Great component. Yes, its in french, with many items missing in the Eng lang file, and many French stuff hard-coded.

BUT, I have just finished translating (and slightly tweaking) the component.

If you wish to get a copy, please email me at syed@enlightstudios.co.uk.

It by no means is an official release - it's just cut down to suit my purpose (I ignored the Category titles and made them into Petitions i.e. Petitions and SubPetitons!).

First at all the concept of this component is really good. It is what i need and what 've looking for. But anyway there are some really anoying things which i want to tell the valuable reader of my review:

* The country drop down does not use a translation or database table - it is done in PHP and it seems to be only available in french. Nice for french webpages but useless for the most webmasters.

* The code contains partial javascript elements with hardcoded french texts (e.g. form validator). This may be convenient for french people but again useless for the rest of the world and it is - of course - hard to translate.

* The dropdown for the salutation hast a hardcoded french text and exactly 3 hardcoded entries - fortunately the 3 texts are in the language file. Anyway the user has in 99% the "fun" to search for hardcoded french stuff.

* The form is not easily extendable. For my purposes i also need the academic title of a subscriber and also the birthday for statistical puposes.

* There are several lines of commented code within the scripts (why?)

* The Webpage for the download seems to be for french people only. The poor translation tool does not really work and so you have to deal with the french stuff.

From my point of view it is hard to understand why a author creates a component for french people only and releases it to the world. This is not really good for a large group of users.

I recommend that the author removes the hardcoded crap from the code. I don't have anything against the french language - but currently it takes me more time to translate the script then to write a new based on the concept. And i think this should not be neccessary.

A alternative to remove the crap is to make a big red sticker "FRENCH LANGUAGE ONLY" to prevent webmasters from wasting time.

The component installed easily and has very important features like the ability to export.

For my purposes, I need to be able to customize a few things:

- Data collection requirements(e.g. I need to collect the address and would like to request the phone number)

- Data shown (e.g. I need to show the name and comments, and may like to show other information)

I'd also like a module that shows a single random petition entries (name and comments) with a link for additional people to sign the petition.

Good Component with lots of potential.
The French is a problem, the English is broken and it needs work.
Hopefully more updates to come.

Thanks
Keep the updates coming

It all looks good to me, apart from there was a small bug in the Language file. Some declarations are missing!

Also, the 'Alert' when the user follows the confirmation link was in french. Anyway, didn't take me long to convert it..

It install in a second and has a sweet FrenchEnglish descritpion. The Joomla configuration file must be writeable, then configure the petition component.