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[ja4saka Friend ja4sakaJoin date: November 2010Posts: 7Downloads:1Uploads:0 Thanks: 7]

#200299

Dear Joomlart,

We want to create a waterfall content block. We survey the JA Wall and JA Elastica which both are not quit suit to us because of the basic layout is quit different from we want, then we found the new Magz is quite good and we try to start from it.

After some work on waterfall layout search and modify, we found it’s not that easy to adapt waterfall content block into Magz theme without writing PHP codes.

I am a senior PHP engineer, if I want to do a waterfall layout, I would create a ajax service to return the articles and use jQuery masonry to form the output contents.

I need some professional advice from Joomlart, which is the best way to do under the T3 framework and also keep the theme still upgradable to get very nice support from Joomlart.

Thanks you guys create great theme that fits our needs.

[TomC Moderator TomCJoin date: October 2014Posts: 14077Downloads:58Uploads:137 Thanks: 948 Thanked: 3155 times in 2495 posts]

#544831

What exactly is a “waterfall content block?”

Can you provide a link to an example?

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1. ja4saka

[ja4saka Friend ja4sakaJoin date: November 2010Posts: 7Downloads:1Uploads:0 Thanks: 7]

#544851

Article presents like http://www.pinterest.com/, when user scroll down, automatically load new (which means older) articles.

Thanks for quit reply!

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#544852

Can’t seem to find anything (as of this moment) online with regard to such an effect relative to Joomla . . . .
but I am forwarding this onto the JA Development Team for review and thought for possible future upgrade consideration. 🙂

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1. ja4saka

[swissa Friend swissaJoin date: November 2011Posts: 1955Downloads:7Uploads:277 Thanks: 175 Thanked: 717 times in 572 posts]

#544863

<em>@ja4saka 439906 wrote:</em><blockquote>Article presents like http://www.pinterest.com/, when user scroll down, automatically load new (which means older) articles.

Thanks for quit reply!</blockquote>

Sorry to jump in. I’m not JA support etc.

At first I thought you meant implementing masonry on T3 (JA Fixel does this for example) but do you mean the infinite scroller? To replace pagination?

There is a paid plugin that does it….. http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/structure-a-navigation/site-navigation/24577

Otherwise have a look through the code on various templates that use it – Wall , Lens, Argo, Fixel – the last 2 being T3 templates.

Hope that helps!?

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1. ja4saka

[ja4saka Friend ja4sakaJoin date: November 2010Posts: 7Downloads:1Uploads:0 Thanks: 7]

#544940

I need infinite scroller! Thanks! I will try paid plugin also Argo, Fixel! Thank you again and again! 😉

Just tried Argo, really nice! right now I can’t find the way to adapt the infinite scroller to other theme we use (we use magz right now), so we may migrate to this theme, thanks!

[ja4saka Friend ja4sakaJoin date: November 2010Posts: 7Downloads:1Uploads:0 Thanks: 7]

#545038

The upper information is really helpful! I appreciate all words very much!
Still have a question:
How if I want the articles within component block have different heights like http://www.pinterest.com/ ?

[Adam M Moderator Adam MJoin date: May 2014Posts: 5159Downloads:33Uploads:66 Thanks: 95 Thanked: 1271 times in 1235 posts]

#545150

Hi,

Actually, you cannot specify the height of each block. If you take a look at Pinterest, you will see that some pins have higher featured image and some other pins have shorter description text, that’s the reason for differences in block height.

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1. ja4saka

[ja4saka Friend ja4sakaJoin date: November 2010Posts: 7Downloads:1Uploads:0 Thanks: 7]

#545245

Adam M,

Just come to understand this after some modification. Here we try to adapt masonry on theme magz:
http://sjoomla3.abouthair.tw/magz/

T3 is really a big framework! I should read all this before doing any modification:
http://t3-framework.org/documentation.html
Read all those documents before all things should save me few days from error and try.

Thanks for your reply!

[Adam M Moderator Adam MJoin date: May 2014Posts: 5159Downloads:33Uploads:66 Thanks: 95 Thanked: 1271 times in 1235 posts]

#545367

Hi,

There’s no need to read the documentation all at once, just bookmark this page as a reference and come back whenever you get stuck.

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1. ja4saka

[ja4saka Friend ja4sakaJoin date: November 2010Posts: 7Downloads:1Uploads:0 Thanks: 7]

#545464

Thanks! Do you have any experience in article listing with random sorting?
Meet problem and need some advice :
http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/how-to-get-random-list-articles-on-main-page/

[Adam M Moderator Adam MJoin date: May 2014Posts: 5159Downloads:33Uploads:66 Thanks: 95 Thanked: 1271 times in 1235 posts]

#545568

Hi,

I see that Saguaros already answered you in that thread, if you have any question or need further assistant, please don’t hesitate to let him know.

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