Troubleshooting - Content being stripped away
The CKEditor framework (which our editor is built upon) is known for being very good at respecting and handling code however, if y...
Troubleshooting - Image height & width
By default the editor and media manager does not insert height and width values for its images and will insert something like this:
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Uninstalling
To uninstall with the Ark Extension manager
To uninstall the with the Ark Extensions Manager:
Navigate to 'Components' and click on 'Ark Extension Manager'. Th...
Upgrading
Automatic update process
The good news is that the core ‘Ark Editor’ and ‘Component’ comes with it own 'Ark Extension Manager' which provides a simple and easy way t...
Upgrading - Automatic Update Process
The good news is that the core 'Ark Editor' and 'Component' utilises Joomla’s Update Manager so the whole upgrade process is automated and ...
Plugin Manager - Creating Basic ARK Editor Plugins
To create a basic Ark Editor plugin:
Download the plugin you wish to modify, from here: http://ckeditor.com/addons/plugins...
Creating a Content Template
To create a content template, the first thing to do, is work out what you would like as a template and customise it to fit your project. The file wh...
Using the Font Awesome Plugin
You can add icons to your content, using the Font Awesome plugin.
Installing the Font Awesome plugin:
Click on the 'Client Area' button, in th...
Content Styling
CSS is a core technology, we use for building pages. While HTML provides the structure of your page, CSS works to provide the visual styling. Content editors ar...
Creating Image Rollovers in CSS
Image rollovers can be an interesting and elegant way to navigate your users through your site. Having graphical images that come into focus o...
Working with Image Styles
Let’s take a look at some techniques, that you can use to style images. An image style is represented as a class style within your <img> tag and...
Creating a Content Lightbox
1. Select some text or an image to apply the link to > click on the 'Link' icon.
2. Enter the relative path into the URL field (the path witho...
Chapter 7: Adding Extra Fields [Adding Read and Update functionality for your extra field]
So for our mycck component, we have to create an ARKContexts class as we did for the ...
Chapter 7: Adding Extra Fields [Modifying the ARKExtension class]
If you modified your component directly or used Joomla’s template override to add your editable region, please...
Chapter 7: Adding Extra Fields [Modifying component layout or template layout override]
Okay, what we do in this section is similar to what we did in the Component Override and...
Chapter 7: Adding Extra Fields
This section is for those who have a component that has more than one or two types, that they want to make editable during inline editing.
We br...
Chapter 6: Creating the Package
Okay, if you have been following this tutorial, you should have created similar files as follows:
+files_inlinemycck [FILES_INLINE + COMPONEN...
Chapter 5: Versioning [Step 2: Adding a version method]
In this part, we are going to add a method to our two classes: ARKContextsMyCCKCategory and ARKContextsMyCCKItem we crea...