Hi everyone that is looking for a better blog component.
I have this crazy idea - to use MosTree as a blog component. MosTree is a listing component for anyone that does not know. Basically it has all the neccesary features. It can be rated, commented, reported, sent to a friend. It also has a "View owners all listings"-link which could be translated to "View all blogentries by this member". It has the ability to handle categories. You could have one or multiple. You can also let the members create new categories, with or without approval. In admin it possible to set:
New listings (blogentries) aproval, yes or no.
New comments aproval, yes or no.
Amount of characters to show in the first listing page (just like mamblog do).
Image size and image quality.
E-mail or not when a new listing or new category is made.
And a lot more!
It also got image upload (only 1 though) and the ability to set specific listings (blogentries) or categories as featured and have special settings for those.
It has a great template system so you can customize the page look and the form look which the blogger will use to suit your exact needs. I will only have description and image field. Thats enought for my blog. Of course I will have to translate it to suit the blog needs and not the listing need. Eg. "listing entry" will be "blog entry".
It also comes with something like 12 modules. Top rated, most recent, most read, search module, featured listings, random listing, etc.
There is only one problem. The description text area does not regognize line breaks made by the enter button. So all the text will be like one big blobb. Does anyone have a solution for this? Then we got a new blog component!
I also found a tab that could be used as the Mamblog tab in CB. Check:
gomoxiemedia.com/Joomla_Extensions/Free_Extensions/Tab_your_Tree_Links_and_Reviews.html
This lisk also explains how to implement a profile link and avatar from CB in MosTree:
gomoxiemedia.com/Joomla_Extensions/Free_Extensions/Add_profile_links_to_your_Tree_listings.html
I have not tried this yet but I sure will. I just wanted to know if there is a solution for the line break issue first. And what you guys think about this idea.
Cheers,
Thoeri
Post edited by: thoeri, at: 2006/09/04 12:34
Post edited by: thoeri, at: 2006/09/04 12:37