New feature : ORM System

The ORM system acts such as a data provider, directly at the SQL level.
You don't need anymore to write SQL queries manually.

'ORM' stand for Object-Relational Mapping.
It basically means that your component is able to link tables together automatically.

For purists... I know, this is not yet a complete ORM system, but it has the foundations to introduce such new way for loading datas. And more in future!

Documentation

During the last 5 years, Cook Self Service has reach a level of evolution which bring the service to a powerful and complete environnement for building projects on Joomla!

It is a real pleasure to celebrate with you the fifth year anniversary and to continue offering you a new feature every monday.

This month you can enjoy the new SQL importer which will cut you hours of work.

Thank you for being part of the Cook Self Service community.
Keep up the work.

List of the achieved works of the summer.

• [DATABASE] Grouped Unique keys
• [DATABASE] Index keys for optimisation
• [MARKETING] Affiliate Program
• [SANDBOXES] New sandbox environment, last 3.6
• [FILES & IMAGES] New rewritten Helper Class
• [JDOM] Google Map plugin
• [ADMIN] Fatal errors closely tracking
• [LEGACY] Removing the B/C layer for 2.5 (Less is More)
• [FIELDS] Financial Type
• [COMMUNITY] You opinion matters (Feature Requests)
• [COMMUNITY] Teamspeak server
• [BUILDER] Edit Field Types
• [WEBSITE] New design for j-cook.pro
• [BUILDER] Edit physical SQL Types for the fields
• [BUILDER] SQL Import

The importer will cut you off all the boring work.
Just drop a SQL file, or compressed (ZIP, GZIP), and take a rest during the importantion which can take some time.
A huge cascade of treatments are done to inspect the best possible your database declaration file.

The importer will :

• Find the Foreign Keys relations based on explicits names.
• Instance the wizards when the field type is known as a Joomla magic field.

This feature will be improved in future :

• Auto creation of desired views, forms, lists, filters, tasks...
• Dataset importation (B-side)
• Joomla! component importation (Full parser intelligence)

Your opinion and your ideas are the foundations of the future of Cook Self Service.

The new interface offers you the opportunity to express your feature requests preferences and vote for them.

Give your opinion and vote here : Feature requests
You can comment those features using the forum, and you can propose new features : here

Since Joomla! 2.5 is not supported anymore, we recommend all users to migrate your old websites if you still use a unsupported version of Joomla!

Cook Self Service is following the evolution of Joomla! and proposing you more and more features for LESS code in you creations.
Implementing the B/C layer was heavy, redondant and not able to implement all the recent features of your favorite CMS.

The version 3 will be released step by steps in successive sub-versions along the complete cleaning.

Achieved Versions steps

• Removed legacy/ (whole folder)
• Removed helpers/mvc.php
• Removed DS constants.
• Removed qn() function

• HTML Templates skeleton 100% rewritten.
• Page title and browser title rewritten.
• Removed JVersion calls

• ORM System
• Foreign Lists much simplified with the 'Model' field type

V3.x - Roadmap features

• Relations are using a 'Relation' field type
• New ajax layer, remplacing JDom ajax.
• Ajax fields defined only in XML. (Much improved, all brand new)
• Filters. XML declarations are in separated dedicated file. (Accept Ajax)
• Simplified populateState()
• Form fieldsets rendering improved, using layouts
• More simple component loader for third parts, sliced projects, modules...
• Using media folder for assets (js/css/images)
• cid[] replacement by 'id' in url and objects

New feature: Google Maps plugin

With JDom (v2.6.18), You can now easily instance a Google Map, and even a dynamic map in your components.
For the moment, you have to code manually, but the code is deadly simple.

You can create many types of maps :

• Basic maps + all possible parameters
• Styled Maps
• Markers + automatic bounds fit
• Info boxes
• Custom the markers icons
• Geocoding (Map + Markers)
• Directions API
• Static Maps (Simples images)

Check the demo and learn to instance a map:
www.j-cook.pro/index.php/demo

As we have always appreciated all of your comments and feedbacks. We are infinitely grateful so we have decided to reward the most honorable users of the community. You desserve it.


The new opportunity with Cook Self Service is a winning-winning partnership. With sponsored links you can now spread the voice on your social networks and get an amazing return.
Life accounts will receive direct commissions for every sale. Instead normal accounts will be extended or renewed when expired.

This way, if you are a good promotor, you even no need to pay anymore to access Cook Self Service.
For every purchase of your customers, we will notice you by email for downloading your last creations.

Relations N:m & N:1

A nice step has been achieved in this version.
You can finaly have access to this awesome feature.

Relations allows you to load cross reference lists : Many to Many, or Many to One.
The forms allows you to set up those relations easily with a multiple selection input.

Learn more : Relations