Preface

This book will give you a step-by-step introduction with practical examples of how to develop plugins, modules, and components for Joomla! 3. It may also be useful for people who wish to make minor modifications to existing components, rather than creating their own extensions from scratch.

Joomla! is one of the world's most popular open source content management systems (CMS), which currently powers approximately 2.7 percent of the websites on the Internet. Joomla! has been downloaded over 35 million times, and has thousands of add-on extensions (apps). Joomla! 3 is the first major CMS to be mobile friendly by default.

Unlike the other two popular open source CMS projects, Joomla! is completely community driven; there is no controlling ...

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