I planned to create a very simple Club-Component for a local sports club here, since JoomLeague for example is not running in Joomla 2.5. So I tried it via j-cook. Everything went fine. Several tables and the whole backend with clubs, teams, players, players-per-team, seasons etc. were created in very short time. And everything worked well.
But now, creating the front-end views, I come to my programming limits. I do not have problems to create the standard way of Joomla, so like this: A List-Page with a link to the detail page.
But this would mean the following situation:
- Page 1: A list of the existing teams
- Page 2: The detailed team-page width f.e. a photo and a short description and a further link to a third page with the players
- Page 3: The players of this team
- Page 4: The detailed players-page
But I want to merge Page 2 and Page 3. So that first the team-details are shown and below a list of the players, which are part of this team.
With j-cook this is obviously not possible, since there is a strict distinction between grid- and detail-layouts. But maybe there is a relative simple possibility of merging two layouts/models/views?!?.
If not, this would really be a pity, since I would not go on to create further on this component. 4 pages is just too long and too complicated.
But nevertheless: This might be an interesting function in general to be included in j-cook in the future.
