The world's most advanced component creator for Joomla

Will you have enough ideas ?

Relax !

Want to have more time to spend on your hobbies and with your family ? Want to write less code and drink less coffee? Cook Self Service is the tool which will save you loads of time.

Be more efficient and sell your services better. Spend your time only on the creative and artistic work.

Coding on Joomla is now a piece of cake.

The robot

The foundation of applications are always the same, only the shape varies. Didn't you ever dream about having a robot to do all that stuff for you?

Cookie, the little bird is going to do the most boring jobs for you. Let's see an analogy :
You are dreaming of a new house, Cookie will create the basement, the walls, the roof, the water, electricity, gas, sewage, networks, strong security, and latest technologies for you. Just tell him the construction plan ! He will create your house to your custom made design encompassing all your necessities.
Cookie is a very clever bird who knows how to speak the Joomla language, and write beautiful symphonies for you.

A cherry on the cake

Cookie is able to infinitely regenerate your whole component scaffolding, without loosing your custom functions.

A service for everybody

Whether you are an expert or a beginner, Cook Self Service is also great for learning the best practices on Joomla. Broaden your curiosity and become a professional coder in few months. Just follow and reproduce all the samples you have now in your hands.

Ready ?

In a few words, you will never be able to return back to your old practices. Sign up for a free account and start to compose and test your projects.

Demo

Hello My World A simple example demonstrates better than a long explanation.
This tiny demo instances the following basics key features :

Lists
Filters & Searches
Toolbars
Foreign Keys
N:m & N:1 relations
Google Maps
Images & Thumbs
Modal boxes
Forks

Forks : We added few code to show you how to edit your creations without touching the main structure. Once installed, if you rename (or delete) the 'fork' directories (back-end / front-end), you will discover the same component directly out of the box.

Note : This demo is using Google Maps. You require a Google API Key to see the maps.

Demo : "Hello My World"
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Showroom

Show Room Discover Cook Self Service in few slides.
You can also download the showroom for presenting Cook Self Service to your team work.

Showroom Download

Once downloaded, you need PHP to execute it locally.

Learn

Build your first component in less than 10 minutes and learn how to code a clean and consistant Joomla! standard component.
Cook Self Service is NOT a construction kit. It writes for you a real stand alone source code, packaged and ready to by installed in your favorite CMS.

Community

Forum

The forum is a privileged place for problem solving, for debate, for connecting Joomla! developers between each others. Our users are Joomla! developers probably facing the same challenges than you. Don't hesitate to share your problematics. It is also a place where you can hire a Joomla! competent developer in case you face your own limits of knowledge. We do not charge the transactions when people realize commercial exchanges, it is highly welcomed here because Cook Self Service claims to become a platform tool for the Joomla universe.
Forum

Feature Requests

We design the product to fit the needs of the community.
Give your opinion about your favorite features and vote for it, this will help us for choosing the next features on the roadmap.
Feature Requests

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Freakin' Awesome!!! J-Cook is simply awesome - whether you're a highly experienced developer or complete novice whether you're building a small inventory component or a complete community solution! The beauty comes from a fast slick and reliable platform that readily provides developers with everything they'll need to build the backbone of a solid and secure component with wizards for authoring access publishing aliasing created/modified by dates... you name it COOK provides it! J-Cook really surpasses all of the 'competition' as far as MVC tools are concerned! Try love it and get cooking!
learnthrusong (JED)