This is a nice component for simple reciprocal link management, however it is littered with many PHP notices which render it virtually unusable unless you turn off notice reporting in PHP. This reflects a somewhat sloppy approach to development, and raises concerns over the quality of the programming.

Otherwise, the features are nice, and presentation overall is good - it should fit into most site templates without much tweaking being necessary. There were 3 features that I would really like to see added:

1) Nested categories (you can only have one level of categories at present)
2) Given that the whole point of reciprocal linking is usually to improve search engine ranking (albeit the importance of reciprocal links in this has now diminished significantly), the ability to specify a number of titles/descriptions/URLs for people to link to - perhaps publishing one chosen at random from those available (eg. you get to define 10 different links to different parts of your site, and when someone wants to exchange links, the component would pick one of those at random for the user to publish on their site).
3) For the same reason (SEO), it would be nice to allow a title attribute to be defined for the link.

More advanced features could be added (eg. allowing a logo upload), but I think the above 3 are the most important.

If your requirements are for a simple reciprocal linking system and you don't mind the lack of SEO features (or you can tweak the component to improve them yourself), this component will do the job. For now I am sticking with a modified version of Bookmarks.

This program is no good for a reciprocal program. It has errors and after going to the forum, no help.
Stay away from it

Owner's reply:
I think the other comments and votes speaks for the component. It does not have errors unless you try to install it on Joomla 1.5 which it is not compatible with.



We have been extremely busy with *paid* work and have not been able to respond as fast to forum inquiries as we want to - sorry - but we have to survive so that we can continue to develop great components for free!

Just tried this one in my J1.5 and it is working fine with compatibility mode turned on and even works with SEF url's

Great component has all thats needed for link exchange

It has what it takes to handle your links exchanges needs.

We love this component. It does it's own link verification and is easily configurable with the ability to add categories.

Many thanks for this excellent component.

Simple and very efective but developed on a high level of quality.

Easy to configure and looks very good.

Again, many thanks !!!

Sunny regards

Kurt Steiner

Quickly installed, and easily used!
even if you don't use the reciprocal linking system, it's a treat to have this for your site.
The are some minor issues that i've taken up on the forum (which looks to be well populated, and well responded to)

thanks!!

LinX is an easy to set up, easy to use tool, and it is a very powerful resource for managing reciprocal link relationships. The support on questions is fast and thorough.

Fantastic! Just what I was after!

It does what it say it does. Great tool for exchanging your links with other websites and improving your Google and other search engines ratings. I would appreciate a small tutorial how to, otherwise you spend extra 30 min figuring out all necessary steps

This Component is Fantastic ! Works Straight out of the box !
Simply upload the component, edit the setting and link to it from your Menu and thats it ! All done, ready to Roll, By far the best Links Exchange Component for Joomla ! Thank you very much

Simply a good module.
The only thing that is unclear is that you have to link to it from a menu manually:
just add an item to a menu, select "component" and in the next page select "LinX". That should do it.

Also your webmaster has to enable cURL in the PHP.

Very good component, installs no problem and works fine
I would like to see two new features
1. the number of links within a category on the public side
2. a search facility
then it would get an Excellent from me

I have been looking for some thing like this for the past 3 days and then i find this, it wasnt exactly what i needed but so far i have managed to change some stuff around to meet my needs (hope you dont mind) also when i put (Use Description: No) in settings and i try to make a link it wont let me with out a description.

Easy to use! It's perfect for my link site, great job!