Joomla 3.x documentation Creating Input forms

Question

I am unable to get a clean Joomla documentation for developer.

a) Is there a clean documentation/tutorial resource for developer for core api (a version specific will be great)

b) My current issue is that I do not want to use any existing component and want to create a simple extension to perform crud operation on a table (add /edit/delete)

c) How to create html forms /validate it, add/update/delete etc a normal operation in web application. Please point me to any resource specific to 3.X

Answer 1

The documentation for Joomla 2.5 is still very relevant for 3.1 for the forms. You can then also compare with other components such as the weblinks as others have suggested.

http://docs.joomla.org/J2.5:Developing_a_MVC_Component/

As bare essentials you will need controllers (one for list, one for add/edit), models (list + add/edit), form xml for add/edit, table for list, view controller and view template.

The documentation I linked explains how to add them and is fairly descriptive. I havn't noticed much different between those docs and the current joomla 3 components.

The only thing you will need to watch out for is that some of the classes need to have the name changed.

In particular the views need to be JViewLegacy instead of JView .