Portal:Component Development/Reading list
From Joomla! Documentation
- Developing a Model-View-Controller Component

- File Structure and Naming Conventions

- Component Program Flow. UML sequence diagrams showing the control flow for a component.

- Component parameters
- Components:xml installfile. An example component XML installation file.

- Manifest files for the installation of extensions

- Supporting SEF URLs in your component
- Supporting plugins in your component
- Using JPagination in your component
- Adding sortable columns to a table in a component
- Using the JPane classes in a component

- Using the JHtmlTabs class in a component

- Using the editor in a component
- Adding AJAX to your component
- Ajax using MooTools
- How to add breadcrumbs
- Sending email from extensions
- Using the JToolBar class in the frontend
- Creating a toolbar for your component
- Creating a file uploader in your component
- Adding Javascript moo.fx to your component
- Adding view layout configuration parameters
- Using a custom image in the menu bar title
- How to implement XML-RPC in a component
- Using multiple models in an MVC component
- Adding ACL rules to your component

- How to create a modal form field in 1.6/1.7

- JController and its subclass usage overview

- Managing Component Updates with Joomla!1.6 - Part 1

- Xml-rpc changes in Joomla! 1.6

- Creating PDF views

- Components:jform fields. and their usage
