A flexible and powerful content application builder to manage your content on Joomla!
ZOO offers a lot of possibilities for developers to create your own apps. Apps are file based like Joomla templates, which means just copy and paste an app folder into ZOO and the app works. To make it even easier just zip your app and it can be installed through the ZOO app installer. Apps have their own content parameters, templates, layout positions, etc. They can even have their own custom elements - And all in one package!
There is so much cool stuff in ZOO 2.0 that there might be some features missing in this list but we think we got all the major ones!
Application Engine
Create your own apps
Create unlimited app instances
Great looking tab menu to browse the different app instances
Build your own custom content types
Large collection of elements to compose your types
Extendible app parameters
Content parameters to extend frontpage and categories with content fields
Content parameters support text, textarea, checkbox, select, radio and image parameters
Install, uninstall and export apps
Import and export content from ZOO 2.0, ZOO 1.0 and Joomla
Frontpage, category, item, comment and tag manager
Item assignment to multiple categories
Categories with a multi-level hierarchy and unlimited depth
Tag system with "Autocompleter" and "Quick edit" functionality
Sorting your categories using Drag ‘n Drop
Joomla plugins are working with all textareas used in ZOO 2.0
Automatically generated slugs which can be quick edited
Item priority to support a much more flexible item ordering
Template Engine
Layouts with element positions to arrange content using Drag 'n Drop
Pre-build layouts for the items like full and teaser layouts
Search layout to arrange content shown in the search results
RSS layout to arrange content shown in the RSS feed
Templates to render elements wrapped with custom HTML code (similar to Joomla modules)
Global template parameters, which can be adjusted for each category or item
Global template parameters support any form elements like selectboxes or radio buttons
Image caching and resizing by width and height
Templates for the frontpage, categories, alpha index, tag and item view
Alpha index support for UTF-8 characters
Alpha index shows categories and items
Elements
Core elements for item name, author, hits, modification date, creation date, categories and tags
Checkbox element to define your own checkboxes
Date element has an easy date picker and is repeatable
E-Mail element which cloakes emails and is repeatable
Link element supports a custom title, lightboxes and is repeatable
Radio element to define your own radio buttons
Select element supports single and multi selection
Text element to define a simple input field which is repeatable
Textarea element uses the Joomla editor, supports Joomla plugins and is repeatable
Download element which supports a download limit and different modes like direct, attachment and protected
Gallery element supports all features of the YOOgallery module.
Image element supports auto resizing, lightboxes and is linkable
Video element supports Flash, Quicktime, Youtube, Vimeo and many more
Country element offers a selectbox with all countries of the world
Joomla module element allows displaying Joomla modules on specific item pages
Related categories element shows links to related categories
Related item element makes it possible to link to other items and to show their image and more
Rating element displays a voting with stars
Social bookmarks element displays links for Twitter, Facebook, Google and to recommend this item via email
Google Maps element supports all features of the YOOmaps module.
Addthis, Disqus, Flickr and IntenseDebate element
Comment System
Native comments with a very nice user interface
Supports approval by default, not by default or is only required once
Spam folder and support for spam preventing services (Akismet and Mollom)
Black list which checks content, name, URL, e-mail and IP
Automatic linking of URLs and email addresses in comments
Nested comments to a maximum depth of 5
Supports Gravatar service to provide avatars
Facebook and Twitter Connect
Quick editing of comments
Great looking default theme which highlights author comments
Addons
Item module to display any kind of items from an app
The item module has its own layout to place elements using Drag ‘n Drop
A search plugin, so that items will appear in the Joomla search
Uses a natural language search that is focused on usability by spoken languages
Search index which makes searching faster on large numbers of items
Tag module to display a tag cloud
Comments module to display the latest comments of your app
