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Breaking updates, release announcements, and daily news focusing primarily on extensions, plugins, and module ecosystems.

New Book "Joomla! 3 - The Book for Everyone" Released

16 September 2014

New Joomla! book "Joomla! 3 - The Book for Everyone" written by Simon Grange has been released.

The book itself and more detailed information about this book you can find here:

https://kiwik.net/en/joomla/3/the-book-for-everyone

Details: Category: News; Created: 16 September 2014

Phoca Photo 3.0.0 Released

30 August 2014

Phoca Photo version 3.0.0 has been released. This version is designed for Joomla! 3.3.

Documentation: Phoca Photo documentation site

Download: Phoca Photo download site

Demo: Categories View, Category View, Image view

Changelog:

SQL queries omptimized
Changed header in category view
Added new parameter - Display Categories
Added new parameter - Hide Categories

If you find any bug, please report it in Phoca Forum. Thank you.

Details: Category: News; Created: 30 August 2014

Phoca Cart Development Version 3.0.0 Alpha3 Released

22 August 2014

Phoca Cart component development version 3.0.0 Alpha3 has been released.

Changelog (in comparison to Alpha2):

Added Guest Checkout feature
Added new parameter: Guest Checkout
Added new parameter: Order - Guest Access
Added new parameter: Download - Guest Access
Added Account view (edit shipping and billing address and user profile)
Fixed minor language errors
Added new folder in Order view - Download links (download links of each product, e.g. used for guest checkout)
Added option to proceed checkout without shipping method
Added option to proceed checkout without payment method
Fixed language loading problem in categories view
Added variables to email body text (name, email, download link, order link) for registered users or guests

What does Alpha3 mean:

• this version is designed for developers and testers
• the component is not ready yet, some features are still missing, e.g.

- payment methods

• all features are developed from scratch (there can be a lot of possible problems)
• calculation should be thoroughly tested
• of course such version cannot be used on production site.

What is and what isn't Phoca Cart:

Phoca Cart is simple shopping cart solution for Joomla! 3 CMS. It is not robust e-commerce solution like VirtueMart is. If you are looking for robust e-commerce solution, you should use VirtueMart not PhocaCart (in addition, there is a long way to make Phoca Cart stable and ready).

Why has been released a not completed extension:

Shopping cart solution is really complicated system (for example calculation: inclusive VAT, exclusive VAT, fixed VAT value, percentage VAT value, discounts on all items, on selected items, on selected categories - fixed or percentage, shipping rules based on region, country, amount or weight values, shipping VAT, payments, etc. - all this in various combinations) so it needs to be heavily tested.

If you find any bug or you have some feature request idea, please post a topic to Phoca Forum. Thank you.

For now there are three modules:

• Phoca Cart Cart module - displaying a cart in module position
• Phoca Cart Currency module - displaying currency selector in module position
• Phoca Cart Compare module - displaying selected products to display them in comparison list.

Screenshots: Phoca Cart screenshots site.

Demo: Phoca Cart demo site.

Download:

Phoca Cart component download site.

Phoca Cart download site.

To test Phoca Cart, you need to run Joomla! 3 and template with Bootstrap 3 design, see Phoca Gweld:

Phoca - Joomla! 3 Templates

Inside Phoca Gweld installation package you will find Phoca Upgrade plugin - install this plugin and enable it in your Plugin Manager - it is a system plugin which tries to change Bootstrap 2 design (rendered by Joomla! 3) to Bootstrap 3 design.

See this article: How to install sample data in Phoca Cart to easily test the component.