Portal:Component Development/Reading list

• Adding ACL rules to your component   
• Adding sortable columns to a table in a component   
• Component Program Flow.   

(UML sequence diagrams showing the control flow for a component.)

• Creating a file uploader in your component
• Creating a toolbar for your component
• Creating Mootools accordion or simple slider/toggler
• Creating PDF views
• Developing a Model-View-Controller Component   
• File Structure and Naming Conventions   
• How to add breadcrumbs
• How to add custom filters to components
• How to implement XML-RPC in a component
• JController and its subclass usage overview  
• Joomla Platform Portal
• Managing Component Updates with Joomla!2.5 - Part 1  
• Manifest files   

(For the installation of extensions.)

• Sending email from extensions
• Supporting SEF URLs in your component
• Using a custom image in the menu bar title
• Using multiple models in an MVC component
• Using the JHtmlTabs class in a component   
• Using the JToolBar class in the frontend
• Using Tags in an Extension
• Xml-rpc changes in Joomla! 2.5