Configuration Settings

After the installation, you find the component menu under Components. You have four options in this menu: Lets start with the most important one, Configuration. Productbook Configuration Options Once you opened the configuration screen you get losts op options.All you need to do to get started is look and set the options the way you would like things to appear in your … [Read more...]

Installation of productbook

Installing Productbook is done like any other Joomla Component. Please be adviced that Productbook wil NOT work on a Joomla 1.5 website!, only on version 1.0.x!Not even with the Legacy plugin activated! First you download the latest version of the Component from the Download section The you go into your administration panel en choose installers.Choose components. Browse to … [Read more...]

Online manual for Joomla Productbook

Joomla Productbook is a simpel to use component to show your products. Its just that, nothing more, nothing less. It has some nice features:- Use Categories and Sub-categories to present the products.- You can write Descriptions, Notes, and Instructions- You can easily work with specifications up to 14 with your own descriptions and values- Place price values with and … [Read more...]

New Productbook version running under Safer settings

The new productbook version now runs with full security settings on. That means you can run it with PHP register_globals setting set to 'OFF' and also with RG_Emulation set to 'Off'. This was one of the mayor works to get done, on wich a lot of thanks goes to Gilles Pennequin of France. He did the most part of the conversion of productbook to a sefer mode. He also wrote … [Read more...]

New version of Productbook with RG_Emulation set to Off

Finally it has arrived, the new version 1.0.3 Just two things changed: Upload possibility for mulitple images at once via a zip file. But the biggest change is that productbook now runs with Registred Globals OFF and with RG_Emulation set to OFF. A Big Thank You for working on the fix for the RG_Emulation OFF issue goes to Gilles Pennequin of France. So now you can run … [Read more...]

Productbook Installer error Fixed

My apologies to all the people running in to problems with the previous download of the Productbook Component.I uploaded the wrong installation file some time ago, so if you downloaded the file between the 13the of November and the 12th of December today, You could not install the component. … [Read more...]

Productbook Spanish Translation

Today I have put the Productbook Spanish Translation in the Download section. Thanks to Erick Larios of Angelical Records now one of the larges language in the world have there translation.He has also a great example of a Images Modified Productbook. www.angelicalrecords.com I think it is a major step for Productbook. So now we just need the Chinese and Japanse language, … [Read more...]

How to remove the pricing settings

A question came up to use the Productbook component as a kind of Portfolio. There was no use for the left section part on the page with pricing information etc.The overview page had no use for pricing either. To realise this you first have to put off rating in the configuration. Then you have te edit two files: productbook.php productbookdetails.php Look in … [Read more...]

How to change the name products

Changing the name "Product"  in the productbook compont can sometimes be wishfull. Lets say you have a site about Adopting Animals and you don't want your Productbook say "Products" but "Adaption Animals" since this is so much nicer How to do this: Just replace the "product" tekst in the language file english.php You … [Read more...]