2 months ago, on May 26th coding started for Summer of Code. In these 2 months, I published some blog posts about my progress and of course wrote some code.

In my last blog post I promised to provide an installable package soon. So now it's time to have something more concrete for you to test.

Please remember that this is a pre-alpha release and only features the backend of the component. Most of the functionality in backend is now complete. Here are a few details about what is complete and what is coming soon:

What is implemented

• Article manager
• Category manager
• Type manager
• Field manager
• PHP and JavaScript validator
• 2 field types for demonstration

What is missing for now

• Language files
• Most of the field types
• Some HTML helpers for validation
• Frontend of the component

The name of the component - Extend - is a suggestion of Amy Stephen. She has been so helpful through my project for anything I needed and I want to thank her again for finding such a good name and for her support. There could be hardly any other thing that reflects the idea of this component this well.

You can download it here and give it a go in your test site. Please report any kind of feedback in comments so that I'll know the thought of the community and drive the future development using them.