A JomSocial application (community plugin group) to display.
It also allow user config option to display extra blogs: Category, tags, ... and more

K2Items in user Profile.
In this version will release with these updates:

Fixed php error when item don't tags Fixed with limit items to display

forum.jooblogs.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5

Hi all, i'm thinking at a customization of the import function for adding the first image found in IntroText as the K2 Image of the Item.

Trying to explain:

K2 work very well on converting section / category / articles to K2 contents but at the end of the process you have your items that display images, text etc in in the standard Joomla way.

You have to edit your items and upload images for using K2 images displaying functionality.

I understand it's not easy to include this step in the import routine (for various reason), i'm a newby but i want to learn K2 and i'm watching at the code trying to do it by myself..... may be i'm on the wrong way but basically this is my idea:

Modify Import function In Models\items.php

For each item imported
Search $item->introtext (using DomDocument)
Find the first IMG tag
Extract SRC attribute
Upload image and create thumbnail

Any idea or advice is appreciated.

Sorry for my English.... Thank you in advance!

I've been on the hunt for a "catalogue view" type of UI for my website for a while now. K2 has just about everything I'm looking for but there's one thing I wish it (and many other catalogue view components) had.

When you select a product, many websites will also recommend similar products or related products. K2 has a related items option by tags but only shows it in link (text) format. What I would like to see is an option to view related items in blog view, with the options equivalent to a K2 menu item. In the end, I'm looking to display the related items in catalogue form (represented by pictures) rather than a list of links which can often be overlooked.

If anyone knows how to accomplish this, please let me know. Otherwise I'd like to submit it as a feature request.

Thanks.

Hi there,
I'm tryng to add extra fields in category using the plugin system.
I succeded to add fields after the category content.
But I would like to add a fiel just after the category title.
In my plugin, i do this :
--
function onK2AfterDisplayTitle( & $category, & $params, $limitstart) {

global $mainframe;
$plugin = & JPluginHelper::getPlugin('k2', 'matiere');
$pluginParams = new JParameter($plugin->params);
$plugins = new K2Parameter($category->plugins, '', $this->pluginName);

$output = "< h3 id="sousTitre">" . $plugins->get('sous-titre') . "< /h3>" ; return $output;
}
--

And in the template, i add this line :
--
< !-- K2 Plugins: K2AfterDisplayTitle -->
< ?php echo $this->category->event->K2AfterDisplayTitle; ?>

--

after the category title.

But it doesn't work. What did I missed ?

Thanks a lot

PS : it would be great to have the ability to post pieces of code in this forum, via a "code" tag...

I am new to K2 and have found that my anchor tags with links to other websites are not working. They all link back to my content page.

Did I do something wrong?

This problem was resolved for me when I added "img,p,br,strong,em,span,a,div" to the "Enter which HTML tags not to strip in fulltext (and introtext)" in the k2 parameters.

Been working with this all day. I really do see the power of it now and yes it does integrate with Joomla search. Not sure what use the "Tagged Under" Links are good for though? It gives links for the tags but then when you click on one it returns an empty document titled Displaying items tag:.

pabs said:Not sure if joomla and K2 share search functionality - I would suspect not, but others may no better, or know of ways to hack, or there may be a plugin for it somewhere, maybe.
And yes, add tags to the list in your K2 params, which builds a list for yourself or users with access to slect from, or add to, then move across to the right, the ones you want for that particular article.

You then nominate to display or not display the tags block in that category list page or article page.

P

Kevin Morrison said:Thanks pabs, I had the right train of thought then. If you don't minds answering a few more question? In K2 the sub menu "Tags". How does that fit into the bigger picture? If I am thinking right I add new tags (keywords) to the list and then In the article under tags I only add the Tags I want the article to be found for right?

Then does this function with the Joomla built in search feature or does K2 have its own based on these Tags?

Thanks for the detailed answer to my question...;)

pabs said:btw : tag list = tag group = tag cluster = tag cloud etc
P

pabs said:hi kevin Don't feel awkward about about asking questions. That's how we all learn. If you had to describe an article you'd written in one, two, three or four ( there's no limit really ) words, each of these words would be like a general category heading under which you would find that article. The article could be described as being tagged under each word ( category ). So the words are known as tags. They're a search tool.

