Here's the deal. I have been asked to integrate a payment gateway for this particular site that has been designed in Joomla. Typically, I welcome any challenge as it puts my mind into serious overdrive and allows me to push myself that bit further in order to accomplish the task at hand. But this around, I am completely stumped. It's not that I can't do the job, its just trying to understand Joomla's MVC's structure when it comes to component/extension development has me really banging my head at walls.

Why oh why, do they have to make it so hard for developers to figure they way through the system? I have read several books that claim to explain how the mvc structure works, visited numerous websites, followed a couple of tutorials... still nothing... I did however come across a couple of Joomla component generators which I think kind of gave me a head start but then once done... where do I go next?

Guess I will need to crack on....