A colleague and I have been partnered on a project for school, in which we must take an existing site and revamp it to client specifications.
The client's site is the college journalism site, built on Joomla. They're currently using an archaic version, and we are migrating their content to a new installation. In addition to an overhaul to the interface (which we are having no trouble with) the client has asked for the addition of some features.
Email subscription services
Moderated social commentary
Multimedia integration
For Email subscription services, we've decided on jNews, and after a preliminary check on a temporary install it seems to be a decent choice. The problem we've come across is with the other two feature additions.
My question essentially is; What suggestions could SO offer of Joomla Extensions that provide moderated social commentary functionality, and multimedia (audio/video) integration, that play well together. I've looked at yvComment and jMultimedia for social commentary and multimedia integrations respectively, however jMultimedia breaks entirely (PHP throws an exception) post install, and yvComment is giving me headaches.
Just some quick details on the functionality;
Moderated social commentary I suppose is rather straightforward. Something that supports perhaps OpenID or similar. Visitors can comment on articles, and moderators can review, and moderate (edit/delete) as necessary.
Multimedia integration is also straightforward. Simply the ability to associate uploaded or linked audio/video content with articles. Gallery views, and other client side snazzyness is also important, but can certainly be sacrificed for better administrative integration.
I'm only looking for suggestions, not comprehensive installation/customization instructions, though I'm certainly not opposed to hearing any from those who have performed such tasks successfully :) Thanks in advance!
I've used several email subscription services... I found AcyMailing to be the best. Especially if you have to do newsletters often.
Moderated social commentary - jComment is a good choice for adding commenting features to the Joomla Articles. However, I recommend using non-native version of content management like K2. K2 is extremely powerful CCK with many cook features and it comes with commenting features, social media sharing and author pages.
I used several components for videos about a year ago. The best one I found was hwVideoShare. It is a great video component similar to Youtube with sharing, commenting, etc... I'm not sure about audio.
Subscription Service - AcyMailing
Content Construction Kit - K2
Video Component - hwVideoShare
If you need community component which has Video/Images/etc look into JomSocial. That thing is amazing.
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I have a task from the client to create a screncasts website. It must be similar to egghead.io or laracasts.com. I decided to choose Joomla for a basis. And for this reason, I want to know are there components or modules for Joomla, which realize similar video functionality? For example, the site has two types of screencasts. Paid and free. If the video is paid, then at the opening, instead of showing, the user must to pay. (All like on laracasts.com). This is the main point. Thank you.
P.S. Perhaps there is a better solution for this kind of site?
Your project has 3 different aspects.
User management
Managing payments and memberships
Video display
1.For the first point Joomla ACL (Access Control Level) provides good built-in functionality to filter user access. You can create different user groups (free memberships, paid, pro etc.) and use acl to control access to the content. 2.Managing payments. There are many components that do this (free and paid), you can search on extensions.joomla.org Akeeba subscriptions is a good one for managing subscriptions.
3. Video playing. You can do anything from simple to complex. Basic solution is to embed the video in an article using standard html5 tags. A better solution, is to use a content builder extension like K2 that has additional features to handle multimedia content. It makes editing and content creation easier for non specialists.
Or you can build or find a specialized component that will handle all these aspects in one solution.
I need to create a website which stores the list of all games the player has played and it shows right on your profile. As the player goes on completing a game, he adds the game into his list.
So i would need a basic lo-gin configuration and then by using AJAX, I will populate the list of games which he wants to add to his list. So that he can track the list with games that he has played.
So now I need suggestion on how to go on with it?
How to start building?
Which language do I need to pickup?
I am well versed with Java and j2ee.
Is this enough?
Also I am a freelancer so I can't afford to pay for a website. So any free website hosting service which will help me to build the website which I have in mind??
Also if I use any free website hosting service, will they provide me with a database and AJAX capabilities?
