Read though the first 30 pages of the docs last night and skimmed the rest this morning. Man am I psyched... This is *exactly* what I've been looking for since early last year, basically a web based version of the Remedy Client/Server systems I used to develop. I'm sure it's going to take me a while to wrap my head around the methodology, and Joomla itself is going to take a bit to get used to, but you've got some really nice infrastructure here, with some very useful shortcuts built in.
Ironically, after beating my head against a wall on a php/mysql project (complicated and user extensible data driven form) I was trying to build for our website, Susan and I have spent the last 4 months so far trying to get a project built via rentacoder, and unless I'm very much mistaken Fabik could have done what we wanted pretty much as is. Esp with the php templates. Good change there btw. Man... We've got $1000 tied up building that project and it's *still* not done!
A couple of questions?
1. Any reason we can't use JQuery scripting? Can we modify the header in the template to include the appropriate library etc?
2. Any chance of an element to handle data driven Drag & Drop & reorder lists? Basically you have two columns, with the available choices listed on the left and the user drags the choices they want into the right column and then drags them up and down to to specify the order.
3. How much is involved (if anything) in setting up form persistance? I.E. If a user fills in a form then goes to another form (implicit save on leave?) and then comes back to the first form will all the data elements be in the state they were in when they left, appropriate check boxes selected, text fields filled in etc?
4. Is there any programatic way to change properties on an element at runtime? In other words, say we setup a File upload element but we wanted each user to save in their own subdirectory without them having to see or specify that that's what's happening, can we set the upload directory to say, images/stories/{$my->id}?
5. Do you guys have any other system setup for members to provide monetary support other than just the subscription? Maybe the ability to commission specific enhancements etc ::nudge nudge wink wink::
Anyway, just wanted to thank you all, esp Rob and Graylan (hope he's still around?) up front for the work you've put into this, you've got a unique tool with immense potential here and we look forward to doing some fun development with it! I'm sure I'm going to have a TON of questions as I start getting into this more, but I promise to go through the tutorials and Docs first ;-).
James and Susan
Ironically, after beating my head against a wall on a php/mysql project (complicated and user extensible data driven form) I was trying to build for our website, Susan and I have spent the last 4 months so far trying to get a project built via rentacoder, and unless I'm very much mistaken Fabik could have done what we wanted pretty much as is. Esp with the php templates. Good change there btw. Man... We've got $1000 tied up building that project and it's *still* not done!
A couple of questions?
1. Any reason we can't use JQuery scripting? Can we modify the header in the template to include the appropriate library etc?
2. Any chance of an element to handle data driven Drag & Drop & reorder lists? Basically you have two columns, with the available choices listed on the left and the user drags the choices they want into the right column and then drags them up and down to to specify the order.
3. How much is involved (if anything) in setting up form persistance? I.E. If a user fills in a form then goes to another form (implicit save on leave?) and then comes back to the first form will all the data elements be in the state they were in when they left, appropriate check boxes selected, text fields filled in etc?
4. Is there any programatic way to change properties on an element at runtime? In other words, say we setup a File upload element but we wanted each user to save in their own subdirectory without them having to see or specify that that's what's happening, can we set the upload directory to say, images/stories/{$my->id}?
5. Do you guys have any other system setup for members to provide monetary support other than just the subscription? Maybe the ability to commission specific enhancements etc ::nudge nudge wink wink::
Anyway, just wanted to thank you all, esp Rob and Graylan (hope he's still around?) up front for the work you've put into this, you've got a unique tool with immense potential here and we look forward to doing some fun development with it! I'm sure I'm going to have a TON of questions as I start getting into this more, but I promise to go through the tutorials and Docs first ;-).
James and Susan