Ercan Özkaya is a Mathematics student at the Selçuk University in Konya, Turkey. He has used Joomla! for two years. Ercan started using Joomla! as a site developer and found that he enjoyed building Joomla! Web sites so much that he wanted to learn how to develop extensions. As a result, he developed, contributed, and maintains two very popular extensions: Title Manager and Author Details. He is a member of the Joomla! Bug Squad where he submits patches and helps with testing. Ercan is excited to participate in the GSoC program.

Mentor: Jason Kendall started his journey in the computing industry with Pong, moving next to Commodore 64 where he developed utilities in Basic. Then, he turned ten. In school, Jason ran 'The BBS Enterprise', became a regular poster on the Fido Network and was introduced to the Internet. Since then, he's explored VoIP, IPv6, and began developing in PHP in 2000. Professionally, Jason is an Information Security Analyst. He was invited to join the Joomla! Development Team after contributing patches for RSS feeds, LDAP integration and OpenID.

Proposed Idea

Create a Joomla! extension that allows users to create, manage and display different content types.

Introduction

Joomla! has a content system that's mainly built for news-style items. And it doesn't allow one to use custom fields to create different content types.

Content types make it very easy for site administrator to create new functionality and it's also a popular feature request. [1] For example, they can be used to create a gallery with some fields for images or to list files for downloading with a field for download link.

My goal is to allow site developers to add data elements for any purpose they need to the content and make it easy to display them on the front end.

In this year's Summer of Code I'd like to implement this functionality for Joomla!