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

Functionality
Extreme versatile extentions with not unnecessary functions. Can be tweaked to do almost whatever you want. Get BreezingForms as well!
Ease of use
As a newbie you can quickly get something done! Best on the market!
Support
Fast and friendly support. Very good forum. You can get paid help as well which is important for professionals.
Documentation
The forum is very good. I wish more hands on videos. The documentation on the website is 8 out or 10.
I used this to: User registrations, Ads, sign ups, landing pages. Everywhere basically :) Tip: You MUST get BreezingForms as well. It is worth every cent!

Brilliant Support



Posted on 15 July 2020
Functionality
We've used for simple new items, calendar lists and match results to brilliant yet simple effect
Ease of use
Our end user/client finds the forms very simple to use, edit and delete
Support
Absolutely brilliant! No problem for a year and then after software updates found that the forms were not saving. Markus found the issue!
Documentation
Made great use of the Forum to get things going after following the documentation
I used this to: Client input forms on a fisheries website including news, calendar list and match results

Thank you Markus



Posted on 12 June 2020
Functionality
Very functional and comprehensive. You can make any type of corner in your website. The best part is structured publication of you posts...
Ease of use
Very easy to use while very professional and comprehensive. CB is the best plugin for publishing you post and products with same look and .
Support
I should thanks Markus and his team for such responsible support and forum. They provide a full support until you are satisfied.
Documentation
Fully documented with a large repository of guidelines and documentations along samples in their forum.
I used this to: For publishing my posts and building my own personal download center
Functionality
Hervorragende Möglichkeiten Datentabellen zu erstellen und zu bewirtschaften - und dies mit enormer Flexibilität für den Benutzer!
Ease of use
Einfacher, transparenter Zugriff auf die Möglichkeiten - einfache Testmöglichkeiten via Frontend wie auch via Backend. Attraktiver Zugriff.
Support
Engagierte Unterstützung seitens Crosstec mit hoher Leistungsbereitschaft und grosser Zielorientierung in guter Zeit.
Documentation
Der grösste Teil der benötigten Informationen ist via Dokumente und Foren auffindbar - punktuell könnte die Auffindbarkeit optimiert werden.
I used this to: Schwergewicht ist die Bewirtschaftung der Datenbasis für Jahresprogramme von Vereinen/Organisationen, die dann mit SQL-Queries auf Webseiten angezeigt werden.

Good component



Posted on 16 September 2018
Functionality
nice
Ease of use
You have to learn to use it
Support
all right
Documentation
could be downloaded, especially on views
I used this to: latest version
Functionality
Does exactly what I needed. I wanted a form for users to fill out without modifying the core articles.
Ease of use
Pretty easy, but needed a bit of help. But the help provided was awesome.
Support
Posted on the forum and got help right away. Awesome
Documentation
Lots of documentation, just nothing quite specific to my needs.
I used this to: Creating an article form that creates articles besides using the blank form.
Functionality
Nice funcionalities to manage datas,especialy in combination with other great Crosstec component Breezingforms
Ease of use
Needs only some hours to learn
Support
Great support, included by mail
Documentation
Nice documentation with examples
I used this to: Managing users articles in combination with Breezingforms
Functionality
If you use breezing forms you MUST have this. How else will you process the data you collect?
Ease of use
easiest way to create a custom DBASE program
Support
Great. Goto the forum.
Documentation
This area I feel is lacking a little. There are a lot of Odd things I wanted to do. I got help online but it was not in the ducments.
I used this to: Insurance processing system for backend after collecting Form information.
Functionality
Database Usage without coding. I have not found anything else like it
Ease of use
Very easy to use, even builds you a form from the data.
Support
Cross tech has been great for me.. They are very good.. Just use the forum and they respond quickly.
Documentation
Yep documents
I used this to: back end data processing for my employees.
Functionality
great
Ease of use
steep initial learning curve.
Support
very poor response time (round trip response is at least three with the first a d second responses asking for info unrelated to the problem.
Documentation
Very meager documentation
I used this to: commercial websites
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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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