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In Detail
Joomla! is a powerful CMS used to build all kinds of websites. But when you're urgently tasked with building a specific kind of site, it's not always obvious which extensions to use or where to begin. Imagine how easy it would be if you had some simple directions to create Joomla! websites for personal or business use within a day. Would you be interested?
This book will give you a competitive edge by helping you to rapidly implement prototype web projects for personal and business use. With this book almost anyone with just a bit of Joomla! knowledge can build a useful web application and tailor it to his or her needs.
This book is a project-based guide to developing web applications with Joomla!. It will take you through all the steps to build different types of Joomla! websites and guide you to get your new site up and running in a couple of hours without employing a developer. It should enable you to take full advantage of the powerful core features offered by the Joomla! framework together with the many available contributed modules and themes to develop applications within hours. You will be guided, by means of illustrated hands-on example projects, to build foundation projects that you can easily adapt or enhance to create even more powerful web projects. If you want to develop exciting web applications for profit or pleasure this book is for you.
However, this book is not an introduction to Joomla!, nor an in-depth manual for using Joomla!; and even though it partially covers some basics such as installation and how to create articles, this is only done in the process of building the featured projects. Readers should; therefore, already have an understanding of the basic Joomla! terminologies, how to access and to use the administration pages, and also how to customize by uploading and engaging new templates. The book's appendix also offers plenty of useful advice and references on this.
When you have completed each project, you will have the knowledge and confidence to apply the techniques you have learned to create your own custom web application. You may also combine projects from several chapters to create your own killer web application.
This book provides a foundation for 10 exciting and powerful Joomla! website projects including community, blog network, e-commerce store, photo sharing, Google mashup, and so on for tailoring to your needs.
Approach
The hands-on example projects in this book are based on fictitious website development briefs, and they illustrate practical ways of applying Joomla! The book dives straight into the process of constructing the featured projects. A chapter is dedicated to each example website project. Each chapter is a separate project booklet, written independently of any other chapter. Each chapter contains a fictitious brief from which we derive the list of core and contributed extensions that we will need to implement the project. Then each chapter progresses into step-by-step instructions for building the web project, aided by the extensive use of screenshots.
Who this book is for
This book is for Joomla! developers who want to build a range of Joomla! sites, and see how to apply the many available Joomla! extensions and features in different scenarios. If you would like to try building websites as a freelancer or give your business a professional quality web presence, this is a great book to help you get started.
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Joomla! 1.5 Site Blueprints
Joomla! 1.5 Site Blueprints
Copyright © 2010 Packt Publishing
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First published: May 2010
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ISBN 978-1-849511-70-4
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Cover Image by Asher Wishkerman (<[email protected]>)
Credits
Author
Timi Ogunjobi
Reviewers
Jose Argudo
Deepak Vohra
Acquisition Editor
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Development Editor
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Technical Editor
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About the Author
Timi Ogunjobi is a Technical Writer, Web Developer, and Open Source evangelist. Trained as an engineer, Timi has been developing web applications on several frameworks for more than five years, and has also been writing for more than a decade on a wide variety of topics, including fiction, business, and technology.
Timi balances his time between programming, reviewing, writing, and contributing to interesting web-based and community projects. When he isn't working (which isn't that often) he enjoys playing jazz guitar and getting involved in outdoor activities—principally cricket, golf, and swimming.
Timi is the principal architect of Websesame— www.websesame.com—which is a web programming firm. He is also the CEO of Xceedia Ltd.— www.xceedia.co.uk—which is a software development and training firm that undertakes CMS-, LMS-, and ERP-based projects and web applications in particular.
Timi has previously had two Drupal books published, titled Drupal Website Models and Drupal 6 Site Blueprints. He has also published one Joomla! book, titled Joomla! Website Models. He has also published several fiction and nonfiction books, and has been featured in several anthologies.
This book was again made possible by God, who made all things possible.
Thanks also to Sarah Cullington, David Barnes, Dhiraj Chandiramani, Hithesh Uchil, and Ashwin Shetty of Packt Publishing.
Thanks to my family who knew how important it is to keep out of my way, especially when I am on a mission from God.
Thanks also to me of course.
About the Reviewers
Jose Argudo is a web developer from Valencia, Spain. After completing his studies he started working for a web design company. Then, six years later, he decided to freelance.
Now that some years have passed as a freelancer, he thinks it's the best decision he has ever taken because it let him work with the tools that he likes, such as Joomla!, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, jQuery, and other known open source technologies.
His desire to learn and share his knowledge has led him to be a regular reviewer of books from Packt Publishing, including Joomla! with Flash, Joomla! 1.5 SEO, Magento Theme Design, and Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development.
Recently, he has even published his own book, CodeIgniter 1.7, which you can also find on Packt's site. If you work with PHP, take a look at it!
Now he is working on a new book for Packt, and this time it is Joomla! related. Check for it soon!
If you want to know more about him, you can visit his site, at www.joseargudo.com.
To my brother, I wish him the best.
Deepak Vohra is a consultant and a principal member of NuBean.com, a software company. Deepak is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Web Component Developer, and has worked in the fields of XML and Java programming and J2EE for over five years. Deepak is the co-author of the Apress book Pro XML Development with Java Technology, and was the technical reviewer for the O'Reilly book WebLogic: The Definitive Guide. Deepak was also the technical reviewer for the Course Technology PTR book Ruby Programming for the Absolute Beginner, and the technical editor for the Manning Publications book Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action. Deepak is also the author of the Packt Publishing books JDBC 4.0 and Oracle JDeveloper for J2EE Development, and Processing XML documents with Oracle JDeveloper 11g.
