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I am just looking for some opinions on a preferable module to us efor Joomla. It must:
allow CMS users to edit fields etc.
store data in the database
not have excessive mark up
have easily editable themes.
I have used Breezing forms and some others, but they all seem a bit clunky and over kill for what is required.
I would like a fairly lightweight form module with easy customisation from a dev point of view.
You can use Fabrik extension. You can get it by go to this link
It's free and simple to use. Fabrik gives you the power to create forms and tables that run inside Joomla without requiring knowledge of MySQL and PHP. Then feed your data into Google Maps, Charts or an AJAX based calendar etc.It's my personal opinion, I have used this and found it interesting.
And others extension such as RSform ,Breezing forms, Red form etc. but these are commercial extension.
RSForm! Pro is the best form module.
http://www.rsjoomla.com/
RSForms Pro is a really good component for forms in Joomla. But it isn't really lightweight, it's fairly extensive. But still quite easy to use. ;)
I would recommend RSForms!
Well maintained
Easy to use and powerful
Theming engine
The price is low enough to avoid all the hassle "free" components can provide
Have a look at their website : http://www.rsjoomla.com/joomla-extensions/joomla-form.html
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I'm looking for a complete book for Joomla! 2.5 template design.
(I want to learn the best, the newest and the most standard way to code Joomla 2.5 template)
What do you suggest? (cost is not a problem!)
Thanks.
I'd start off with the free stuff. The Joomla wiki page here on creating a basic template. Personally I found this video made at a Joomla Conference pretty helpful. This tutorial whist for Joomla 1.5 very little template wise changed from 1.5 to 1.6-2.5 versions.
Also make sure you're happy with non-joomla css/html/php templates as that is what these are at the end of the day with some extra bits here and there.
Once you've done that have a look at some of the existing frameworks. Most are available for free. The yootheme warp master theme here, the Nooku framework, Gantry Framework whilst all customizable if you want to make your own template on a existing framework for the first couple of go's to get a feel for it. You can also learn a lot about how site development works from the way that other people have built their templates if you wish to work that way!
So far 0 pence spent and a pretty good idea of how Joomla templates work!! If you are desperate to spend dosh go for the offical Joomla Book on it here.
All you need is here:
http://www.amazon.com/Joomla-Templates-Press-Angie-Radtke/dp/0321827317/ref=pd_sim_b_7
Publication Date: August 1, 2012
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i am trying to learn ASP.Net MVC2/3 and trying to work on a web project that will actually be a blogging project. So i would have the similar structure as a normal blog looks like. I would have title, blog entry, some tags and other stuff. Now i want suggestion on using database. Since the blog entry i.e. an article would be a text with multiple paragraphs and might also contain some images. So i was wondering what kind of database should be good to store these texts. I can use SQL for storing text but not sure if it would be fast enough. Any suggestions on where can i get or i should say learn about good database design for such application.
Also it would be helpful if anyone can suggest a good source for ASP.net MVC3 learning. I can look online for tutorials, but some good books for beginners would be helpful.
Any suggestion would be great.
Thanks. :)
download sqlExpress from Microsoft, it will be plenty fast enough to store/retrieve text, it's free and it works well with .net
I think the easiest way to store the posts would be to store the text as HTML, with tags that point to somewhere in your file structure. When you add an image, you upload it to that directory, and generate a link for it.
Take a look at how wordpress works, that should give you plenty of ideas for writing your own code.
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Please suggest premium or free online video sources that address web development.
I'm looking for the satisfy the following areas in particular.
Web architecture and planning
Web Usability and Design
Specific programming languages/frameworks namely (PHP, RoR, javascript, CSS)
Database Design
AJAX, jQuery
Any other areas needed to be a top notch developer (Note I didn't mean 'web designer', or 'web programmer')
So far the only great premium sites I'm aware of are lynda.com (for everything) and Peepcode.com (RoR). I know there's more out there like them. Please share.
The best foundational programming information that I've found is Stanford Open Campus, specifically:
CS106A
Here are some other resources to compete with Lynda.com
UDEMY
Learnable
Video2Brain
Creative Live
Kelby
VTC
TUTSPLUS
Digital Tutors
Team Treehouse
Code Academy
Code School
Peepcode
TotalTraining
I just found a good resource:
Harvard CS-75 - Building Dynamic Websites
http://academicearth.org/courses/building-dynamic-websites
A previous version is also on iTunes.
How about lynda.com's main competitor (but number two, I think), http://www.vtc.com.
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I'm searching for the best way to automatically organize all user generated content in a social network.
I'm building a site in ruby based upon lovdbyless' framework. the site is a place for men to share specialised knowledge.
I've looked into wikis,forums, blogs by need a platform/organizational structure that will allow user generated content from these 3 sources to be automatically aggregated, indexed and make it searchable, so that other users can get access to it easily and efficiently.
Something like a knowledgebase, that is automatically updated wherever a user creates a forum post, personal blog post, wiki entry etc.so that the combined knowledge of the site is accessible to members with minimum effort
Titles and Tags.
If I may expand on Lance's answer, since I agree tags are the best structure, you could generalise that into a triple graph, perhaps with something like RDF. What is an RDF triple?
Thanks to stuff like semantic mediawiki, and SIOC turning up in both wordpress and Drupal, you basically have a pre-built architecture for doing this.
As long as you are happy working in RDF, it should just be a case of integrating the various UIs in a way that makes sense for the goals of your social network project.
There are even "federated" query engines that will query all sources as if they are one source.
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I'm interested in the Presentation-Abstraction-Control? (aka Hierarchical-Model-View-Controller (HMVC)) Architectural Pattern for constructing complex user interfaces (GUI or web) and was wondering if anyone was aware of any examples in the wild where I could read the code?
I'm aware of the JavaWorld article and associated letters cited in the Presentation-Abstraction-Control wikipedia article.
In the php world, I'm aware of a few methods that might qualify as HMVC. They all allow calling a controller and displaying the results from within a view. The calls can be nested infinitly creating widgets within widgets.
Zend Framework: Action View Helper
CodeIgniter: 3rd party Modular Extensions - HMVC
Kohana: 3rd party Component Edit: Kohana 3 now natively supports HMVC
I wrote an HMVC framework a while back for J2EE and FreeMarker:
http://www.neocoders.com/portal/projects/jandal
and recently another one for Javascript:
http://www.neocoders.com/portal/projects/subo
These are fairly 'experimental', but might be of some academic use.
cheers,
Lindsay
It's my understanding that the Cairngorm framework for Adobe Flex is just one example of an HMVC implementation. It's open source, so you can find out more information and download the code at Adobe's website.
The APF-Webframework - http://adventure-php-framework.org/Page/001-Home - uses HMVC since many years, and has a very experienced and engaged developer. Only the small community discourages a little bit.
I wrote an HMVC framework in PHP called Alloy:
http://alloyframework.org/
It's pretty lightweight and has a modular structure.