News June 10th 2024
xbArticleMan v5.0.0.2 J5
bugfix on Dashboard now available
Silence recently on here as have been busy preparing my first large J5 component from scratch - xbMusic, a manager for music files with details of songs, albums, artists, and playlists as well as individual track files. Information pulled from ID3 tags in the files where available, and changes affecting ID3 tags written back to the file. Intended for use to manage music for an Azuracast radio station, including providing front-end views of the data for embedding on other sites, but also useful for organising a personal music collection. Hoping to have a first beta at least of the admin side available before August.
xbRefs Plugins Package
{xbref...} for a reference footnote or popover.{xbref...} shortcodes with the appropriate content - inserting popovers and footnotes as required.24th April 2022 J3
xbMaps Content Plugin
26th December 2021 J3
xbCulture - cataloguing and reviewing Films, Books, and more
The xbCulture is a family of closely related Joomla Component Extensions which are designed to keep a record or catalogue of artistic/creative/cultural works.
The primary intended users are individuals, like myself, who wish to keep a record of books, films, plays, gigs, exhibitions and similar events that they have experienced.
Currently there are two core components and a common supporting component in the family, although there are ideas for extending it into further areas;
- xbBooks - as the name implies is for a catalogue of books of all sorts. Changelog
- xbFilms - not surprisingly is for movies, although it can also handle series, tv shows and box-sets. Changelog
- xbEvents - is for live performance; music, theatre, spoken word and comedy - IN DEVELOPMENT
- xbPeople - a support component bundled in the packages for the above, provides tools for managing a common database of people and characters as well common styles, language and code across the components. Changelog
A set Modules to display short information about the datasets is in development. These include:
- Recently added : mod_xbculture_recent
- Filtered lists : mod_xbculture_list
- Random images : mod_xbculture_randimg
A package containing all of the components and modules is available.
11th August 2023 J3
Read more: xbCulture - cataloguing and reviewing Films, Books, and more
xbFilms - film catalogue
xbFilms is an xbCulture family component for cataloguing films you have seen and reviews of them. Version 1.1.1.2 is the current release for inclusion on JED.
It has been developed in parallel with xbBooks to replace an old paper diary and spreadsheet of films seen by myself.
xbFilms is installed as a package containing two components - com_xbfilms and a supporting component, com_xbpeople, for administration of people and characters which are common to all xbCulture components.
The primary intended user is someone wanting to keep a record of films they have seen with a reminder of the plot and what their reaction was.
xbBooks - book catalogue
xbBooks is an xbCulture family component for cataloguing books you have read and reviews of them. Version 1.1.1.2 is the current release.
It started out as I needed something to replace a local flat-file database I had been using to save details of books I read and short reviews/comments. Previous to that I had been using a simple spreadsheet and originally an paper file.
xbBooks is installed as a package containing two components - com_xbboos and a supporting component, com_xbpeople, for administration of people and characters which are common to all xbCulture components.
The primary intended user is someone wanting to keep a record of books they have read with a reminder of the plot and what their reaction was.
11th March August J3