Here's the basic setup:
You need a domain first. Try to pick something unique, as it will be cheaper. You can find one on namecheap: https://www.namecheap.com
You need hosting. Again, go with namecheap.
To start building, you need to learn some HTML and CSS. HTML is markup of the web, and CSS is the stylesheet of the web. They aren't hard languages to start off in. You can start for free at Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/html-css
I believe namecheap offers database support as well. Ajax isn't provided by a hosting service. It's more of a group of languages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).
This should get you going. I can't really give you more detailed information than this because your question is really broad. If you Google your questions, you'll get good answers and guides.
Best of luck.
I'd like to tap your experience regarding the use/deployment of a JavaScript powered framework to implement a GUI frontend for different backend tasks.
The framework would have to provide a managable way of displaying arbitrary data fetched from a database (data can be provided in every thinkable way JSON, XML etc.) and allow the manipulation of that data by means of a clean and RESTful API. Prebuilt widgets (tables/lists/dashboard) and UI (drag'n'drop/sorting) would be nice to have but aren't mandatory.
The requirements are:
Open Source (obligatory)
clean and RESTful API to fetch, display and manipulate data
Ability to extend the functionality thru plugins
Standards-compliant (IE does not have to be supported)
Thorough documentation and/or helpful community
I've figured that jQuery's UI framework comes very close to the ideal, though it lacks a decent support of general structures to master a full-fledged application.
I'm interested of what you guys would recommend.
Thanks in advance.
After years of using several of the available frameworks I now use Yahoo's YUI3 (3 - not the older 2) if I can - for "serious" apps. For HTML page enhancements I'm indifferent and may sometimes prefer jQuery.
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/ (BSD license)
What I like about YUI3 are the very "deep" concepts behind it for serious "enterprise level" software development. Regardless of what framework one uses, EVERYONE seriously developing in JS should have viewed (and understood!) the videos on Yahoo Developer Theater, especially the presentations by Douglas Crockford.
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/
I have built a little Web UI for Pidgin(respectively all libpurple based messengers) together with DBus and Sinatra.
It was for fun and learning purposes and now I'm looking for ideas to extend it.
Can you think of any useful applications or extensions for it?
Since I work on this project to learn something new, ideas for other technologies to be used/combined are welcome.
Finally here is the link: pidgin-web-ui
I few things that that might use to many many people would be:
good and simple to configure https support, so that users in "monitored" countries to be able to still chat freely (if the server is somewhere else).
Unified Message Archive . Many IM clients have various archive functions, but are different, limited, hard to search, and many are "client only", so not accessible when one needs them the most. Since Pidgin can connect to so many IM networks, it would be cool to have such a "global message hub archive". This would ensure that everything the user is talking is archived (very useful for businesses too), easy to search, available on a server (so always at hand).
File Archive on the server. The same as the Unified Message Archive, but for the files/images users exchange. Having them on the server (with a hash for easy sync) as a backup and archive would greatly reduce the traffic if they need to be shared more than once.
The would be many more nice features, that would help many users, but the above 3 seem to miss from usual IM software.
My idea after a brainstorming minute:
Dropbot
Create a messaging account anywhere and add this account as a contact to your messenger. This contact is your Dropbot.
Change your interpreter UI so it does not display a conversation but a log. In this way you can just drop things to the contact like interesting links. There could be a Dropbot for a read later queue, your favorite citations or for a list of funny findings.
You could then extend your UI to a little mashup. It could follow the links and grap the title of the page and a content preview just as Facebook does it when posting a link to your wall.
You could further extend your app by adding post-drop behavior to the Dropbot.
Dropbot could post your link (probably with a message) on Twitter or Facebook.
Dropbot could automatically distribute the link to the other contacts of it (like your friends)
Ok, that sounds fine... but you could do that without a message bot inbetween. What's the deal?
For me the advantage would be that my IM is always open and it would be fairly easy to drop a link. You could do the link dropping with Delicious or post stuff to a Google Wave, yeah. But I don't like to go to a web page, log in and organize stuff in the UI. Actually I stumble upon those links when I should do more important stuff instead. So just dropping it to my IM Dropbot contact would be cool.
