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Sigsiu Online Business Index 2 (SOBI 2) Hot ComponentcomponentModulemodulePluginpluginLanguagelanguage
Rating
245 votes
Developer:Sigrid Suski & Radek Suski Version:RC 2.8.6 (Updated 105 days ago)
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Compatibility:Compatible with Joomla! 1.5 LegacyCompatible with Joomla! 1.0
Views: 435,906 License:LGPLv2.1
Favoured:
273
Type:Non-Commercial
Date Added:Sep 11, 2006
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Sigsiu Online Business Index 2 (SOBI 2)
SOBI 2 - Sigsiu Online Business Index 2 is a directory component for the WCMS Mambo and Joomla! to show entries of companies, clubs, persons, shops, products, aso.
The entries are divided into categories, which can contain subcategories. One entry can be entered in several categories. The companies/clubs/persons enter themselves in the index. Registered users can modify or delete their entries. Entries can be renewed by the user if they expire.

Using the integrated Category & Entry Manager in the back-end, all categories and entries can be managed comfortably. Entries and categories can be deleted, unpublished and moved.

A Fields Manager can be used to configure each field entirely. This concerns the ordering, obligatory fields, fees, field length (width of field and number of characters), field type (textfield, textarea, checkbox, checkbox group, select list, text code or calendar), search methods, in which view a field should be shown (Category View and/or Details View), and much more. An unlimited number of new custom fields can be added.

For each entry two images can be uploaded (besides the linked images in the description). The images will be resized to a predefined size. With the URL field "image" it is possible to add fields for linked images.

An alpha index is available to show only entries starting with a specified letter. Also only the most popular entries and categories, the recently updated entries, the new entries or entries by tags (mata keywords) can be shown.

To let the customer pay for the not for free options easily, a connection to PayPal is integrated.

In a menu module all categories can be shown in tree view or all main categories in a flat view. An extended search function gives the possibility to search within the existing values of one or more fields or within a specific category.

SOBI 2 works with "Register Globals" and "Register Globals Emulation" off.
SOBI 2 is the big brother of SOBI and suitable for those users, which need the wide possibilities of configuration and subcategories.
Features:

* Multi-Level Categories (unlimited nesting depth)
* Adding Multiple Subcategories at once
* User definable fields (textarea/inputbox/checkbox/checkbox group/select list/calendar)
* Wide possibilities of configuration
* Dynamic Page Titles (SEO)
* RSS Feeds (configurable to show latest, random, etc. entries)
* Configurable Way Search (Routing) Function
* Integrated Google Maps connection
* Security Image for spam protection (not Joomla! 1.5.x)
* Extended Search Function
* Category Search
* Integrated Version Checker
* Anonymous entry and/or for registered users (only)
* Edit and delete functions for the user (via front-end)
* Quick Edit/Edit in Place function
* Show all entries of one user
* Integrated Wysiwyg-Editor (front-end)
* Meta Keywords & Description (SEO)
* Show entries by tags (meta keys)
* Image Upload (max size configurable)
* Supports field URLs http, email, linked image and linked media file (video/audio)
* Text code field for Add/Edit Entry form to show individual information
* Connection to Paypal
* Category & Entry Manager
* Fast Sigsiu Tree for categories selection
* CSS file editable within back-end (w/o Codepress)
* Templates for Details View and V-Card, editable within back-end (w/o Codepress)
* Template for Add/Edit Entry form, editable within back-end (w/o Codepress)
* Template Parser with Syntax Checking
* Language Manager to install new languages
* Confirmation emails for author and/or system operator
* User group for system emails selectable (multiple selection possible)
* Email Templates with placeholders for various data, editable via back-end
* Alphabetical index for category and entry selection
* Show most popular entries and categories (or entries only)
* Show new & recently updated entries
* Cache Function for acceleration
* Debug Mode
* Plugin Manager and Plugin Interface for 3rd party plugins
* Extension for OpenSEF available
* Menu module (tree or flat view) available
* Searchbot (plugin) for standard Joomla! Search function available
* Various plugins available
* Various modules available

The following language packages are available:

* Arabic (frontend only)
* Basque (frontend only)
* Brasilian-Portuguese
* Bulgarian UTF-8
* Catalan
* Croatian
* Czech (frontend only)
* Danish (frontend only)
* Dutch
* English (already integrated in the SOBI2 full package)
* Finnish
* French
* French (frontend only; without apostrophe)
* German formal (already integrated in the SOBI2 full package)
* German formal UTF-8
* German informal (already integrated in the SOBI2 full package)
* Greek
* Hebrew (frontend only)
* Hungarian
* Indonesian
* Italian
* Polish
* Polish UTF-8
* Portuguese
* Romanian (frontend only)
* Russian
* Serbien (frontend only)
* Simplified Chinese
* Slovenian
* Spanish
* Swedish (frontend only)
* Thai UTF-8 (frontend only)
* Traditional Chinese (frontend only)
* Turkish

Please note: not all language packages are fully translated. Missing texts are always in English.

Demo Sites:
SOBI2 as Extensions Directory http://mambo.sigsiu.net/
SOBI2 as Companies Directory http://joomla.sigsiu.net/

SOBI 2 is released under the GNU/LGPL license.

