Joomla! Documentation™

Component Development FAQs

List of all articles belonging to the categories "FAQ" AND "Component Development"

• Extensions GPL notices
• Extensions distribution
• Extensions name
• How can you view a live site while developing, but hide it from others?
• How do you add a PayPal button?
• How do you list your extension in the extensions site?
• Component Development/FAQs
• How to determine browser capabilities?
• How to implement XML-RPC in a component?

Beginner

To understand how to install and use a plugin in Joomla it is recommended to read Administration of a Plugin in Joomla

Intermediate

To understand plugins better, you should create a basic plugin for Joomla!.

If you have a basic content plugin in a custom module or component, we recommended reading Triggering content plugins in your extension.

Advanced

To understand the principles on which the Plugin system works Plugin Developer Overview. To then implement this in a component you have designed it is recommended to read Supporting plugins in your component.

Using Plugins

Plugins are grouped together depending on which event they run on. For developer reference there is a full list of plugins grouped by their event type. Please note, the names of a lot of events changed between the Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 2.5 versions. Here is a full list of the 1.5 to 2.5 plugin event name changes. There are also several simple tutorials on making some sample plugins running on some of these events to help running searches on extensions using both the search and smart search components:

• Creating a search plugin
• Creating a Smart Search plug-in ( only)

There are further tutorials using the user triggers on how to create an authentication plugin to help users log into Joomla and creating a profile plugin for Joomla.

• Creating an Authentication Plugin for Joomla
• Creating a profile plugin

A more complex example of using plugins to create a new system router to produce URLs is also available ( only).