26th December 2021 J3
The xbCulture is a family of closely related Joomla Component Extensions which are designed to keep a record or catalogue of artistic/creative/cultural works.
The primary intended users are individuals, like myself, who wish to keep a record of books, films, plays, gigs, exhibitions and similar events that they have experienced.
Currently there are two core components and a common supporting component in the family, although there are ideas for extending it into further areas;
- xbBooks - as the name implies is for a catalogue of books of all sorts. Changelog
- xbFilms - not surprisingly is for movies, although it can also handle series, tv shows and box-sets. Changelog
- xbEvents - is for live performance; music, theatre, spoken word and comedy - IN DEVELOPMENT
- xbPeople - a support component bundled in the packages for the above, provides tools for managing a common database of people and characters as well common styles, language and code across the components. Changelog
A set Modules to display short information about the datasets is in development. These include:
- Recently added : mod_xbculture_recent
- Filtered lists : mod_xbculture_list
- Random images : mod_xbculture_randimg
A package containing all of the components and modules is available.
11th August 2023 J3
Read more: xbCulture - cataloguing and reviewing Films, Books, and more
xbFilms is an xbCulture family component for cataloguing films you have seen and reviews of them. Version 1.1.1.2 is the current release for inclusion on JED.
It has been developed in parallel with xbBooks to replace an old paper diary and spreadsheet of films seen by myself.
xbFilms is installed as a package containing two components - com_xbfilms and a supporting component, com_xbpeople, for administration of people and characters which are common to all xbCulture components.
The primary intended user is someone wanting to keep a record of films they have seen with a reminder of the plot and what their reaction was.
xbBooks is an xbCulture family component for cataloguing books you have read and reviews of them. Version 1.1.1.2 is the current release.
It started out as I needed something to replace a local flat-file database I had been using to save details of books I read and short reviews/comments. Previous to that I had been using a simple spreadsheet and originally an paper file.
xbBooks is installed as a package containing two components - com_xbboos and a supporting component, com_xbpeople, for administration of people and characters which are common to all xbCulture components.
The primary intended user is someone wanting to keep a record of books they have read with a reminder of the plot and what their reaction was.
11th March August J3
23rd June 2019 J3
Joomla JHtml::string.truncate() function has a couple of minor but annoying bugs. See previous article TruncString Bugs and blog post for details. The new System Plugin xbTruncString provides an override for only this function rather than having to override the entire string.php library code (eg by using the mvcoverride plugin) and then maintain it when any part is updated in the core.
Function declaration:
public static function truncate($text, $length = 0, $noSplit = true, $allowHtml = true)4th January 2019 J3
The Joomla editor extension plugin TipPop Button provides a quick and easy way of inserting Tooltips and Popovers using Bootstrap. Clicking the button brings up a dialogue that allows you to set the text and various parameters for the tip or pop. If you have text selected in the editor the tip will we wrapped around it, or you can enter the text in the dialogue.
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