If you missed the happy twittering, last week at the Joomla! Day Chicago there was a spontaneous gathering of developers--yes, that includes you Ryan Ozimek--shut up in a room having a great time writing platform applications. As Nicholas Dionysopoulos said to me “I guess that will put an end to the incessant "why did we have to separate the platform from the CMS" question. To be honest, I had the same question myself, until Joomla! Day Chicago and the awesome (and immensely fun and productive) Joomla! Platform session
What exactly is a “Platform Application”? Well you already know three of them: the Joomla! CMS, the Joomla! CMS Administratror, and the Joomla! CMS Installer. Ok, so what more could anyone possibly need? In truth the sky is the limit. The Joomla! Platform can be used to build all kinds of PHP applications, some of which may work with the CMS and some of which are totally separate. Building a simple platform application is even easier than building a simple module. In fact, you can do it in just one file.
Posted on Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:49:21 +0000 at http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1486-building-on-the-platform.html
Author: elin.waring@opensourcematters.org (Elin Waring )
What exactly is a “Platform Application”? Well you already know three of them: the Joomla! CMS, the Joomla! CMS Administratror, and the Joomla! CMS Installer. Ok, so what more could anyone possibly need? In truth the sky is the limit. The Joomla! Platform can be used to build all kinds of PHP applications, some of which may work with the CMS and some of which are totally separate. Building a simple platform application is even easier than building a simple module. In fact, you can do it in just one file.
Posted on Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:49:21 +0000 at http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1486-building-on-the-platform.html
Author: elin.waring@opensourcematters.org (Elin Waring )