com_profiles is a component that extends the stock com_users and com_groups components. If ACL is based on anything non-standard, com_profiles assigns users or groups to any other object using a taxonomy.

The profiles component was developed by Moyo Web Architects.

• Joomla 2.5 or 3.X .
• Koowa 0.9 or 1.0 (as yet, Koowa 2 is not supported)
• PHP 5.3.10 or better
• Composer
• Moyo Components
  • com_moyo
  • com_taxonomy

Installation is done through composer. In your composer.json file, you should add the following lines to the repositories section:

from this repository

{
    "name": "moyo/com_profile",
    "type": "vcs",
    "url": "https://github.com/kedweber/com_profile.git"
}

and if drawn from the offical repository

{
    "name": "moyo/com_profile",
    "type": "vcs",
    "url": "https://github.com/moyoweb/com_profile.git"
}

The require section should contain the following line:

    "moyo/com_profile": "1.1.*",

Afterwards, one just needs to run the command composer update from the root of your Joomla project. This will effectively create a composer.lock file which will contain the collected dependencies and the hash codes for each latest release (depending on the require section's format) for each particular repo. Should installations problems occur due to a bad ordering of the dependencies, one may need to go into the lock file and manualy change the order of the components. Running composer update again will again cause a reordering of the lock file, beware of this factor when running an update. Thereafter, you can run the command composer install.

If you have not setup an alias to use the command composer, then you will need to replace the word composer in the previous commands with the commands with php composer.phar followed by the desired action (eg. update or install).

Another option is to run the jsymlink script in the root folder, available via the original Moyo developer, Joachim van de Haterd's repository, under the Moyo Git Tools.

The joomlatools/installer plugin is free and open-source software licensed under the GPLv3 license.

In the components menu, select com_profiles > users or groups to assign taxonomy objects to users or groups. When affected users or group members log in, they can only edit content assigned to the linked taxonomy objects.