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Wed 05 Aug 2009 |
Enhanced frontend editing patch for 1.6
Written by Ankit Ahuja
I’ve spent the past week getting a patch ready for 1.6 as well as making many behind the scenes changes to improve the overall code. I’ve migrated much of my code to work with Joomla! 1.6 and also created a patch that you can apply easily. You can get the patch from here, http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/frediting/frs/.
com_content is still in the works and so I’ve not migrated the code for article editing to 1.6 yet. However, you’ll be able to edit module and menu-item titles, drag & drop modules, edit module params in a modal popup and edit page titles in J!1.6 after you’ve applied the patch. Also, you won’t need to apply any hack.
Here are a few screenshots of the patched 1.6:
You can also download the latest release of the Joomla! 1.5 extension from here, http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/frediting/frs/. The changes won’t really be visible to you as most of them make the extension more secure and efficient. Here are the changes in the new release:
- Modified module chrome structure and renamed it to modChrome_freditor
- Namespaced all JavaScript functions to avoid conflict with user’s JS
- Upgraded to mootools 1.2.3
- Fixed bug of titles disappearing in Opera
- When drag & drop is not successful, modules return to their original positions
- Added better filtering of input for accurate recognition of titles and prevention of XSS attacks
An impairment of this extension is that since it is written using mootools 1.2.3, if you're using mootools 1.1 based scripts on your website, they are susceptible to not work when you're logged in and have editing permissions ( even though I'm using a compatibility script to add support for 1.1 )
If you’ve a previous version of the extension installed, you’ll need to revert the hack, uninstall the previous version and then install this one. Reverting the hack is necessary as I have renamed the module chrome.
The summer is almost nearing an end so I’ve pretty much feature frozen my project at this point of time. I’m going to use the remaining time to improve the patch as much as possible, fix the remaining IE JavaScript and CSS bugs and create the documentation.
See you on the other side!
2009-08-06 01:31:34
Great Work
2009-08-06 09:49:26
You could probably wait for the final release of the extension with the finishing touches
Thanks!
2009-08-06 11:09:25
Thanks very much for youre timely response
2009-08-23 20:13:25