Why not extend it to cover all the basic features of instant messaging (sending/receiving messages, adding contacts, etc...)? Seeing how many features you can reproduce may be a fun exercise. Create your own little Meebo...
Want to have fun?
Make a Markov-chained-based chatbot integrated into the web app. Make it use scraped web search results for the content, after searching for terms parsed out of the human's responses. That should be fun, and will give you funny, and sometimes eerily smart-looking results. Have fun!
I have seen your code. Why not split dbus_thread into a event_machine daemon for further scalability?
Integrate it with Twitter. Trace conversations (#Replies), including multi-party involvement. Log them. And so on.
Many interesting features and a popular, original API to learn.
I have been tasked with doing some planning and research for a home grown in house application. Our primary development language is ColdFusion and Flex3, so I wanted to attack this problem with a modular solution, using an MVC framework.
I must mention that I am not a huge ColdFusion developer, but will be one of the architects behind this app (yikes!). I have a few years experience developing ecommerce applications in .NET / PHP / ASP, but never on this type of scale.
The overall goal is to build a module based applciation that we can roll out and 'add' modules for functionality, so as not to lock ourselves in a certain direction.
The system requires two key things:
Functionality must be a 'drop and go' type, so that if the eCommerce application requires functionality like paypal processing, we drop in the paypal module, and bam it is an option at checkout, etc;
Ability to handle multiple brands (we have a few markets we serve, and each market has its own brand).
Ok enough background...
My key concerns are, how should I start? I am looking at using a ColdFusion MVC framework, any suggestions at which? I've looked at the following(for Coldfusion):
Model-Glue
Cairngorm
Pivot-MVC
Fusebox
Am I on the right track? I hope using an MVC will help reach the goal of a drop in and go modular functionality with reduced time spent coding repetitive things. I don't know enough about these MVC frameworks tho.
Would appreciate any helpful suggestions so I can formulate a precise plan of attack.
EDIT:
Having reviewed ColdBox, what would be a comparison to use it over another MVC? I've read that it does not support the 'drop and go' type of functionality.
Any other opinions on an MVC framework for CF?
I selected the ColdBox Framework for ColdFusion for its rich feature set, ability to be a controller for my Ajax/Flash/Web Service development, active community and frequent releases. Most importantly, I selected ColdBox for the amazing amount of documentation--allowing me faster answers while affording me even more time to write code rather than documenting how the application works.
I encourage a framework--any framework. It will foster faster development, help guide best practices and enable the application to have a long life--past you and other developers.
So, YES! You are on the right track.
Links of Interest
Sample Applications
Down and Dity ColdBox PDF
Documentation
ColdBox API Reference
Paid Training and Certification
Who Uses ColdBox
Respectfully,
Aaron Greenlee
If it were me, i'd plan the users viewpoint of the application, how many steps there were, how many different pages, what is the function, design purposes of each page.
Then plan out each page's logic, what it needs to do etc..step by step no code, just lots of comments.
Then maybe do a wireframe html/css pages with no coldfusion to show you step by step how the ecommerce application would act like..
Then start making page by page, and do lots of testing....the clearer your plans are for any plans, the less chance of feature creep.
Well, I hope I'm understanding you correctly here. All of the options you listed are great frameworks. However, when you set one up, at most, you're going to get a 'Hello World' sort of site out of it, and from there, you're probably on your own. MVC frameworks are designed to sort of split apart different part of programming (the logic, the appearance, the overall data model, etc.) to allow for easy reuse, but not at a level of 'Oh, add PayPal, Authorize.Net and PayflowPro to the last step of my cart' sort of application.
It sounds like you're looking for a CF-based eCommerce application like Cartweaver, and then to acquire or buy Cartweaver plugins to extend it (to offer different types of shipping, payment processing, etc., etc.).