Great little script. I think the author should have tooted his horn a little more because he has Virtuemart integration instructions for other scripts on his site like image zoom. Neat stuff!

I was a little skeptical about this component but I decided to give it a go. I used http://webwait.com/ to provide some basic benchmarking which closer resembles what a typical user would see.

I ran the benchmark without the product installed. Next I enabled eAccelerator and ran the bench again. What a difference! I then ran the bench again using the FIle method versus eAccelerator... Guess what? It was just as fast so, if you don't have eAccelerator in your hosted environment, don't worry, this component will still have a big impact especially for heavily queried sites like CB sites which I benched against.

Another bench I ran was turning on the Joomla cache.. Ran the bench again and even more improvements were seen on sites with big images...

I would say install at your own risk but so far, it's working perfect.

Thank you for sharing this most needed component...

I purchased this product recently and things were going great. It's well integrated into Joomla and has a good mix of CIP addons and features. This is where the buck stops though.

Once the product was installed, I enabled the Affiliate feature and all seemed well until I started testing the Affiliate sign-up feature. It's broke which is no big deal because I had found and fixed about 6 bugs already. I'm not a developer but I can hold my own with hacks and fixes.

Well, this one I couldn't for the life of me figure out! I sent Chris (Joomla-host dev/owner) a PM and put a message in the forums. Over a week later, no response. One could almost assume the project is dead?

The forums have no activity from the site owner and no responses to others plea for help. Granted, the product was cheap to purchase but come on, if your not going to support it, state it in your site somewhere so that the buyer can assess if it's a product worth purchasing without support.

This is a good module for CB Birthdays but... The function that formats the date is PHP5 specific so it won't display the persons actual birthday (e.g. mm-dd-yyyy).

I have seen and tried a few of these and this mambot seems to work the best at getting good keywords in. I would recommend this along with JPromoter for getting good SEO content.

I do most of my coding work by hand, even in WYSIWYG editors to tweak things out. The BIG play for this component is when I'm having challenges with my markup, this makes it a breeze to work with! I highly recommended plugin for JCE!

What would make this rock is if it supported MP3's and YouTube video ID numbers. This would put SOBI Gallery over the top compared to others. The ultimate combo would be to pair up SOBI Gallery, AllVideos Plugin (or one of the others) and a reviews component. You would have a major milestone for a media gallery that a lot of people have been wanting!

SOBI is a great product. Used it and gallery recently for a small prototype site.

This is another one of those "should be included" in Joomla products. Thanks guys!

IMHO, this is an essential component for Joomla. It makes adding and review content by authors/editors a cinch! This will become part of my base install now.