I just purchased dbSearch & Replace and installed it on a site running Joomla 1.5. I'd emailed the developer to see if it ran on 1.5 - he wasn't sure and offered to refund my money if there was a problem.

It took a couple of rounds of patches but now it's running great. I'm sure an experienced database admin could have searched through all those tables and replaced the required text with some tool but I'm a content and marketing person and without dbSearch & Replace I'd have been working for days.

Instead, I changed hard-coded URL's in a site that I moved to a new server and domain name across many, many pages in seconds.

I hope the developer updates this tool with the version that runs on Joomla 1.5x - if not and you need it, send him an email and beg him to let you have it. It's that good.

If you are a content creator (or you're setting up a Joomla site for a content creator) this is a great tool for creating forms.

I'm not a programmer and the other tools all require significant effort to configure. I tried a couple and never got anywhere.

But I went to this guy's web site and found a full running demo, a series of video tutorials and a well constructed tool designed for a person like me.

I bought it on the spot and consider it to be a true value. Five stars from me on this one...

-a-

PS - go to my site http://armadurascreen.com and click on the Contact Us link. You see a link to my form at the top of the page in a line that says "Click Here To Request An Estimate!". Took about 15 minutes, including downloading and installing the component. (He even has video for that!)