Joomblo Joomla Extensions Review: May 2007

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Google Analytics Tracking Module for Joomla Virtuemart

Google Analytics Tracking for Virtuemart is a simple module for Joomla! 1.0.x. used for tracking VirtueMart transactions with Google Analytics. No need to make hacks to core files, just install and configure the module and start collecting vital information about your e-commerce business. Installation package contains: - full installation guide - ten tips for using Google Analytics - Joomla module installation zip file.
http://www.analytics.fi

VM Joomla Affiliate module

An affiliate module for VirtueMart. Has all the features of an affiliate solution fully integrated into the VirtueMart framework. Has a backend part (with a menu integrated into the VM menu) and a frontend (as a component for Joomla!, where affiliates can login and check their stats).
http://www.globacide.com

Joomla Module for BlogCatalog

This is a module for joomla that allow to insert Recent Readers Widget of Blogcatalog.com. You should be a member and know your personal ID,to know it,log in,click create a widget. You can see in the lower box,where there is code preview widget,the id. Copy and paste in blogcatalog module.
http://www.girolamogiudice.it

Add this page to your website

A Quick and Practical Module Allowing your website visitors to add any current joomla page to their website. Similar to code seen on major News websites with large content.
http://www.joomlatexas.com

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Joomla Tags

Tags is a Joomla extension, two modules and mambot that gives you the power and ability to tag content and to produce tag links, keyword clouds and pages within your Joomla Website.
http://www.joomla-tags.com/

AjratingJP Joomla Rating Plugin

Ajratingjp is a mambot to enable content item rating via ajax. No more page refresh for voting. As the user votes the thank you message is delivered right there and the voting updates the database and delivers the new rating right then and there, without any page refresh. Some of the features of ajrating are:

1. Image change on mouseover so give user a feeling of what the rating would be if they click over the star.
2. Rating value in not rounded to 0 decimal point but to one decimal point, meaning a rating is not rounded to show full star only but also as half star.
3. The rating will show in blogcategory or blogsection menu type page also.
4. com_frontpage content items will also show rating the rating.
5. Once voted you can not click on the rating even if the page is not reloaded. If cliked on page reloading after voting, a message that you have already voted will appear and vote will not be counted. Tested in FF 2.0,IE 6,7,Opera 9.02.
http://www.joomlaprodigy.com

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Kitabullah.com

Kitabullah.com has been created in Joomla 1.5, with custom components, modules and plugins specific for the site. It gives the option to search the quran in 23 languages. You can bookmark the verses of the Quran to your private area, also add tags and comments that can be publicly or privately viewable. Kitabullah now also has webmaster tools that will allow custom search boxes create for your website for your visitors to use whilst looking for reference to the Quran. There is a lot of sites dedicated to Islam, however do not have the resources to develop such an application that offers search of the Quran to its users, especially in so many languages (that’s just the start). The attached module can be configured in the backend to suit the needs of your site. A little bit of css/html knowledge would be good. However everything is well documented and detailed in the backend of the module and the blog post.
Kitabullah.com

Forme Joomla Form Management

Forme helps you create custom forms in seconds. Three simple steps and you're ready to go. This component stores and emails the data provided by your visitors. You will be able to Add customized Thank You message, using the data provided, Send customized E-mail messages to you and to the client, Upload images, Pdf's with file type control, Create validation rules and much more.
http://www.pimpmyjoomla.com

Joomla! 1.5

Joomla! 1.5 Beta-2 is feature complete so dive in under the hood and lets see what you can create. There never has been a better time to get motivated as this is the last beta prior to release candidate.With Joomla! 1.5 the Joomla! project really starts firing on all cylinders. The difference between our current 1.0.12 and the forthcoming 1.5 Beta-2 are not easy to describe, but in essence Joomla! 1.0.x was based upon the Mambo codebase, whereas Joomla! 1.5 has been completely rewritten from scratch. Joomla! 1.0.x was written with "freedom of use" in mind; with Joomla! 1.5 we expanded on this and added "ease of use". This all sounds very nice, but what does it mean? Freedom of use refers to the unlimited possibilities you have when building web-sites, and with ease of use we have tried to make life simpler for the end user, the web administrator and of course the third party developers.
http://joomlacode.org

Monday, May 7, 2007

Jmovies Joomla Movie Lists Component

Jmovies is a Joomla! component that allows you to have your very own video index on your Joomla! site.

Same of most important features of v1.2 are:
• Movie lists (for Last Added, Most Viewed, Top Rated) use eye-candy AJAX effects.
• The voting check is now improved in order to avoid repeated clicks from the same users.
• Movies can be assigned to multiple (but single level) categories. Wich means you can categorize some movie e.g. in Sci-Fi and Action as well. Multi-level support will come soon.
• Native JoomlaWorks "Allvideos" plugin support. You can use AllVideos to easily add video trailers/clips to your movies, using services like YouTube, Google Video, iFilm etc. to host the videos or even your own or some friend's server!
• Joom!Fish support.
• Improved search functionality.
• And many more...
http://www.jmovies.eu

FpTabCaseJP Joomla Tab Module

FpTabCaseJP is a module to show the content from as many categories as you want. The number of items form each category will rotate on each tab. The items titles will be shown below the rotating contents and each will link to the content item. The content titles will have change of color as the item text rotate to display. Clicking on another tabs will show content from that category rotating in the same manner.
http://www.joomlaprodigy.com

Joomla Beta Tester Badge Module

JBT provides in an easy way the display of the official badges for the Joomla! Beta Test called 'Red Barchetta'. See more here: http://www.joomla.org/content/view/3287/1/ The module is in 2 versions avaliable: german, english and has all 6 badges included. Just define inside the module which type and alt.text - thats it.

