Many existing software platforms like Joomla, WordPress, Magento and Facebook etc. provides a way for developers to add additional custom functionality to the platform, i.e. a Google map with GPS for Joomla.
In general, extension/plugin development is fairly simple and can be done by a programmer who has knowledge of the specific platform’s API (Application Programming Interface) – in Layman’s, an API is software that enables the extension or plugin to communicate with the platform i.e. Facebook.
There are millions of free extensions/plugins available on the Internet. These extension can normally be downloaded and installed via the platform i.e. Joomla, which requires no programming knowledge.
If you have browsed the Net and could not find a suitable plugin or maybe you found one but its not 100% what you had in mind, then you can get me to either build this plugin from scratch or alter the existing plugin to your requirement.
I have experience in plugin/extension development for:
- Zend Framework
- Joomla
- Magento
- WordPress
- Facebook (FB Apps)
- various Payments gateways
- Google Apps/Services
- Google Maps
- Postcoder GEO Coding,
- QAS,
- Postcode Anywhere
- and various other API’s.
Some of the websites/platforms I developed required me to also develop the actual API for the communication from satellite/remote user sites, these API’s were mostly XML based, and some also SOAP and RPC.
