I really do recommend this extension for anyone who has more then just several articles and categories.
The component brings to Joomla the really good looking and adjustable section views.
Better then Excellent!

Thank you a lot for that great component. It's so easy to use and the result is great.

If I had named it, I would probably have called it the "Instant Table of Contents" maker. Robert Kuster has done a stellar job with this extension. The problem with content-heavy sites is trying to show the viewer where all the content is, and how it is arranged, so that they can quickly get to what they need to read. Trying to show the hierarchy of a site is usually very tricky and difficult. With this extension, it is all automatically done for you. It automatically exposes the structure of the content, by showing all the Sections and Categories in a beautifully logical layout. Be SURE to 'hover' your cursor over all the label text in the "Parameters - Basic" table to understand how all the options work. For example, you put section numbers into the "Additional Section IDs" area to automatically generate a pull-down menu of sections you want to make available for "Instant Table of Contents" generation. This is a super-slick extension. Thank you Robert!

It did exactly what I hoped it would, allowing me to create a section page that sorted all of the articles by category.

This component adds great functionality to organize your sections and categories in one logical layout under one single menu item.
It is easy and it works.
Support is very good.
I'm generally really prudent, especially with content reorganization extensions, though I'm going to use it for my website, so I'm confident development won't be abandoned.

ricc.

"No glitch" installation, does what the description says it will do.

Tanks, tanks alot!

This is an extremely effective plugin. This has brought order to my sites organization.

A great component. It does exactly what I wanted.
Almost done the French translation, tell me if you want to add it ;-)

Owner's reply:
I'd be happy to add your translation. Just E-Mail it to me.

This is what I've been looking for! But I have Joomla 1.0.
Is there any chance to see this thing written for Joomla 1.0? Need it badly!

Installed and configured very easily. Highly recommended!

This is exactly what I needed. Thank you for this phantastic component. Will there be a german version too?

Core SECTION LIST LAYOUTS are poorly done in Joomla 1.5 and this definitely makes up for it. While I have quibbles with a certain effusiveness in function and wordage, (the developer is not of the parsimony of Hemmingway :) the component can be customized to meet any need.

You can set parameters to make simple lists of categories in a section or all the way up to elaborately expansive tables. This is a must for any publisher speed demon as you can view the categorization (and relationship) of all your articles and then drill down into their content all from one page. This way you can render a page that can encompass an entire section of a site without having to first bother with highly granular menu definitions.

It's far better than a site map (as you don't need to over invest time in menus) and you see all the articles. This feature and functionality should be in the core product. Version 1.5.0.8 is the best yet.

Well done Robert!

I've been searching for something like this for sometime. Great Job!


This would receive 10 stars if it had some functionality to manipulate the images in the articles as well. such as creating a thumnail of the images in the articles and putting them next to the listings.

Nontheless, this gets 5 stars from me. Thanks!

Had this installed, configured and running in about 5 minutes. It was exactly what I was looking for, and had no easy way to accomplish without a lot of extra work, until I found this.

For Roberts first Joomla component, he hit a home run!

Some future enhancements that may be nice...
1) Option to show actual "description" from the article, instead of the article; when you 'Expand Description'.
2) Show all -or- only "X" number of articles, under each component.
3) If the article is displayed. - show only "X" number of characters from the article.
4) If the article is displayed - enable/disable images.

Thanks for the great component!
--Dan

Owner's reply:
First of all, thanks for your review. As to your suggestions:



1) It actually does display only the description (the intro text, this is). It actually always did. If you don't believe compare the SectionEx output to the output of a build in component (i.e. section-blog layout).



2) I added some kind of "pagination" a few versions ago. Unfortunately real pagination is still on the TODO list.



3) This would be hard to accomplish. Intro text is just a HTML string. In other words it consists of text AND HTML formatting tags. If I would simply cut the string in the middle for example, the resulting HTML would be invalid as eventually some closing HTML tags would be missing.



4) You can now do this.

So simple to setup and yet so many options for individual configuration. Works out of the box and gives you cool logical options to list your sections / categories /articles the way you need them to be listed.

Works as a teaser to readers, and I guess it is a tasty desert for the search engines as well!