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Purpose Create a Joomla component that allows the user to add cxportal pages one by one in a tree-like structure. Implications By default Joomla has a tree-like menu structure implemented. But, in our case, the pages are related one to another directly (cannot display a job detail unleass you know the job id, which is taken from listing) so the default functionality is not enought. In order to have the user set pages indvidually, in the administration module, we will have to restrict the choices he can made: where the page can exists - for example: - job details can only be a child of listing - apply mode can only be a child of job details (if there is no open application) - tell a friend can only be a child of job details - and so on. some of the pages cannot be activated, as they will appear in menus (for example, tell a friend page should never apper in menu as it is onlyaccesible from job details). Since a page that does not have status publish cannot appear in public even if the link to it is ok(the link is properly created in listing), an additional status should be implemented, which doesn't affect the way joomla works but only our pages. Additionally, the default Joomla working of the public interface should be altered so that also the public part takes care of our modifications. So, the component should: - integrate cxportal and cxshared - copy the joomla files that are required to be modified so that our custom menu implementation work - have a backup of the modified files, to be reinstalled in case the component is uninstalled Extensive testings should be made to make sure that Joomla core modification do not affect other components. Recomandation Our recomandation is not to let the user chose the tree structure of his own. We will restrict him anyway so in the end he will create a structure that fits the cxportal functioning. Choosing the page the listing as the top page should be enough. If we want to allow the user to customize the pages we could do this from the parameters part of the component in any way we want. This is the recomanded - default Joomla way - components are supposed to work, since the parametrization will only apply to the component and not to the entire Joomla site. Conclusions Advantages of allowing the user to build his own structure: give the user the flexibility to do (almost) what he wants; additional customization of the page throught Jomla mechanisms. Disadvantages the user wont know from the begining how to set up the menu with all the submenus, we have to deliver detailed documentations about each steps and also provide suport in case of problems. taking into account the huge number of components available for Joomla, altering its core can be hazardous as we cant test all the components and modules available. the user may break our design if we allow to much customization having only one entry point of cxportal (listing) allows us to keep the customization needed to make the portal work with Joomla to a minimal. Specifications for version 0.9 Goal Create a Joomla componenet which will enable listing, job details and apply features from Cxportal to be used in a Joomla based website. In this beta version we do not support extra features related to the 3 pages mentioned above like Google maps, Apply mode etc. For this to be accomplished the following are necessary Cxportal changes In order to keep cxportal customization minimal a Joomla extension will integrate the Cxportal templates, so that the smarty plugins will take care of handling the data. Create new templates folder, containin files specifically optimized for Joomla. The folder is going to be named joomla_templates and will pe placed in Cxportal's structure like this /cxportal /default /tempaltes /styles /resources /joomla_tempaltes [login to view URL] ... /tempaltes /styles /resources /joomla_tempaltes [login to view URL] In version 0.9 it will contain [login to view URL] [login to view URL] [login to view URL] The HTML files will not contain <html> <head> <body> elements as they are going to be included in the body of the Joomla site and thus we want to avoid duplicate HTML declaration. A new CSS file needs to be created and included only in the Joomla templates. The new file is going to be named cxJoomla.css. The classes in this file will have to respect the standards used in Joomla themes in such a way that if the theme of the website is changed, the cxportal items loaded in the pages included by the component, will take the same coloring and style as the new theme. For this to be possible, the classes have to be applied on standard HTML element as much as possible. Also the HTML pages content needs to be changed, to use the new stylesheet. The CSS file will also be visible in the administration pannel of Joomla like all other styles in Template manager / Template /Edit/ Edit CSS. Edit CSS opens a list of the CSS files used in this Template. To open one of the CSS files for editing, select the file and press the Edit icon in the toolbar. This will open this CSS file for editing using a simple text editor. Press Save or Apply to save any changes you make. Press Cancel to cancel any changes. You can also edit this file outside of Joomla! with any editor. Note that the full name of this file is displayed above the edit window. Known issues Joomla uses by default Mootools javascript library, while Cxportal uses jQuery. This causes conflicts and some pages cannot work (ex: javascript validation in [login to view URL]). In order to solve this we have to use Jquery with noConflit mode Change cxportal javascripts to use JQuery instead of $ for variable or function names. | See more Joomla uses $config to store it's configuration settings and so does CxPortal. While a solution was found (declare the variable global and it is visible in Joomla as well as in CxPortal) and no problems were found so far, we have to identify if there are variables used by Joomla that have names identical to the one in CxPortal's [login to view URL] CxShared changes make cxshared copy also the new joomla folder from default folder Carerix component for Joomla Joomla is designed to load and run exactly one component for each page generated. The carerix component will be named com_carerix.zip. The public part of the component will handle: error checking; error displaying (if cxportal or cxshared are missing); template displaying; css integration with joomla templats; navigation (job_details and apply); buttons (back & apply). Back-end administration The administration part of the component will take care of: installing script error displaying(cxportal, cxshared, logs, logos, uploads exists or not); looking for the component on Components -> Carerix; new page creation: Menus -> Main Menu -> New -> Carerix -> (Name of the page) -> Save; uninstalling (checking if the folders and files have been removed); The Administration page of the Carerix component will contain the following fields Field application name - default value will be publictest as read from the configuration file Field password- default value will be carerix as read from the configuration file Field items per page- default value will be 50 as read from the configuration file Button Save This setting are read from the [login to view URL] file of Cxportal . When button Save is clicked, the default values from the configuration file are overwritten with the new ones. Seo Settings In Joomla the standard url for Carerix component is: http://jomla-site/[login to view URL] If you want to see a friendly link instead of the standard one, (like this, for example: http://joomla-site/[login to view URL]) , you must do the following steps : "[login to view URL]" within joomla directory must be changed in ".htaccess". Open Global Configuration by click Site -> Global Configuration. Set SEO Settings (Search Engine Friendly URLs, Use Apache mod_rewrite, Add suffix to URLs) to "Yes". Save your settings. Seo alias pages In this section we can modify the alias of our pages in order to retrieve it in the page URL. Only the jobDetails and apply aliases can be created here. For the listing page, the alias will be customized when the page is created (Menus -> Main Menu -> New -> Carerix -> Alias). If is not customized it will take the name of page title. Releasing new Cxportal For each new version of Cxportal that it is released a new Joomla component will also have to be created to support new features. Do you want to create a new website based on Joomla and enable Cxportal features on it? Do the following: Download Joomla 1.5.X - See Joomla site Install/configure Joomla. See Joomla documentation Install the component download the extension to your local machine as a zip file package; from the backend of your Joomla site (administration) select Extensions -> Install/Uninstall; click the Browse button and select the extension package on your local machine; click the Upload File & Install button. open administration pannel of the component and set the correct credentials for the Cxsystem used. treat eventual errors reported in the administration pannel create new menu item for the component from the backend of your Joomla site (administration) select Menu -> Main Menu -> New; search the component on Internal Link and click it; choose a title for your page -> Save. open website to view the pages You have a website based on Joomla and you want to enable Cxportal features on it? Do the following: download the extension to your local machine as a zip file package; from the backend of your Joomla site (administration) select Extensions -> Install/Uninstall; click the Browse button and select the extension package on your local machine; click the Upload File & Install button. open administration pannel of the component and set the correct credentials for the Cxsystem used. treat eventual errors reported in the administration pannel create new menu item for the component from the backend of your Joomla site (administration) select Menu -> Main Menu -> New; search the component on Internal Link and click it; choose a title for your page -> Save. open website to view the pages

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