Course outline for Joomla

Pre-requisites for learning Joomla

  • Good to have basic knowledge of PHP

Lab Setup

  • Hardware Configuration - Participants must have access to a system with the following hardware configuration
    • 2GB of free RAM, 20GB of free disk space and full network connectivity
  • Software Configuration
    • Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 Desktop Edition (sudo/root access required)

Duration

  • 2-3 Days

Training Mode

Online training for Joomla

We provide:

  • Instructor led live training
  • Self-paced learning with access to expert coaches
  • 24x7 access to cloud labs with end to end working examples

All jnaapti sessions are 100% hands-on. All our instructors are engineers by heart. Activities are derived from real-life problems faced by our expert faculty. Self-paced hands-on sessions are delivered via Virtual Coach.

Classroom training for Joomla

Classroom sessions are conducted in client locations in:

  • Bengaluru
  • Chennai
  • Hyderabad
  • Mumbai
  • Delhi/Gurgaon/NCR

Note: Classroom training is for corporate clients only

Detailed 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