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Suggested topics

This is a short list of articles that might be written to support developers. Please feel free to add further topic ideas.

• Adding configuration objects to modules and plugins.
• Storing data in the session between page loads.
• Suppressing output of extra HTML.
• Using the filter package.

  Describe how and when to use the Filter package and explain what needs to be filtered for various situations (for queries, for URLs, etc)

• Using the registry package

  How to load and store XML files and how to work with them

• Creating component feeds (RSS/ATOM)
• Generating paths for client side and server side
• Acessing information from the request

  This focuses on using the JBrowser class to retrieve information about the features available in the user's browser.

• Creating an editor plugin
• What can be done with a user plugin
• Cloaking email addresses
• Using the caching system in your component. This might be enough (for now?) → Cache
• Extending Joomla's MVC Architecture
• How to release a distribution tarball.
• Creating a library for your extension(s).