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Magazine for Joomla!™ 1.5

Magazine is an exciting new development for Joomla! - an online publishing system able to handle a vast range of site types, from a blog or a lifestyle site to a traditional online magazine or periodical.

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Documentation

Documentation for Magazine is publically available for any registered user (register here).

Demo

A frontend and administrator demo of Magazine is provided at demo.jxtended.com. To login into the administrator simply use the login details for your JXtended user account.

Features at a Glance

  • Extensions built natively for Joomla! 1.5 (legacy mode not necessary)
  • Unlimited number of publications per site
    • Custom article fields can be defined for each publication
    • Issues will only show sections that have articles in them in that issue
    • Define custom sections for each publication
  • Unlimited number of issues per publication
    • Customizable for each publication
    • Issues are smart enough only to show sections that have articles in them in that issue
  • Unlimited number of articles per publication and/or issue
    • Easily create sidebars with sub-articles
    • Quickly integrate Google Maps for geo-referencing
  • Separate author profiles, with the ability to link to a Joomla! user
  • Standard features with each publication, category/section, issue, article and author:
    • Five definable image types (thumb, small, medium, large and gallery)
    • Automatic integration of a gallery image folder with Slimbox
    • SEO description and keyword support
  • Category system with unlimited depth
  • Comes standard with many useful modules
  • Articles and authors can be mapped to multiple categories
  • Authors can be cross-mapped to article categories
  • Granular views and layouts based on Joomla!'s massively improved menu management system
  • Built-in support for Google maps for articles or categories
  • 100% Open Source - released under the GNU General Public License

A visual overview of the concepts outlined below can be found in the Magazine Data Relationships document (80 kb PDF).

Who is Using Magazine

Requirements

  • Joomla! 1.5.7 or higher
  • The JXtended Libraries plugin version 1.0.8 or higher
  • MySQL 4.1 or higher
  • PHP 5 is recommended

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