Advanced Joomla! Take your Joomla! Sites to the next level

Written by bestselling Beginning Joomla! author Dan Rahmel, Advanced Joomla! picks up right where Beginning Joomla! left off. Amongst other things, it shows you how to integrate advanced features into your Joomla! site, including social networking, blogging, and Google and Yahoo! web services; construct advanced Joomla! templates that use multiple stylesheets; use advanced administration techniques; and employ MySQL data reporting, remote deployment, and quality control using automated testing. 

Advanced Joomla! assists content providers and web developers in all aspects of Joomla! content creation. For graphic artists and web designers, the professional template techniques and site organization information will prove invaluable. For developers who are weary of the often Byzantine documentation and hunger for clear organized information, Advanced Joomla! holds the key to unlocking the treasures of this advanced CMS system.

Part I: Advanced Joomla Use and Configuration. 1. Anatomy of the Article Display Process. 2. Using multiple templates with a single site. 3. Social networking and Joomla. 4. Choosing a different editor. 5. Configuring and Optimizing Searches. 6. Using wBlogger for offline editing. 7. Community Builder 1.2 and Beyond. 8. Integrating Google calendar. 9. Creating a Custom Language file.-. Part II: Advanced Template Construction. 10. Constructing a Liquid Template that changes based on content. 11. Template Overrides. 12. Advanced Joomla Template CSS. 13. Joomla Rich Content. 14. Specialized Templates. 15. Using MooTools. 16. Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). 17. Joomla and web services. 18. Joomla, JavaScript, JSON, and Ajax.-. Part III: Advanced Joomla Administration. 19. Joomla Administrator interface. 20. Security Configuration. 21. Setting up SSL for secure transactions. 22. DB Administration and Configuration. 23. Using Joomla Explorer for client-admin. 24. Setting up a remote authentication. 25. Examining Joomla logs. 26. Testing your site with Selenium. 27. Setting up an alert system (3p). Part IV: Advanced Development.-. 28. Development Tools. 29. Creating the Article Injector component. 30. Creating Joomla items through code. 31. Creating the Article Librarian component. 32. Joomla Developer Site review. 33. Creating the PHP Embedder plugin. 34. Test Driven Development. 35. Creating the Form builder component. 36. Allowing for Editor Markup. 37. Creating the Joomla Internal links/references Plugin. 38. Agile Joomla Project Management. 39. Wrapping existing PHP Application. 40. On-the-fly image generation with GDI. 41. Bulk import component. 42. Create XML-RPC client. 43. Creating an simple SEF plugin. 44. Development and Deployment. 45. Subversion.