ZOOlanders Documentation

# ZOOitemPro

ZOOlanders ZOOitemPro Module is a module that renders ZOO Items with advanced pre-filtering.

# Layouts

Several layouts are available right out of the box, but you can create custom layouts as well.

# Default

Renders the pre-filtered Items in an Unordered List.

  • Renderer Layout: The ZOO render layout that will be used for the Items rendering.
  • Media Position: The media position alignment.
  • Cache Time: The Items caching time before they are recached. Set to 0 to disable caching.
  • Module Class Suffix: The class that will be prefixed to the module wrapper.
  • Filter/Order: This layout supports the advanced filter and order feature.

# Current

Constrained to Item full view renders current Item content in positions outside ZOO.

  • Renderer Layout: The ZOO render layout that will be used for the Items rendering.
  • Media Position: The media position alignment.
  • Module Class Suffix: The class that will be prefixed to the module wrapper.

# CurrentTags

Constrained to Item full view renders Items that are tagged with current Item tags. Supports additional pre-filtering.

  • Renderer Layout: The ZOO render layout that will be used for the Items rendering.
  • Media Position: The media position alignment.
  • Cache Time: The Items caching time before they are recached. Set to 0 to disable caching.
  • Module Class Suffix: The class that will be prefixed to the module wrapper.
  • Filter/Order: This layout supports the advanced filter and order feature.

# Currentcat

Constrained to Category full view renders current Category Items. Supports additional pre-filtering.

  • Renderer Layout: The ZOO render layout that will be used for the Items rendering.
  • Media Position: The media position alignment.
  • Cache Time: The Items caching time before they are recached. Set to 0 to disable caching.
  • Module Class Suffix: The class that will be prefixed to the module wrapper.
  • Filter/Order: This layout supports the advanced filter and order feature.

# Grid

Renders the pre-filtered Items in a grid.

  • Renderer Layout: The ZOO render layout that will be used for the Items rendering.
  • Media Position: The media position alignment.
  • Cache Time: The Items caching time before they are recached. Set to 0 to disable caching.
  • Columns: The number of columns to be used when displaying the grid.
  • Module Class Suffix: The class that will be prefixed to the module wrapper.
  • Filter/Order: This layout supports the advanced filter and order feature.

# ZOOtrack

ZOOtrack integration rendering the last viewed items.

# Widgetkit

Widgetkit layout is a integration layer between the module and Widgetkit (opens new window) allowing to render a Widget using the module Items as content. For details about configuration options visit the Widgetkit documentation (opens new window).

# Filter/Order

ZOOitemPro provides an advanced filtering and ordering for the rendered Items. The most important ones are:

Filter

  • Apps: Filters the Items by the Apps they are part of. No selection equals to all.
  • Types: Filters the Items by their Types. No selection equals to all.
  • Categories: Filters the Items by the Categories they are part of. No selection equals to all.
  • Tags: Filters the Items by the Tags they are tagged with. No selection equals to all.
  • Author: Filters the Items by their Authors. Values are set with User IDs delimited by a comma. The [userid] variable can be used to add the ID of the current User.
  • Published State: Filters the Items by their Published State.
  • Frontpage State: Filters the Items by their Frontpage State.
  • Offset: The query offset.
  • Limit: The query limit.
  • Created: Filters the Items by its created date.
  • Modified: Filters the Items by its modified date.
  • Published Up: Filters the Items by its published up date.
  • Published Down: Filters the Items by its published down date.

TIP

Dates inputs support [yesterday], [today] and [tomorrow] variables allowing dynamic filtering.

WARNING

Filtering on repeatable dates is not supported.

Order

  • Random: Sets a random order for the filtered items.
  • Reverse: Reverse the final ordering.
  • Priority: If enabled the Items priority would be considered for the ordering.
  • Alphanumeric: Allows choosing if the ordering should be done with alphanumeric values. Enable if your order is failing, specially if there are numbers involved.
  • Core: Allows to choose the core element by which will be made the order.

More options are available for the Element specific filtering and ordering depending of the App/Type selected.

# Customizations

# Custom Module Layouts

Creating custom layouts for ZOOitemPro is strightforward, just duplicate the Default layout file and folder and start adapting those as you needed.

TIP

You can place your custom layouts in the Joomla Theme overriding folders.

# Custom ZOO Render Layouts

The default render layouts are sometimes not enough, luckily is possible creating custom ones following the ZOO Custom Module Layouts Guide (opens new window). Notice that the guide references the mod_zooitem module, but the same practice can be done with the pro version changing the paths to mod_zooitempro.

ZOOitemPro will respect your changes in the renderer folder during updates.

# Custom Elements support

In order to filter by custom elements, those must have specified the ZL Filter group Category, Date, Input, Option or Rating in the manifest declaration:

  1. Open the custom element XML manifest file and localize the <element> tag.
  2. Add the zl_filter_group attribute with the appropriate category value.

The resultant tag should look like <element type="{type}" zl_filter_group="{group}">.

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