Joomla Ebooks Collection

Apress – Beginning Joomla!, From Novice to Professional (2007).pdf
Apress – Beginning Joomla!, From Novice to Professional 2nd Edition (2009).pdf
Make a Joomla Template in 5 Easy Steps (2006).pdf
O’Reilly – Up and Running with Joomla 2nd Edition (2009).pdf
Packt – Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 (2008).pdf
Packt – Joomla 1.5x Customization, Make Your Site Adapt to Your Needs (2009).pdf
Packt – Joomla Web Security (2008).pdf
Packt – Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook (2009).pdf
Packt – Joomla! 1.5 Template Design (2009).pdf
Packt – Joomla! Cash (2007).pdf
Packt – Joomla! E-Commerce with VirtueMart (2009).pdf
Packt – Joomla! Template Design (2007).pdf
Packt – Learning Joomla 1.5 Extension Development (2007).pdf
Packt – Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development (2007).pdf
Prentice Hall – Joomla! A User’s Guide (2007).chm
Wiley – Joomla! For Dummies (2009).pdf
Wrox – Professional Joomla (2007).pdf

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Features :

* Simple but incredibly useful solutions to real world Joomla! 1.5 development problems
* Rapidly extend the Joomla! core functionality to create new and exciting extension
* Hands-on solutions that takes a practical approach to recipes – providing code samples that can easily be extracted

In Detail
Joomla! is the world’s hottest open-source content management system. Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your website sing. Many Joomla! developers face common implementation hurdles, some might want to rapidly extend the Joomla! core functionality or might want to create new and exciting extensions.

This book has a “wealth” of solutions for problems that Joomla! developers face regularly. It provides step-by-step mini examples which show how to overcome common design and implementation problems when creating Joomla! extensions. It will help you setup a sustainable collaborative development environment using the powerful free services offered by JoomlaCode.org.

This book can be used in different ways. It can be used by the pro Joomla! developer looking for a specific solution to a problem and can also be used by a novice developer looking for an insight into an area of common problems, such as effectively handling errors in Joomla! Readers who choose to read an entire chapter will first be given a brief overview of the topic in hand and its role and importance when developing for Joomla! The Recipes contained within the chapter will introduce the reader to specific problems and provide hands-on solutions. It provides solutions for core design topics including security, data access, users, sessions, and multilingual capabilities.

What you will learn from this book?

* Make your extensions extensible, add extensions points to allow third parties to customize your extension
* Create international extensions by enabling multilingual capabilities
* Build more than just HTML pages – create PDF documents, Atom Feeds, and more!
* Improve the user experience by adding Ajax
* Create Atom and RSS feeds to keep users up-to-date
* Utilize the power of Subversion to maintain your source code
* Execute database queries and handle returned data in order to access and modify your data
* Dynamically extend your database tables using JParameter to make your extensions more flexible
* Keep your gremlins at bay by handling errors the Joomla! way
* Work with the file system, interrogate existing files and folders and store data in the file system
* Take control of your workflows by using JoomlaCode.org to manage your Joomla! projects

Product Details

* Paperback: 360 pages
* Publisher: Packt Publishing (September 21, 2009)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1847198147
* ISBN-13: 978-1847198143

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Product Description

The First Easy-to-Use Guide to Joomla!-The World’s #1 Open Source Content Management System

If you want to build sophisticated websites that can be easily edited and updated, you need to master Joomla!-the world’s #1 open source content management system. Now there’s an easy-to-read, easy-to-use guide to Joomla! for every site manager, administrator, and developer. Leading Joomla! consultant Barrie North covers all you need to get results: installation, administration, site organization, template development, content updates, and a whole lot more. You’ll find never-before-published tips, tricks, and troubleshooting solutions, as well as three start-to-finish case studies.

New to Joomla? No problem! This book starts with the simplest design and system concepts, and builds your expertise step-by-step. You’ll rapidly master Joomla!’s power, even if you have no content management, scripting, or CSS expertise. Experienced with Joomla!? You’ll turn to this book constantly for its authoritative, plain-English, example-rich Joomla! 1.0 and 1.5 reference content.

