| Update on my project's progress |
| Contact Directory | |||
| Written by Chantal Bisson | |||
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Some time has past since my last post and probably many of you are impatient to know what has been going on with my project. Midterm was from July 7th to July 14th and I am glad to say that I have passed and still working very hard on the contact/directory component. My project has been progressing at a good pace. I'm now displaying the contacts in three different "views". The first is the "Contact" view which displays a single contact’s information and an email form. The option of showing a captcha image to prevent spam has been added to the email form. Everything that is displayed on the page is customizable. It is possible to choose the position that each item is displayed in (even the email form), and also apply custom CSS formatting to those items. The two other views that I worked on are the "Category" view which displays a list of contacts from a single category and the "Categories" view that displays a list of all contacts. In order to facilitate the search for a specific contact, I have implemented two type of filtering in these views. The first is an alphabet filter that searches the first letter of the contact's name, and the second is a search box filter that searches the sequence of letters anywhere in the contact's name. Like for the "contact" view, it is possible to choose which fields to show or hide and once again it is possible to apply custom CSS formatting to the fields. There are other smaller functionalities that I have implemented in the component. You are welcome to try my component out and test them for yourself by downloading my code from the joomlacode website. You are also free to report any bug that you find to me so that I may fix them. http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/gsoc2008/scmsvn/?action=browse&path=%2FJContactMiniWeb%2F Even though it might seem that my project is coming to completion. I still have many small things I need to do before it is finished. In the coming week I am planning to work on the router.php file that parses the joomla url into a clean url, the language files and the install file.
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Thursday, 31 July 2008
One question I have though: How are your plans on LDAP integration running along? I think it would be so very awesome, but more importantly extremely useful to be able to keep a websites contact directory in sync with the company directory, and some magic LDAP-sync (or really just a database dump in to Joomla) would in my head accomplish that. I am keeping my fingers crossed you have something in store there.
Friday, 25 July 2008
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Sorry for the possibile silly question. How do I install it? I don't see any ZIP file and I am not familiar with SVN.
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
looked at the svn code. looks very clean.
a few more validation of the data before the store would be necessary i think but nothing major
can t wait to get a package and test it
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Monday, 21 July 2008
By using a contact directory, and a plugin like the one I just described, it'd be a lot easier to keep from repeating the same phone numbers throughout the content (in the end, if the phone number changed, all you'd have to do is change it in the directory, and then all of the other numbers would change automatically).
Oh, and it looks like you copied and pasted your post from Microsoft Word (the extra HTML markup kind of messes up the stylesheet for this page).
Keep up the good work!
Monday, 21 July 2008