Joomla 1.6 is now in Beta 7 release, we are expecting the official release sooner rather than later.
For the convenience of our customers, we are in the process of adapting all our extensions to work with Joomla 1.6 as well as 1.5. So far the following extensions are now compatible with Joomla 1.5 and 1.6:-
Existing customers can use their current download id to obtain the latest version of their products.
Our Featured Items Range
Our featured items range of modules are designed to give you the flexibility that you need in displaying Joomla articles.
They allow you to display selected Joomla articles in a variety of formats, including tab panes, accordions, carousels and slideshows. The modules are designed to allow you the greatest possible flexibility in the way you select your Joomla articles, either selecting from one or more categories or sections, or displaying your chosen list of articles. These articles can be displayed in a variety of orderings, and you can choose the exact amount of text to display, ranging from a short extract to the entire article text. You also control whether or not to display a thumbnail, and the thumbnail size.
The modules also have a number of other useful features, including the ability to dynamically resize and cache images, and to trigger content plugins. As well as displaying content from the Joomla Core Content component, the modules can display articles from Mighty Extensions Resources, and we plan to support additional CCKs in the future.
Featured Items Suite
As a special offer you can buy the complete suite in a single pack for a bargain price of £35.00. For this you get: mod featured items, mod featured items pro, mod featured items carousel, mod featured items slideshow and mod newstab. Plus as a bonus you get two of our other Joomla extensions, com jigsaw (a Flash puzzle game for Joomla) and mod random mp3 (an mp3 player module).
Featured Items Slideshow and Newtab Now Support K2
In response to popular demand our Joomla articles modules, Featured Items Slideshow and Mod Newstab now support K2, the powerful content component for Joomla.
Our modules can display an extract from the article intro text plus an image in a variety of formats. The modules can take the article info from the Joomla core content component, from Mighty Extensions Resources, and now K2. The images can use either the K2 image field or an image embedded in the article text.
Featured Items Slideshow displays a slideshow of the article images, which the Newstab module displays article listings in a tab format popular on news-based sites.
The modules also support a range of other sophisticated features, including image caching and content plugins. Read More..
Welcome
Welcome to Spiral Scripts.
We specialise in professional extensions for the Joomla!®** Content Management System. We have a variety of professional components, modules and plugins, also some products available for free download. These are simplified versions of the commercial products, but fully working. All our extensions are open-source.
Our customers include professional web designers and developers creating websites for their clients, as well as webmasters and website owners looking for well-designed extensions that will add something extra to their site.
This is an alternative to the Virtuemart featured products module. It allows you to display featured products in a grid gallery, with the scrolling display of additional images for the product.
Not sure if our Joomla! extensions are for you? We have launched a new demonstration site for our extensions, at http://www.spiralextensions.co.uk. Using this site you will be able to log in as an administrator, and play around with our extensions to your heart's content.
The extensions included on the demo site so far are:-
mod featured items
mod featured items pro
mod featured items carousel
mod news tab
mod featured items slideshow
Amazon Web Services content plugin
Amazon Web Services field plugin for Mighty Extension resources
We plan to include more extensions in the future, depending on its popularity with users.
VirtueMart Featured Products Grid
Switch View
A featured items module that shows selected entries from the SOBI2 business index.
This module can be used as a replacement for the Virtuemart featured products, top products, random products or recent products modules. It displays product images as a 3 Dimensional Flash slideshow.
*****Now compatible with Joomla 1.6*******
A module extension for the the Joomla 1.5 + 1.6 CMS. It displays a short excerpt from articles in a selected category or section, or from a specified list of articles, with link and optional thumbnail image.
*****Now compatible with Joomla 1.6*******
A module extension for the the Joomla 1.5 + 1.6 CMS. It displays a short excerpt from articles in a selected category or section, or from a specified list of articles, with link and optional thumbnail image.
Creating Custom Parameters in Joomla 1.6
In the course of updating our extensions to Joomla 1. Read more..
Using Template Overriding With Joomla
It often happens when you are using a Joomla component or module that you would like to modify the display of the extension in some way.
If the extension uses the MVC (model-view-controller) layout then there is a straightforward way to do this - use template overriding. Read more..
How to Show Different Menus on Different Pages Using Joomla
It is not particularly difficult to do this, it is the kind of thing that Joomla was designed to do.
You need to create your menus first in the menu manager. Read more..
Browser Detection in Joomla
It is often the case that as web developers we need to add some extra coding that will deal with the quirks of particular web browsers . Using Joomla we can take advantage of Joomla's built in browser detection. Read more..
Understanding CSS Selectors When Editing Joomla Templates
When editing a Joomla! template one of the biggest challenges can be finding the css style rules that apply to a particular element. Read more..
Blog Articles
Changes to Joomla 1.6 Installation Manifest
I have been studying the new documentation for the new Beta version of Joomla! 1. Read more..
Recent warnings by the French and German governments have highlighted concerns about the security of Internet Explorer, for example see http://news.bbc. Read more..
The Joomla Community
I am pleased to say that, through our related site Inspiration Web Design, we have just been listed in the Joomla Resources Directory.
And I really am pleased. Read more..
Joomla and the GPL
There have been big changes in the Joomla extensions directory in recents months: since July this year the directory has only included extensions that are licensed under the General Public License (GPL), the same license that Joomla itself is licensed under.
So commercial developers of Joomla extensions have been faced with a choice: either convert to the GPL, or try to go it alone without being listed in the directory. Read more..
FAQ
Paying by Credit Card Using Paypal
If you don't have a Paypal account you can still pay by credit card through Paypal.
Simply click on the link to pay by Paypal. You will see the Paypal... Read more..
How to Get an Access Key for Amazon Web Services Product Advertising API
Both an access key id and a private (secret) key are necessary in order to access the Amazon Web Services Product Advertising API. This is the process... Read more..
I Can't Get the Amazon Plugin to Display Anything
If you are having problems with it these are the things to check.
Firstly, are you getting any error message at all? You should make sure that you have... Read more..
Language Support For Our MP3 Player Module
Our Random MP3 player can display artist and song information about the mp3 file that it is playing.
The player supports the UTF-8 character encoding... Read more..
Displaying artist and track title in the mp3 player
Our Random MP3 player can display artist and song information about the mp3 file that it is playing. It does this by reading the ID3 tags from the file.... Read more..
