Advanced Tools for 1.5 


Please read the installation notes before installing as this extension writes to the /libraries/joomla/installer/adapters folder as well as the normal extension locations.
The other stuff as library manager and table is totally useless - you will see a list of links that do nothing.
The update manager in this set is the older version and should be upgraded with the later version that I released separately. The library manager is designed to be used with the libraries that I make use of, particularly for JAuthTools. The Table Editor is a proof of concept system to demonstrate how you can build a system based on params to handle a flexible amount of tasks. It also allows you to easily install table definitions as well. All three components (library,package and table editor) have their own installer adapter so the standard universal installer can be used to handle installing their packages instead of duplicating the interface.
If I had more time I would do an update to fix this but as it stands I don't make much money out of Joomla! (curious really, Moodle makes me around 60x the amount of money and I give this all for free!) but thanks anyway for the complaint :)
As an aside most of the stuff that is in this set of tools is in 1.6 anyway.
This is exceptionally easy to install and after a double take on the way it creates a second administrative menu rather than just an item update to the component list menu was easy to use.
Documentation also needs a round-a-bout method to find as the listed support site is not up yet but Sam's personal site is more than adequate for figuring it out.
If you have a lot of derivative sites to support (such as a test sites and development sites) boy does this make things easy. I love you Sam!
Well done.
I haven't used any of its other capabilities yet, but this feature alone makes it a useful little addition to the toolbox.