· Understanding content management, what Joomla! does, and how its components fit together

· Building Joomla! sites from scratch, and systematically customizing them to your needs

· Organizing content with sections, categories, blogs, and tables

· Creating dynamic pages and effective navigation

· Working with Joomla! modules and components

· Search engine optimization for Joomla! sites

· Start-to-finish case studies: building a school website, an e-commerce site, and a blog

· The most valuable Joomla! extensions and add-ons: finding them, and using them

· Key differences between Joomla! 1.0 and 1.5, and what they mean to you

About the Website

The accompanying site for the Joomla 1.5 book, provides five fully functional Joomla! sites with live follow-along examples from the book and up-to-date information on Joomla! The site also includes

* An active forum where you can ask questions specific to chapters from the book from a Joomla expert
* 5 fully functional Joomla 1.5 live follow-along examples from the book. You can browse the sites and their backends live online.
* Downloads of 5 free websites for Joomla 1.5 based on various chapter of the book. These are SQL dumps you can import to instantly give you a completed Joomla site.
* 4 free tutorial templates and 3 free templates from joomlashack.com including the popular commercial template – JS Aqualine!

About the Author

Barrie North has over 15 years of experience with the Internet, as a user, designer, and teacher. He has spent over eight years in the education fi eld, becoming steadily more involved in web technology and teaching web design classes to students and

technology integration to teachers. Most recently he worked as an IT consultant for two new schools pioneering in the use of technology. As well as web design, he has provided web marketing/SEO, usability, and standards compliance expertise to his clients.

He is a partner of Joomla!shack.com, providing templates and custom services. He also maintains a blog about all things Joomla! at compassdesigns.net. When not working, he can frequently be found on the Joomla! community boards, and he has written many free tutorials for using Joomla!. His combination of Joomla! expertise, educational skills, and engaging writing has produced a book accessible to everyone.
Product Details

* Paperback: 480 pages
* Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1 edition (December 21, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0136135609
* ISBN-13: 978-0136135609

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Today every website needs to take security into consideration. Using the knowledge here, your Joomla! site can be ahead of the security threats so prevalent today.

This book will take you all the way from the most basic steps of preparation to the nuts and bolts of actual protection. It is packed full of relevant and real-world topics such as security tools, configuration suggestions, setting up your test and development environment, reading and interpreting log files, and techniques used by bad hackers on the Internet. In addition to this you will learn how to respond to a site emergency should one occur and how to collect the evidence needed to pursue law enforcement action. This book covers Joomla! 1.0.x as well as 1.5.x.

The book provides a concise overview of all the parts needed to construct a defence-in-depth strategy for your Joomla! site. At the end of the book you will have a solid security foundation to take your Joomla! website to a higher level of security than the basic site setup.

What you will learn from this book
This book covers:
* Implementing steps for successful Joomla! website architecture
* Setting up metrics to measure security
* Exploring the test and development environment; developing your test plan to make sure everything will work as planned
* Utilizing your test and development site for disaster recovery
* Measuring the performance of your software development projects using a software development management system
* Exploring several tools to help protect your website
* Diving into security vulnerabilities: why they exist; some typical counter measures
* Exploring SQL Injections – how they can hurt you and how to prevent them
* Mastering the two important security layers – php.ini and .htaccess
* Reading and analyzing logs relevant to protecting your Joomla! site
* Handling Security Incidents in a professional manner
* Blocking nuisance IP addresses.

• Acquire the free Joomla! content management system, install it, and customize the home page
• See how menus control the elements in Joomla! and use menu items to create your page layout
• Use templates – powerful collections of PHP and CSS – to make your pages do what you want them to
• Create searches, polls, page menus, newsflashes, and banners using built-in Joomla! modules
• Build search engine-friendly sites and see how Joomla! can help boost site traffic
• Explore additional Joomla! templates and learn what to look for when downloading and installing them
• Check into plug-ins, components, and additional modules to see how they differ and what they can do
• Find modules for ads, archives, banners, searches, syndications, and more

Joomla! lets you concentrate on content instead of struggling with code. So grab Joomla! For Dummies and start creating!

