Before I start writing second SVTechie Book Club modifications blog entry, some notes from book club development history are presented here.

First and foremost, I always find using and modifying existing code easier than writing from scratch. Though, existing code is always written over finally, old code provides nice anchoring plateform. (More so when I know so little about web design). So I chose com_booklibrary component of Joomla! to start with.

com_booklibrary component had lots of bugs when I started using it. But now it is little more stable. Initial modifications were little cusotmization for svtechie.com. But later on, I have added more features and have rewritten most of the code.

Few features I added (apart from bug fixes) are

• Referral based User Membership. It required separate member database in joomla! as I wanted same user management system as rest of svtechie.com
• User can add/modify/delete there own books.
• User profile management
• Credit based lend mechanism
• Simplify some of the addition.