Roockbuilder is an open source solution developed as a content construction kit(CCK) on Drag and drop platform for the Joomla! 2.5 - 3.x Content Management System (CMS). Roockbuilder is written in PHP, JavaScript and requires the MySQL database environment for storage.
Roockbuilder stable version was released on March 1, 2013 with the purpose of helping Joomla users to manage website content by dragging and dropping plugins. Roockbuilder it's a first CCK for the Joomla!CMS on Drag and drop platform.
Key feature of Roockbuilder it's a Drag and drop feature, based on powerful web technologies: jQuery, HTML 5 and CSS3.
Roockbuilder offer 6 different Web page layouts. Web page layouts based on a width of 960 pixels.
Roockbuilder support shortcode, which allow place roockbuilder plugins anywhere on site.
Supported languages: English, Danish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish.
Roockbuilder basically acts as a Drag and drop platform for all roockbuilder plugins. Roockbuilder include various plugins such as :
Simple Text - allow to add any kind of content on page, from simple text to images and tables. Plugin based on tinymce editor
Comment Box - powerful comments system. Allow visitors to leave comments on page, support reCAPTCHA spam protection
Social Share - allow to share website page to most popular Social Networks such as : Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+
Google Map - plugin allow to add map on site and uppload custom marker, Google Maps API v3
Content Tabs - allow to organize page content in tabs
Simple Video - allow to add video on page from the most popular video-sharing websites: YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion
Image Slider - allow to create image slideshow on page, support to change image ordering by drag and drop
Image Gallery - allow to publish images on your website in gallery view layout
Contact Form - allow to add contact form on website page and get feedback from website visitors
Twitter Stream - allow you to add Twitter timeline on page and display user tweets
Facebook Likebox - allow to promote Facebook page and embed a simple feed of content from a Facebook Page into site
PayPal Donate - allow to add on page PayPal donation box.
Currently, Roockbuilder is compatible with Joomla 2.5 & Joomla 3.x.
PHP: Recommended 5.3+
MySQL: Recommended 5.0.4+
Apache: Recommended 2.2+
PHP cURL support
PHP JSON support
Roockbuilder is compatible with multiple browsers, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome
Roockbuilder has been included to the top 10 free Joomla 3.x extensions on the Joomla Shine blog in August, 2013.
Roockbuilder nominated as "Script of the Day: RoockBuilder" by Softpedia in November, 2013
