Need I say more ;)

I thought the cost was a little high at first, but I got a google adwords check today and splurged on this plugin.

However, it is not perfect yet. Here is what it needs:
1) Admin interface to let me drop copyright violations
2) Email notification of new uploads
3) Better CSS control (It would be nice to have a div around the whole thing)

Installed it and everything seemed fine.

The next morning I checked my error logs and this mod generated tens of thousands (+10,000) errors and warnings.

I opened the source files and found a hacked up version of what looks like a 'newest users' module. Dead and redundant code is all over the place. Overly complex and arcane MySQL queries kill system performance.

In my 25+ years of commercial coding experience, I would have to rate the quality of this module as near the bottom.

JSAS requires that you have an active network connection to use it. That means that you can't work offline. Also, even if you are wired, but the network goes down while you are working, real nasty things can happen.

It also makes me wonder why the JSAS people require a live connection. Does JSAS call home? Does JSAS send private information from your development platform back to the developers?

Whatever ... the bottom line is it not truly standalone. If you don't believe me then just unplug your network cable before firing up JSAS the next time.

Jim

Shouldn't have followed the herd on this one. It works for basic menuing, but then there are much leaner extensions to handle the simple stuff (this extension has a LOT of files).

If you try to use any of its advanced features it quickly breaks down. For example, it does not reliably split the parent menu and child menus apart. Instead it loses child menu items. It seems like the longer the URL of the child menu, the more chance there is that it will be lost.

I spent two days trying to debug this piece of code-bloat, but there are simply too many files and too few comments to do that.

I maintain a number of sites and this little jem has saved me so much time.

Contrary to what an early poster claimed, you CAN specify what version of Joomla to upload. In fact I used it to upgrade a Joomla 1.0.8 site to 1.0.10. All I had to do was enter the URL for the proper upgrade file and press the button and before I could even blink my 1.0.8 site was running 1.0.10.

Thanks, guys, keep more stuff like this coming.

Jim

I have been using this component about a year and it gets about 500,000 hits a week. It has worked consistenly like the big forums, but unlike them it is fully integrated with Joomla and CB.

TEMPLATE: I have been able to fully customize its appearance. If you are having problems, I suggest you install the ColorPack extension and edit they templates in it to get any appearance you want.

Keep up the good work guys, we need more open source components like this.

Jim

This is a great enhancement to a great forum component.

I have been using JoomlaBoard on my site for about a year now and have had no problems with it. My site averages 500,000 hits per week and the forum is the most popular part of it.

FOLDER.PNG missing: It sure is.

Except for the missing folder image, the installation went off without a hitch.

Thanks for the hard work, keep it coming please.

Jim

It seems to be a variant of PuArcade.

The main thing that I don't like about it is the licensing scheme. The mod 'calls home' and checks if your license is valid. This means that if the license server is down, that your arcade is not going to run and/or your site may crash.

I also don't like the huge banner at the bottom that is essentially saying "dump this site and come check out my site". The author asks $100 to remove this banner ... sorta of contra-opensource in my mind.

Other issues were in the admin backend. In order to add games you have to ftp into your site and upload the games manually (along with a gif). Then you come back to the front end and retype the name of the game and the gif by hand.

All in all I think that this is a good step in the right direction. If the author eliminated the license server (call home), the banner, and incorporated an admin upload feature, I might consider purchasing his 'level 2' product.

For now I will probably stick with PuArcade. I modified it to load multiple games (it ships with only 5) and I fixed a bug in it that prevented it from tracking high scores.

I loved the demo, it looks realy great. However, the mod crashes my site. I looked in file 'mod_shoutbox.php' and saw that the 'mod' is trying to open files in a nonexistent directory under /components.

Is there another part of the install missing? Or was this mod ported from a component?

Let me know when this is fixed up, I would like to use it.