Comments for Custom content creation, now for Joomla! at http://www.joomlamilwaukee.com , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.joomlamilwaukee.com Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:36:12 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.joomlamilwaukee.com/133-Custom-content-creation-now-for-Joomla.html#comment-87 I really enjoyed this post.. All the tracking informations are nice.. comments also nice collections.. - Joomla Expert Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:01:15 +0100 http://www.joomlamilwaukee.com/133-Custom-content-creation-now-for-Joomla.html#comment-15 Yes, That's the appearance. I was planning on presenting both at the April JUG. - vdrover Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:19:30 +0100 http://www.joomlamilwaukee.com/133-Custom-content-creation-now-for-Joomla.html#comment-14 ZOO is out and Joomlaworks released a beta for a similarly billed "CCK" extension called K2. The "lite" (free) version of ZOO looks serviceable but not really impressive. K2 looks much better. ZOO may be more flexible than K2 at this point, but K2 doesn't require a special menu module like ZOO does. Most of all, K2 comes with a lot of common custom functions set up and ready to go--comments, extended author/user profiles (to be redundant in 1.6?), and integration with an upgraded JW AllVideos plugin for custom gallery-type content. The problem with CCK and much else in Drupal is power and flexibility without direction. K2 is more in keeping with the Joomla usability-by-herding (or narrowing choices) tradition--more so than ZOO. This all has be wanting to see com_content as an optional or easily unpluggable extension in J1.6. If these extensions take off as widely used alternative content managers, I bet we'll see mass-import functionality for all com_content sections, categories, and items. - dpk Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:55:41 +0100 http://www.joomlamilwaukee.com/133-Custom-content-creation-now-for-Joomla.html#comment-6 I missed this one. Looks great! I have seen a number of content article templating extensions added to JED in the past few months. JCE also has a plugin for that. This sort of feature might be closer to Drupal's Views than CCK. CCK is probably closer in what it delivers to some of the custom form extensions for Joomla--except in Joomla forms are forms, not content, right? Meaning they create pages that are not within the domain of com_content. jXtended has some extensions that offer some custom content type functionality and completely bypass com_content. That means they can't be used with all the Joomla modules for doing things with content in com_content. Joomsuite has a package that sounds like CCK for Joomla too. I haven't tried it, but the other JoomSuite extensions I have tried seem top-notch. The downside is Joomsuite products are encrypted, commercial non-GPL. - dpk Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:47:59 +0100