How to Develop Joomla Plugins

Teacher: Cory Webb

Released: November 8, 2016

Length: 1.25 hours

Level: Advanced

Certificate: Finish lessons and pass the quiz with 70%

Table of Contents

Description

Exercise files

Teacher

Introduction

Introduction to Joomla Plugin DevelopmentFree

Your Joomla Plugin Development Environment

Creating the Plugin

Building the Structure for a Joomla Plugin

The XML Manifest File for Your Plugin

How to Add Parameters to a Plugin

Plugin Functionality

The First Features for Your Plugin

Control the Output Display of Your Plugin

Integrate User Profile Data With Your Plugin

Create a Layout File for Your Plugin

Additional Triggers for Your Plugin

Using Regular Expressions in Your Joomla Plugin

Extra Features

How to Create Plugin Language Files

How to Package a Joomla Plugin

Joomla Plugins Quiz

This class follows on from "How to Develop Joomla Modules". Now that you know the basics of Joomla development, you'll learn how to build plugins. These powerful extensions act on Joomla's trigger events to perform almost any task that you can imagine.

As you follow along with these videos, you'll build a plugin that shows the author information on articles.

You'll start by setting up a development environment, then you'll build the structure for the plugin.

Once the plugin is working, you'll build the functionality, plus create layout and language features.

Download the exercise files:

Download the completed plugin

Cory Webb

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Cory Webb has been building websites with Joomla since the Mambo days in 2003. He founded Cory Webb Media in 2008 to focus full time on helping businesses and organizations get online and up to speed with Joomla. He has written a book for Joomla beginners titled "Beginning Joomla Website Development" and has spoken at Joomla Days, Joomla User Groups, and the Joomla World Conference on topics ranging from social media to Joomla in the Enterprise. Cory taught live Joomla classes with OSTraining in Austin and Dallas.