ITS HERE... Application/Top Menu Manager Extension

This is an introduction to Application/Top Menu Manager extension, that will be placed in Boonex Market next week. 

This module is the answer to a question that most site owners have been asking for years. 

With this extension you will be able to install all the modules that comes with boonex.com and let your users select the apps that they want to use. You will get rid of that overcrowded, and intimidating top menu, that has driven a lot of members away from your site.

Go here to see and introduction video  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46fpqabgI-M 

See demo site http://raywint.com/demo71/m/myapps/home

It will be posted in the market sometime next week, but if you can wait, you can contact me and I will send you the files and add it to your account when it is added to the market.

Its compatible with 7.1 and 7.0.9

P.S Thanks to AntonLV.. who was very helpful

Best Regards

Raylan

Very interesting.. What is the price going to be?

Watched the vid; very interesting.  Are the apps tied to membership levels?  Can the apps shown to users be based on membership levels?

This is a brilliant mod and I was wondering if you have thought about monetizing the choices.  IOW let's say someone picks video's and you charge them .99 cents for that addition?  At the end of of their choices is a bill like:

OK to set that up for you will be $4.99 would you like to proceed and pay with paypal now? and then it goes through that process. 

I tried to join your site to test some thoughts but your capatcha has no options and your FB setup is not completed. :(

Leaving all the standard join fields options sure takes some time to fill them all in. :)

Very impressive!! 

Cool app!

Thanks for all your feedback. the apps is integrated into the membership module, so it will adapt the visibility set, monetizing is not apart of it right now, but i can add it to next version. The starting price will be 50.00

login to demo site

username: demo1

password: demo1

That sound like a fair price.. Thank you for the reply and will be looking for it.. Thanks again

Product is now available in the Boonex market @ http://www.boonex.com/m/application-top-menu-manager-extension

Two questions:

1. Does it work with third party modules?

2. How many SQL queries does it add to each page load?

1. Yes it works it works with third party mods. You choose which menus to turn into apps from all parent menu from the top menu

2. There are three (3) main sql queries. (a) query that generate code to remove selected top menu. (b) code that generate member's app menu. (c) code that generate the apps.

So interesting.
Is there a Dolphin 7.0.9 Demo?
-Charles

Since AntonLV helped there,  I've just purchased it.
So excited that I couldn't wait.
Will contact you if I get in trouble.

-Charles

Thanks for your purchase.

This is the demo for 7.0.9 http://raywint.com/demo2/m/myapps/home

Am I missing something???? I went to the demo sites and clicked on the HOME page (which is where most people land) and could not see which apps were avaliable. hence, as a visitor to a site I cant see that there is chat, forums etc, until i click on the apps tab.... Doesnt this complicate the menu system instead of simplify it?

I guess you could have the apps block on the home page, but it would eat most of the real estate of the most important page. Maybe its me... I do understand the problem, and did find a way around it.... but I dont think this shows clearly and instantly what is avaliable on a site....

Just my two cents.....

I understand what you are saying and i will add this in this next version. But the home page is basically displays content and not necessarily menu to content. admins can choose the menus to turn into apps, so for example the chat menu can still be visible in the top menu.

Definitely in from the git-go...nice.

Looking forward to how it evolves as ideas roll in....

(possibilities working with Points and other action/incentive systems)

You don't have to.

Before I purchase your module I was wondering what to do with as much menus.
All my problems with organizing menus have disappeared.
It better than any MEGA menu.
I'm very impressed.

Ok.. I got it.. Now to figure it all out.. Thank and will update as i get it working..

Thank you..

Ok i got it all working really good.. Thanks for the great support.. He fixed and helped me out with any and all the problems I was having.. Most of them were from me not understanding how it works.. LOL..

Hope you don't mind but I would like to make a request on your next update if it can happen.. Since I have over 23 mods and some of them you have to upgrade the membership to use.. What I would like to see if it could happen. Is everyone can see the number of mods you have but does not show what they are. The only mods that show are what that membership can use but on the left category box you can see there is more. Or the app page you can tell there are more..

Is there a way to show the mods but have them greyed out or something and if they click on it. Have a notice or something saying they need to upgrade there membership and a link to the membership upgrade page?

I have basically all mods off for guest. But they can see there are more mods from the number in the category's. They can't see what is offered but they know there is more.. If you an have them showing but greyed out and they can't add them unless they upgrade would be a good sales pitch..

Just what I was thinking..

Thanks for the great mod and all the great help..

James Tandy

 Hello James, I will make the adjustments for you. will let you know when it is done.

-Raylan

The feature you requested has been added in version 1.0.2

Best Regards

Great.. Now how to upgrade? Just upload the files and hit update or uninstall and reinstall? If we have to reinstall does that mean we lose what all configs we put in?

Thanks for your help and the update..

