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Professional Content Management System for Joomla!
- Nested categories
- Multi-mapping
- Tags
- Workflow
- Version control
- Content types
- Custom fields
Easy classification and retrieving
- Unlimited nested categories : you can have the same structure frontend and backend
- Categories multi-mapping : you can put the same content in multiple places
- Booleean backend search
Easy to understand
- A simple and intuitive user interface
- Every type of content in a same place
A very flexible templating system
- Each content/category can have its own template.
- Standard template can be easily overriden (MVC pattern)
- CSS can also be overriden
- Generic and "on mesures" templates
- Fields can be called by groups or individually
Compliance with existing extensions
- Compatible with most of the existing modules throught the usage of the content and categories tables
- Most of the content plugins are also compatible
On mesures applications without programming skills
- Unlimited content types.
- Many fields types available
Standard Joomla! MVC coding
- Compliance with existing Joomla! coding standards
- Compliance with Joomla! naming conventions
- No new exotic framework to learn
Extensible throught standard Joomla! plugins
- No specific system to learn, just simple Joomla plugins to build your own custom fields.
- Understandable plugin events (onBeforeSaveField, onAfterSaveField, ...)
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Items tagged with : developer
| Image | Item title | Description |
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| Customizing the frontend item form | To customize the frontend item form, you need to create a joomla template override for the file: components/com_flexicontent/views/items/tmpl/form.ph... | |
| How to hide a field in the item edit form | Some times, you want to hide a field in frontend or backend item edit form or in both. For example v1.5.6 has new parameter to FORCE a default value ... | |
| How to use an FC category as Homepage | It is possible to create a FLEXIcontent category to replace the frontpage (com_frontpage). Like this: Create a category e.g. called "Frontpag... | |
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Plugins | By creating FLEXIcontent, one of my aim was to make it the more extensible as I could trough the Joomla! plugin system (which is according to my opi... |
| Understanding the File Manager | Some aspects of the File Manager TAB are obvious, like the filters, but others are not ...The file manager has a column called "assigned" th... |
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Features slideshow
A com_content sub-layer
The main originality of this component is that it’s the first (as far as I know) to read and write directly into Joomla’s content (articles) and categories tables. The main advantages are: Easy install and uninstall without losing any data. Read more
Content types
The main concept introduced by FLEXIcontent is content types. The only type configured by default is the article, but other types may come to mind such as an image gallery, a portfolio, a recipe, a CV, a show card, a product sheet, a.s.o. Read more
Fields
Fields are the elements that constitute contents. The only required field is the content’s title, even if the description field (introtext/fulltext) is strongly recommended to maintain com_content’s compatibility. The first particularity is that FLEXIcontent can assign a same Read more
Categories
Unlike the native category management of Joomla! FLEXIcontent supports unlimited nested categories. It also supports multi-mapping (items can belong to multiple categories). With this last feature it becomes thus possible to adopt, within the Read more
Contents
The content manager is very similar to Joomla’s com_content but multiple features have been added to increase content retrieving and productivity. 1.- Search The first major improvement is a Boolean search engine available to filter the contents’ table, not only their Read more
File manager
In order to globalize the file management within FLEXIcontent we created a file manager. These files are accessible directly inside the item form when using some field types such as "file" (downloads). You can although access to the file Read more
Content templates
FLEXIcontent has a very flexible template system that allows you to design your own custom templates very easily. In order to be able to design your own templates, it’s necessary to have at least basic knowledge Read more
Plugins
By creating FLEXIcontent, one of my aim was to make it the more extensible as I could trough the Joomla! plugin system (which is according to my opinion one of the most powerful system in Joomla 1.5). Thus, each field type is a standard Read more
Help button
FLEXIcontent was primarily designed for professionals or more generaly for those who build websites for others. I gave the web designers the opportunity to choose their own support and assistance page. To display the Help icon on the dashboard, Read more
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