Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook: LITE (PDF)

In DetailJoomla! is the world's hottest open-source content management system. Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your website sing. Many Joomla! developers face common implementation hurdles, some might want to rapidly extend the Joomla! core functionality or might want to create new and exciting extensions.Next bit on book page. Copy from site, revise where appropriate.Do not discuss the cut down nature of this book. Focus only on what the book is, not where it came from.=This books gives you solutions for problems that Joomla! developers face when working with the Joomla! database, styling pages or trying to customize the backend of the site to suit their own needs. If you're trying to do these things, you'll want this book.To find out more about upgrading to the full edition, visit www.packtpub.com/lite-editions and log into your account for offers and help. If you don't have an account on PacktPub.com, visit today and set one up!ApproachThis book is in Packt's Cookbook series. A Packt Cookbook contains recipes for solutions to the most important problems you face when working with a topic.Inside the Cookbook you will find:A straightforward and easy to follow formatA selection of the most important tasks and problemsCarefully organized instructions for solving the problem efficientlyClear explanations of what you didDetails for applying the solution to other situationsWho this book is forThis book is for PHP developers who have spent time attempting to extend or customize Joomla with PHP code. This book has been designed with specific Joomla! development problems in mind, and it is expected that you are comfortable using PHP code to extend and customize Joomla!