In this tutorial sequel I will demonstrate and guide you how to develop a Module extension for Joomla 1.0.x and Joomla 1.5.x. For efficiency and save time, we will use Joomla Module Generator / Wizard plugin for YouCMSAndBlog IDE which you can download from Download section at VivoCiti. For you who use other editors, I believe you should still be able to follow this tutorial. Let's start !
Module extension in Joomla is very simple to develop yet flexible. Flexible is because Module extension can be positioned in anywhere at your Joomla website, i.e. top of the front page or every page, left, right, bottom or user defined positions (user 1, user 2, and so on).
When will you decide to develop a Joomla Module
A module can be developed for:
a simple text output (for instance: displaying out static information or displaying dynamic information by retrieving some data from database)
to display widgets from third parties (for instance: Amazon, Google Adsense, Statistic, services such as Yahoo Weather etc)
Create New Drupal 5.2 PHPTemplate Engine Taglist & Functiion Taglist
Some users are still confused how they can extend YouCMSAndBlog to support other templates & themes which are not listed / shipped in YouCMSAndBlog. In this tutorial, we will walk through how to do that for Drupal 5.2 Different from Joomla, Drupal provides few theme engine to be used.
Designing Joomla Template with YouCMSAndBlog True View
I will attempt to provide a very first tutorial to show you how to use YouCMSAndBlog IDE editor to build a Joomla template with True View mode.
For Quick View mode, I think it should be very easy for you to understand by downloading the IDE and try to open Blogger templates from sample directory as shipped. And for sure in a future I will try to come up with a tutorial once have more time to spend for writing.
Please note this tutorial is not only applying to Joomla template, but any other template / theme (Drupal, php-Nuke, Mambo) and Blog template (Blogger, Wordpress, etc) as long as they uses tags based.
Also in this tutorial it may not be really suitable for people who is the first timer trying to understand creating and designing a Joomla template and I am not really going to explain in such detail (but sure..please feel free to give me feedback how should this tutorial be improved).