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Manufacturer: Lynda.com
Year: 2008
Language: English
Format: FULL CD Version (Video + Exercise files + Original GUI)
Released on: 12/02/2008

Custom templates are the key to making a Joomla!-driven website stand out. In Joomla! Creating and Editing Custom Templates,
Jen Kramer McKibben offers instruction and insight to help Joomla! users create eye-popping websites. Jen starts with the basics,
like how to add the Joomla! template codes to a static HTML layout, install the template package, and clean up styling after
installation. She also shows how to make multiple layouts within the same Joomla! template, configure menus and submenus, and more.
Exercise files accompany the course.

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Professional Joomla walks the reader through Joomla, an open content management system that is rapidly growing in popularity. Readers will quickly advance from installation, integration, and set-up topics to digging into the underlying PHP and MySQL whose flexibility is driving the growth of the platform. Readers will explore load balancing, log tracking, and even search engine optimization. From a user standpoint, Joomla offers tremendous ease of use and simplicity. The elegant dashboard based upon the KDE interface allows content to be updated in minutes and data to flow freely from outside sources. Administrators and developers have he capability to customize virtually every aspect of the platform. For this reason extra attention is given to topics like plug-ins, the API, design and skinning, and integration with existing databases, websites, and web services.

From the Back Cover
As a major force in the world of affordable, advanced web site deployment, Joomla! has become the most important noncommercial Content Management System (CMS) in the world. The number of Joomla! downloads and add-ons continues to grow at lightning pace, spurring the need for a resource that explores the diverse needs of professional Joomla! developers. This book fills that void by covering the two main areas of the Joomla! field—development and deployment—with a focus on the new Joomla! version 1.5 and all the features it provides.

Seasoned author Dan Rahmel walks you through the process of creating all three types of Joomla! extensions (modules, components, and plug-ins), explains how best to use Ajax technology, and shows you how to adopt design patterns and incorporate source code control. You’ll examine the underlying technologies (PHP, Apache, etc.) that can be tuned to offer the best system performance, and you’ll explore interfacing with outside content, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) setup, and much more. You’ll even delve into the internal structure of the Joomla! framework, and obtain a unique behind-the-scenes education so that you can modify and extend Joomla! to meet the needs of you and your customers.

What you will learn from this book
* How each server of a Joomla! system can be installed and configured for maximum performance
* The process of creating a module from scratch
* Ways to use Ajax to add dynamic data retrieval to Joomla!
* Techniques for using design patterns to solve common programming problems
* How to create and retain a virtual community
* Procedures for tuning a Joomla! site for both Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Management (SEM)

Wrox.Professional.Joomla.Oct.2007.eBook-BBL | 8.88 Mb

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James Kennard “Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development”
Packt Publishing | 2007-11-07 | ISBN:1847192823 | PDF | 488 pages | 3,7 Mb

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Description:
As a major force in the world of affordable, advanced web site deployment, Joomla! has become the most important noncommercial Content Management System (CMS) in the world. The number of Joomla! downloads and add-ons continues to grow at lightning pace, spurring the need for a resource that explores the diverse needs of professional Joomla! developers. This book fills that void by covering the two main areas of the Joomla! field–development and deployment–with a focus on the new Joomla! version 1.5 and all the features it provides. Seasoned author Dan Rahmel walks you through the process of creating all three types of Joomla! extensions (modules, components, and plug-ins), explains how best to use Ajax technology, and shows you how to adopt design patterns and incorporate source code control. You’ll examine the underlying technologies (PHP, Apache, etc.) that can be tuned to offer the best system performance, and you’ll explore interfacing with outside content, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) setup, and much more. You’ll even delve into the internal structure of the Joomla! framework, and obtain a unique behind-the-scenes education so that you can modify and extend Joomla! to meet the needs of you and your customers. What you will learn from this book * How each server of a Joomla! system can be installed and configured for maximum performance * The process of creating a module from scratch * Ways to use Ajax to add dynamic data retrieval to Joomla! * Techniques for using design patterns to solve common programming problems * How to create and retain a virtual community * Procedures for tuning a Joomla! site for both Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Management (SEM) Who this book is for This book is for web developers, hobbyists, web designers, bloggers, corporate content creators, and support specialists who are looking to build a more robust web site. Basic skills in the area of PHP programming are necessary. Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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