CKEditor (formerly FCKeditor) - an open source WYSIWYG text editor
CKEditor (formerly FCKeditor) is an open source WYSIWYG text editor from CKSource that can be used in web pages. It aims to be lightweight and requires no client-side installation. The first version was released in 2003.
Its core code is written in JavaScript, having server side interfaces with Active-FoxPro, ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, Java, JavaScript, Lasso, Perl, PHP, Python. and Ruby on Rails.
CKEditor is compatible with most Internet browsers, including: Internet Explorer 6.0+ (Windows), Firefox 2.0+, Safari 3.0+, Google Chrome (Windows), Opera 9.50+, and Camino 1.0+ (Macintosh).
MediaWiki+FCKeditor
MediaWiki+FCKeditor was a branch of FCKeditor developed for WYSIWYG wiki editing.[4]Support for both have been discontinued.
Name change
The FCK in FCKeditor stands for Frederico Caldeira Knabben, the creator of the editor and the project's Benevolent Dictator for Life. Those letters resemble a well-known vulgarity in the English language (something that Frederico, a native Brazilian, was unaware of when he first released the program). As a result, Knabben changed the program's name to CKEditor beginning with v3.0. The CK letters now stand for Content and Knowledge.
Vulnerabilities
FCKEditor 2.5.1 and 2.6.6 contain a file renaming bug that allows remote code execution. Specifically, it is possible to upload ASP code via the ASP.NET connector in FCKEditor. The vulnerability requires that the remote server be running IIS. The vulnerability was discovered by security researchers from Rapid7 in August 2010.
JoomSEF - SEO (Search Engine Optimization) component for Joomla!
ARTIO JoomSEF is a SEO (Search Engine Optimization) component for Joomla! Content Management System that rewrites URLs to be Search Engine Friendly (SEF) and to be human easily understandable. It works with multilingual sites by integrating JoomFish component support. It enables users full customization of wide-range of meta tags for any URL of the website and works with both Apache HTTP Server and IIS.
It is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database by default.
Main Features List
- rewrites original Joomla! URLs to be Search Engine Friendly and human understandable
- provides support for multilingual sites using JoomFish
- URLs internationalization
- wide range of editable meta tags for any URL in your Joomla!
- fully customizable URLs
- customizable 404 page
- helps you handle 301 redirects
- works with Apache and IIS
- online updates
- modularity - supports 3rd party modules
- caching of most used URLs to decrease DB load
- options to configure parameters per extension
- plug-in system - easily add more extensions for your components
- support for sef_ext.php files written for OpenSEF or SEF Advance
EasyBlog
EasyBlog is a commercial open source component software for the for the Joomla! Content Management System developed by Stackideas. EasyBlog was first introduced on May 19, 2010. EasyBlog is compatible with Joomla! version 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and the new Joomla 2.5.
Features
EasyBlog has a number of features including pre-built styles to match most Joomla! templates; social media sharing support; multiple blogger environment and RSS subscriptions. Some distinct features include:
- Remote blogging capability
- Email blogging
- Third-party SEF plugins
- Location service
- Comprehensive 3rd-party plug-in integration
- Zemanta integration
- Facebook and Twitter integration
Reviews
EasyBlog has been rated 4.95 out of 5.00 from 211 reviews and is one of the top Joomla! Extensions featured on the Joomla! Extension Directory as at 20 December 2011. CGA Web Designs recommends EasyBlog for its clients given its ease of use, close integration, effective features and Search Engine Optimization friendly. Users have also commended EasyBlog for having good customer support.
Jafilia - an Affiliate program creator, open source Affiliate solution
Jafilia is a Free and Open Source software. An Affiliate program creator and affiliate network manager for Joomla and VirtueMart that allows Joomla! and VirtueMart site owners to create affiliate campaigns and manage a network of affiliates with ease. It is delivered in the form of a Joomla! component or extension. Jafilia is written in PHP and makes use of Javascript and Ajax.
History
Jafilia is the result of a discussion thread started on December 1, 2007 at the VirtueMart forums titled "VM affiliates for 28$" where a group of VirtueMart users that where, concerned with the lack of an Open Source Affiliate Manager for Virtuemart agreed to rise funds to start up the project.
Version 1.0 RC2 is considered stable and was released on Friday, 12 September 2008 The 1.5 version with Joomla 1.5 native support and compliant with virtuemart 1.3 was released on 1 July 2009.
Features
Jafilia provides easy affiliation procedures using either Joomla! or VirtueMart registration processes. The site administrator can track every affiliate activity, approve fees and deliver payments from inside the Joomla! administrator interface. Both, administrators and users can take a fast preview of the program activity by entering the charts section. Jafilia supports text links, banners and media rich adverts.
Because Jafilia is an open source Affiliate solution, licensed under the GPL license, all the application code is openly visible in PHP. This allows PHP developers to view, update or customize the operation of the affiliate program as well as to fork or redistribute the source code.
Requirements
Jafilia is a plugin or component for Joomla! and Mambo, it has the same system requirements, which are currently: Joomla! 1.0.x or Mambo (>= 4.5.1) recommended: Joomla! 1.5.x and PHP 4.2.x or above - recommended: PHP 4.4.x MySQL 3.23.x or above -recommended: MySQL 4.0.x Apache 1.13.19 or above -recommended: Apache 2.x Several other required supporting libraries or extensions include MySQL, XML and Zlib support built into PHP. Support for https (openSSL) and cURL is recommended.
Compatibility
The latest version of Jafilia, that is Jafilia 1.5, is compatible with Joomla 1.5.x Natively and with Virtuemart 1.1.3
Phoca Gallery - an image gallery
Phoca Gallery is an open source project, an image gallery run in Joomla! CMS. It is programmed in PHP and run on web server with enabled PHP support and installed Joomla!. It includes component, modules and plugins and allows users to display images or Youtube videos in many different styles.
Phoca Gallery allows displaying images uploaded on the server or from Picasa[1] or Facebook[2] applications.
For displaying images on the website with help of Phoca Gallery, only component needs to be run. Images can be displayed in articles created by Joomla! with help of Phoca Gallery plugin. Phoca Gallery Image module displays images from Phoca Gallery in Joomla! module positions
Phoca Gallery is standard Joomla! extensions and it can be extended by plugins and modules. There are many different modules and plugins for Phoca Gallery listed on Joomla! extensions directory.
History
Phoca Gallery 3 is the current release of Phoca Gallery. It is a complete rewrite of Phoca Gallery 2 to work in Joomla 1.6 or 1.7. Phoca Gallery 3.1.1 was released on October 28, 2011.
Phoca Gallery 2 was released on September 28, 2008. Many new features were added to Phoca Gallery 2, so Phoca Gallery was not more a simple gallery but full featured gallery for Joomla! CMS.
Phoca Gallery 1 was released on September 20, 2007. It was simple image gallery which didn't include many features.
Requirements
Phoca Gallery 3 requires:
MySQL 5.0.4 or greater
PHP version 5.2.4 or greater
Joomla! version 1.6 or 1.7 or greater