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomx

Joomla PrettyPictureJP

The module is inspired by yahoo movie page header which is in flash. Some of the features of the module right now are: * The right side titles are clickable and would show up the item that is clicked. * The autorotation of pictures will stop on mouseover. * You can write links in the text for each image. * The translucent box can be specified a location left, right or bottom. * The module width can be specified and also the main image width. The difference in these two widths will become the width of right side column.

http://www.joomlaprodigy.com

Joomla Opencrawl Search Bot

With this plugin you can integrate search results from opencrawl.de into your Joomla search results. Opencrawl provides you a minicrawler which only indexes the websites you define. So it is possible to build your own specialized search engine with Joomla!

http://www.joomlashops.de

Joomla Flash Guest Book

This is a flash & php based guestbook. It uses flat text file database to store entries instead of MySQL. This guestbook loads the newest entries first and loads 10 entries per pages. It has a very nice flash interface with advanced form validation. Besides signers can format their entries as just they like. It shows help message to every single format button so that visitors can find it easy to sign the guestbook.

http://www.webmaster-tips.net

Google Analytics w/ auto SSL

This Module allows you to easily add Google Analytics to your Joomla site. With the Auto SSL feature it automatically detects if the current page is HTTPS or HTTP and uses the appropriate Google JavaScript link. It is perfect for VirtueMart sites that use SSL. I hated getting those "some parts of this page contain unsecure information" message.
A slight code problem kept version 1.0.0 from properly reporting to Google. This has been resolved in Version 1.0.1
http://holsumstudios.com

CB rating

***New ebay-like user rating plugin for CB***
Modified cb_karma rating plugin to work like the ebay rating system.
* Scale from 0-6
* positive ratings percentage
* the users have to give some reason for their ratings.
* if parameter daylock=0 the user can rate only once
Demo on German classified ads page (plugin in english).
Altthough its German, the registration process should be straightforward. (e-mail confirmation!)
- Register,
- login
- click on an ad
- click on the user e.g. "heinz" in the header of the ad
- click on the tab "Bewertungen" (german for rating)
- a click on the thumbs opens the ratings details ordered by date.
Your rating is not shown immediately. You have to reload the page (and click on the thumbs again for the details - I will change this soon).
You need to install the rating component AND the cb-plugin.
http://lbm-services.de

Modul Random Quotes from content items

With this module it is possible to show a random quote in a module position of your Joomla!-Template. The quote will be shown depending on the current content category or extracted from a content item you placed in a default category (e.g. 'quotes').
In order to be picked as a quote from the module, the content items need to have a title in the form of '!Zitat![Source/Author]' and the access level has to be set to 'Special' for the content item (this prevents the quotes from being searched by the internal search engine).
Replace [Source/Author] with the author or the source of the quote. And place in the intro text your quote.
mod_quotes does not need any additional text-files as do other quote-modules, and is very easy to use.
(of course it is also possible to 'missuse' this module for images, or any other content that can be presented in a content item)
http://www.daszeichen.ch

Thursday, May 3, 2007

yvComment Joomla 1.5 Comments Extension

yvComment is a comments extension (component + plugin) for Joomla! 1.5 only! This extension allows users to add comments to any Article. yvComment is written from scratch specifically for Joomla! 1.5 and it is not compatible with previous versions of Joomla!/Mambo. So it is free to use most advanced features of Joomla! 1.5. It is required to install both "yvComment Component" and "yvComment Plugin". Distribution package contains both Component and Plugin zipped files inside it. All configuration setting of this extension are set in "yvComment Plugin parameters" (Administrator interface->Extensions->Plugin Manager->yvcomment).
To add Comments, user have to be logged on. You may configure, if comments are visible to unregistered users, by "Access level" of yvComment Plugin.
By default, yvComment uses the same storage (database table), as Articles. So, you may use for Comments the same "Article manager" and even Joomla! extensions, designed for Articles.
To separate Comments (of Articles) from Articles themselves (and from other content, e.g. news etc.), you have to select Section for Comments (in yvComment Plugin parameters).
Just from frontend, user may edit his (or her) comment (clicking the same image as for editing articles), if this is the last comment of the thread. Administrator may edit or delete any comment.
yvComment uses simple css file components/com_yvcomment/default.css), that may be used as a start point for customization.
Currently yvComment is translated into two languages: English and Russian.
http://yurivolkov.com/Joomla/yvComment/index_en.html

Category links module for LinX

A module that will display links from a given link category in the LinX component. You can choose weather or not you would like to display descriptions or only links and also how many links you would like to show. NOTE: Requires the LinX Component.
http://www.costatropicalinternet.com