Extends and integrates Joomla! user, user group, content category and contact management.
Joomla's users and contacts are combined into profiles which integrate the functions of both to create profiles. Profiles are extensible via custom attributes which can be anything from a telephone to a list of publications.
The formatting of profiles is accomplished by templates which determine the ordering and labeling of the individual attributes. Labels can be textual or icons. The exception to this customization are the attributes for names, titles and pictures which receive special handling in formatting and as a rule are never labeled.
Profiles can be allowed to create personalized content and will then be associated with a category which shares their name.
Groups can be assigned roles. While semantically similar to user groups. They denote real world groupings or responsibilities do not have additional site responsibilities. Because these groupings have no consequences as concerns Joomla access and viewing rights they are uncoupled from them and do not unnecessarily bloat this resource.
The component provides an administrative area for resource management and a public area for the display of managed resources. Additionally the component provides general purpose functionality also used by the other package extensions.
- Advanced - a formatted display of profiles associated with a group
- Content Manager - a list of the content in a profile's personal category
- Content - a single personal content item
- Overview - a list of links to the profiles associated with a group
- Profile - a single profile with all published attributes
- Profile Editor - a form for editing profile attribute values and publication (restricted)
Creates a menu related to the profile or profile related content being displayed. This will always display menu-published content, and can be configured to display a link to the profile itself. Administrators and the profile user will also be shown links to views which manage personal resources: the profile editor, the content manager and the joomla content editor (with the category restricted).
Displays profiles as parametrized in content. The profiles display is designed to resemble the output of the 'Advanced' view. (See Profiles Button Plugin.)
Resolves parameter hooks inserted into content. (See Profiles Button Plugin.)
Inserts profile data into content in two forms: static links to profiles, and parameter hooks which are later resolved by the content plugin and displayed by the profiles module.
Resolves names to profiles.
Supplements additional column values in the user and usergroups tables during their 'AfterSave' events.
Table and table trait properties are not explicitly typed, because the values are often added after object creation. This has the effect that columns which are explicitly NOT NULL in the DDL become implicitly nullable when no value is assigned during object instantiation and throw errors when typing reflects the DDL.
Sometimes an explicit cast from bool to int is necessary when saving relevant information.