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Subject: Re: [joomla] K2 thoughts and questions
From: Helvécio_da_Silva <helvecio.rj () gmail ! com>
Date: 2012-01-05 9:48:06
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I haven't had the need to move things around in the K2 template.
What I usually do is turn on/off whatever I need in the item view and item
in category view settings. I've used CSS once to move things around a
little bit.
But it would be nice to have a visual scheme of the K2 template where we
could drag things around and have it our way.
2012/1/5 David Roth <davidalanroth@gmail.com>
> I've been using Joomla for years now, but until recently I had not focused
> on K2.
>
> A few things which are wonderful about K2. First of all, the extra fields
> which helps to add additional fields to K2 Item. I think the use of
> sub-categories is also good.
>
> Some things make me uncomfortable and I wanted to share those here to see
> how others might be handling them. There is the Joomla template and then
> there is the K2 template. The K2 template controls that part of the webpage
> like the body of it, for lack of a better term while the Joomla template
> handles the rest. So the K2 template for a K2 item is like being able to
> have your own template for each Joomla article. This sounds amazingly
> flexible but with this comes what I find to be a disconnect and enter into
> a very un-Joomla-like area. If you don't like the layout of the K2 template
> such as it's order on the sections on the page page, you have to resort to
> editing a PHP program (item.php) in order to change this. K2 doesn't have
> modules like Joomla does for the templates so you can't go in as
> administrator and change the ordering of the modules because there are no
> modules.
>
> I started to wonder if there might be a K2 Template Manager which might do
> what the Template Manager does for Joomla. I've seen one online but I don't
> think it allows ordering of the K2 part of the page unless I missed
> something. After having looked over the item.php code this past week it
> doesn't look like there is any other way to change the order of what is on
> the page than to edit item.php itself. I've also not been able to find the
> kind of documentation on K2 templates like there is for Joomla templates.
>
> Even with Joomla templates no programming is required to move modules
> around on the page such as top, bottom, etc. How are people managing this
> with K2? Is there a better way?
>
> David Roth
>
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Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - helvecio.rj@gmail.com
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I haven't had the need to move things around in the K2 template.<br><br>What I \
usually do is turn on/off whatever I need in the item view and item in category view \
settings. I've used CSS once to move things around a little bit. <br> <br>But it \
would be nice to have a visual scheme of the K2 template where we could drag things \
around and have it our way.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/1/5 David Roth <span \
dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidalanroth@gmail.com">davidalanroth@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex">I've been using Joomla for years now, but until recently \
I had not focused on K2.<div><br></div><div>A few things which are wonderful about \
K2. First of all, the extra fields which helps to add additional fields to K2 Item. I \
think the use of sub-categories is also good.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Some things make me uncomfortable and I wanted to share those \
here to see how others might be handling them. There is the Joomla template and then \
there is the K2 template. The K2 template controls that part of the webpage like the \
body of it, for lack of a better term while the Joomla template handles the rest. So \
the K2 template for a K2 item is like being able to have your own template for each \
Joomla article. This sounds amazingly flexible but with this comes what I find to be \
a disconnect and enter into a very un-Joomla-like area. If you don't like the \
layout of the K2 template such as it's order on the sections on the page page, \
you have to resort to editing a PHP program (item.php) in order to change this. K2 \
doesn't have modules like Joomla does for the templates so you can't go in as \
administrator and change the ordering of the modules because there are no \
modules.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I started to wonder if there might be a K2 Template Manager which \
might do what the Template Manager does for Joomla. I've seen one online but I \
don't think it allows ordering of the K2 part of the page unless I missed \
something. After having looked over the item.php code this past week it doesn't \
look like there is any other way to change the order of what is on the page than to \
edit item.php itself. I've also not been able to find the kind of documentation \
on K2 templates like there is for Joomla templates.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Even with Joomla templates no programming is required to move \
modules around on the page such as top, bottom, etc. How are people managing this \
with K2? Is there a better way?</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div> \
<br></div><div> David Roth</div>
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target="_blank">http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla</a><br> <br>
NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online<br>
<a href="http://www.nyphpcon.com" target="_blank">http://www.nyphpcon.com</a><br>
<br>
Show Your Participation in New York PHP<br>
<a href="http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php" \
target="_blank">http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br \
clear="all"><br>-- <br>Helvecio "Elvis" da Silva<br>Rio de Janeiro - Brasil \
- <a href="mailto:helvecio.rj@gmail.com">helvecio.rj@gmail.com</a><br> <a \
href="http://www.helvecio.com">http://www.helvecio.com</a> - <a \
href="http://blog.helvecio.com">http://blog.helvecio.com</a><br><br>
_______________________________________________
New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List
http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla
NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online
http://www.nyphpcon.com
Show Your Participation in New York PHP
http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
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