Connect your Website with SL the EASY way... a challenge for the developer community

Hi there, thanks for your post about our project!
I appreciate your comments.

However, the lazy comment doesnt really sit well with me. Most particulary, because Ive worked in many places where people confuse working hard, with working smart.

If an individual wanted to say ... search the internet. They could choose to purchase a server farm, and then program a search engine to propagate and break down the search over the distributed CPU's and then punch into the terminal the search that they were looking for,

or, they could use google.

The idea behind this project, is to use a CMS (in this case Joomla) and combine our collective efforts into something that helps us all.

How many people do you know that wanted a prim to communicate with their website, wanted their storefront to serve their virtual items, or a visitor counter that connected to their backend database - but lacked the resources to accomplish this?

Since Joomla is fairly easy to use for a web admin, and accepts plugins, components, and modules, programmed by a vast array of developers across the globe, I feel its a natural bridge, that could be useful the the large audience of business startups who dont have the capital or resources to higher a team of programmers.

The best thing about an open source effort as well, is that the code just keeps getting better. After submitted to the code repository, others download, fix bugs, improve and re-submit - thus, the whole community benefits

Another thing going for this project, as mentioned earlier, is the fact that Joomla has a massive and highly connected development community. The LSL community also shares this simularity, Thus, merging the two could prove to be a powerful duo!

This past week, (in six hours) I managed to launch http://www.joomlasl.org. It's not a perfect site, (with not much to offer... yet) but, personally, I think it looks pretty good... and will eventually get to the place where we want it to be

- if your needs are simple - ie: a 5 page website with very simple functions, then sure, tackle it yourself!

However, Id much rather build a community and work on some exciting projects together!
We can use all the help we can get!

So join us!!! Resistance is futile! hehe just joking.

anyhow, have a good one, stop by at my island English Village, and say hi - we are currently trying to get our joomla 1.013 terminal going!

Cheers!

Fire

Hi everyone, good news, we have launched http://www.joomlasl.org to help with the development efforts of bringing second life to the webpage!

come sign up and join the development community of connecting your website with Second Life!

I've been following the progress of the post and the website.. looks like you have gotten off to an excellent start.. GL with that...

I'm curous how the information is ported into SL.. does it require a pluggin.. I noticed the website was JS... Is there wrapper modules for media? Whats more important from my perspective.. is there interaction with media, like action scripts?

I noticed that most of SL users seem to like PHP for server side scripting for some reason.
For anyone who is interested in this topic but prefers ASP.NET then you should look into DotNetNuke. It's also open source and also has a very strong developer base.
I've been using it for a long time and have nothing bad to say about it.

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/

Hello Fire and everyone on here.

Fire, I think this is a fantastic idea. I have been playing with Joomla for about a month now and I love this CMS! I am working on a site that aims to bridge Real Life with the metaverse. It will also cover topics that are unique to these new changing times that deal with RL issues and SL or metaverse issues that both impact the other. Like you, it is still a work in progress.

And yes, I agree that if we all start NOW, in this relatively early stage (it still is) and work together to develop great apps (Open source of course!) for seemless integration with our sites and with SL - we would already be way ahead of the game.

I look forward to getting to know everyone here in the forum and to seeing where our developments will take all of us.

Thank you for initiating this project.

Regards,
Ysabel Isabella (SL)
Carmen Villadar (RL)

umm... The joomlasl.org site is not loading for me. Can you post the link to the component so I can try to understand this thing? *is so confused*

Has some of this been muted due to the now added linking through the media pipelines in the client for http etc displays onto prim textures?
I'd like to see better controls over the media, pause, back and forth directly active. With Flash being introduced (opps did I let the cat out of the bag?) this year, with a promise of active scripts.. isn't that going to be seen as the way to go?

There is apparently a new development site. http://jslplus.os-networks.net/wiki/Main_Page

Hello fellow Jomlaists

I read now all over the sites and on many protals ,cant find any thing on that topic.
And hope this treat is still alive .
What iam looking for is a Modul to control the land media Stream on a Parcel.
Somehow like the Itunes To sl .
To play m3u Playlist files in SL .Or bether forward the Stream Urls song after song
The urls are Mp3 files like overd from amyn Music Portals .
As its not direct posible to play m3u Playlist files it woud be great solution to get a Webbased
Modul that feeds the Prime Radio with the playlist Urls .
Ther are some Stream Radio Moduls out there ,but best solution woud be a Modul, That could also play when site Admin is offline too.
Ther is some great inovation on the Crux Player witch plays Spif files (Opensource)
but as the M3u is more comon it could need a m3u Playlsit to SPif conwertor with a webbased script .
Excuse my bad english typing (bad in Syntax )

Hope the Joomla SL is not dead
(Broken Link in the Download Section ,many ofline pages)
With bet greatings