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Article Thumbnails			module
Rating 36 votes	Developer:	Cuong Kieu Nguyen	Version:	2.07 (Updated 435 days ago)
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	Favoured:	44	Type:
			Date Added:	Feb 12, 2007

This module displays a thumbnailed table of articles in sections or categories you have chosen. A lot of features:

- Display thumbnailed images or not
- Latest module (latest article)
- Most popular module (all time or in a period of time)
- Editor choice moudule (you can choose articles to display)
- Randomly chosen module (display article randomly)
- Choose Items, Categories or Sections to display
- Find images (remote, MOSImage or Editor images) in article, Resize them or Make Thumb from them and then display (randomly or the first found)
- CSS customizing - you can customize your own tables to display anything as you wish

The module originates from mod_section_thumbnails (http://www.mambopower.net/content/view/26/27/) created by Martin Walker mainly for Mambo. A big thank to Martin Walker for his cool module.

For installation instruction, please visit my site. All comments please send to Cuong Kieu Nguyen at
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UPDATED:

Version 1.1: added Most Popular Articles, Latest Articles (without entering Section IDs and Category IDs), Created Dates (thanks to Sahertian, Graz for suggestion).

Version 1.2: added Article IDs (Item IDs) if you want to display specific article(s); bug of vertical display fixed (thanks to Ron and Ricard).

Version 2.00: non-GD compiled php servers supported; more friendly back-end; added Read More displaying option; Content Items choosing option (Static or All Content or both)

Version 2.01: bug of relative path solved (thanks to Jack); bug of ItemID fixed (thanks to Steve)

Version 2.02: bug of images path in Resize Mode solved (thanks to Woody)

Version 2.03: now compatible with non-mosimage-used system, even for remote images

Version 2.04: bug of displaying images in introtext fixed (thanks to Ignazio Lucenti)

Version 2.05: fixed error of strip_tags function (thanks to Andrey Dushaev); added suffix for thumb images so multiple use of the module will not have displaying problem (thanks to Dan Knauss); added path control for image folder (thanks to Michael Ulrich)

Version 2.06: added feature for more compatible with image folder path (relative and absolute)

Version 2.07: added controller for popularity calculation (thanks to MadCat); bug of path fixed (thanks to jasper)

NOTE: still does not work well with Joomla 1.5 yet. Sorry.

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User Reviews (24)

Where are the FrontPage Items? by TechPrince, June 8, 2008

Needs to have "FrontPage Published Items Only" and some "More Articles" link just like MiniFrontPage, so this module can replace the frontpage component !!!

Almost Excellent... by sergiux, April 18, 2008

I think the Article Thumbnails Module is ALMOST excellent, for this reason:

I modified css of the module (at.css) with 5 styles for the titles and introduction text, I instaled the module in my site and I copied it ten times, for different topics on the front page of my site. I was happy for the results... in my local server (on my pc), it is functioning excellent.

But when I uploaded my site to the web (on a commercial hosting), everything is ok but there is a problem with the Article Thumbnails Module:

When I create a new article, I write the ID of the new article (in the "Item ID" option in the module form, in the administration panel of my site), and then the article doesn't appears, I can't see it in the front page, but it appears later, after some hours!

Curiously, if I write an "item id" of an old article, the article appears inmediatly in the front page. But my new articles doesn't appears in the front page, after six or more hours!

My site is a news site and I need to change several times every day the ID items of the Article Thumbnails Module.

The module I'm using is 2.07 version and I am using Joomla 1.0.13 spanish premium.

That is the reason I think this module is ALMOST excellent.

Things To Do! by corfulander, April 3, 2008

Awesome module!!
easy to install,many parametres!

There could be one more thing to make it perfect
-->An option to select automatically only frontpage published items of a category or section.

Woot! by Aragorn, March 9, 2008

Man 5/5...
Easy to install and to redesign into own design... Nothing needs to do and my webs are looking now much better...

Thanks a lot!

A good work by hannesh, March 3, 2008

Simple and effective!
But with "create thumbnails", does not preserve the aspect ratio for me. With just rezise there are no problems.

Another thing that would be nice to have for me would be the options to have this module show intro text to articles, that are not yet published. Just as preview then.

Support seems to good also.
Keep up the good work!

excellent module!! by saturos, January 19, 2008

But here is my problem..

i have a big site with 70+ categories so i have to copy 70 time this module...

thats quite a lot..

so can you create a second version of this module , or create a specific variable that automatically loads the articles from every category?

you visit a certain "category" menu -> all new articles from this category will be loaded..

Can you add the "Author" please by line305b, October 11, 2007

0 of 1 people find this review helpful:

Excellent module, by far the best out there for displaying news, but can we have the "Author" field in please!

Excellent in Customization but Very Poor in Code and Optimization by savatage, October 3, 2007

0 of 1 people find this review helpful:

Firstly this module is the best one in customization, it includes tens of parameters to control itself.It's cool and great.

On the other side, when I look the code with programmer eye, it has the worst coding structure I have ever seen, code is very complicated, and very poor for reading it.It can seem many of your meaningless but, code needs to be optimized.

When I installed this module to home page of one of sites, it increased the total MySQL quest about plus 130 query.

Without this module : 105 Query
With This module : 232 Query

It's a very big difference, and I noticed that there are too many meaningless queries in module.

Another problem is using the tables instead of layers, it makes sick the code...

As a result, if this module is cleaned up and optimized, it must be the best in its category, but now I donot suggest this module for the sites with high traffic...

Excellent module by chocogirl35b, August 20, 2007