K2
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- cgryniewicz
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- I've been researching this component called k2, but I still don't know what it does. Can someone give me a simple explanation?
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- dle_web
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Using K2, you can transform your Joomla! website to a news/magazine site with author blogs, product catalogs, work portfolio, knowledge base, download/document manager, directory listing, event listing and more, all this bundled under one package! Since K2 is extensible with additional fields to its base item form, you can easily create category-specific content types, e.g. article, blog post, product page, directory listing.this is from http://k2.joomlaworks.gr/
These days nearly everybody is promoting K2, must be some kind of marketing trick ...
This component is working pretty well out of the box, you don't have to do much custom work like you have to do with other similar components like SOBI2 http://www.sigsiu.net/sobi2.html , ZOO http://zoo.yootheme.com/ , or jSeblod CCK http://www.jseblod.com/joomla-cck.html
BUT: working with these type of components is a one way route (except jSeblod which uses joomla database tables). These components are creating new database entries, that means, 90% of the modules/plugins/component for joomla won't work with them! That means problems with SEF components, you can't create working menus out of the joomla menu manager ...
In K2 you can import your joomla-articles but once they are stored in K2 that's it, no way to get them and new K2 articles back to joomla, once you decide to quit with K2 (think of upcoming joomla 1.6 with lots of changes), without working with tools on database level. There are some questions related to that topic, but they are never answered at the joomlaworks forum.
Btw, support at joomlaworks is poor. Eveybody is twittering around and promoting other (commercial) stuff but too many unanswered questions in their forum. For the bigger probs, they suggest to pay for commercial support at "open source support desk". That's the direction joomla community is taking...
There's other components to modify the output of joomlas content f.e. something like alphacontent http://testing.visualclinic.fr/alphacontent.html is doing a good job displaying directories and using joomla database tables for content...
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- cgryniewicz
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- Thanks C. Feller, so K2 basically changes the way that articles articles are categorized in Joomla. Is that correct?
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- dle_web
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- joomla works like: section -> categorie -> article. articles can only be placed in a categorie or stay uncategorized. K2 goes beyond that way. in K2 there's no sections, you only work with categories which you can nest as you like. K2 is like it's own content managemant system (or content creation kit like it is called) integrated in joomla. it has it's own dashboard, its own categories, articles, tags ... take a look at the demosite: http://k2.joomlaworks.gr/demo-v2/ you'll see the possibilities you have, creating content with K2, this site looks pretty well, they are using their own template there, but even out of the box K2 looks good. give it a try; download and install it and check it out by yourself, if it fits to your needs and you don't need quick support and are able to stick around with it by yourself, stay with it. but remember it's a one way ticket, once you use it you're bound to it. when uninstalling it all your new created K2-content is gone. I installed and uninstalled it several times on different joomla installations without any malfunctions, so try it out. I'm gonna wait until joomla 1.6 comes up and will then decide again if I will use it or not. again: please read the introduction on the K2 site: http://k2.joomlaworks.gr/ I could't explain it better in my words.
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