Virtual Community

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Virtual Community Social Networking with
JoomlaFor Space City Aquatic Team
Capstone Project Team 3Midterm
PresentationFebruary 26, 2008
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Team Information

• Instructor
• Dr. Kwok-Bun Yue
• University of Houston Clear Lake
• Chair, SCE
• Mentor
• Mr. Dilhar De Silva
• CTO, AtLink Communications Inc.

• Team Members
• Stewart Nagle (Team Lead)
• Mirac Aktepe
• Sunny Verma
• Christopher Boerger
• Anubha Jain

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Contents
Stewart Nagle Mirac Aktepe

• Introduction
• Team Members
• Instructor Mentor
• Contents
• Abstract
• Joomla Background
• What is Joomla
• Technical Terms associated with Joomla
• Joomla Structures

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Contents

• Chat System
• Other Chat systems and features
• Team 3 Additions
• User Registration
• Current Registration Process
• Team 3 Additions
• Personal Work Area
• Team 3 Additions
• Training Log Feedback
• Coachs Season Plan

Sunny Verma Christopher Boerger
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Contents

• Payment Gateway
• Other Payment systems and features
• Team 3 Additions
• Design Constraints

Anubha Jain
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Project Abstract

• Continuation of previous semester project
• Previous Semester focused on
• Recreating existing site with Joomla
• Adding functionality using third party modules
• Community Builder
• Slick RSS
• Zoom media gallery
• Fireboard

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Project Abstract

• This semester will focus on adding functionality
  customized for SCAT
• Main goals of this semester
• Modify user registration for additional user
  types
• Add seasonal training plan and training log
• Add Payment gateway
• Add private chat room(s)

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What is Joomla

• Joomla! is a
• Content Management System
• Application Framework
• A website Swiss-Army knife
• Available under the GNU/GPL License

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Joomla Websites
www.womensedge.org
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Joomla Websites
www.unric.org
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What is Joomla
Joomla! System Requirements PHP 4.2.x or
above MySQL 3.23.x or above Apache
1.3.x or above What does this mean? Joomla is
compatible with a wide variety of servers.
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What is Joomla

• Joomla! Releases
• Joomla 1.0.13
• Still compatible with Mambo.
• Maximum compatibility with 3rd Party Ext.
• Joomla 1.5 RC 2
• Numerous core upgrades, including SEO, account
  security, and more.
• Not yet 1.5 Final

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Joomla Extensions (ad-ons/plug-ins)

• Add-ons are differentiated by function. They
• can be organized into three broad categories
• Components Components are extensions that extend
  the capability of the system beyond content
  management. They generally have administrative
  options particular to their operation that can be
  edited under the Components menu. Output from
  components is generally displayed in the
  website's main body.

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Joomla Extensions (ad-ons/plug-ins)

• Modules They generally control the blocks
  available as sidebar content they can display
  limited aspects of the output from components.
• Mambots (aka Plug-ins) These extensions make
  alterations to system functions to attain
  specific goals.
• Templates Joomla's templating system simply
  wraps HTML and CSS around the internal PHP calls
  that pull in the dynamic content.

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Joomla Administration(Back-end)
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Joomla Community Builder
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Joomla and Web 2.0
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Chat System

• Aim is to develop a chat system where registered
  users will be able to send instant messages to
  other registered users like coaches, swimmers etc.

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Chat System

• Who is online module should show all the online
  users and they should be able to chat with each
  other. Only the registered users will be able to
  chat with each other.

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Chat System

• Various extensions available for chat system
  developed for Joomla are
• - Ajax Powered JChat
• - AVChat 2.1 - Flash Video Chat Component
• - FreeCHAT for joomla v0.2

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FreeCHAT v0.2 for Joomla

• This is one of the free chat component
  available in joomla. FreeCHAT is an Ajax powered
  Php-Chat. Some of its features are
• - New Design
• - More Smileys
• - 6 Standard Chat rooms
• - Site name Chat Name
• - Site User automatically get their username
• as nick

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User Registration

• Purpose
• Personalize experience for each user
• Users' roles define what users see
• Swimmers
• Coaches
• Parents
• Friends Family

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User Registration

• Current design
• One form for all users
• Unnecessary fields
• Cluttered look

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User Registration

• Updated design
• Separate form depending on type of registrant
• Parents, Friends Family
• Associate their account with Swimmers
• Coaches
• Associate their account with all of their
  Swimmers.

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Personal Work Area

• Used by swimmers to track personal goals
• Users give permission to others to view it
• Two parts
• Seasonal Plan
• Training Log

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Personal Work Area

• The Seasonal Plan helps a swimmer set goals for
  the year.
• Swimmers
• Set goals for the season.
• Track progress for each goal.
• Coaches
• Help swimmers set goals.

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Personal Work Area

• Training log is a daily log of activities
  performed by a swimmer.
• Swimmers
• Track daily activity
• Input through personal work area
• Coaches
• Track progress of swimmers
• Create reports for each swimmer

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Payment Gateway

• A payment gateway is an e-commerce application
  service provider service that authorizes payments
  for e-businesses.
• A payment gateway facilitates the transfer of
  information between a payment portal and the
  Front End Processor

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Payment Gateway

• Various types of payment portals are available
  such as
• - PayPal
• - Google Checkout
• - Authorize. Net
• - eWay
• - SecPay

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Payment Gateway

• There are various plug-ins available in joomla
  for setting up a payment gateway. Some of these
  are
• - nBill
• - PayPal Credit System
• - DT Billing
• - JIpn
• - Account Expiration Control Subscription
  Manager

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nBill

• nBill is a component for the Joomla Content
  Management System. nBill is a commercial
  component (not open source) which adds further
  functionality to Joomla to enable to manage
  financial transactions, orders, and invoicing for
  business, and to offer products and services for
  sale online using order forms that can be easily
  build.

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nBill

• Produces regular invoices for recurring payments
• Supports paid user subscriptions
• Records all income and expenditure, order
  management, customizable order forms, handles
  tax, carriage, currencies, discounts, nominal
  ledgers, etc.

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nBill

• Log in and view orders and invoices online
• Payment gateways allow for orders and invoices to
  be paid for online
• Some of the files in this component are protected
  with ionCube Encoder

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Questions?
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References

• www.joomla.org
• www.brandondawson.org/ohiolinuxfest/OLF_Joomla_Pre
  sentation.ppt
• www.idealware.org/articles/joomla_drupal_plone.php