Symphony Extensions
In case you are using Symphony, you certainly know Subsection Manager and Date and Time, two extensions I have been developing over the last years. Both have moved to a new home at Github.
But maybe you have not used Symphony yet, or haven’t found an excuse to use it lately. If you have not already fallen in love with XSLT and the simplicity of the backend, you’ll have to check it out now in order to try these two extensions:
Subsection Manager
Symphony offers an easy way to create sections and model the fields the way you like. Nevertheless, from time to time you need to connect the content of two sections: you might have an articles section you’d like to link images to, or you are building a books section you’d like to connect with authors. With a default Symphony install, you can use select boxes or Selectbox Link Fields to create these connections, but you will not be able to see and manage all your content at once. Subsection Manager tries to solve this problem by providing an inline management of another section’s content. By adding the Subsection Manager field to your parent section, you can integrate another section as a subsection. The subsection’s entries can be managed through the inline interface as well as the regular Symphony section entry list. You can opt for inline editing only by simply hiding the specified section from the menu.
As of version 2.0, this extension bundles a second field type: Subsection Tab. It provides a tabbed interface of subsection entries that is well-suited to manage multilingual content. All tabs are static and have to be set up in the field settings.
Subsection Manager is now available under its new address at github.com/hananils/subsectionmanager.
Date and Time
Date and Time offers an easy interface providing a calendar widget that helps creating multiple dates and date ranges. The field respects the system settings and displays date and time accordingly. Nevertheless, it is capable to read and understand all relative date formats known to PHP 5.
It’s now available at github.com/hananils/datetime.
Both extension are released under MIT license and available for free. If you’d like to contribute, feel free to fork the source and send a pull request.
If you are using one of the two extensions as submodules in your projects, check out this excellent guide by Nils Werner over at symphonyextensions.com which also covers moved sources.