| Joomla Extension of the Month - June 07 |
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| Monday, 04 June 2007 | |
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Deep Pockets is brilliant, powerful and very simple to use. Oh, and its free under the GPL.
Its a component that allows you to create a nested category structure of unlimited depth. It also gives you the ability to connect any of your regular sections, categories, and articles inside any Deep Pockets category - and then you get to choose a layout sub-template to display your content.
This kind of flexibility is similar in some respects to Drupal's node system. Imagine each category in your Joomla site having a different layout. Imagine being able to arrange your content in the most logical heirarchy, rather than just the one that fits into Joomla. Deep Pockets makes all of that possible and more. A very worth Extension of the Month.
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  written by steve, June 04, 2007
Hi Justin
Agreed. Have you had a chance to really try it out yet? I've played with it a lot in my sandbox and I think the potential is outstanding. Even the developers on Joomla.org mention that they think it will allow all sorts of cool site development that even they haven't thought of yet.  written by Mozz, November 04, 2007
Hi,
Deep Pockets looks great and works with 1.0.x Joomla. However I'm in the process of upgrading my site to 1.5 and Deep Pockets II doesn't work on my local copy of Joomla 1.5. Do you know of any alternative available which works on the latest Joomla code? Thanks, Moz Write comment
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Joomla had a problem. It used to be a Content Management System with very rigid content management. Section >> Content >> Article. That was it. No flexibility. No way to change that default heirarchy. 
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