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the best of the best by pks81, January 5, 2008
1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
This is one of the best, if not the best, components for Joomla, Mambo .....
And the support is great. Thank You very much


Outstanding by pipi_m, January 3, 2008
1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
I am very new to Joomla and still learning this all.
Yet I had absolutely no problem installing, configuring and get working this component. It will be very useful on my site.
Great Job


All You Need is SOBI!!! by rodvold, December 31, 2007
1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
If you need a directory, a list, a blog, a file management system... ANYTHING. If you are competent in HTML and know a little CSS, SOBI has the capability to whatever project you need.

I absolutely love it, and praise the developers for keeping it opensource!


Awesome by mac1985, December 24, 2007
1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
This is the heart of my website and was 100% free. Customizable and easy to use.

Mac @ ShopZanesville.net


Awesome by mbasche, December 3, 2007
1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
Holy , this is one of the best J! components on the market - and this for free !
Its a kind of complex but easy to use directory software and fits a wide range of possibilities.
Superb and quick Support via Forum. Rich and useful plugins (Some are commercial). Give it a try and you'll love it...


Great extension, superb support by Hammy, November 29, 2007
1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
This is an excellent extension where almost every aspect can be customised to your needs.

As a newcomer to joomla and PHP i found the customisation a little tricky to grasp at first but the support staff and forums were incredibly friendly & helpful.

With the help of the support staff ive managed to create a superb, user managed hotel directory and am very pleased with the results.

Would highly recommend


Good Catalog Solution by ericcart, November 14, 2007
It's a Good Catalog Solution. I'll use it. It's very handy for a small catalog, with dynamic fields. It has a lot a of features. I'm sure It can be adapted to a lot of scenarios.

I only notice limitation to handle a large volume of categories. For example, all category levels has to be delivered in a static tree... so if you have 1000 categories the page grows a lot.


Owner's reply:
There is no any limitation about the number of categories. We have tested SOBI2 with over 50 000 categories and it is no problem.

The only one problem you can have is the module, not the component, and only if you use dTree. When you have lot of categories the dTree generating many line of JavaScript code and it causing sometimes problems with the browser.

But SOBI2 self has no problem with large number of categories/entries.

BTW: I think, maybe I'm wrong, that if some directory need more than 500 categories that someone has make some errors in the design phase. I think even eBay has no so many categores.

Respect by joomqueen, November 14, 2007
1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
This component is the best free Joomla component. SOBI2 has a framework for endless possibilities. This is the heven for every good developer.
I recommend to every person wanting to build a professional directory. Respect for the developers for the gerat component and for the best (and free) support I ever seen


1st Class component by silver007, November 12, 2007
1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
Fabulous and offers extras that I hadnīt even thought of using until I saw them.

Iīm a Joomla! webmaster novice with only a few months experience and this was simple to install, easy to configure (and the options are multiple and useful) and I think looks great too.

The response for help on the Foum was answered within 2hours with a friendly reply that gave the answer needed. The question wasnīt a technical problem either, just something I hadnīt figured out due to me not looking in the right place for a plugin.

I havenīt even searched through or checked out the plugins, addons either and am sure i will be delighted with those as well.

Great component.


Long time user by amadorj23, November 8, 2007
1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
Never posted so decided its time. What can be said this has to be the most used component on Joomla. If not a very close second :) The community is great, the dev team actually continues to work hard on the project and making changes.

I sure hope Joomla is smart enough to change the GPL otherwise we will loose a wonderful component soon.

Oh yeah and its FREE what else can I say!


Excellent Directory Component by davec, October 30, 2007
1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
I have played with this component on and off for some time. The latest version is great. Added a couple of thing including the Alpha Index which on a larger directory I think is important. The Captcha code is handy too. The admin is also greatly improved.

Dave


no import by yamada, October 29, 2007
Installed it,tried it, and looks great.
However it may sound positive i did gave it average.
Reason is :lack of response on demand.
As i was searching and hoping that it would include some way to import from mosets (look-a-like) i found myself disapointed.
Why should anyone go from mosets to sobi2 is a personal choice,but besides that...you cannot because there is no way of importing your data.
I was surprised to see after searching that more people requested it,and that was months ago,and replies after that weren't answered.
And as of this day there is no import function,to go from mosets to sobi2.


Free, professional, many functions by Mien, October 7, 2007
1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
I finally took the moment to register myself here, only to review and rate Sobi2. In the beginning i was lost with this component, so many options!! Taking a moment to read the Sobi2 Wiki, and with the great and fast help of the people (neo and trinity) of the Sobi forum..i got the layout exactly that i needed..this component is much more than some company index..im using it for an music album section! This component is indeed one of the most professional extensions for free! You guys are doing a great job..two thumbs up!! ^_^


Excellent and feature rich by starlight, September 27, 2007
1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
Very feature rich and one of the best things about it is the ability to be able to create a LOT of categories all at once instead of one by one(I had 100), which is a huge time-saver! Support on the forums is excellent too, which is also very important.

I have only one problem with it, which is that is has some problems with some of the WYSIWYG editors and doesn't work with all of them, in particular WysiwygPro but that *may* be due to another problem I'm having with my site at the moment.


Best ever ... by craimiog, September 24, 2007
1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
I just wondering why this extension is not a editors pick.
This is the best extension I ever seen. And not just only this exetnsion is great. The support is much better as many commercial products have. Even if You have problems with SOBI2, you will have the solution for this problem in less than 24 hours.
Thank you very much.


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