Content Builder

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

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some evaluation issues

KaledUUM (1).
Posted on 26 September 2011

Excellent work and perfect component, its very easy in installing and making new form but

1- its still doesn't support the Arabic language where the Arabic letters converted to questions marks like this "?????????"

2- Other thing is the creation of any button as form element unavailable.

3- And finally we can't group any two checklist for instance if the first concerned with the cities and the second with the streets.

I hope this issues will be solved in the next version

Regards

Owner's reply: Hi,

1. UTF-8 is fully supported, make sure the connection/collation in your database tables are set correctly.

2. The built-in form builder is serving all buttons that are required to build a form. If you need custom button, you can also use BreezingForms.

3. You can group checkboxes, please check "horizontal" and in "Width per Element" use values like 50px, that will enable you to create table like checkbox groups.

Thank you for your review!

Regards,
Markus

Awsome extension but difficult to set

opik24 (8).
Posted on 24 September 2011

i tell u, this extension is very great. I saw the demos. and i found it very suitable for my site. and one that i look for this time.

just one thing. me with very lack of ability in creating database, found this beautiful extension to set on its parameter. though when i try to set on extension manager menu. even when i tried to read the documentations.

my suggestion to the developer, try to make more simple documentation. for comparation, let say, k2 and CB docs. they made it simple to understand and to applied for users like me...

Owner's reply: Hi,

maybe you missed the documentation and/or the introduction vido? You simply add a new data storage and add the desired fields. No special database setup required, nor PHP. Or you use BreezingForms and let ContentBuilder operate directly on its data.

If you have further questions, please post it in our forums.

However, thank you for the review!

Regards,
Markus

Great flexibility

paulpaul (3).
Posted on 22 September 2011

I use it for a staff directory. The view and filtering options are awesome. Fast and good support.

Really Great Software

juanon (1).
Posted on 19 September 2011

This component is great. I´m a paid user of form2content and it is really very similar but free.

Anyway developers should work in this tips to be the best.

- There must be a way to dinamically choose the category where the content is saved. I mean, the user must be allowed to add articles to the category and section he wants (admin choose the selectable ones).

- Also must be a way for the user to choose any other joomla default article field: title, publish date, unpublish date, metadata, etc.

- Every joomla plugin should work. Is this achieved yet? I don´t know

- A lot of field validations are needed. I have never use breezing forms, so I don´t know if using this form more validations are allowed... (numeric, alphabetic, just 3 letters, specific format...)

- There should be something similar to smarty templates to make decisitions on what data is shown and how. For example: what if i want the first letter of the article created is bigger than the rest and blue color?

- Of course it is a must to create a search module (possible a search component needed too to show the results in a blog view). Users can search results selecting the fields of forms. Form2content one is good (results in blog view) but it can´t be search for text fields, you can make it better...

- It will be great to have a calendar module too. This way we could create an article with a beginning date field and an end date one. I know a lot of people is looking for this in order to make full event sites forgiving about event components like eventlist, etc. Please, consider this. I will be happy to pay for this!!

- A complete documentation is a must, above all for the "other tables" manipulation usage.

Although i have point a lot of "issues" you can get better in, I think it is great beginning, in fact with the CRUD of any joomla table you have made something very useful and much more better than form2content, for example, that has still nothing similar.

I whish you the best of lucks for your software and your company. Keep the good work!!

Owner's reply: Hi,

- user based category selection is in the works. Will be done right after the extended ratings that we are currently developing. In fact that is one of the missing things before we will call it "1.0" ;)

- The Joomla! article fields are already available. If you decide to create articles in your views, you will have a "article settings" tab for every record. Depending on the permissions you can either use limited article options or extended ones (the same like in backend).

- Joomla! plugins work! The fun part is that contentbuilder plugins also work in articles ;)

- There are already the most common validations but you can add your own custom ones using php, create custom validation plugins or wait/contact us for new ones that might be interesting.

- Instead of smarty templating (which would be a drastic overhead), you can use the hide-if-empty tag in the content template and/or use the "content prepare" tab, that allows php. There you can alter the output of any field the way you like.

- A nice filter module is planned and will be implemented right after 1.0 is out. For now, please use the filter for list views or use any filter module available for regular content.

- Calendar module copied :)

- Most important aspects to start right away are already covered. There is an update coming for the 0.9 line and we will update the current documentation accordingly.

Thank you for the review and the suggestions, we will keep working hard to make it the tool of your choice!

Regards,
Markus

Bullseye!!!

Khurram Hafeez (5).
Posted on 15 September 2011

Using Joomla for 2 years now and I thought I have seen the best of it but then I came across content builder. Its like opening new doors of possibilities there is so much you can do with it. The flexibility is beyond expectation you can customize every part of it according to your needs. Content Builder and generous support by Crosstec together make it a must have product.

Great Product, even better support!

Darryl Schembri (1).
Posted on 15 September 2011

Was looking for something similar for a very long time.

Very good product. Highly recommended and great support. Can't wait for the full version!

Very helpful Component

Marcus Flöser (1).
Posted on 14 September 2011

This is a amazing component, well written, easy to create own content in own tables.

Also the possibility to change nearly everything and the upcoming features will get this component to my very favorites ones !

Support is excellent and quite fast. Thanks Markus !

Two powerful development tools together.

totallnet (8).
Posted on 13 September 2011

Not just a CCK ... is a Swiss Army knife, full of opportunities and facilities ..

And to complete .. support is courteous and professional

Thanks for the extension

Content Builder up and running

william white (4).
Posted on 12 September 2011

After downloading the component and installing it, watching the video once, everything is up and working with the demo download listings. Support was excellent.

EXCELLENT AND WONDERFULL

nozao (18).
Posted on 12 September 2011

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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
Includes:: c p
Compatibility:: J3 J4

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