[...]... in the book [2] Preface Who this book is for This book is mostly for PHP developers who work with Joomla! and web designers who want to add JavaScript and jQuery elements to their Joomla! themes and modules However, it will also be useful to those who are interested in building their own jQuery- powered Joomla! extensions Conventions In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish... tool—the jQuery JavaScript library Do you want to have a full-featured site? And more importantly, do you want to know how to develop jQuery- powered extensions? Just keep reading! What this book covers Chapter 1, Let's Start Making a Better Site—Images, shows how Joomla! works with images by default It then moves on to explain some image slideshows, pop ups, and image galleries—all using some interesting Joomla!. .. leave these parameters at their default values, and the module would work correctly However, let's take a look at them: • Javascript Library—lets us select which JavaScript library we are going to use As the book is about Joomla! and jQuery, I think we will be leaving the default option, jQuery • Include core JS Library—can be set to Don't include if you are loading your own library in the template Your... extensions using the jQuery library simultaneously, or if the jQuery library is loaded after our plugin is loaded For example, consider the following sequence of events: 1 Load of the jQuery library 2 Load of the pPgallery script 3 Load of another instance of the jQuery library, used by another extension In this case, the gallery will not work The gallery script needs to be loaded after the jQuery library... with jQuery Optimizing CSS and JavaScript Summary [ iv ] 220 225 226 228 230 233 233 235 238 239 242 250 253 255 262 266 269 272 Preface To date, Joomla! has been well known as a great content management system (CMS) There are many sites using it throughout the world, some of them having great features that impress their visitors Most of the time, these appealing and powerful features work thanks to JavaScript. .. highlighter and Flickr plugins We will also see the SC jQuery plugin—a plugin that will be of help in the future chapters of the book Chapter 4, One Last Look at Joomla! jQuery Modules, is where we will stop and see some interesting modules before proceeding to more complex chapters For example, we will build drop-down menus, first with CSS and then with a Joomla! module We will also see how to interestingly... chapter before we start coding ourselves Here we will stop and see how to make fewer jQuery library loads, and also some tips and warnings—it may not be the easiest chapter, but is an important one Chapter 6, Getting Our Hands on Coding JavaScript, shows us how to, instead of using Joomla! extensions, make use of some jQuery plugins to add some interesting effects to our template This will involve some... will see how Joomla! handles images by default, without the help of any module or extension, using just Joomla! and images Then, we will see some modules and extensions that will help us to: • Add an image slideshow to our site • Incorporate image pop ups—a great way of making our images stand out from our contents • Create galleries Through all of the examples in this book, we will look at jQuery- powered... use jQuery for further improvement of our site along with the use of third-party extensions One of the most interesting features of working with Joomla! is that there are lots of extensions already built These extensions will surely help us in the development of our site, saving time and effort, and will give great results in no time In this chapter, we are going to take a look at some interesting Joomla!. .. Adding a jQuery- powered image slideshow module Slideshow is one of my favorite effects, and there are many Joomla! modules available to achieve this effect For example, take a look at AJAX Header Rotator, which is available at http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-aimages/images-rotators/10036 [ 13 ] Let’s Start Making a Better Site—Images Or, you can simply perform a search in the Joomla! . Slider module 10 5 What happens with jQuery UI 10 5 c7DialogMOD 10 7 jQuery tabs module 11 0 Removing MooTools 11 2 Tips and tricks 11 3 Summary 11 6 Chapter 6:. question" module 14 3 Making a better form using JavaScript 15 4 Send the form using jQuery AJAX 15 4 Tips and tricks 16 0 Validating form fields using jQuery why