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I'm looking to develop a component for Joomla 3.x and Fabrik seems like a great option. I've been a Joomla administrator for many years, I've done a lot of ASP.NET programming and even some PHP development, but I've never attempted to program something for Joomla before. I read on the Fabrikar.com site that newbies like me may want to check with the community to see if the scope of a new project is appropriate for Fabrik, so I'm hoping for some quick advice.
My goal is to take a current PC-based program and build an online version (with the full consent and authorization of the original developer, of course). Basically, the program allows a user to construct a fantasy image from a series of choices (head, torso, left hand, right hand, feet, background, etc.). These choices, when combined, should produce a final graphic image.
I think that Fabrik can handle the entire project except for the visualization element--I'm not sure how that may work. So, my primary question is this: Is it possible to develop a custom visualization that, when fed parameters from a series of dropdown menus, can build a single image from a series of image layers? Put another way, is there an image-based visualization that I can leverage in my project, or would I need to develop that from scratch (and if so, is that even possible using Fabrik?).
Would anyone have any advice for a newbie just getting started with Fabrik?
My goal is to take a current PC-based program and build an online version (with the full consent and authorization of the original developer, of course). Basically, the program allows a user to construct a fantasy image from a series of choices (head, torso, left hand, right hand, feet, background, etc.). These choices, when combined, should produce a final graphic image.
I think that Fabrik can handle the entire project except for the visualization element--I'm not sure how that may work. So, my primary question is this: Is it possible to develop a custom visualization that, when fed parameters from a series of dropdown menus, can build a single image from a series of image layers? Put another way, is there an image-based visualization that I can leverage in my project, or would I need to develop that from scratch (and if so, is that even possible using Fabrik?).
Would anyone have any advice for a newbie just getting started with Fabrik?