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001 Hello World with Joomla Component Builder 002 Intro to JCB 003 Installation of JCB 004 General Planning 005 Field Types 006 Basic Fields 007 Admin Views 008 Advanced Fields 009 Adding Admin Views to a Component 010 Component Settings 011 Component Scripts 012 Component FTP and more 013 dynamicGet 014 Adding dynamicGet to a Site View 015 Adding Templates and Layouts to a Site View 016 Template Setup 017 Layout Setup 018 Custom Admin Views 019 Adding Site Views to a Component 020 Adding Custom Admin Views to a Component 021 Tweaking MySQL Demo Data 022 Global Settings of Component Builder 023 Adding a custom time field 024 How to integrate the Create User Helper Method in your Components 025 How to use email helper in your components 026 How to setup a store message method along side the email helper class 027 How to ensure that a field is not escaped when added to list views 028 How to change exported values and setup custom import options 029 How to overwrite the custom fields 030 How to filter a list field based on association with another field 031 Automatic import of custom code during compilation in JCB 032 JCB manual custom code implementation 033 Export Import of fully mapped components 034 How to add Custom Buttons in JCB to your component Admin Area 035 Translation Mananger in JCB explained 036 Setting Site View Permission 037 Auto create SQL updates for Componets in JCB 038 Setup Site Edit View in JCB 039 Automated backup system in JCB 040 Adding Helper Structures to any JCB component 041 Upgrade to JCB v2.5.8 and using the new Admin View and Admin Fields 042 How to setup tabs after upgrade to v2.5.8 in JCB 043 Major Release of JCB v2.6.0 044 Hello World Component with Joomla Component Builder Creator Extended 045 Adding your own rule validation to a field in JCB 046 General overview of how community snippets work 047 Tutorial on forking JCB snippets so you can share your snippets with the rest of the Community 048 Tutorial on making a pull request at Joomla Component Builder Snippets 049 The New Library Manager Area 050 Easy Translation via excel 051 Dynamic Router Implementation Explained 052 Automated database updates in Joomla during development of a component 053 Quick Subform Demonstration 054 VDM Package Import Option 055 Dynamic File and Folder Inclusion concept 056 How to use the file field type to upload a file in JCB 057 Drag and Drop Upload functionality in JCB 058 The Quick Hello Word with JCB 059 Adding none database fields to an admin view 060 The custom dashboard option in JCB 061 Add or Remove Prefix to Component Name in Joomla Menu 062 Add your own JCB packages to the JCB Communty Directory 063 Proposed Collaborative Workflow in JCB 064 How to install jcb packages 065 JAB18 Using Joomla Component Builder 066 The new fields Area to make things easier 067 Adding Language String to your Component and get the Language Placeholder for dynamic use 068 Library Manager Anticipated Functionality 069 Join Fields in the admin list view with field relations 070 How to change the License Template in JCB 071 Reuse Custom Code 072 Setup Local Development Environment with Bitnami 073 JCB Fields Type Extended 074 How to add Joomla Custom Fields 075 Expand Custom Field Type Beyond The Default 076 A Quick Demonstration to Load a List of Items in a Site View 077 Run Expansion Explained 078 How to Add a Form to a Site View 079 Update the Site Form Field via URL Parameter 080 How to Add More Helper Methods to Your Components Helper Class 081 Easy Validation Rules for Fields in JCB 082 New Placeholders Feature 083 Manage a Components Global Config Option Field in Relation With Menu Params 084 Default Database Values can be set per Field Type Beta Testing Component Settings Develop a Joomla Component Guide to use the Component Builder Developing with Joomla Component Builder Home PHP Settings TIPS: Custom Code Using the JCB Demo Component While Building Your Local Development System
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Introduction to Joomla Component Builder

Welcome. My name is Llewellyn van der Merwe and I am the developer of the Component Builder for Joomla. I will be giving you instructions on how to use it.

Component Builder was Built for Developers Who Know PHP

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Component Builder was built for those who know PHP. If you are not familiar with PHP, there are some places to get help like Lynda.com and Udemy. You could go to their websites, search for PHP, and you would find courses that would help you on your way. To get acquainted with CSS JavaScript HTML, you need to visit these websites. It was not developed for those who have no developing skills. I actually developed it for myself as a developer of components, so that I could easily and quickly get most of the code done, while I could focus on the actual custom code which goes beyond the norm. This is what it is really made to do.

