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Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development: Creating Modules, Components, and Plugins with PHP
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Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development: Creating Modules, Components, and Plugins with PHP |
Author: Joseph L. LeBlanc
Published: 2007-12-06 |
List price: $34.99
Our price: $31.49
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As of: December 01st, 2008 08:03:11 PM
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Customer comments on this selection.
 A great starter book.
This is a very good starter book that explains a lot of newbie questions you may have about Joomla development. It does kind of pull you by a nose rings in some spots by telling you you need to do this but no real explanation of why. But considering how much information is packed into this small book, its acceptable. This book won't make you an expert Joomla developer but it will have you picked up by your boot straps and capable of asking the right questions to find any answers it didn't contain.
A nice quick introduction
Although light on detail and lacking in the background necessary to help the reader work out how to find more information effectively, this is a good introductory lesson and can be worked through in just a few hours, giving the reader a good grounding in how to develop 1.5 extensions.
 Not really helpful
At first sight this book looks great. It is concise and gives a good introduction from the start to build Joomla extensions. It does not waste pages explaining how to program in SQL and PHP. You are supposed to have mastered that. The book has a major weak point. For the main part it just shows lots of code, but does not explain anything about the API classes and how they relate. After reading the book and trying to create your own extension, it feels like you have not understood anything really.
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br /A second drawback is that the author seems not to bother about testing the sample code. It contains several very obvious bugs, eg using a functou JOutputFilter instead of JFilterOutput. This is annoying.
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br /Summarized, the book may give you a small start but is insufficient for seriuous development. The sad thing is that the official Joomla documentation is in a very alpha stage of development.
Excellent start
I think this book is an excellent start to learning about J!1.5 extensions development. It has real examples that are easy to follow and adapt to suit a variety of purposes.
br /Please note that the book is much thinner than you would think - about 170 pages cover to cover - so initally I was somewhat disappointed, but the book covers the topics you need to get started and I can still heartily recommend it!
Too much 1.0 in a 1.5 book
As the publish date shows, this book was brought to market quite a while before J!1.5 was code complete. I don't know if it's that or if the developer was too used to 1.0 development (there is a dramatic difference) but either way, this book co-mingled 1.0 and 1.5 development practices too much, and just basically glanced over the entire MVC architecture that was built into the 1.5 release of J! I'm a little disappointed as I was expecting more, being a fan of Leblanc, his knowledge and helpfulness in Joomla related things.
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br /For your money, you are much better off purchasing 'Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development' by James Kennard. It has helped me immensly in understanding the new J! framework and APIs.
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