The ZOO extension is a very versatile catalog system for Joomla which allows you to create different catalogs for all purposes. It comes with a comprehensive content construction kit (CCK) which gives you the ability to create your very own custom content types.
Now YOOtheme announced the release of new version of ZOO v2.0 Beta. This version was completely rewritten from scratch, added many new features, fixes many bugs that occurred when creating the last version (zoo 1.0). This version has the status of Beta and is currently available only to club members who purchased version 1.0 Pro. The developers said that when released version ZOO 2.0 Stable, it will be available absolutely free to all interested and will be distributed under the GPL.
Key features ZOO 2.0:
Improved working and integration with many extensions to further enhance the possibility of integration.
Simple operation with additional elements (bookmarks, cards, lightboxes, dates, etc.)
Added native powerful commenting system (support gravatar, embedding, bookmarks, the rapid editing comments blacklists and spam folder.)
Improved work with templates ZOO. There is a possibility of appropriation of their templates for certain categories or items, search for content by category, to cache the image and resize kartinovk the width and height, is also an alphabetical index now has full support for UTF-8 characters.
Also, there is support for additional modules and plug-ins, such as: search the index (thus making searches much faster), the tag cloud module, the module display recent comments, pickup and transfer the language files for user convenience, integration, and a bunch of search queries from relatives looking for Joomla , placement of various elements using the Drag ‘n Drop i.t d.
Here is just a small part of the changes and additions, see the full map of the changes can be on the site YOOtheme.