You'll also then find tags in listed or displayed creatively in groups or clusters together on a page, for example - so, if you should want to find all the articles that are tagged under a particular word, you click on it, and you should get a list of all the articles that have that word as its tag. Articles that have the attribute of that particular tag.

Instead of say, ahving to think of and enter a search term in a search box, the search terms ( tags ) are displayed for you in a cluster or group for you to select from, and if tagged effectively will be effective in finding what you are looking for in a website.

You don't haveto use them. It's up to you. They're fashionable at the moment.

Does that help ?

Not sure if joomla and K2 share search functionality - I would suspect not, but others may no better, or know of ways to hack, or there may be a plugin for it somewhere, maybe.

And yes, add tags to the list in your K2 params, which builds a list for yourself or users with access to slect from, or add to, then move across to the right, the ones you want for that particular article.

You then nominate to display or not display the tags block in that category list page or article page.

P

Kevin Morrison said:Thanks pabs,
I had the right train of thought then. If you don't minds answering a few more question? In K2 the sub menu "Tags". How does that fit into the bigger picture? If I am thinking right I add new tags (keywords) to the list and then In the article under tags I only add the Tags I want the article to be found for right?

Then does this function with the Joomla built in search feature or does K2 have its own based on these Tags?

Thanks for the detailed answer to my question...;)

pabs said:btw : tag list = tag group = tag cluster = tag cloud etc

P

pabs said:hi kevin Don't feel awkward about about asking questions. That's how we all learn.
If you had to describe an article you'd written in one, two, three or four ( there's no limit really ) words, each of these words would be like a general category heading under which you would find that article. The article could be described as being tagged under each word ( category ). So the words are known as tags. They're a search tool.

You'll also then find tags in listed or displayed creatively in groups or clusters together on a page, for example - so, if you should want to find all the articles that are tagged under a particular word, you click on it, and you should get a list of all the articles that have that word as its tag. Articles that have the attribute of that particular tag.

Instead of say, ahving to think of and enter a search term in a search box, the search terms ( tags ) are displayed for you in a cluster or group for you to select from, and if tagged effectively will be effective in finding what you are looking for in a website.

You don't haveto use them. It's up to you. They're fashionable at the moment.

Does that help ?

Thanks pabs,

I had the right train of thought then. If you don't minds answering a few more question? In K2 the sub menu "Tags". How does that fit into the bigger picture? If I am thinking right I add new tags (keywords) to the list and then In the article under tags I only add the Tags I want the article to be found for right?

Then does this function with the Joomla built in search feature or does K2 have its own based on these Tags?

Thanks for the detailed answer to my question...;)

pabs said:btw :
tag list = tag group = tag cluster = tag cloud etc

P

pabs said:hi kevin Don't feel awkward about about asking questions. That's how we all learn.

If you had to describe an article you'd written in one, two, three or four ( there's no limit really ) words, each of these words would be like a general category heading under which you would find that article. The article could be described as being tagged under each word ( category ). So the words are known as tags. They're a search tool.

You'll also then find tags in listed or displayed creatively in groups or clusters together on a page, for example - so, if you should want to find all the articles that are tagged under a particular word, you click on it, and you should get a list of all the articles that have that word as its tag. Articles that have the attribute of that particular tag.

Instead of say, ahving to think of and enter a search term in a search box, the search terms ( tags ) are displayed for you in a cluster or group for you to select from, and if tagged effectively will be effective in finding what you are looking for in a website.

You don't haveto use them. It's up to you. They're fashionable at the moment.

Does that help ?

Hello all,

I"ve been trying to create a icon-based system by which all links are represented by a picture or icon. When you get to the front page, it shows you a 9x9 table of icons which navigate to another sub-menu of icons to eventually arrive at content which can be an article, video, something for sale, or music.

The best system i've found that can do this is Yootheme Zoo. I've downloaded the light version but I've noticed that there is no pagebreak option when you write articles. Some of our articles are quite lengthy, so I wouldn't want it to run the entire length of the web page. I did discover that K2 will be offering a pagebreak option in a new release.

I've been working with K2 and so far I"m quite impressed with it's flexibility. It seems to be much more powerful than Zoo and have better support among other advantages. So far I've been trying to get it to fit the design of my website. However, I can't figure out where change the default category image (the open folder). In the item section, there is a tab to set the icon but there are no tabs for the categories.

