So I decided to finish up the Edit-in-Place Joomla/Mambo component enhancement. I generalized my Hammond Dealer Locator component into this little plugin that can be used in any other Joomla or Mambo component. The release has been registered on Joomla’s Plugins site and is under approval. Here is the internal link to the page, Edit-in-Place about this enhancement.
You can download it and give it a shot. Documentation on how to implement this feature is included in the zip file!
Cheers!
So I just finished writing a component for Mambo/ Joomla. This component will be used in the Hammond Organ Co up coming website (http://www.hammondorganco.com.) I decided to try implementing the edit-in-place feature similar to Flickr. I was using the 24ways ajax tutorial to write this part and it really rocks! I love the ability of being able to edit everything in place without submitting the page. It’s just beatiful!
I’d love to write a little tutorial on implementing this feature for back-end administration Joomla/ Mambo components. So hopefully I will have some time between now and graduation to write it. Otherwise, maybe some time in the future …!
Directory Structure:
A joomla site (1.0.8) is installed in /sites/warsofearth.com/ for my Wars of Earth site. www.warsofearth.com is pointing correctly to /sites/warsofearth.com/.
Setting up the .htaccess
Rename the htaccess.txt file bundled with the installation to .htaccess. Some people say chmod it to 777 if somehow thing doesn’t work.
Make sure your .htaccess file are similar to this. Note that RewriteBase is relative to the URL of the site, not the absolute path! Took me a while to figure out.
#comment all of the lines of the below section
########## Begin Standard SEF Section
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
##RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/component/option,com) [NC,OR] ##optional - see notes##
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
#RewriteRule ^(content/|component/) index.php
########## End Standard SEF Section
# Uncomment all lines
########## Begin 3rd Party or Core SEF Section
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/vietnam/component/option,com) [NC,OR] ##optional - see notes##
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
########## End 3rd Party or Core SEF Section