Starting with rss Factory 1.5.2 the component has been redeveloped to offer full native Joomla 1.5.X compatibility and support. rss Factory 1.0 was the follow-up of the later RSSReader2 - a well known Joomla Component provided by Softmarket.ro. We, Skepsis Consult aquired last fall Softmarket in order to add professional Joomla knowledge to our Company. All our products can now be found in our shop under www.thefactory.ro. We did set the new download location and pushed the component to its next version. In the previous life as RSSReader2, our component had over 7000 downloads, and is indexed in Google in over 750 sites! With the versions compatible with Joomla 1.0.X the numbers tripled. If you decide to choose the relevant topics, RSS Feeds are simple and clean ways to direct genuine traffic towards your site. You will be pleasantly surprised with the results. Since the “old days”, the rssFactory contained a lot of features. Such as, the most outstanding listings that we can count: * Easy install and uninstall * The component is based on MagpieRSS and supports RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0, the various Userland RSS verions (0.9x and 2.0); additionally it supports Atom 0.3, and many custom RSS namespaces * Rss categories – an easy way to categorize your feeds, and group them by specific topics * Session based tracking of already readed news (Feeds will appear “unchecked” if they have already been read) * Ad Banners and Adsense integration * Customized output styles; all easy manageable through configuration * Automatic unpublishing of erronous feeds * Refresh of feeds in CRON * Easy CSS customization * Easy Search through Feeds What’s new? Well there is a lot... * Several code optimizations and bug fixing * Automatic refresh of feeds though a pseudo-CRON process * Preview of feeds in Category list (optional) * Added Tabbed viewstyle to the available styles * Date format customization * FAVICONS for feeds (pulled from the feedsite or custom uploaded) * Color customization of overlib Output (althou could be overriden by your template) * Font size customization for overlib Output * Automatic version check – you can see if a new version is available * Improved Category management * Refresh of feeds using AJAX (admin side only) * Automatic installation of module and mambot * New SEARCH mambot (allowes you to search through feeds along with searching through content) * Backup and Restore of feeds * Import feeds from CSV Files * and many other features... VERSION HISTORY: =============== rss Factory 1.5.8 released on September 18, 2008. * Fixed issues regarding refresh link, cron refresh function and icon, breaks tabbed view, etc. rss Factory 1.5.7 released on September 12, 2008. * Noticable code improvements. * Removed stripos functions in order to provide maximum compatibility with PHP4 and PHP5. * Maximized UTF-8 support. * Fixed issues regarding duplicate feed images, truncated feeds, overlib when table view, date sort order, feed icons, template in IE7, rss module (sort date, categories filter, parameters), etc. rss Factory 1.5.5 released on July 17, 2008. * Added category description * Improved category management * Cleaner install/uninstall * several other improvements * Attention! Due to the categories changes, backups from previos versions older then 1.5.5 are not compatible anymore. rss Factory 1.5.4 released on June 19, 2008. * New Table Categories * Improved SQL-backup and restore functions including notices * Optimized functions “ParseRSS_toCache” and removed from the feed title * Fixed issues regarding "show only category"; CSS and JavaScript, installation, display categories, favicons, displaying icons in IE rss Factory 1.5.3 released on April 10, 2008. * fixed "save config" issue rss Factory 1.5.2 released on March 25, 2008. * Redeveloped to be a native Joomla 1.5.X component (only rss Factory versions 1.0.x till 1.1.x will support further Joomla 1.0.X) * several major improvements rss Factory 1.1.1 released on April 10, 2008. * fixed "save config" issue rss Factory 1.1.0 released on March 24, 2008. * several minor and major improvements * fixed issue regarding the pseudocron rss Factory 1.0.4 released on Sept 27, 2007. * Tabbed view configurable (background images, width, height of the tabs) * Itemid issue solved * Module defaults set to better values * Admin - feed pagination fixed * Module did not fire pseudocron - fixed * New charset handling functions - improved display for UTF-8 feeds in ISO pages * New display of target feeds in wrappers in your site * improved coding style - no more notices if error level E_ALL turned on rss Factory 1.0.3 released on May 28, 2007. * added better support for UTF-8 feeds; you can now force the charset encoding of the pages (new admin option "force character encoding") * added rel="nofollow" + target="_blank" to the external links of all feeds * added support for some malformed XML feeds (no encoding attribute) * workaround for strange formatted dates * incompatibility fix with com_page_cache * fixed curl_setopt issue with safe_mode on sites * fixed issue with Feeds without date * fixed Mambot bug regarding results (bad id in result) * fixed link visit now with http header 301 moved permanently. rss Factory 1.0.2 released on May 2, 2007. * new feature - show/hide date in display * new feature - show/hide bullet in display * new feature - show/hide icon in display * module fix for displaying bullets (image path was corrupt) * incompatibility fix with com_page_cache * fixed minor admin interface problems in confguration: show feed icon * fixed issue: cannot find any feeds (on some installations) in categories with spaces * fixed an issue with Ads (display for less then 2) and was added to CSS. rss Factory 1.0.1 released on Apr 25, 2007. * minor fix in refresh link output for some configurations; * fix for sites running in safe_mode (set_time_limit error); * added minor change about description being displayed for "show_categories" set to false. rss Factory 1.0 released on Apr 22, 2007. * published on Extensions.Joomla.org