Archived:Creating a simple module/Introduction

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•  Introduction
•  Developing a Basic Module
•  Using the Database
•  Adding Form Fields
•  Adding Auto Update
•  Adding an install/uninstall/update script file

Requirements

You need the latest version of Joomla! 2.5 (with PHP, MySQL, Apache and Microsoft II) for this tutorial (as of writing currently 2.5.11)

Introduction

Joomla! 2.5 is constructed using three different applications:

• installation (used for installing Joomla)
• administrator (used for managing content)
• public (used for displaying content)

The installation application is used once. The administrator and public are used through the concept of components with modules. Each module has a single entry point located in the modules directory.

Both are called mod_modulename/modulename.php (the mod_ prefix is a historical trace)

Contributors

• George Wilson