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March.28.2013
This guide is intended for
SJ Zoo Listing - Joomla! Module
When you buy the module the first time, you will have the latest version. After the first release, we will update this module regularly, then please check newer versions in
here
REQUIREMENTS
1. Joomla! v1.7.x and Joomla! 2.5.x latest stable versions are highly recommended.
INSTALLATION
1. Prepare your module package (zip file; please UNZIP first if it is indicated in the file name)
2. All steps are in administrator of Joomla!:
- In your Administrator page, go to Extensions -> Extension Manager
In this page, click Browse, select module package.
- Then click Upload & Install
- Please wait for module being installed, usually within several seconds
- Now go to Extensions -> Module Manager, click Select Type box and choose the module you have installed
- Then click the module listed below to configure it as SETTINGS part hereafter
SETTINGS
1. This module with sample layout is below:
- Category name: Title of category showing, configured under Item Options
- Item image: This is the first image in the description of Item
2. The parameters are divided up into the following areas:
- General Options
- Source Options
- Item Options
- Image Options
- Advanced Options
GENERAL OPTIONS
- Module Class Suffix - Allow you to choose another CSS class that suits your template. Please refer more here
- Module Width - Allow you to change width of module. Unit is "px"
- Theme - Please change theme which you want to show. We support 4 themes for your module.
- Open Link - The opening window with link:
- Same window
- New window
- Popup window
SOURCE OPTIONS
- Zoo Application - Allow to choose one of 2 applications available: Page Application OR Blog Application
- Zoo Category - Choose the source of category that is used with this module
- Include Subcategories - Choose category in subcategories OR not
- Sort Order By - Select a field which you would like Items to be ordered by:
- Recently add
- Recently modified
- Most Views
- Hits
- Title
- Random
- Source Filter - Allow to show items that meet some factors:
- All Articles
- None Frontpage
- Only Frontpage
- Item Count - Allow to limit number of item which you want to show in the modules
- Columns of Article - The number of columns will be showed on a page
- Rows of Article - The number of rows will be showed on a page
ITEM OPTIONS
- Category Title Max Chars - The max number of characters in category title which can be showed in the module.
- Category Title Link - Allow to enable /disable link of category title
- Category Title Color - Allow to change color of Category Title
- Show Title - Show/hide title
- Title Color - Allow to change color of title
- Title Max Characters - The max number of characters in title which can be showed in the module.
- Link for Title - Enable/Disable for link of article titel
- Show Description - Show/hide descriptoon
- Description Max Charaters - The max number of characters in description which can be showed in the module.
- Color of Article Description - Allow to change color of article description
- Show short Description - Show/hide short description
- Short Description Max Charaters - The max number of characters in short description which can be showed in the module.
- Keep HTML - The module will keep HTML code in description if you choose "Yes"
- Show Hits - Show/hide the number of views
- Show Date - You can show/hide the Date which you creat the Item
- Show Author - Show/hide author
- Show Read More - You can Show/hide Read More
- Read More Text - Allow to change text of Read More
- Show See All - Show/hide See All
- See all text - Allow to change text of See All
- Custom URL - This param allows you to customize the link of each item. If you do not want to go to the detail page of item, you can change the link to another.
IMAGE OPTIONS
- Show Large Image - Show/hide large image
- Show Small Image - Show/hide small image
- Link for Small Image - Enable/Disable link for small image
- Small Image width/height - Allow you to set the width/height of the small image
- Image width/height - Allow you to set the width/height of the image
- Image background - Allow to set the background color of image
- Image mode - Allow you to choose the mode of image resizing
- None
- Center
- Fill
- Fit
- Stretch
ADVANCED OPTIONS
- Media Elements - Allow to set which elements of HTML which images can be fetched from
- Description Elements - Allow to set which elements of HTML which description can be fetched from
- Include Jquery - Allow to include jQuery lib OR not
- Pre-text - The content to show at the top of module
- Post-text - The content to show at the end of module
- Caching
- Use Global: Turn on caching
- No Caching: Turn off caching
- Cache Times - The time to cache
