This is an amazing plugin, but it needs one tweak to work with all the sophisticated SEF solutions out there.

When you have SEF enabled on your site, Linkr will detect that but then it will generate the SEF URL itself based on (but not delegated to) Joomla's built-in, unconfigurable SEF rules. If you install one of the popular advanced SEF packages (I'm using sh404SEF), it won't work at all, and even if you just use Joomla's built-in SEF, it won't work for any article that doesn't have a menu item pointing to it.

I was able to get this extension to work perfectly with sh404SEF by manually eliminating the SEF logic from the Linkr code so that it always generates a raw url to the article. SEF solutions work in both directions, they will convert the friendly URL you put in your browser to the raw URL on the back-end, but they will also convert raw URLs back to friendly URLs *using the same set of rules* as the page is put together. It's actually safer to store the raw URL in your articles so that if you ever change SEF solutions or even just change the rules in your SEF solution, you won't have a site full of broken links as they'll all be translated according to the new rules automatically.

That being said, I still give this plugin an excellent rating since it was probably the most beneficial to our writers.

Owner's reply:
You make a very good point, and Linkr was updated to store the "raw" URLs.

This works brilliantly.
To get it to work with SmartSEF, disable SmartSEF, and in global configuration disable SEF, mod rewrite, and suffix to URLs. Do all your linking, and when you are finished just go back and enable everything again, and you'll have SEF URLs.

It's not working with Artio JoomSEO or SmartSEF - only with built-in Joomla 1.5 SEF-mechanism.

Thank you guys for this great extension. It really would be a MUST for the core, because it surely is a central point of any CMS.
And it works fine with SEF as well. If the first guess isn't correct just use configure link, and it should be done within seconds. (I'm using the buildt-in SEF for 1.5).

Works perfect if you didn't enable SEF. To have it work with SEF, you need to have a menu associated with the article you are going to link. Otherwise, the link just won't work. In my case, the generated link went to the homepage. If this is fixed, this extension would be super-perfect. Thanks!

This is realy great. Easy installing and works good.
Has to be a stand function in Joomla!

Many thanks for the work!

Marcel

This is the kind of extension that should be included in a base install of Joomla.

Developer is very responsive.

Makes creating links in content a breeze :) Thank you.

A possible enhancements.
-create link to menu item.

This is an excellent plugin: a great time saver and it seems to be quite reliable.

It is a very useful plugin with a nice interface. I met the following issues:

*I had a problem with categories and section written in Greek (UTF)

*I could not link an image. Only text.

This extension is by far one of the most universal and time saving development tools for Joomla. Definitely a must for any installation.

Finally we have an internal linking system for Joomla 1.5. The application installed without problems, and works great. There are two ways of getting hold of the desired article, by search, or by selecting section, category and then article. The plugin works perfect in Firefox. In safari though, I seem to have a problem. When i press on the article after looking for it, nothing happens.

Owner's reply:
This bug has been fixed in the latest version. Thanks for the feedback.

Normally, I am a skeptic of any extension that links articles since working with Joomla!'s URLs can be tricky business. But, this extension does it right. It uses the URL generated by the menu system and it interacts with the router to get the right configuration. I am certain this extended editor plugin will quickly become a "must have" for Joomla! websites.

The lack of such a functionality in TinyMCE made me look for another editor (commercial and compatible with J!1.5). No discussion, your extension will make life much easier to editors - thanks a lot for that!

This is great, although I have 2 problems running it. I wish the author can fix it soon!

First one, before I can run the script:
I get an error message at article.php line 361 :
$string = $lang->transliterate( $string );
After commenting this line, the script is working.

Secondly, I have a test article posted from front-end. When I want to link the article, I found nothing under the its category. However, I am able to find it through the search box.

Good job. Keep it updated.

Owner's reply:
Thanks for the feedback.



These particular bugs are now fixed in the latest version.