API Understanding of Joomla is Needed

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If you don't have much knowledge of the Joomla API, it's not that difficult to get an understanding as long as you are able to read PHP. To learn more, open a Joomla website, go to libraries, start reading the classes. You can even go to Joomla's own components. Go to a Joomla install, then to components and to content manager. Look at the folder structures, open them, and you will see the controllers, the models, and the views. Open a view, open the script itself and read through it. If you are using NetBeans, you can hold onto a function like this one (getLayout) and press Ctrl+Shift. It will show you where in your Joomla website that function is declared. 00:02:34 You can open that file and open source in editor. You can learn how codes interconnect to each other by just looking at Joomla's own components. 00:02:58 (See video.)

Ways of Implementation

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My aim is not to reinvent things but to stick to the conventions as far as possible. As I become aware of better ways of implementation I would like to add that again. So if you know a better way of doing it, please communicate with me. I would gladly update, include, and change whatever is needed.

You Must Be Willing to Get Your Hands Dirty

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It is important to debug something if you had built something that did not work. Possibly you need to run a local sandbox environment. Ubuntu is my local sandbox on which I have PHP, Joomla, and MySQL installed. 00:04:38 If I have to open a browser, 00:05:04 I have a few sites here. This is just my own little script that I've dumped into my own server. 00:05:27 Now I go to Builder.VDM. 00:05:43 It is loading some of the test displays that I'm working on. If I add administrator to that, it will open the back end, and I can log in. So I'm running in a sandbox environment. The advantage of it is that if you don't have any internet involvement, you can work offline as well as add things like XD bug and other scripts which will help you debug your application. 00:06:07 We are doing that in an off-site environment. It is time consuming, difficult, and expensive. 00:06:26 It's much easier doing it offline; again, if you don't know how to do that, please visit Lynda.com and look at a course called "Up and Running with Linux for PHP Developers with Jon Peck." 00:06:59 It is an excellent course to get your own local developing environment setup. I've watched it long ago 00:07:24 and it's been very helpful to get my initial sandbox setup. With time you'd get better and find better ways, but this is a good place to start.

The Best Functional Place for Component Builder

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Component Builder's best place of being functional is offline. If you going to do it online, please realize that there might be security risks, especially if you have compiled an application. It places it into your temporary folder which can be accessed from anywhere. Anyone can access your temporary folder on the server of your website. 00:08:14 You can delete the application there immediately with a button which I will show you later. In spite of that, I still feel unsafe. The purpose of the application was live in a developing environment where you have Joomla installed and where you can test it intensely. I would suggest you do it that way none the less.

Help Me to Ensure the Future of the Component

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Since it's free, please help me to ensure the future of this component by not sharing the training videos online or with anyone else. This is the only way that I can sustain this development. If you have an organization or if you're a company and others are viewing it, I can't stop you, but I would encourage you to consider making a contribution when you are starting to reap the benefits of the time that this application saves you so that this application can be further developed for the rest of the community and also for yourself. 00:09:28

Be Involved On Github

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We would also like to involve you on Github. You can go to github.com/vdm-io/joomla-component-builder. If you have any issues, requests, or anything else, please come here. Go to issues and open a new issue. 00:10:12 I want to be sure you can do that if you've got an account with GitHub. Our discussions would be public so that others can see it and so that we can come back to it for reference.

Feature Requests

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If you want to make a feature request, you can start that feature request here in the issues. If it exists, I'll point it out to you, and if training is needed, we will add it to this training video set. But if there is a feature request that has started here and you can't wait (because we will create milestones and we'll add feature requests to milestones) and you want to ensure that a feature request ends up being done before anyone else's, then you need to communicate with me at this email, llewellyn@vdm.io, and I can send you a link to make a donation, or I'll give you an invoice if needed; so we can ensure that that feature request be done before others. 00:11:09

If you have questions please let me know. Not questions regarding the component itself, but these points I've mentioned. I'll be grateful.