Look, mum, no code!

By Nicholas Dionysopoulos Creating a Joomla! component seems such a terrible lot of work. Create your database tables, create controllers, models, views and view templates... It’s endless amounts of code. Even the official Joomla! documentation for the introduction to writing components takes a dozen printed pages. What if I told you you only need three lines of code to get started? What if I told you that your view template can write itself and then let you fine-tune it? This and much more is now possibl