Joomla is a popular content management system to create portal based sites. More than 10,000 of sites using joomla ,including big organisation like virgin . So creating Joomla templates is very important for web designers.Here i am writing a help sheet or cheat sheet to create joomla template.

Basic Template Files

1. Index.php .
2. Template Detail.xml.
3. Template Thumbnail.
4. Template_css.css.
5. Images[Folder].

PHP Snippets for Index.php

1. <?php mosShowHead();?>                               ->Request Head Tags
2. <?php mosConfig_Sitename ?>                       ->Request Site Name
3. <?php mosConfig_live_site?>                         ->Request URL of the site
4. <?php init Editor(); ?>                                      ->Loads WYSIWYG Editor for user
5. <?php endif(); ?>                                             ->Closes a function

JDoc Statement

1. <jdoc:include type=”head“/>                         ->Output head section in the webpage.   
2. <jdoc:include type=”component“/>               ->Output Components used .
3. <jdoc:include type=”Installation“/>               ->Install included files.
4. <jdoc:include type=”message“/>                   ->Display message in the webpage.
5.  <jdoc:include type=”module“/>                    ->Include module on the webpage.

Module Postion

<?php mosLoadModule (’position’); ?>                    ->Helps to load position of the modules.

I hope this ” Joomla Template Cheat sheet ” helped you!.This sheet help only for beginners in case if you need to develop advance template you need to refer this API.

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