (the com_ prefix is a historical trace)

Developing the component

• Developing a Basic Component
• Adding a view to the site part
• Adding a menu type to the backend part
• Adding a model to the site part
• Adding a variable request in the menu type
• Using the database
• Basic backend
• Adding language management
• Adding backend actions
• Adding decorations to the backend
• Adding verifications
• Adding categories
• Adding configuration
• Adding ACL
• Adding an update server

Contributors

• Christophe Demko