Community Magazine

This is the start of a series of articles about building custom plugins. We will start with some general information about plugins and creating them. In subsequent episodes of this series we will take a closer look at specific plugin types and their peculiarities.

In this series, we explore methods and tools to test a custom Joomla extension. In this fifth and final episode we’ll check if your extension is secure.

The Joomla project has invested considerable effort in making the CMS accessible to everyone. With every release we continue to improve this even more. Joomla’s core does well. The Joomla Community Magazine has published extensively on accessibility over the past years....

In this series, we explore methods and tools to test a custom Joomla extension. In this third episode, we’ll use PHPStan, a tool to examine and debug source code before the program is run. You don’t even have to write a test to catch bugs at an early stage.

If you use Joomla, you may have heard the term “dependency injection”. But what is it and why is it important? I’ll explain it as clearly as possible, to make it understandable for non-coders too. 

In this series, we explore methods and tools to test a Joomla extension. In this second episode, we’ll focus on Cypress as a tool for end-to-end tests.

What does a value in a table cell mean? Simply look at the header at the top of the column and/or somewhere at the beginning of the row. But what if you are blind?

Sharing your experience shapes Joomla’s future. You can guide the next generation of Joomla talent. Joomla will grow from it, and you too. 

In this series, we will explore methods and tools to test a Joomla extension. In this first episode, we’ll focus on PHPUnit for running tests. A practical guide: how to set it up, what to test, and… what not to test.

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