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All components disappeared
On Monday April 23rd at about 7 pm the table storing all the components created by Component Creator users was unfortunately emptied. We are still investigating how and why this happened, but we are leaning towards a corrupted database file.
We have restored a backup of that table from April 22nd. This unfortunately means that some work our users have been doing might be affected. Any affected component (components created between the 22nd and the 23rd) has been restored as com_restored. If you have this component in your account, please review it and rename it.
Any changes to tables, fields, views etc., should not have been affected.
To prevent this issue from happening again we are implementing increased logging, as well as adding more frequent backups to our backup schedule.
We are very sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused you.
On Monday April 23rd at about 7 pm the table storing all the components created by Component Creator users was unfortunately emptied. We are still investigating how and why this happened, but we are leaning towards a corrupted database file.
We have restored a backup of that table from April 22nd. This unfortunately means that some work our users have been doing might be affected. Any affected component (components created between the 22nd and the 23rd) has been restored as com_restored. If you have this component in your account, please review it and rename it.
Any changes to tables, fields, views etc., should not have been affected.
To prevent this issue from happening again we are implementing increased logging, as well as adding more frequent backups to our backup schedule.
We are very sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused you.
Component Creator 3.0 new features
As you can see, the new version 3.0 of Component Creator has launched, and it brings a brand new and fully responsive design. But that’s only part of the latest changes. The new version comes fully packed with great new features:
Limiting the amount of fields you can add on one table in non-premium accounts
Today we are announcing that non-premium accounts will no longer be able to add more than 30 fields per table. Additionally, starting September 1st, 2017 these users will no longer be able to build components with more than 30 fields.
Why this limit?
During our migration to the new design we discovered that a large portion of our users is adding too many fields to their tables. In some cases, users have added as many as 200 fields to one table. We have decided to prevent this from happening from now on for several reasons.
Joomla! 3.7 backwards compatibility issue
Last month Joomla! launched their long-awaited 3.7 update. This update came with lots of good new features, and also many smaller updates that improved the already existing features.
Unfortunately for Component Creator and its users, this update caused a fatal error in many components. It caused a backwards compatibility issue with customized components created before the release of Joomla! 3.7. But luckily it’s easy to fix. All you have to do is follow the following two steps:
OSCampus - the New Joomla LMS
OSCampus is the new Learning Management System (LMS) for Joomla. It is very robust and widely used at OSTraining, where it’s already used by 1,000's of people every week.
OSCampus is organized in a very simple way: Classes contain Lessons. Everything is a secondary feature which can be configured or can also be omitted.
Secondary features of the Classes are: Teacher, Class image, Pathways (similar to the Joomla categories), Tags (similar to the core Joomla tags), Length (overall length of the whole class) and Difficulty (currently Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced)
This article will guide you through the OSCampus installation and features.
Most important computer code ever written
Even before the first computer was invented people have been writing code. Code has helped us land on the Moon and is helping us understand and map the human DNA. In everyday life code lands airplanes, drives trains and makes our roads safer.
But what was the most important code ever written? At Component Creator we know about important code. With more than 50,000 developers using our service to write code that (at least according to some of the support tickets we get) is extremely important to their owners.
Featured User: Janne Riihimäki
Every month or so, we try to talk to some of our users and feature their story on our blog. This month we had a chat with Janne Riihimäki, entrepreneur and CEO of NagreMedia A Joomla development company based in Lahti, Finland.
Featured User: Samdy Lonh
Every month or so, we try to talk to some of our users and feature their story on our blog. This month we had a chat with Samdy Lonh, A freelance Web Developer based in Cambodia who specialises in Joomla and PHP.
New features: More functionality for the Foreign Key field + New Color Picker field
This month we have added more functionality to the Foreign Key field. In case you haven’t used Component Creator yet, the Foreign Key field is the standard method we use to cross-reference tables.
Ending support for Joomla 2.5 components
From December 13th 2016 we will no longer support the creation of joomla 2.5 components. We are also stopping the addition of new features to the 2.5 branch of Component Creator effective immediately.
The reasons are the following:
