Though I am not as familiar with the plumbing details, I have to say I am a bit torn over K2 and most all of the other new "CCK" (content creation kit) solutions, as well as some of the old directory solutions now "re-branded" as CCK.
The biggest missed opportunity to me with with having the ability to create new content types is the seemingly obvious capability to also define new organizational models, specifically multi-categorization which all of the new solutions miss. Both, having more than two levels (e.g. section and category in joomla core) for each content type, as well as the ability to have one piece of content appear in more than a single category. This is already possible with the major directory extentions (Sobi2, Moset tree) for listings, but it is dead on arrival in all of the CCK solutions except for one, which happens to be the only ioncube ecrypted and of course commercial solution (Mighty Extensions Resources). ME Resources is actually really good for exactly this, but you are stuck with there environment for most every thing else (community, media, listings, comments, etc.). I have heard that sobi2 could be tuned to publish articles, but just as ME Resources, if you go that route you are restricted from using the wealth of com_content based modules and plugins looking for joomla core sections and categories. I have heard different things about what to expect in J1.6, some of which says it will natively handle multi-mapping (improve on the current one content, one category model) and support category nesting (sub-categories), but I have a feeling it may just be the later. If anyone knows of any other solution/hacks for multi-categorization of joomla com_content articles (Jseblod cck is close, but no multi-mapping), please point me to it. Thanks. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send joomla mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of joomla digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. K2, what where they thinking? (Gary Mort) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:55:56 -0500 > From: Gary Mort <[email protected]> > To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla" <[email protected]> > Subject: [joomla] K2, what where they thinking? > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Doing things differently for the sake of different is silly. > > They have some really nice clean code there. > > Then they do weird things like use an MVC framework for 80% of the code, > and > then one vital function which if they had used MVC could be easily adjusted > with a template override, they stick the html output in the controller..... > > Their field definitions are very basic...no harm there, but WHY do their > own > coding? Joomla already has a built in set of field definitions that are > much richer, why code your own when you have it sitting right there to use? > > Oh well.... I feel like by this time in a week and half I'll have the K2 > system I want..... but then what to do with all those hacks? > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.nyphp.org/pipermail/joomla/attachments/20100124/ec222e2c/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > joomla mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > End of joomla Digest, Vol 37, Issue 19 > ************************************** >
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