Hi everybody,

As you can see, lots of issues still are unsolved in the stack of opened tickets.
All theses issues will be solved with the coming of Cook Self Service V2.0


We are currently rewritting the whole structure of your components. With this new MVC, it is possible you get lost.
Don't worry and have a look on this new fully normalizated structure for Joomla 2.5.

It is incredibily good and powerfull !!

1.5 is finished.
If you still are running under 1.5, finish and download your component before the 1st of June !!

If you already started to write inside your component, please download this new MVC and migrate your personalizations. It is verry important.

This topic is to discuss about that migration.

Hi Jocelyn,

Sounds very good. You mention the "coming of Cook Self Service 2.0"; do you have an approximate date for this new MVC structure?

No offense to our valued 1.5 users, but it's good you set an end of life date so that we can focus on 2.5 and onwards.

Thank you!

Edward.

1.5 supports will stop 1st of June, and Cook 2.0 will be released quite soon after.

A new designed website is also on the road, but maybe released afterwards.

At the moment, on my own, the basic MVC and JForms are working great. I now must include all wizards and redirecting processes, and much more... It is in a good way.

The source will be written in a very unified typing. More readable and more standard.
The builder framework has been improved a lot.


I finally choosed to avoid 1.5 (even if a lot of users will not migrate until 2 years, or never...), because I want to look after the future and do not keep watching back.

Hi Joce !

Happy to hearing from you and your work.

" MORE STANDARD : Migration to JForms."

Does that mean you give up Jdom ?

Marc.

Hi Marc.

JDom will not be anymore used for fields, but for other calls, It will continue to be present.

After a little bit of coding with jdom, I changed my mind about it (I thought it wasn't really needed), I like jdom as EXTRA feature for those things not integrated in joomla.
I'm looking forward for the next release of the builder.

Tomaselli wrote: I like jdom as EXTRA feature for those things not integrated in joomla.

Like what? could you give examples please ?

Marc

In facts, JDom can implement much more than simple forms.

For example : front toolbar, fly displays with options, form footer with followers, dynamic infinite groups in combos, tasks in grid, toogle buttons, modal boxes links, auto implement the javascript in the headers...

It overrides lot of JHtml functions that are limited with the field name.

With the V2.0, JDom will disapear from the forms for preference of JForms.
But JDom will still be implementated for all basic and static specials calls that are not covered by latest release of Joomla.

That's the idea.

there are no limits with what you can do with jdom. basically you setup a new type of "view" in jdom adding the parameters needed and then you recall it wherever you need on the layout view of your component.
for example you could write a googlemap view on jdom that will accept just the geocode coordinates, and then you can call this jdom view anywhere inside your component without the needs to rewrite again the code, but just passing the geocodes coordinates.
I think it is needed a better explanation of what jdom is.

Surely Jdom is not needed for all the basic tasks you can develop with the default tools of joomla, but if you wanna personalize your components and speed the production time for all your projects, jdom may helps a lot.

Ok, it needs to appropriate the JDom options and parameters.
@ Joce, do you plan the date of this release (about ?)...

Thx

Marc

Just curious, is the 2.0 live?

not yet,

Hello,

could we get any news about the next version ?

Several weeks passed since the announcement and we can't get more info till now.

Thanks

Regards.

I will not respect the deadline.

The more I go on, the more I increase the strongness. A new website will be on also.
I have a lot of work, and I plan a month more at least.

Everybody will enjoy. Garanteed !

I just ask you some patience.
... and thank you for your great interrest.

It will not look a lot of new features, but :
- a totally different approch in the MVC (2.5 standard),
- a very strong generator framework to go further and plan for years of life.

After that migration, nices new functionalities will come every month. Because it will be easier to develop on the new powerfull Cook generator framework.

Stay in touch !!
Enjoy the summer, and remember to have breaks sometimes (I speak for the numberious geeks here, like me)

Yes break is fine. That what I always say it to myself.
Anyway one curious question. How big is your team?