subject: Two Power Boosters Of Joomla : Joomla Components And Extensions [print this page] Joomla development consists of PHP application framework that is quite huge. Getting familiar with such a huge framework requires time in abundance. But apart from this, Joomla has some advantages to it that covers up the disadvantage of time. The huge community of Joomla developers, the clear structure of Joomla frameworks and many more such advantages of Joomla has made it the most preferred web development platform. The structured framework of Joomla uses MVC and Designs Patterns concept that increases the capabilities of PHP to an inclusive object oriented programming language.
Effectiveness of Joomla Components
All types of Joomla component development have a specific naming schemes and each component in Joomla framework carries a unique name without any space. The Joomla component is usually bisected into folders. These two folders are created named Com Reviews. One folder is meant for front end applications and the other one is the administrator folder, which is created to manage the back end applications. All the front end component request of Joomla go through the index.php in root directory. Just by setting the option variables in the URL GET strings, you can collect different components. Let's take an example, if Joomla is installed in the directory title, local web server, then the URL to access this site would be http://myhost/joomla/index.php or similar other URLs. In such a case, accessing http://myhost/joomla/index.php?option=com_reviews in the browser could load the front end components of Joomla. Other codes should be included in order to make the components more useful. For the back end applications, same process can be followed.
Effectiveness of Joomla Extensions
Joomla extension is yet another factor that adds power to Joomla and makes it more powerful. Some most common and effective extensions of Joomla that would lead to an effective work are plugins, templates, translations and modules. If we get into the details, then Modules are the first and foremost step towards Joomla web development. Although Joomla module is a very simple type of extension and is very much alike to the blocks of Drupal, but it plays a very vital role of displaying information along with the main content of the web pages, on one or the other side of the web page. Joomla plugins is an advancement to Joomla platform that modifies and improves the features of Joomla. Numerous types of plugins are available that on using could add features to Joomla search facilities or enhances the user authentication. Joomla components are undoubtedly complex, but they are very powerful Joomla applications. Templates are yet another interesting factor of Joomla and they lead the output of Joomla. Joomla extension development meets international applications along with the incorporation of multi-language feature only with the help of Joomla translation feature.
Hence, Joomla components and extensions are the two factors that act as Joomla's power boosters and make Joomla a powerful web development framework.
