Chapter 1. Before you Start
This book guides you through creating Joomla!® 3 extensions, including plugins, modules, and components. You will end up with a fully functioning package of extensions that you either can use on your own site or share with others. It is assumed you will have some basic PHP, HTML, and CSS knowledge, but you don't need any prior Joomla! programming experience.
We will start out developing simple plugins and modules, and then progress to more complex backend and frontend component development. Then we will do a bit of white hat hacking, so you will learn about common security vulnerabilities and what you can do to avoid them. After that, we will look at how you can prepare your extensions for distribution and updates, as ...
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