Thanks in advance.

Hi people, we've just discovered K2 and are beginning to understand its usage.
I have a easy but important question. I have a several items under a father category and sub categories..and they also have extra fields

Is it posible to generate two list like this?

Father Category
- sub category 1
--item in category 1
--item in category 1
- sub category 2
--item in category 2

Extra field name
- extra field value 1
--item with extra field value 1
--item with extra field value 1
- extra field value 2
--item with extra field value 2

the extra field may also be a tag...
what would be the easiest way to accomplish this?

thanks

Hi all,

I have discovered a lot of things in k2 and I must say that it is awesome tool for blog.

I have item that is featured and i set it on home page of joomla. In menu I disable the current home menu to k2 menu and link it to the featured item it is showing all the featured items details even comment to but i wanna show multiple items from multiple catagories on front page how to do it?

Hi Emily

Yes... this can be achieved with this module & ChronoForms ( a small addition to the PHP in ChronoForms).

Can you send me your email address - as the website this is going to be used on is not live yet & is 'work in progress', so not for public viewing. Once emailed, I will email you the staging server URL to view...

My email - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

cheers
Phil

Thank you for the links! Ryann (the JCE author) has contacted me. It looks like JCE 1.5.8 will use a different model for plugin extensions and he has also launched a 3PD plugins forum. I will take a look at JCE 1.5.8 model, Mighty Extensions Resources and will eventually publish both K2 and ME Resources plugins there. Just have a little patience, as my hands are already a bit full as I'm also the lead developer of JoomlaPack :)

Tease: I'm also working on two handy plugins to help you with some Joomla! administration issues which largely go unnoticed, like base tag generation which points to the site root instead of the current URL, proper canonical URL generation which Search Engines can use, redirection of non-SEF and non-canonical URLs to their canonical URLs (even without a third party SEF component) and content link fixing when you transfer your site between domains, subdomains or directories within the same subdomain. Right now it's 50% complete. I need some more coding and testing and I will announce it's availability on my personal site, dionysopoulos.me.

I have found the k2 tools module but in the module parameters i can activate one option at a time.

but

I wanna activate multiple modules in this option (calender, tag cloud etc...)

how can I activate these?

In my opinion RT use his own css style for K2. Plz use Firebug to find out which tag you have to edit.
The other Option is to use the Forum Search - in the past I read a Post with RT CSS Stylesheet editing.

Athanasios Vamvakas said:Hello,
I'm using a rockettheme template and there doesn't seem to have such a div-tag.

Any ideas?
Thanks

I checked the database and its UTF-8, all of it. The server also. I changed my browser setting, with no luck. It works everywhere else, all my items are correct, it just the tags that don't work. Very weird. But I must be doing something wrong somewhere, because this problem seems to pop up al them time, and not just on this site. I use Dreamweaver to change my Css and so forth, but if I use ctrl + J I always have to change back to utf-8. but I really cant understand why or if it's the root to the problem. But I haven't touched the K2- files so I really don't understand why this is happening. :-(

Rex Kramer said:I have some demo installs with K2 and german Umlaute (ä, ö, ü) I don´t have any issues.

Did you check your database collation and server settings for UTF-8 support !?
Your Browser has also a setting for textcode/charset... usually this is set to standard or auto.

CU

I think that being able to tag categories will be VERY valuable for K2! I am running an Anime DDL website and having the ability to add genres (tags) to the categories would mean the world to me.

It would also be great to be able to have a list of ALL tags so you can choose what series you want from the genre list.

A MUST! :D

I have some demo installs with K2 and german Umlaute (ä, ö, ü)
I don´t have any issues.

Did you check your database collation and server settings for UTF-8 support !?
Your Browser has also a setting for textcode/charset... usually this is set to standard or auto.

CU

I just LOVE K2. Best component ever. :-D It makes it so easy to try new thing. So I tried using tags, and they work, just as long as I don't have any å,ä, or Ö in them. I found the replacement for the blank space trouble but not on this. It could be that it's the same problem as I had before (site is on a windows IIS7 server) but then I figured that maybe I could do the same as with the white space issue, just replace the å, ä and Ö to a, ae and o, but I must be doing something wrong because it don't work. :-(

Any solutions?
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