How to use custom select statements in joomla 1.5?

[smazmatshah]

Hi , i am new to joomla ,i have been doing php development in dreamweaver and ADDT.What i need to know is, that if i get to develop a website in joomla and i need to display certain custom recordsets?or build custom registration forms?so how can i do it?what should i learn infact?should i learn joomla framework?Kindly guide me please.Also should i learn Shopping carts in Joomla?or Zen Cart or OsCommerce?because in future i am going to develop shopping cart for my brothers store.

[toivo]

Hi,

Joomla has lots of extensions that may suit you, for example VirtueMart. There are a number of forms extensions. I personally use FacileForms in Joomla 1.0 and BreezingForms, the same product under Joomla 1.5.

You may want to dig deeper into the Joomla MVC framework, the com_user component is a good way to start.

Regards,

[smazmatshah]

Thank You very much for your reply.But infact i didnt get you at the last,What is that user_com component?Also i am developing a classified site myself.I am doing it all manually.So should i switch to Joomla if it can release some of my burden.Are there any classified ads extension easy to configure in Jooomla?The reason i am asking this is, that what is the use of re inventing wheel if already their are extensions which one can use in Joomla.Best Regards

[piercer]

Joomla 1.5 has (on the whole) a very good API, but you do have to learn it.

I found these three books very helpful

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Joomla ... 777&sr=8-8

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-Websit ... 807&sr=8-3

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Jooml ... 841&sr=8-5

I believe some of the profit for these books goes into the project too, so support it.

(now if only somebody could tell me how to register a custom database handler...)