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Joomla Extensions Development: a reference book

Joomla Extensions Development

The missing Joomla reference for extension developers

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

WORK IN PROGRESS

I am currently in the process of writing this book. Many things are missing, even more need refining.

Please keep in mind that I am writing this book on my own time, without any kind of funding, based on my own experiences developing software for Joomla, just for the love of the community. Please be kind.

How to read this book

Download the EPUB file and open it in your favorite e-book reader.

“Developing” the book

The normative format of this book is DocBook XML version 5+. You can find it in the joomla_extensions_development.xml file in this repository.

If you want to propose changes to the book please make a Pull Request against the DocBook XML document.

The book can be converted to GitHub-flavored Markdown and EPUB formats using Pandoc using the following commands:

pandoc -f docbook -t epub --toc -N joomla_extensions_development.xml -o joomla_extensions_development.epub
pandoc -f docbook -t gfm -s joomla_extensions_development.xml -o joomla_extensions_development.md

The first command is what I use to generate the ePUB version you see in this repository.