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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811225003321

Autore

Blanco Jose Argudo

Titolo

Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery : enhance your Joomla! sites with the power of jQuery extensions, plugins, and more / / Jose Argudo Blanco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Birmingham, U.K., : Packt Pub., 2010

ISBN

1-282-71250-0

9786612712500

1-84951-205-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Disciplina

006.78

006.786

Soggetti

Web sites - Authoring programs

Web site development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Let's Start Making a Better Site-Images; How Joomla! handles images by default; Inserting images into articles; Placing images in modules; Placing images in the template; Adding a jQuery-powered image slideshow module; Some other modules to try; Image pop ups; Some other modules to try; Putting images together-image galleries; Some other extensions to try; Tips and tricks; Summary; Chapter 2: Site Content-Our Next Step; Basic concepts on Joomla! content

How Joomla! shows our articles to site visitorsEnhance your site content using JavaScript; Organizing our content into tabs; Some other modules to try; Article slideshows; Some other extensions worth checking; Site search; Introducing AJAX search; Some other extensions to try; Tips and tricks; Summary; Chapter 3: Embedding Rich Media Features with Joomla! Plugins; Concept of plugin-what is a Joomla! plugin and how does it work?; Code highlighter plugin; Some other extensions to try; captbunzo's Flickr Album plugin; Some other plugins to try; SC jQuery; Some other plugins to try

Tips and tricksSummary; Chapter 4: One Last Look at Joomla! jQuery



Modules; Limitations of Joomla! menu modules; Creating a drop-down menu with CSS alone; jQuery-powered Joomla! menu modules; Adapting the menu to suit our template; Some more extensions to try; Creative ways of placing login modules in our site; Some other extensions to try; Tips and tricks; Summary; Chapter 5: Refactoring Our Site; Warning; Removing unnecessary jQuery loads; Code highlight; pPGallery plugin; Shadowbox; AJAX Header Rotator; Content Slider module; What happens with jQuery UI; c7DialogMOD; jQuery tabs module

Removing MooToolsTips and tricks; Summary; Chapter 6: Getting Our Hands on Coding JavaScript; Adding movement to our site's header-Parallax effect; Preparing the HTML necessary for our example; Adding jQuery Parallax library; Tips and tricks; jQuery library jScrollPane; Adding mouse scrolling; Adding useful tooltips; Tips and tricks; Summary; Chapter 7: Creating Our Own Modules; Learning the basics of Joomla! module creation; Creating a ""Send us a question"" module; Making a better form using JavaScript; Send the form using jQuery AJAX; Tips and tricks

Validating form fields using jQuery-why validate?Warning; What could you check?; What to do next? Packing and installing the module; Summary; Chapter 8: Building Complete Solutions, Modules, and Components; Working with the news rotator module; Creating the component base; XML installer file; Why are so many files necessary?; Building our first model; How Joomla! helps us work with the database; Inserting data; Updating data; Deleting records; Reading data; loadResult; loadObject; loadObjectList; Modifying our installer to create our table; Coding a basic admin zone

Inserting, editing, and deleting records in our admin zone

Sommario/riassunto

Enhance your Joomla! Sites with the power of jQuery extensions, plugins, and more