I'd like to develop an extension that processes images and related data using article markup, such as is done by Articles Anywhere, for example:
{article 999}{/article}
In my case it would look something like this:
{myExtension}
[title]
[image HTML]
[image HTML]
[date, date, date, date]
{/myExtension}
The extension would then render title and image markup and generate an HTML structure to present the dates on a timeline of sorts.
Which type of extension(s) is/are needed here, and what's it called when markup in an article is processed? What hooks are to be employed?
Though I've built 100 or more Joomla sites since J! 1.5.9, my professional expertise is in front-end JavaScript libraries and frameworks. You can't be too elementary with me here regarding PHP, MVC, etc. Thanks.