Preface
This is a starter book about building websites with Joomla!—and having fun while doing so. It is not a book for professional developers. The typical user of this book may only ever build a couple of websites—one for business and one for a hobby, and perhaps another for a friend, just to show off! This book will enable you to build 10 simple web projects within hours—without having to pay a developer to do it for you. Therefore, it is not a text book but an activity book with a lot of screen illustrations to make your project fun to build.
This book is not designed to make you an expert Joomla! developer. It will not even bring you close. The objective, however, is to make it possible for almost anyone with just a bit of Joomla! knowledge to build a complex website by mixing the individual projects together. Instant Joomla!!
What this book covers
The hands-on example projects in this book are based on fictitious website development briefs, and they illustrate practical ways of applying Joomla!. A chapter is dedicated to each example website project. Each chapter contains a fictitious brief from which is derived the list of core and contributed extensions that will be required to implement the project. Except for Chapter 1, all of the other chapters are independent of any other chapter in the book and should be taken as a single project module.
In Chapter 1, basic details about installing and configuring Joomla! for use on both local and remote servers are provided. This chapter also contains information about where to obtain essential resources for learning, using, and optimizing Joomla!
In Chapter 2, Buzzy Beez is a small company that intends to put information about their business and products on the Internet. They are looking to build a website that will capture the company's main information for use by clients and customers, so that Buzzy Beez can cut the costs of printing brochures, catalogues, and other essential promotional literature.
In Chapter 3, the Global Hitchhikers Club is an online club for hobos and compulsive travelers. The purpose of the club website is to enable members to keep an online blog of their travels, and to provide a means for advising other club members on their own travels.
In Chapter 4, The Daily Joomer is the only newspaper in Joomlaburg, and it has a local circulation. The intention of this website is to replicate the content of The Daily Joomer online, in a way that will enable the online edition to be easily updated on a real-time basis.
In Chapter 5, "Electric" Skid Jackson is a retired break-dancer and a full-time choreographer and owner of the Def Freeze dance crew. Skid has an idea for a website where all of the street dance events from all over the world can be listed according to their location, so that he can be the first to know what is shaking.
In Chapter 6, Tony Tortilla is a student at Joomlaburg University. Tony thinks that the University's social life can be vastly improved if the University had its own community website where the students can get to know each other a little better.
In Chapter7, Joomgets Inc. is the foremost manufacturer of custom-made widgets in Joomlaburg. Their widgets have won awards internationally and are considered to be vastly superior to other mass-produced widgets, manufactured by so many unscrupulous garage factories. In order to consolidate their success, Joomgets have decided to set up an online e-commerce store to sell their widgets.
In Chapter 8, Wally Fishbourne has the idea to create an online directory where people can post details of accommodation available for rent, share, and sale all over Joomlaburg. He is looking for a simple directory with listing and display features, rather in the style of Gumtree and craigslist.
In Chapter 9, William and Elizabeth Bunter are organizing an online food appreciation community. They intend to enroll members from all over the world to share their food photos on a new website, where users will submit photos of their food for all other members to admire and rate.
In Chapter 10, Winston Groovy returned home to his wife, Rita, in Kingston, Jamaica after being missing for two days, claiming to have been abducted by aliens. So Rita Groovy has decided to create a website to aggregate occurrences of alien sightings all over the world, in order to save other people the heartache of having their loved ones permanently lost to extra-terrestrial kidnappers.
In Chapter 11, bad news is always good news for the press. Vaughan Pyre has decided to take advantage of this and create a website that will aggregate bad news and weird happenings from all over the world. The content of the site will be entirely derived from RSS feeds from several sources, with each feed being automatically retrieved and its items displayed on the website.
In the Appendix to this book, you will find a list of modules and themes used in this book as well as links to their project pages.
What you need for this book
All of the projects in this book are based on Joomla! 1.5. A list of the contributed extensions employed, and links to their project pages, is provided in the Appendix.
Who this book is for
This book is for anyone who wants to build a Joomla! site for business or for pleasure, and also for those who want to see how to apply the many available Joomla! core features and extensions in different scenarios. If you are looking to develop a professional quality website by using the Joomla! Framework, this is a great book to help you get started.
However, this book is not a "dummies" book, and users are advised to familiarize themselves with basic Joomla! terminology and operations, such as creating content, and uploading and enabling templates and extensions. Some installation and configuration details are provided in Chapter 1, and users are also encouraged to visit the Joomla! project site (http://www.joomla.org/) where ample help exists in the form of both documentation and a very active users' forum. Some other sources of Joomla! help are also listed in Chapter 1.
Conventions
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New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "To create these new categories, click on the Categories button in the Control Panel."
Note
Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.
Note
Tips and tricks appear like this.
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Chapter 1. Installation and Configuration
Like every other endeavor in life, there are two ways of installing Joomla!—the easy way and the difficult way. In order to do it the difficult way, you will need to set up your server by yourself before you proceed with the installation. You have the choice of environment to use for your new installation: you may install directly to a live server or you can set up a test environment on your local computer.
Minimum system requirements
A fully-operational web server (preferably Apache) is required to successfully install and use Joomla!. You also need a database (preferably MySQL) and the server-side scripting language PHP, together with specific modules for MySQL, XML, and Zlib functionality, which are activated within PHP amongst others. Following are the minimum versions of these server components that are required:
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