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Ninja Super sIFR 
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1.1.0 (last update on Dec 15, 2008)
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Ninja Super sIFR allows you to quickly and easily put stylish fonts on your site without the need for images. It uses an advanced flash technique called sIFR to convert text on the fly into new fonts and colors, and even to add special effects like drop shadows to the text.
This will allow you give your site a much more interesting and attractive appearance without having to individually create images for every heading on your site.
Ninja Super sIFR's is a significant improvement upon our earlier sIFR extension and it's advanced component interface makes uploading and using new fonts a breeze, and with the majority of the parameters being driven by lists or buttons, creating font instances is just as easy.
Now with over 25 parameters for controlling the font appearance, Ninja Super sIFR is far and away the leading sIFR solution for Joomla.
It also fixes many of the most complained about or requested features of other sIFR implementations:
* Links and Menu items can now be sIFRed
* You can add drop shadows, with different colors and depths to your text
* An advanced component interface to make uploading sIFR font files a breeze
* Detailed component management of sIFR instances gives you more control than ever before
* Control which pages for the sifr to be displayed on, allowing different styles or colors on different pages.
Note: Ninja Super sIFR is a Silver Level extension at the Ninja Forge Extension Club, which is only $5 for access to -all- Silver level extensions.
[UPDATE: 1.1.0]
Added German language packs.
Editor's Note
- This extension requires registration to download.
byslimbeck on December 31, 2008
This is by far the best sIFR plugin/component for J1.5 right now, hands down.
I needed to use 3 or 4 different styles of a custom font on my site, and another plug-in I tried was very limited in its functionality and only supported 1 style at a time (without a significant amount of adjustments that I had to make to it).
Super sIFR allows for an unlimited amount of separate styles and fonts so you can have different sizes, colors, or fonts for your different header tags or CSS classes, has click-of-a-button options for using it with Content Headings, Component Headings, and Module Headings, and you can determine what articles or components you want to use sIFR with.
It is so straight forward and simple to use, a caveman could do it :)
One thing I found out, is that the component will not function if your server is using PHP4, so you will need to go into your hosting account's cpanel and enable PHP5 (its super easy, just click the button under the PHP icon).
Also, if you switch from PHP 4 to 5, they will rewrite your .htaccess file, which means that if you previously had Search Engine Friendliness activated, you may need to make some adjustments to your .htaccess file to get the Joomla version back.
Once I switched to PHP5 it worked flawlessly (besides the small few glitches sIFR always has had in Firefox.)
I've tested Super sIFR in IE6, IE7, IE8 Beta (using IE Tester), FF3, Chrome, and Safari, and it displayed great in all of them.
To get this component, you have to pay $5 to get access to the "Ninja Club" or whatever its called, and its a recurring monthly charge so be aware, but IMHO, that's dirt cheap for such a high quality plug-in. It saves me lots and lots of time.
Note: The version I downloaded (1.1.0) is using sIFR3 build 419, so if you're going to be inserting a custom font that is not included, you will need to use the FLA file from the 419 build at sIFR's home page.
I needed to use 3 or 4 different styles of a custom font on my site, and another plug-in I tried was very limited in its functionality and only supported 1 style at a time (without a significant amount of adjustments that I had to make to it).
Super sIFR allows for an unlimited amount of separate styles and fonts so you can have different sizes, colors, or fonts for your different header tags or CSS classes, has click-of-a-button options for using it with Content Headings, Component Headings, and Module Headings, and you can determine what articles or components you want to use sIFR with.
It is so straight forward and simple to use, a caveman could do it :)
One thing I found out, is that the component will not function if your server is using PHP4, so you will need to go into your hosting account's cpanel and enable PHP5 (its super easy, just click the button under the PHP icon).
Also, if you switch from PHP 4 to 5, they will rewrite your .htaccess file, which means that if you previously had Search Engine Friendliness activated, you may need to make some adjustments to your .htaccess file to get the Joomla version back.
Once I switched to PHP5 it worked flawlessly (besides the small few glitches sIFR always has had in Firefox.)
I've tested Super sIFR in IE6, IE7, IE8 Beta (using IE Tester), FF3, Chrome, and Safari, and it displayed great in all of them.
To get this component, you have to pay $5 to get access to the "Ninja Club" or whatever its called, and its a recurring monthly charge so be aware, but IMHO, that's dirt cheap for such a high quality plug-in. It saves me lots and lots of time.
Note: The version I downloaded (1.1.0) is using sIFR3 build 419, so if you're going to be inserting a custom font that is not included, you will need to use the FLA file from the 419 build at sIFR's home page.
Owner's reply
Thanks for the thorough good points/bad points review slimbeck. I will look into the php 4/5 thing. It should work on 4, but perhaps we used a php 5 only function somewhere.
Also if you want more fonts, you can just use http://sifrgenerator.com, and choose build 419 in the parameters it offers.