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SOBI2 Views, Templates and Add-ons

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

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The directory data is accessed via different views.
• MainPage View – shows the SOBI2 mainpage, the component home page.
• Category View – browsing through categories and sub-categories.
• Details View – displays details of one entry.
• Search View – specify searches and view search results.
• Entry/Edit View – Create or edit a new or /existing entry.

Almost all of the views’ content and look is controlled by the SOBI2 Configuration and SOBI2 CSS file.

Templates

Customizing the SOBI2 templates is not required.

An entire directory may be created and set-up using only configuration settings.

Only adding custom fields would require minor CSS additions for those fields.

If desired, the design of the category listings and details listings may be customized using the templates and CSS.
• V-Card Template – the individual “cards” in the Category View.
• Details View Template – individual entry pages in the Details View.
• Entry Form Template – front-end entry form where users may enter new directory entries.

Add-ons (and some features)

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• Google Maps – a SOBI2 feature which simply needs configuration to display maps in Details View
• Way Search (Get Directions link) – a SOBI2 feature which simply needs configuration to display link in Details View
• SOBI2 Menu Module – a free official SOBI2 Joomla module which displays SOBI2 categories
• SOBI2 Gallery Plugin – a free official SOBI2 plug-in which can display images in an entry’s Details View
• SOBI2 Review and Rating Plugin – a free official SOBI2 plug-in which enables star ratings and text reviews of entries
• SOBI2 Most Rated Module – a free official SOBI2 Joomla module which displays entries with most ratings from above plug-in
• SOBI2 OpenSEF Plugin – a free official SOBI2 plug-in which integrates SOBI2 with OpenSEF for text-based URLs
• SOBI2 Featured Listings Plugin – an commercial official SOBI2 Plugin which enables “featuring” entries
• Simple Featured Listings Module – a free 3rd-party SOBI2 Joomla module which enables “featuring” entries
• Special Links – a standard SOBI2 feature which links directly to various groups of entries such as Featured Entries, Latest Entries, Most Popular Entries, Most Reviewed Entries, New Entries, Recently Updated Entries, and Top Rated Entries.
• JComments – a free open source comments component for Joomla which can be integrated with SOBI2
• jReviews – commercial reviews component
• jooTabs Module – free tabs module from TemplatePlazza
• Community Builder – free community building component for Joomla
• Raf Cloud – free tag cloud component with a SOBI2 plugin

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SOBI2: Directory component for Joomla

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Main use of sobi2 is to “classify and show stuff” – that is, create a form which contains Information on a product/ book/ artwork/ person/ downloadable Document etc. and to present it in a convenient way. Sounds simple, but doing this with pure Joomla! (articles) is tough, because there is no form with fields to fill out, so layout and search is difficult, and, especially, there are only sections and categories, no third level, and no way to attribute an article to MULTIPLE CATEGORIES.

SOBI overcomes all these limitations. You can define new templates and custom fields, you can attach files and gallery images to an entry, there is a system for a nice tree structure, ratings, user comments, file uploads, data import, backup… beautiful. It’s very stable, well structured, there is excellent support.. And it’s FREE.

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and many more.

CSV Import and Backup plugin and the search modules are highly recommended for better functionality. Only regret so far is the inability to create different fields for different categories in add entry form. veterinary use of tramadol

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Should I use Joomla 1.0 or 1.5?

Friday, August 1st, 2008

The difference between current 1.0.12 and the forthcoming 1.5 Beta-2 are not easy to describe, but in essence Joomla! 1.0.x was based upon the Mambo codebase, whereas Joomla! 1.5 has been completely rewritten from scratch. Joomla! 1.0.x was written with “freedom of use” in mind; with Joomla! 1.5 expanded on this and added “ease of use”. This all sounds very nice, but what does it mean? Freedom of use refers to the unlimited possibilities you have when building web-sites, and with ease of use have tried to make life simpler for the end user, the web administrator and of course the third party developers.

Future Prospects:

Very bright future for joomla 1.5. It will take while for developers to update their products and take full advantage of 1.5’s new features, but by choosing 1.5 you will have an easy upgrade path to future versions.

Components:

All the available components are compatible with the joomla 1.0.12 version. Developers are developing more extensions now that are supported by 1.5 version.
Some components of 1.0 can also be run with joomla 1.5 in legacy mode.

Templates:

No commercial and only a few free templates have been released in joomla 1.5. But in 1.0.12 version, you can find free and commercial web templates.

Why should I choose this(1.0 or 1.5) version?

If time is not on your side, go with 1.0.12. Also, if you have a small site, the migration to 1.5 should be relatively painless.
If your project is not urgent, or if you’re building a large, fully-featured site, its well-worth waiting the extra time to take advantage of 1.5’s increased potential.

Secure:

Version 1.5 is more secure and has a nicer and more organized backend

“If you are building a new site and don’t have many extensions, make sure it will be future proof and use Joomla 1.5.”

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Introduction to Web Content Management Systems

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Content Management System software is available commercially from several vendors, as well as from many free or open source software (FOSS) communities.

Open source has the additional benefit of an collaborative community of programmers working on improvements and bug fixes, often able to respond faster than their commercial rivals. Of course, cost is the advantage many IT managers are interested in when considering open source alternatives, as most of these packages are available free or for a small donation of time or money.

In either case, using a CMS solution, whether commerical or FOSS, saves money in development time and also provides stronger security through the technical support of the software vendor or the collaborative programming community.

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