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Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
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Since you can probably count the books written for Joomla on both hands, this book is the best one because its the ONLY ONE dealing on Beginners extension development, (ergo the high price and few pages). That being said, it is a good book to have in your library if you are planning on becomming a joomla developer. For those of us who are reverse engineering hackers (learn from seeing examples), this book is a must.
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I certainly agree with those who said this book is way too sparse, weighing in at 176 non-packed pages. For the same audience this book is intended for I would instead recommend "Professional Joomla" by Dan Rahmel. It covers the same material plus a great deal more and it costs less money. It even gives more explanation and examples of building components, modules, and plugins, things "Learning Joomla" is supposed to focus on.
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I am an experienced PHP/MySQL programmer and I am going to switch to Joomla! very soon as I think that it could save me a lot of work on dynamic sites where customers need to add/modify very often contents and articles.
Well, of course Joomla! default content (articles) layout and behaviour will not fit any customer need and so I'd need to develop my own custom extensions: this is how this book comes in help!
I have been able to develop my own custom component (with rich editor, sorting, publish/unpulish, categories handling features) in three days following the book recommendations.
Yes the book is quite thin and the price is not very adequate, but its content is pure gold! clear, concise and very useful.
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I read this book pretty quickly.
It is rather thin and not over loaded with content and for the price Isnt good value which is the basis of my 4 star rating.
The content is accurate but often doesnt break down into details what you are doing. This is great if you are happy to simply make components and modules etc that are very simple but it definately lacks enough meat to make anything more than a learner component.
If you are absolute newbie to MVC and Joomla 1.5 custom coding then it could be worth your while. If you are an experienced developer however get the mastering joomla 1.5 Extension development.
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I expect a more comprehensive approach from this book, including a very good review of the new Joomla 1.5 API, and deep suggestions to build better components, modules and plug-ins for this CMS.
But my expectations were not fulfilled. God book, but not so good.
If you have no experience building/maintaining components for Joomla, this is a good start, but if you are an experience developer looking for god reference and fresh information, maybe this book will be incomplete for your purposes.
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