Recently, a customer of ours requested a new feature for RSEvents addon for obRSS, which added several RSEvents event fields to RSS additional elements/tags:

<date>
<location>
<img>

out from description such obRSS has done for

<title>....</title>
<link>....</link>
<pubdate>....</pubdate>

The new release for RSEvents addon for obRSS, 1.9 offers this new feature which provides options to show/hide Date, Location and Image in description or additional elements/tags. Existing customer can download the new release at My Account > Downloads menu or http://foob.la/download

After a quite long time, obHelpDesk - Joomla Help Desk extension by foobla.com - released a new version, 2.4, which improved a lots in UI, UX by using Twitter Bootstrap.

Ticket Listing Printing

Print button has been added to Tickets Listing and My Tickets listing layout which allow staff to print out their tickets listing to A4 paper in raw format.

Guideline for each field in Ticket Submit Form

This way will notice to customer to input specific information, will save both customers & staff time.

Improved Knowledge-base

After a customer inputted a ticket subject, obHelpDesk will try to load related knowledge-base based on the ticket subject. This awesome feature will reduce the number of ticket and save your staff effort, your customer also get the answer much faster with pre-answered questions. 

Improved Reply Form with Canned Responses

The canned responses is the most usage feature in foobla.com. We use it to save lots of our staff time for typing. 

This processor is a magic one, which is alternative processor for “Get Fulltext” processor in the case “Get Fulltext” doesn’t work for your source.

To be honest, it is a little bit complicated here with our own program language, but we will try to make it clear and easy.

We provide an easy way to test HTML Parser processor with the same interface at: http://demo.foobla.com/html_parser. You can test on it first to get the code and use it for your obGrabber Pipe.
You can refer HTML Parser samples to get more ideas about it.

There are three commands: split, wrap and replace to do magic with HTML source. Each command need to be placed on a new line. 

Function: split

To split/seperate HTML source to many parts base on a delimiter. This function is pretty similar to explode function in PHP (if you know PHP program language).

Syntax

split|{LINE}|{DELIMITER}|{RETURN}|{DEBUG}

• {LINE}: the output from {LINE}. Basically, you can put many lines and each line will have an output itself, and we can use output of this line as input of other line. “0” means the original input of the processor, “1” means the output of the line#1.
• {DELIMITER}: HTML or Text to delimiter the INPUT HTML source.
• {RETURN}: the number of part will be returned for the processor, start with 0, L stands for Last part.
• {DEBUG}: debug mode in the case the {DELIMITER} cannot be found from INPUT HTML source.
  • 0: return "” (empty string) in the case an error occurs.
  • 1: stop immediately in the case an error occurs.
  • 2: return INPUT HTML source.

Example

Example 1

split|0|<div class="post">|L|1

Split the INPUT HTML source to many parts by the delimiter <div class=”post”>, it gets the last part, and if nothing found, it will stop immediately and start over with the new item.

Example 2

split|2|<p class="paragraph">|1|2

Split the output from line#2 by the delimiter <p class=”paragraph”>, it gets the first part, and if nothing found, it will return the line-itself input.

Function: wrap

wrap/combine one or many parts (which returned by other lines) by a new HTML format.

Syntax

wrap|{INPUT_LINE1,INPUT_LINE2,...}|{WRAP_HTML}

• {INPUT_LINE1,INPUT_LINE2,...}: input lines variables to be wrapped.
• {WRAP_HTML}: there are variables in {WRAP_HTML}
  • {ogb-0} understands for the first line-parameter in INPUT_LINE1, this will be replaced by the output value of INPUT_LINE1.
  • {ogb-1} understands for the first line-parameter in INPUT_LINE2, this will be replaced by the output value of INPUT_LINE2.

Example

wrap|3,5|<div class="content">{ogb-0}<hr />{ogb-1}

Combine line#3 and line#5 into the new formated HTML source, the first line parameter (line#3) will be replaced for {obg-0}, the second line parameter (line#5) will be replaced for {obg-1}.

Function: replace

replaces an INPUT_SOURCE by a new one.

Syntax

replace|{INPUT_LINE}|{SEARCH}|{REPLACE}

• {INPUT_LINE}: get input from other line output.
• {SEARCH}: search this string.
• {REPLACE}: and replace by this string.