I email the upgrade patch to the email address that you use to sign up on my site. All the instructions and other details are in the email.

Yea.. After I sent that I looked at my e-mail and saw it.. LOL.. Sorry. and Thanks a lot

this module looks really good but it would be fantastic if we could set a different hover-up icon for apps in sidepanel menu.

i have a few questions:
- what if someone adds dozens of apps to the sidepanel?
- how customizeable is your module? facing design related things?
  - because i want to change the look of sidepanel, should be the same as the top menu
- is everything translateable? descriptions also?

anyway, i like your work!

> You can add as much apps as possible to the side panel, it has an inline scroll-bar and apps in side panel is also sortable

> The side panel can easily be customized. its built with MVC

> The description is  not translated, but i plan to add it soon.

Thanks for your interest

thanks for your quick response ...

and what about the ability to set a different hover-up icon? like you know it from google+?

one really importent feature would be to choose which modules i want to add to the apps menu (your module). all other installed modules stay default, they stay in normal top menu.
lets say, i have 10 modules installed, i want to add 5 of it to the apps menu (your module) but the other 5 should stay in top menu like the default dolphin way. this would give me the posibility to create a submenu with quickstarter for specific niche apps.

if you could implement this it would be awesome and you can count me in as customer ;)

 Hello

> The hover menu have not yet been implemented, that is also on my list of things to add

> When transferring top menu into apps, you would choose from a list of all parent menu in the top menu. So you choose which menu remains in the top menu.

nice work!

but i think you dont get the point with hover up icons. on the side panel menu there are icons for each app. this icon can be set by the admin. i would love to see a way to use two different icons for one app. one for not hovered icon and one for hovered icon.

also i would love to see that we are able to use the font awesome icons for the side panel. also with the possibility to choose wich icon to use for not hovered and hovered. in this situation it would be usefull to manually define css for not hovered and hovered icon sperarated for each app.

would this be possible? and could you please tell me a timeframe for this?

thanks!

I understand what you meant by the hovers, because the inspiration for the side menu came from google+, I have a lot more features to add to the extension and those that you have requested, I already have them on my list.

I am currently working on other projects, so I think in February version 2.0 will be finish with features you requested plus a lot more. 

thanks for your effort!

just purchased you module and get an error in admin panel:

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to http://www.raywint.com/clients/:80 (Unable to find the socket transport "http" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?) in htdocsdolphin71modulesraywintmyappclassesRwAppModule.php on line 1

I am using a windows XAMPP for testing purpose, is that the problem? How do fix it?

Hello, thanks for your purchase.

Edit the php.ini file and enable this extension=php_sockets.dll.

To enable, just remove the semicolon

 this extension is enabled ... any other idea?

Oh and please specify the fact that the modul is encrypted and is doing remote calls in the courtesy info of your market post!
I think this is important information for customers, i would had never purchased it if i had known that it is encrpyted.

A line about the licensing process would be fine also.

Thanks!

@ misterpropper... I am unable to suggest a fix for xampp, I tried using that when I first using dolphin 7 and it gave me a warm time so I use wamp instead. There is also a dolphin 7 server that you could try http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/dAMP-Dolphin-Apache-MySql-PHP.htm

As it relates to the encrypted files. Mostly the admin section is encrypted and a single remote call is done every 7 days, the front end those not have any encryption. I will also make the changes to the courtesy info, that you suggested.

Thanks

ok no problem, will try it on my MAMP PRO ... just wanted to give it a quick testdrive at the company ;)
the encrypted code nags me a little bit, because me as developer loves to see how people work and what the code is doing ;)

anyway, i have to say that i really like your module!

oh well, how is your license system working?

if i test the module on a home-testserver and afterwards want to install the module on my real website, do i have to contact you for reseting the license? or is it automated?

You don't contact me to reset your license, you just log into my website go to services>select product and reset your license. 

I understand what you mean, I learn from other code as well. If you have any questions as it relates to the coding of the extension, i will be happy to help you. 

I am glad you like the extension.

 thanks for your support!

Have another request.

Is there anyway for the admin to find out how many people are using each mod? Like how many people added the Chat, Blog, etc?? Not so much for members but like in the add apps part before you take that app away?

Thanks for your help and a great mod..

 Glad you like the app... When you click to delete an app, the confirm message will show the amount of members using that app. 

Ok.. But is there a way to have it listed so you know who is using what with out deleting it? Or would that make more SQL queries?

 It would take more MySQL queries. I will add it to the next version.

Thank you.. No hurry or any big deal if it does not make it.. Thanks again..

I had to re install this mod and now I am getting this: Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/tandyservices/bodyartgrafix/modules/raywint/myapp/classes/RwAppTemplate.php:330) in /home/tandyservices/bodyartgrafix/inc/design.inc.php on line 101

 I sent you a message

how about the updates for the module?