CB Activity plugin - support & integration

General CB API infos:

• see PDF Attachment
• some CB related Tutorials

Thank you, very useful.

Good we need this integration :D to fly high

... requires CB API to be present and plugin loaded ..."

Regarding CB integration in general:

Is it possible to integrate the CB API as a global configuration option?! Now there is simple avatar/profile link integration. What about adding a checkbox for "load CB API" ?

As far as I understand that would give access to all parameters, functions and data?! I think jReviews does it this way. You can access user fields and data in jReviews templates etc. Which seems to be really cool and looks like a complete integration, IMHO. (i am just guessing)

In fact Joomla 2.5 has user_pofiles table that should store all user attributes like additional fields. And it by Idea have to be accessible anywhere across Joomla in JFactory::getUser() object. Is extension that extend user profile approach this technique we even do not have to do anything to access additional user data.

Another thing is that Cobalt 8 will have plugin API. It means events triggers on all its events. It means that we may create integrations more easily than just adding files. And it also mean that there may be few integrations active at the same time. Unlike now you can chose only one file.

I think that with delivery of Cobalt 8 integrations with social extensions will not be a am issue and will be a matter of single or set of plugins.

You can run joomla content plugin. You can call just one plugin and render it's content.

The Joomla custom module does it like this (for all content plugins) :

if ($params->def('prepare_content', 1))

{

    JPluginHelper::importPlugin('content');

    $module->content = JHtml::_('content.prepare', $module->content, '', 'mod_custom.content');

}

I guess, this means: - activate/load all content plugins - take the whole module content area and trigger content-prepare event

right?

Sorry, Joomla API and framework is not my real daily business ;-)

1.) Can this be done with the whole Cobalt page content? Maybe you can give a hint ?

2.) Or does it make sense to load and fire a single plugin (CB Content Bot)

3.) Or just do everything I need in the Cobalt HTML field?

That is easy to do, to put all Cobalt output through content.prepare. But with at scenario we will have to form HTML before t gets to template :) It means no templates anymore. Just get it as it is. It means it is useless.

Actually you do not need to prepare all cobalt output. There are labels and tags and other elements that should not be passed there. Also if you want just to append something better to make it in template. To print out something at the bottom rather than put all content through prepare.

Those things make content prepare plugin work limited only to HTML field.

What plugin in particular you need to treat al Cobalt output?

Just noticed your KnowledgeBase article about Cobalt Events & Triggers. I guess, this is the C8 way to integrate with CB Activity? I would like to do that, but I am lost... and don´t know exactly where to begin :S ._.

This article I wrote for extly.com developers in general.

If you want to integrate you need simple create Joomla plugin which will be installed in mint group. And in onActivity method use $activity->set();

I suggest you to look into Jomsocial plugin.

Off-Topic:

This article I wrote for extly.com developers in general.

Did you hear something about AutoTweet NG support? Are they working on it?

I moved it but generaly just edit it and change category.

pepperstreet And what about "internal links" inside the forum?

That should work because in topic URL only ID of article not even section or category.