Nooku Framework is a open-source extension framework for Joomla. Developed and maintained by Timble with the help of passionate developers from all over the world.

Nooku Framework can be installed in Joomla as a plugin and lets you focus on the "business" logic of your extension. By doing most of the repetitive work for you boilerplate code is eliminated which greatly reduces the time to develop Joomla extensions.

The design pattern based architecture makes your extension more flexible: your extension becomes more re-usable, replaceable and more easily extensible. Additionally Nooku Framework provides you with excellent out-of-the-box security features.

Nooku Framework uses a component based architecture and includes everything needed to create Joomla extensions according to the Hierarchical Model-View-Contoller (HMVC) pattern.

Nooku Framework is built to help developers create custom Joomla extensions and tries to solve following problems:

• Abstract differences between Joomla versions 2.x and 3.x.
• Provide a solid modern and lean architecture for building extensions.
• Allow extensions to be more flexible and extended easily.

Nooku Framework is for developers creating custom Joomla extensions. The framework can only be installed using Composer and cannot be installed using the Joomla installer. If you are a developer who wishes to distribute the framework as part of an installable package please contact us first.

The framework uses a conservative development approach focused on the lowest common denominator, at time of writing this is Joomla 2.5 and PHP 5.3. The framework is fully forwards compatible with Joomla 3.x and PHP 5.x.

The framework follows the semantic versioning standard. Rest assured : it's designed for stability and compatibility. We promise that all minor versions will be 100% backwards compatible. Only in major versions backwards compatibility is not guaranteed.

Note : If you are looking for the the greatest and latest stuff we are working on check out Nooku Platform, a fork from Joomla that is being completely rebuild using Nooku Framework.

• Joomla 2.5 and 3.x
• PHP 5.3 or newer
• MySQL 5.x

Go to the root directory of your Joomla installation in command line and execute this command:

composer require nooku/nooku-framework:2.*

We appreciate any contribution to Nooku Framework, whether it is related to bugs, grammar, or simply a suggestion or improvement. We ask that any contribution follows a few simple guidelines in order to be properly received.

We follow the GitFlow branching model, from development to release. If you are not familiar with it, there are several guides and tutorials to make you understand what it is about. If you haven't, you will probably want to get started by installing this very good collection of git extensions.

What you should know before submitting a pull request :

• If you are submitting a bug-fix, or an enhancement that is not a breaking change, submit your pull request to the branch corresponding to the latest stable release of the framework, such as the 2.0 release branch
• If you are submitting a breaking change or an entirely new feature, submit your pull request against the develop branch.
• It's very well appreciated, and highly suggested, to start a new feature branch whenever you want to make changes or add functionalities. It will make it much easier for us to just checkout your feature branch and test it, before merging it into develop
• We will not consider pull requests made to the master.

Nooku Framework is open-source software licensed under the GPLv3 license.