Our journey until now In this series we want to show some tools that can help to build components for Joomla. The first four episodes were mainly to introduce the example, show some implementations of it without building a component and...
Nine months ago, I created my first Extension for Joomla!. Now, I’ve made seven simple Extensions with the help of ChatGPT. In this article, I’ll share what I learned through this process in the form of tips so that you can easily create your own Extension.
In this episode we will expand our example component, mainly by using features that are built-in into Joomla. And we show some tools that can help us setting up a custom component.
Finally we will build a real Joomla component for our example event schedule! We’ll explore how to implement relationships between entities.
As you might know, Joomla 5 is a great open-source CMS all by itself and it does so much in the core that you can truly build a great website with just what is built-in… too often, sadly, website developers will use either:
In the second episode of our building-tools adventure we'll delve deeper into our event schedule example and explore how to implement it using two Joomla application builders — Seblod and Fabrik. We'll not yet create a full component, instead we’ll embed our application within these extensions. By doing so we will also get a better understanding of the requirements for the component we want to build in subsequent articles of the series.
You probably know Joomla is THE tool for creating websites, because it's really complete straigth out of the box. If you need a little more, you could use one of the thousands of extensions available in the Joomla Extensions Directory... or create your own. In this series, Herman Peeren takes us through the options.
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