Introduction

Contact forms, Forms, Articles Display, Content Construction, Tables & Lists

While being an easy-to-use, quick and powerful content construction kit that everybody understands, ContentBuilder fills the gap between cracks and regular Joomla! users, who finally want to get the advantages of a CCK -- Check out our demos and videos!


Video tutorials and demos: http://crosstec.de/en/joomla-cck-demos.html

The main task for Content Builder is to structure Joomla!® content (articles) while preserving content layouts - but you can do a lot more with it, including:

  • Forms
  • Content Management
  • Catalogs
  • Directories
  • Classified Ads
  • Contact Forms
  • Article Submission
  • Basic Communities
  • Paid Content
  • File Directories (Upload/Download)
  • File Selling
  • Image Galleries
  • Extended Joomla! registrations, including Captcha and paid registrations
  • List/Details views (Record Display)
  • Site Builder
  • …or regular CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations on your data.

Supports CSV Import!

Joomla!®'s article system is not replaced. Content Builder provides list/details views by default that can act as administrative panels. It also creates regular content items if desired, which you may use on your site just like any other content -- without the need of core replacements.

Additionally, you can use ContentBuilder to control user permissions for several actions, such as content access, content editing, rating, article parameter settings, publishing, etc.

Content Builder provides a well-defined plugin infrastructure to enhance its capabilities:

  • Content (extended ratings, image resizing, downloads or any other content plugin available)
  • Forms Elements
  • Forms Validation
  • List Actions (select records and perform actions on them)
  • Verification (think of payments and coupons)
  • Themes (yes, even themes are pluggable)

There is a variety of plugins that ship with Content Builder already, such as PayPal payment, image resizing (thumbnails, modal details), downloads, list actions and common form validations. Plugins and modules like Advanced Search, Videos and Article Selection Forms Element are available seperatly from download page.

Content Builder offers an easy-to-use integrated forms builder that can operate on the data source of your choice.

For our Breezing Forms fans, you might be interested to know that it also integrates perfectly with Content Builder (http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/contacts-and-feedback/forms/4709).

*** NOTE: version 1.0 is in the works. The current version may be used in production already ***

Changelog: http://bit.ly/qn1ygW

A great thing



Posted on 16 October 2011
Hello Everyone



This excellent com for joomla was the right thing i need. After a few Minutes of overview and learning i saw the video and my page was added 1 side with that thing i need. It´s realy easy to use. Smart and very Helpfull. A Great thing and i hope that it will go on ;) best for the future

Pretty awesome



Posted on 15 October 2011
I'm just getting going building some complicated guts for a site. This makes it much easier and the support is top-notch - very responsive and helpful. I really recommend giving this a try
It´s great and efective; simple in it´s functiolality and therefore easy to understand; if this is not enough, the suppor ts great and kind. Ty very Much.
This is a great extension, it meets my requirement.



But I have two problems.



1.If I install the attachment extension and the ContentBuilder extension, I can't use the attachment extension's add attachment's function when using ContentBuilder to edit.



2.It cannot show the attachments using Attachment extension to upload file when using ContentBuilder to display content.



Thanks. Anyway thanks for your dedication.
I have been looking for an extension to create a product catalog.



Each details of the products are stored in different fields of the database created with ContentBuilder, and I created a template with ContentBuilder. It creates automatically the articles (standard Joomla articles) in the specified category.



I could also import all my data using CSV import. Using this feature, everything is created in just one minute (except customizing the template for my specific display needs).



I have really appreciated the tutorial video. Watching this 19min video was enough for me to use this extension.



Knowing PHP or SQL is not needed at all ! The extension does everything for you.

Personally I have a good knowledge of PHP and SQL, I was going code everything to generate articles from database data. Fortunately, I discovered ContentBuilder. It saved me a lot of time.



I detected an issue in the CSV import and reported on the forum. I had the chance that Markus was online, the issue has been solved with a new release in only 45 minutes !!!



I finally will use ContentBuilder for my site.



There are some little things to improve : in my opinion only some user interface improvements (UI is very important for me), I'll post some suggestions on crosstec forum in the coming days.

Just great!!!



Posted on 08 October 2011
This is an excellent component from Crosstec.de!



Easy to use, easy to manage, easy to modify. Markus at Crosstec.de has slammed this one out of the park! Joomla has needed a component like this for a long long long time! CCK, but at the rawest level. We have been able to do this with breezingforms, but it was complicated and cumbersome, not anymore with ContentBuilder. IMO, a great alternative to jreviews, zoo and k2, if you need just to display/search data views and not all the bells and whistles that the aforementioned components have (but some).



I will be using this one for a lot time!!



Thanks Markus!!!
I was using jsblod cck since past 3 months, but content builder is awesome. It solved my all problems. It is very easy to use. Thanks for good work
I was looking for a good component to publish CV



Content Builder helped me to do it perfectly.And the support is the best i had.



I recommend It.

Great extension



Posted on 29 September 2011
Pretty straight forward, had it working in no time. I have one old J! 1.5 website and I'm not interested in migrating. I've tested ContentBuilder on this website, and it worked just perfect.



I hope ContentBuilder will stay free. Keep up the good work and THANK YOU for this great extension!
Owner's reply: Hi,

ContentBuilder will stay free, don't worry. We will add additional plans with some extras (professional support, special plugins, etc.) but ContentBuilder will stay free and NOT contain footers and such.

Thank you for the review!

Regards,
Markus
this is exactly what i needed for a client website!



there is a slight learning curve, but it is a really comprehensive component that can allow you to do many sorts of functionalities.



Markus is really helpful, i almost dread asking him so many questions, but he is always there to help.



absolutely recommend this one!
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Content Builder

Version:
0.10 (build 300)
Developer:
CROSSTEC
Last updated:
Mar 05 2023
1 year ago
Date added:
Nov 19 2014
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
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c p
Compatibility:
J3 J4
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