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mikeg1 wrote: and I do think your component shows a lot of promise... and the support is quick...

must document some less known features and make some video tutorials, also the most-important missed feature is "installable Applications" (together with configuration export)

mikeg1 wrote: but not too friendly... sometimes sarcastic and sometimes rude - perhaps it's a language/culture thing...

Sarcastic ?? rude ??

i only use sarcasm to myself and to the closest people that i love ,
i hate to use sarcasm to people i don't know, if i did i am sorry ,

about being rude i don't think that this is fair to say this

As a DEVELOPER and business owner myself - I understand how it can get annoying when people bang you for customizations... but to ask where a template file is for 1 thing I need to change is hardly being problematic.

I myself customize code of other components or make bug fixes, and for this i read the source code, it is faster than everything else ...

Also our FAQ and template Tutorials answer a lot of stuff ... although of course they do not answer everything

Look, it's nothing personal... you can clearly see that the guy gave unhelpful info... and it was NOT directed at you... to give you some insight... I am actually working on a project... coincidentally, one of the largest and most well read international development magazines wanted me to do a review on a joomla article manager and another item... I chose yours. I will send you the article link once it's published. My current thoughts on this is: Your component is very powerful - arguably one of the most powerful of all the joomla article manager. Support is very fast... but ranges from unhelpful to solid and specific code level responses to angry and at times sarcastic comments. The code seems to be evolving so expect to have to do a lot of updates. There are a ton of options and they have a slew of support documents but I found a challenging time trying to sort through what I needed. Some of the options on this component are extensive - others - not so much. If you are doing a project for yourself or a client and can be flexible on how something looks or is presented - this component will most likely do the job. If you are doing it for another person/company... and they are very picky on what they want and how it's is presented on the screen... you may run into some issues... unless you can or have the time to code/customize it yourself. I would prefer a paid support option but I dont think I saw one... anyways... I wrote a lot more and I am not done but that is my opinion at this time.

Hello

the other guy is not a CORE developer, so he does his best ...

-- about what is wrong about component or missed we know most of it, but not everything
our users were very valuable in giving feedback and ideas (many log as enhancement in our bug tracker)

-- all code was profiled and optimized for high speed in large sites (even added real selective content plugin triggering) and the backend items manager is 2x-3x faster than joomla article manager if you have e.g. 50,000 items, yes despite its complexity our backend items manager is very fast

TODO (in terms of speed):
1. universal Content Module (yes SQL query not optimized yet and is very slow on large sites)

2. installation on existing large sites (this is problematic, you can build a large site with FLEXIcontent but not install it on existing sites with more than 100,000 articles)


-- FLEXIcontent has many configuration parameters, the installable Applications feature planned for this summer will make it easier to set-up new sites (less time consuming)

-- also J3.x support comming soon will give a boost to the component

-- some features need to be made more user-friendly e.g. multiple featured categories will be best with automatic styling and checkbox selection in item form (see our FAQ on how to use)

and v2.0.3 final adds powerful CSS markups,
for customizing the content list of items belonging to featured categories , special access items, recently added items, 24h,1d,3d,1m,3m,1y,3y etc ...

To be honest... despite our earlier disagreement - I like what I see with your component. It is superior to K2 and other ones that I have looked at.

I have another item in another thread... and that guy isn't helpful...

here is the thread...
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and getting back to this thread... which file should look at as its not category_items.php to move that category label below the Leading article introtext? Thanks

One other quick question on something else... if you go to this page: webworxapp.com/scca you see the main picture... it is supposed to be 660x371... but if you inspect the element - say with Chrome Inspect Element tool - you can see it's not that size. In the category's settings... I have it set to Image Width: 660 and Height 371... and processing method... scale... I also have used crop before as well. The image is extract from main text, position is left... using parameters. Layout is Blog. This is for the leading article, although all the images that are generated from Flexi Content code seem to have this. Thanks

Hello,

*** In short
1. Disable the parameter that prints category description
(e.g. in your Joomla Menu item and please enable parameter override otherwise the menu parameters are not used, or if you do not do a category parameters override in menu item then do it at category configuration)
2. place the code: at the desired place of your category_items.php
(simply place it in some place and then make some web page refreshes moving the code, and you will easily find where the image of leading items is outputted)


*** In long
use this to find other stuff that you need):
and i do this everyday, on FLEXIcontent and to Joomla and for many other Joomla extensions (even to debug extension unknown to me),
i even do this to answer question on forum


1. make a local copy of your site (i mean, if you do not have one already)

2. examine your page with firebug (firefox) or with chrome inspector and e.g. you see that the category title is inside an <h2> and has a CSS class "cattitle"

3. do a text search for "cattitle" e.g. make it case-sensitive and "whole word"-search

4. you find e.g. 4 places with it appearing, then adding some text output in these places you make sure which place it is actually outputting your page (you refresh your page of course)

5. you undo text output changes and you have found that the category title is outputted by
components/com_flexicontent/tmpl_common/category_category.html

6. If you place an
echo "<pre>"; print_debug_backtrace(); echo "</pre>";
inside the code, you will see that this file is called by
components/com_flexicontent/templates/myteplate/tmpl_common/category_category.php
(this might know already by reading our FAQ:
www.flexicontent.org/documentati ... cture.html )
so you may copy the code in your FLEXIcontent template to customize it

7. If you do a text search for 'show_cat_title' in *.xml files, you find XML files that use language string 'FLEXI_SHOW_CAT_TITLE'

8. If you do text search for 'FLEXI_SHOW_CAT_TITLE' in *.ini file, you find e.g. in english ini file of FLEXIcontent component:
FLEXI_SHOW_CAT_TITLE="Show category title"
so now you know which parameter to disable (ok, you do not need the above but you might need it in other cases)

9. now you also have the code that you want to copy: into category_items.php


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About image size,
- this is normal when scaling, i mean the image is scaled but it will not be stressed to fit both dimensions, just one dimension will be reached
- about cropping this should give the desired size if both sizes are bigger than your thumbnail sizes, if you enable crop method for leading images you should see a &zc=1 appear in the URL of the image, did it not appear ? maybe clear cache, otherwise it is a bug or you edited wrong parameter of blog template?