Learning Joomla! 3 Extension Development - Third Edition

Summary

Congratulations if you have made it this far. You have now built your first Joomla! component, and although it doesn't do much yet, we will be building on this in the next couple of chapters. In Chapter 5, Backend Component Development – Part 1 and Chapter 6, Component Development – Part 2, we will continue the development of the backend of our component, then in Chapter 7, Frontend Component Development, we will create the frontend.

In this chapter, you have learned how to:

• Create the files required for a simple component
• Install your component and register it in the Joomla! database
• Create a database table to store the data for our component
• Create a very simple view to list the data
• Create a basic edit form to add and edit data

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