I'm new to Joomla component development and I havent create a component before. My client suddenly asked to create a component for his site (Library-Search...) What it does is searching for books/publications in the library... How can I do this I have no idea how to create joomla components since i havent created before?? how many days it will take to create this component?
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There are few links you can use, you need to have good understanding on MVC pattern
http://docs.joomla.org/Developing_a_Model-View-Controller_Component/3.0/Introduction
http://www.joomlatutorials.com/joomla-tutorials/joomla-3-0-tutorials.html
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First: You need to plan for the database.
2nd: Use one of the component creator websites which convert your DB plan into component ready to install.
(ex: jc-creator.com ) - free
this will be a good start to learn the structure by reading the code and edit it.
3th: You will need to create a plugin for the search as it's not come with Jc-creator. copy and edit (easy to edit) one of the search plugins in joomla
(ex : plugins\search\content)
Zip the files and install it again to your joomla.
You can contact jc-creator team via twitter they helped me