Advanced Joomla!

Part I: Advanced Joomla Use and Configuration
1. Anatomy of the Article Display Process
2. Using multiple templates with a single site
3. Social networking and Joomla
4. Choosing a different editor
5. Configuring and Optimizing Searches
6. Using wBlogger for offline editing
7. Community Builder 1.2 and Beyond
8. Integrating Google calendar
9. Creating a Custom Language file

Part II: Advanced Template Construction
10. Constructing a Liquid Template that changes based on content
11. Template Overrides
12. Advanced Joomla Template CSS
13. Joomla Rich Content
14. Specialized Templates
15. Using MooTools
16. Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)
17. Joomla and web services
18. Joomla, JavaScript, JSON, and Ajax

Part III: Advanced Joomla Administration
19. Joomla Administrator interface
20. Security Configuration
21. Setting up SSL for secure transactions
22. DB Administration and Configuration
23. Using Joomla Explorer for client-admin
24. Setting up a remote authentication
25. Examining Joomla logs
26. Testing your site with Selenium
27. Setting up an alert system (3p)

Part IV: Advanced Development

28. Development Tools
29. Creating the Article Injector component
30. Creating Joomla items through code
31. Creating the Article Librarian component
32. Joomla Developer Site review
33. Creating the PHP Embedder plugin
34. Test Driven Development
35. Creating the Form builder component
36. Allowing for Editor Markup
37. Creating the Joomla Internal links/references Plugin
38. Agile Joomla Project Management
39. Wrapping existing PHP Application
40. On-the-fly image generation with GDI
41. Bulk import component
42. Create XML-RPC client
43. Creating an simple SEF plugin
44. Development and Deployment
45. Subversion

Dan Rahmel is a Windows programmer with more than 14 years of experience designing and implementing information systems and deploying mid-sized client/server solutions using Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Microsoft Access, and Visual FoxPro. He also operates a successful web site (www.cvisual.com) that has over 6,000 unique visitors a month.

As an author, he has written over a dozen books including Nuts-and-Bolts Filmmaking, Visual Basic Programmer's Reference (first, second, and third editions), Building Web Database Applications with Visual Studio, Teach Yourself Database Programming in 24 Hours, Developing Client-Server Applications with Visual Basic, and many more. His books have been translated into various languages including Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. He is a contributor to DBMS, Internet Advisor, and American Programmer magazines.