Joomla Extensions

We started off our developing life as Joomla! developers. As a result we produced a few components and extensions that we offered up to the Joomla! community.

Sadly we are not able to continue to support these but the last incarnations are available below. We hope they may be of some use or interest but cannot vouch for their compatibility with the more recent versions of Joomla! now available.

 

Components

Favourites Listing

This component/plugin is designed to allow users to make collections of their favourite articles on your site.

The plugin puts a button at the top of selected content items for logged in users allowing them to add the page to their bookmarks or favourites.

The favourite pages are displayed in a front page blog style layout by creating a menu item linking to the component. The menu parameters allow you to fully customise this page as you can your frontpage.

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Health & Fitness Stats

This component allows users of your Exercise & Fitness community site to be able to record their progress of various health and fitness measures such as body weight, blood pressure, number of press-ups in 60seconds, time for 1000m run etc.

Goals can be set by the user which appear as red lines across the graph area. The user is also given the option to create 'custom stats' for which they can set the unit of measurement and whether best is highest or lowest.

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Modules

Spec Images

This module allows you to show different images appearing in a module position which changes depending on which area of the site the user is in.

The workings are split into two parts - the module and the component. The component part sits in the administration area as a way of interfacing with the database to store different image urls according to different menu links. Options are provided for the user to choose a specific image url, no image at all, or an image chosen at random from a folder specified in the module parameters. The module parameters give the options to specify the random image folder, choose how big the area will be in which to display the image, and how you would like the image to fit into this area.

You can also specify individual random image folders for each menu item - in addition to the master random image folder. Special thanks to Wouter van den Eerenbeemt for this addition who provided the suggestion and working code!

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Plugins

List Items

This plugin looks for this tag in the text of an article:

{listitems [options]} comma separated list of article ids {/listitems }.

It then creates a frontpage-style blog layout in the middle of your content with parameters as globally defined in the plugin parameters, or as over ruled in the [options] part of the plugin tag. The [options] part takes the form of a query string which can override any of the standard content blog layout parameters.

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Difficulty Rating

The plugin searches the article for a tag like:

{difficulty}2{/difficulty}.

It then returns a containing the difficulty rating as an image. We used 5 images of dumbells to represent the difficulty of each exercise but this plugin would be easy to extend to any number or different application - just need to change up the images.

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Make Flash Links Absolute

This plugin scans each page and if a tag is found with a .swf inside it as its value, it sticks "JURI::Base()" at the start of the value. Its very simple, no more than 5 lines of code, but can solve some annoying issues with Internet explorer not opening flash videos properly.

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