You DESTROYED joomla!, but you CAN fix it.
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:45 pm
Before seeing joomla 1.5 I used to think joomla was the greatest content management system in the world, however it now lacks one HUGE featured that was previously available in all past joomla versions.
Think of sites content sites like MSN, YAHOO, COLLEGEHUMOR, PCMAGAZINE, CNN, ALIBABA.COM, AOL.com, WALLSTREETJOURNAL, etc..., etc.., etc.,
or basically ANY site with large amounts of content.
What do they ALL have in common??
Their FORMAT!
They have a THUMBNAIL IMAGE to show what an article, news item, video, link, story, etc., is about.
Then they may also have a title, short description, read more link etc.,
However by removing the functionality of mosimage from joomla you made it nearly impossible to have a site like MSN, YAHOO, etc.. from joomla without a ton of extra work.
Let me explain in code..
Before you could have a query like this for joomla
SELECT * FROM jos_content
Then use the 'mysql_fetch_array'
to get the table images (mosimage) title, introtext, fulltext, readmore....
You could then make joomla look like any of the sites above, you could sort by sections by simply adding WHERE sectionid='X', you could limit the number of articles displayed using LIMIT X,Y and basically you could have one of the GREATEST nicest looking content sites in the world.
Now this is IMPOSSIBLE... Sure you can put an image in your intro text, sure you can link it to the article you are writing about (if you have the id) then you can create a linkable title, and rearrange the intro text to try and mimic other great sites.
HOWEVER you have to redo this every single time you add a new article.
BEFORE you just set the image size by setting img src=mosimage width=50 height = 50 and you would have consistently nice layout.
NOW you have little more functionality than a wordpress blog.
Last I checked, joomla was a content management tool, not blog management.
So please, please, please, either bring back mosimage, OR simply add a thumbnail field right below TITLE, ALIAS, ETC, so that we can have a thumbnail to represent articles instead of inserting it into the intro text.
Think of sites content sites like MSN, YAHOO, COLLEGEHUMOR, PCMAGAZINE, CNN, ALIBABA.COM, AOL.com, WALLSTREETJOURNAL, etc..., etc.., etc.,
or basically ANY site with large amounts of content.
What do they ALL have in common??
Their FORMAT!
They have a THUMBNAIL IMAGE to show what an article, news item, video, link, story, etc., is about.
Then they may also have a title, short description, read more link etc.,
However by removing the functionality of mosimage from joomla you made it nearly impossible to have a site like MSN, YAHOO, etc.. from joomla without a ton of extra work.
Let me explain in code..
Before you could have a query like this for joomla
SELECT * FROM jos_content
Then use the 'mysql_fetch_array'
to get the table images (mosimage) title, introtext, fulltext, readmore....
You could then make joomla look like any of the sites above, you could sort by sections by simply adding WHERE sectionid='X', you could limit the number of articles displayed using LIMIT X,Y and basically you could have one of the GREATEST nicest looking content sites in the world.
Now this is IMPOSSIBLE... Sure you can put an image in your intro text, sure you can link it to the article you are writing about (if you have the id) then you can create a linkable title, and rearrange the intro text to try and mimic other great sites.
HOWEVER you have to redo this every single time you add a new article.
BEFORE you just set the image size by setting img src=mosimage width=50 height = 50 and you would have consistently nice layout.
NOW you have little more functionality than a wordpress blog.
Last I checked, joomla was a content management tool, not blog management.
So please, please, please, either bring back mosimage, OR simply add a thumbnail field right below TITLE, ALIAS, ETC, so that we can have a thumbnail to represent articles instead of inserting it into the intro text.