Posted by: Qasim Virjee on Friday, 29 August 2008

I've been a huge fan of Drupal's Content Creation Kit for a long time - its a module that extends the core content functionality of Drupal, allowing you to create different types of 'content' - made up of a variety of fields such as embedded media (photo/video/etc...), email links, html/web links and so on.  CCK's architecture is scalable and allows for 3rd party developers to add new fields to it as additional modules; so the usefullness of CCK grows exponentially in time.

Actually, for a time I saw this amazing module really setting joomla and drupal apart - as, Joomla felt really limited in its potential to grow beyond a CMS and become let's say, an 'application framework.'  However, I'm excited to report today that this is all about to change...

Some of you may already be familiar with some 3rd party developers creating alternativesto the core com_content component in Joomla 1.5 - people like Krygystan-based web development firm JomSuite have created extensions which circumvent the com_content component in order to make content more dynamic, but these solutions suffer incompaitibility with other Joomla 1.5 extensions... which is silly because Joomla's main draw is modular scalability.

Well, its nice to know that thanks to Google Summer of Code '08 , Jaap Woltjes has been able to spend some time developing a CCK-like architecture that looks fantastic for Joomal 1.5.  He's called the project 'Custom Content Layouts ' and you can catch up with all the latest news about it on the Developer Blog .

I'll be reviewing Custom Content Layouts as soon as I can get a copy of the latest version and expect to post something about it here next week.

In the meantime, do you think this is something you can use?  Have you used any extensions like Jomsuite Content and have thoughts on how it affects the way you use Joomla/other extensions?

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Joomla Forum Thread posted by designguru on 2008-08-29 You might want to look at this also: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=525&t=316570 Quote

And this... posted by designguru on 2008-08-29 http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=470&t=318203&p=1388615#p1388615 Quote

bContent closed beta posted by Tom on 2008-08-30 Well this is realy a coincidence! We just started bContent beta some days ago and today i put the beta tester screencast online. You can see it here: http://www.bohacek.de/b01-joomla-blog/bcontent-beta-start.html (still searching for beta testers) Is there a way to test "Custom content types"? ATM the site seams down. Quote

re: bContent. posted by designguru on 2008-09-01 @Tom: thanks for dropping mention of bContent - after watching your screencast I'm thrilled to play around with the extension(s), please drop me an email so I can help BETA test it for you. As for 'Custom Content Layouts' I think its going through final SoC review, so the files should be available on the Joomla dev blog at the link in my post about quite soon; not too sure when though. q./ Quote

component Pages-and-Items is a framework for diffe posted by carsten888 on 2008-09-06 Itemtypes so far: - module postion - PHP - HTML - image gallery - youtube - google video all GPL, all good. No hacks! In next release will be included custom content itemtypes! Quote

CCK posted by jSeblod on 2009-06-02 We have developed to a Content Construction Kit named jSeblod CCK. This CCK is compatible with almost all Joomla extensions. You can see here : http://www.jseblod.com. Thanks for your feedback. Quote

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