A tool for cloning SOBI2. Here is where "cloning" comes to rescue.
This is a cloning tool for the great SOBI2 extension for Joomla! for Windows users. All it does is create modified versions of your SOBI2 component, modules and plugins which are ready to be installed in Joomla! as a second (third,...) SOBI2 copy.
This involves some massive renaming of file names and text replacement in these files - the ones, contained in the ZIPped distributions of the SOBI2 component and it's companions.
If it's all done right you will be able to install your parallel SOBI2-bundle instance and have it available to use from your Joomla! Administrator panel the usual way.
In Joomla!'s backend menu you will see besides your SOBI2 components/modules the newly created ones, which shall be displayed as whatever you named your clone.
This tool DOES NOT clone an installed instance that you might already have. Neither can it clone your installed and configured SOBI2 plugins, neither your categories and entries and whatever settings.
What you CAN do with it is to just grab the latest SOBI2 component (the ZIP file, looking something like "com_sobi2-RC2.9.2.4.j15.zip") and all the modules/plugins/templates for SOBI2 that you need and "re-create" a modified copy of them so that you can install them on a Joomla! system which already has an instance of SOBI2 installed.
INSTALLATION:
The tool does not need an installation. The EXE file is the program itself.
USAGE:
There is really nothing to explain. Just run and follow the steps. You can clone a single SOBI2 component (or a module or a plugin) or groups of them at once (batch mode). If you forget to clone a module (or something) you can clone it later, just remember to give it exactly the same clone name as you gave to the SOBI2-bundle you have already cloned.
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