Programming Plugins for Joomla 1.5 - Presentation for Joomladagen 2010
On Friday, April 23, 2010 Peter Martin gave a parallel session on programming plugins for Joomla 1.5. The presentation (in Dutch) + two demo Plugins are now available for download.
The presentation Programming Plugins for Joomla 1.5 consisted of three parts:
- A general section on Joomla Extensions:
the differences between Components, Modules and Plugins;
how components, modules and plugins work together. - Plugins in general:
how they operate, how they are constructed, types and events;| - A brief demonstration on how to build a Plugin:
- programming a plugin to automatically replace specific text in content items for a provided hyperlink (eg automatically link all Joomla! references to www.joomladagen.nl)
- programming a search plugin for extending Joomla's default search functionality to search in menu items. The current core Joomla 1.5 search plugins are written in procedural code. The menu search plugin from this presentation is entirely object oriented (OOP) and derived from a search plugin that James Kennard programmed for his book "Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook".
The presentation and sample plugins are downloadable below.
 db8hyperlink_content_plugin.zip | 1 Kb | 159 Downloads | 03/05/10 |
| db8menus_search_plugin.zip | 2 Kb | 156 Downloads | 03/05/10 |
 Joomla Plugins Programmeren.pdf | 2537 Kb | 241 Downloads | 03/05/10 |
