Talks & Sessions

Seblod CCK for Joomla 1.6 (and 1.7)

With the popularity of Joomla ever growing, and the demand for rich content managed web site's increasing, we as Joomla developers and administrators often find ourselves wanting to push the boundaries even more, adding that something 'extra' to our next Joomla powered web site. Quite often we'll need to make use of 5-10 (or more) extensions to get the functionality we desire.

Enter Seblod 2.0 CCK, a powerful Content Construction Kit for Joomla that places the power in your hands. Thought of as more like an 'enhancement' of the Joomla core, Seblod CCK allows you to create rich content types by creating fields of nearly any type (text, check boxes, images, files, youtube and so on), assigning it to a content type and easily creating the means for your users and administrators to add pretty much any type of content to your site. Site owners / administrators have complete control over the display of such content too.

With powerful templating features, field storage locations (within text, as own fields in an existing Joomla table or in their own tables) and unmatched search functionality, Seblod CCK allows the developer (or designer) to have great control over the display of content. Elements such as typography actions and field types are standard Joomla plug-ins, and as such adding more fields or field plug-ins to Seblod CCK follows the same procedure as creating a native joomla plug-in, with the exception of some additional events.

Native Joomla ACL control is available in all fields and content types, making it easy to control who can add, edit and delete content. Templates are maintained in the same folder as any other joomla template would be, and provide the developer or designer with a rich set of options. Additional template features such as positions, variations and overrides allow for fine tuned control over the display of content.

This presentation aims to introduce both the Joomla enthusiast as well as the seasoned Joomla Developer to the core concepts of Seblod CCK and how it can aid powerful content creation. It will provide viewers with the core concepts of fields, field storage locations, content types, search types and templates.

Viewers will be shown how content is easily added via the front end and back end, and how display of this content is easily controlled.

Presenter: Simon Dowdles (ZA) (WebFactory)