Course outline for Joomla

High Level Overview

• Installation
• Administrative Interface
• Modules in Joomla
• Themes
• Directory structure of Joomla

Modules

• Default modules in Joomla
• Creating custom modules in Joomla
• Adding module specific settings
• Joomla plugins

Menus

• Mapping URLs to menu items
• Showing a menu
• Hidden menus
• URL aliases
• Clean URLs

Database

• Joomla database layer
• Joomla database class
• CRUD operations using SQL
• CRUD operations using Object
• Single row results
• Multi row results
• Single column results

Themes

• Front-end & back-end templates
• Creating your own template
• Joomla template structure

Taxonomy

• Understanding Taxonomy related terminologies
• Tags
• Registering content type for each view

Translation

• Joomla translation extension
• Embedding translable strings in template
• Internationalization of templates

Testing

• Running automated tests for Joomla
• Running unit tests

Search module

• Creating a search

Services

• Using Joomla Ajax Interface
• Integrating third-party software

Security

• Client-side and server-side form validation
• Using JInput class to sanitize the input
• Preventing CSRF

Development Best Practices

• Code as Art
• Coding Conventions
• Documentation
• Contributing bug fixes
• Maintaining branches

Scaling, Optimization and Performance

• Use of caching
• Performance improvements