Example

replace|5|<div class="abc"|<div class="xyz" 

Find <div class=”abc” from line#5 output, replace it by <div class=”xyz” 

Text Spinner processor is for spinning input text to a different/unique text by using synonyms database (English or French support for now).

In input fields:
- ip[] text: select text field from engine (or from previous processor output)

In Text Spinner processor settings:
- Select language for ip[] text.
- Random: select random synonym word or the first synonym word from database.

In output fields: you will have the output field with text spinned.

RSEvents & RSEvents Pro RSS Feed by obRSS is flexible and powerful solution to create ultimate RSS Feed for RSEvents & RSEvents Pro.

Because of RSJoomla split RSEvents to two version: RSEvents & RSEvents Pro, we have to do the same thing for our RSEvents addon for obRSS. In case, two versions of RSEvents addon for obRSS are available on the obRSS addon store page

Recently, plenty of obRSS customers asked for Image Tag (image node) in feed for iPhone and/or Android app.

obRSS is a powerful and flexible RSS Feed Syndicate solution with its core functions, it makes adding Image Tag/Node to each feed item pretty easy. We get it done within 15 minutes includes building installation packages time for both addon & plugin versions.

Be notice: addon version with prefix: obrss_addon_* is for obRSS 1.9 or older; while plugin version with prefix: plg_obrss_* is for obRSS 3.x which need to be installed via regular Joomla installation. More instruction can be found at How to install obRSS addon?

Existing customer can download this latest K2 addon/plugin for obRSS at http://foob.la/download

After weeks of hard-working with obGrabber Joomla! Extension, we have done the new version 3.1.0 for this cool grabbing extension.

Basically, the new version comes up with the combination for both version of Joomla: 2.5 and 3.0, it works with Joomla! 3.1 as well.

Last but not least, we added Guideline right inside the obGrabber extension itself which made it more friendlier for the first time usage.

Here are some more screenshots

Existing customer is freely to download this version from the download area at http://foob.la/download

Early today, we released the new version of obRSS on both 1.5/2.5 and 3.0 versions. Basically, this new release is for fixing SEF issue in some cases as well as improve JSON feed with callback function.

Here is the details changelogs:

obRSS 1.9.5 (for Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 2.5)

• + Added callback functionality to JSON Feed output
• ~ Fixed SEF bug in the case of using SEO Settings > Adds Suffix to URL in Global Configuration

obRSS 3.0.2 (for Joomla 3.0)

• ~ Fixed minor bugs in preview feature.
• ~ Improved Feed model to work better with getLink function from addons.
• ~ Fixed wrong impression counting for Banners & FlexBanners.
• ~ Fixed invalidate JSON Feed.
• ~ Fixed notice bug: "Undefined property: stdClass::$category"
• + Added callback functionality to JSON Feed output
• ~ Fixed SEF bug in the case of using SEO Settings > Adds Suffix to URL in Global Configuration

Existing customer can download the new version from the download area from MY ACCOUNT menu, or directly at http://foob.la/download.

After months of working, we are now pround to announce our brand new Joomla! Templates & Wordpress Themes Club at obTheme.com

At the first step, we released 4 premium Joomla! Templates which compatible with both Joomla! 2.5 and Joomla! 3, includes:

• oNews: News/Magazine Joomla! Template
• oPortfolio: awesome timeline style Joomla! Template
• oResponsive: multiple purpose Joomla! Template
• oFashion: Modern News/Magazine Joomla! Template

All of our templates take advantages of the most popular Joomla Template Framework - Gantry. We mainly focus on making templates for 3rd-party extensions for Joomla! such as: K2, VirtueMart, Kunena, JomSocial,... If you are using at least one of these 3rd-party Joomla! extensions, you will be happy with us.

Since obTheme.com is a foobla company, every users from foobla.com can get special offer by 30% when shopping on obTheme.com

obRSS 1.9.3 is a patch release for Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 2.5 with the following changelogs:

~ Install addon form is always visible.
~ Fixed minor bugs in preview feature.
~ Improved Feed model to work better with getLink function from addons.
~ Fixed wrong impression counting for Banners & FlexBanners.
~ Fixed invalidate JSON Feed.

Existing customer can download that latest version from the download area.

The patch release for Joomla 3.0 will come up later this week with even more improvements.