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Joomla! 1.5 Top Extensions Cookbook: Basic Joomla! is great, but there's so much more to it once you know how to use extensions. From video players to … on the latest and greatest customizations.
Author(s): Suhreed Sarkar (Author)
- Publisher: Packt Publishing
- Publication Date: 18 Oct. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 460 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781849511803
- ISBN-13: 1849511802
Book Description
Basic Joomla! is great, but there’s so much more to it once you know how to use extensions. From video players to shopping carts, these 80 hands-on recipes give you the lowdown on the latest and greatest customizations. Overview Set up and use the best extensions available for Joomla! Covers extensions for just about every use of Joomla! Packed with recipes to help you get the most of the Joomla! extensions Part of Packt’s Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible Who This Book Is For If you want to build a basic Joomla! site and are looking for information on the use of Joomla! extensions and their customization, this book is for you. Prior knowledge of using extensions is not expected but basic knowledge of setting up a Joomla! site will be required. Knowledge of PHP and database skills will be helpful but not essential. What You Will Learn Implement access control list by creating groups and assigning permissions to groups Create backups that can be restored on any other Joomla! site and relocate a site to another server without any hassle. Add an Ajax contact form with custom fields using AiContactSafe extension and add Ajax search to Joomla! site using PixSearch extension. Import hundreds of users from a CSV file enabling them to log in without registering themselves using UserPort extension Integrate phpBB with Joomla! so that users from phpBB can access Joomla! and vice versa without further registration and by a single login using JFusion extension Send tweets automatically upon publishing articles in Joomla! Add project management functionalities to your Joomla!-based sites and get notified about new contents from time to time (for subscribers) Add attachment to an article in a much easier way using Attachment plugin Build a document repository for Joomla! using DOCMan extension for sharing files through your site or if you
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About the Author
Suhreed Sarkar is an IT consultant, trainer and technical writer. He studied Marine engineering, served on board the ship for two years, and then started journey in to IT world with MCSE in Windows NT 4.0 track. Later he studied business administration and earned MBA from University of Dhaka. He has a bunch of BrainBench certifications on various topics including PHP4, Project Management, RDBMS Concepts, E-commerce, Web Server Administration, Internet Security, Training Development, Training Delivery and Evaluation, and Technical Writing. He taught courses on system administration, web development, e-commerce and MIS. He has consulted several national and international organizations including United Nations, and helped clients building and adopting their web portals, large scale databases and management information systems. At present he is working on building a framework for education sector MIS, and promoting use of ICTs in education. Suhreed is renowned technical author in Bengali – having a dozen of books published on subjects covering web development, LAMP, networking, and system administration. He authored Zen Cart: E-commerce Application Development, Joomla! E-commerce with Virtuemart, and Joomla! with Flash, published by Packt Publishing. While not busy with hacking some apps, blogging on his blog (http://www.suhreedsarkar.com), reading philosophy of Bertrand Russell or management thought of Peter F Drucker – he likes to spend some special moments with his family. Suhreed lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh
