Flickr + Highslide M The Flickr + Highslide module extension displays photos from Flickr within your Joomla!. The module displays an elegant looking display of Flickr content and contain
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DIVX and AVI (HD videos)
WMV and WMA (Windows Media)
PNG, JPG, GIF (images)
Metacafe.com
Brightcove.com
YouTube.com
video.Google.com
video.Yahoo
To download this extension, visit http://extensions.joomla.org/ and search for
"JMultimedia Suite"
Joomla! and audio and radio channel
integration
Presenting audio and radio from external sites is an ever increasing request, and
extensions have been springing up regularly that provide solutions
As with video, a number of audio solutions are available for Joomla!
that also collaborate with external resources See the extension listings
in Chapter 5 for some Joomla! audio solutions
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The LCPlayer allows you to enter in any URL of a radio feed, or television feed, and
have this played in your Joomla! site via the LCPlayer module:
The module works by an administrator adding in the URL of a radio or TV feed These
stations will be available to the user from a drop-down menu The administrator can
set permission for this user menu as well as adjust the player width and logo image
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To download this extension, visit http://extensions.joomla.org/ and search
for "LCPlayer"
Joomla! and photo integration
Joomla! works well with images and the opportunities for displaying photos
and galleries from external resources is vast Here are some of the more popular
extensions used for this purpose
A number of image extensions for Joomla! also offer the ability to display
content from external resources
UniversalPlayground - Flickr slideshow plug-in (P)
The UniversalPlayground - Flickr slideshow plug-in displays slideshows from your
Flickr account with a simple lightbox effect:
This extension uses the phpFlickr library, Slimbox (a lightweight visual lightbox
clone), and the TripTracker slideshow scripts
A single photo, or complete gallery sets, can be displayed by entering a simple
expression into your articles, for example: [flickrphoto=xxx] (where xxx is
replaced by the photo ID number)
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A Flickr API key is required to enter into your plugin, and a link to this is
available from the module and developer's website
To download this extension, visit http://extensions.joomla.org/ and search for
"UniversalPlayground - Flickr slideshow"
Flickr + Highslide (M)
The Flickr + Highslide module extension displays photos from Flickr within your
Joomla! site using the Highslide JavaScript effect:
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Highslide is an open source media and gallery viewer written in JavaScript The
module displays an elegant looking display of Flickr content and contains the
following features:
13 unique ways of displaying your photos
Eight different gallery styles
Displays photos from a photoset
Displays all photos of a user
Displays photos in latest or random order
Ability to change the size of images and thumbnails
Ability to separate photos into pages
Displays the titles of photos
The module will require your Flickr account ID It also offers numerous
styling parameters:
To download this extension, visit http://extensions.joomla.org/ and search for
"Flickr Highslide"
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For busy news and community portals, offering a weather forecast is a popular
requirement Google Weather is a popular resource for the source of weather
information for these extensions, and this is due to the global solution it provides
There are numerous other weather extensions also; here are some popular ones
Google Weather - Plugin (P, M)
The Google Weather - Plugin is a lightweight plugin that uses the Google Weather
Forecast API to display the current weather in your Joomla! Articles:
By using simple plugin tags to trigger the plugin, it is possible to include
{WEATHERCITY,COUNTRY} into your content and the plugin will do the rest!
The plugin is installed via the Extension Manager and then configured using the
Plugin Manager Numerous styling options are available and the plugin can be
configured using custom CSS You can display the weather as often as you like
using the plugin tags throughout your articles
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A Google Weather plugin is also now available, to easily display weather in a
module position
To download this extension, visit http://extensions.joomla.org/ and search for
"Google Weather"
Z Weather (C,M,P)
Z Weather is a component, module, and plugin that displays weather for U.S cities
using data provided by the National Weather Service Forecasts, current conditions,
and weather alerts are supported Weather for either a single city or multiple cities
can be displayed:
Numerous display options are available, including single-day and multiple-day
forecasts, 3-hour (new!), 12-hour, or 24-hour forecast display, pop up weather
window (overlib), and vertical and horizontal layout options
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then configured using the applicable managers Each element provides its own set
of parameters and configuration options in order to display the weather as you
would like:
To download this extension, visit http://extensions.joomla.org/ and search for
"Z Weather"
eWeather (C,M)
eWeather is a component (with an additional module) which will show a visually
appealing display of current conditions and weather forecast in your Joomla! pages
The weather data is supplied by The Weather Channel via an XML feed:
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One nice feature of the component is to allow your site visitors to select their own
city and the ability to see a five-day forecast There is, however, some "Weather
Channel" advertising throughout the display of information
eWeather is a powerful component allowing configurations within the component
configuration settings These include:
New overview and management of installed regions/countries
Default configuration of a city
Weather forecast for up to five days
Date/time format freely definable
Proxy definable
New icon styling packs are now available to customize the look of your site
An accompanying module is also available to display the weather in any
module position:
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for "eWeather"
Joomla! and news channel integration
There are a number of good news channel extensions available to pull external
news in and display this on your site pages Using RSS techniques, it is possible
to manually perform this process, but the following extensions make things nice
and easy
Google News (M)
The Google News Module embeds Google News stories into any module position
on your site It allows your site visitors to see the headlines and previews of Google
News, which you have selected to show:
This module contains numerous parameters, including the ability to filter topics,
adjust the size, country, and language that gets displayed It is a simple module, but
perfect for those wanting to easily display Google News in their Joomla! website