I have been using this mambot for a while. It works great, but like another reviewer I didn't want tags to show on front page. Fortunately it was a easy change. See below

global $mainframe, $Itemid, $database, $option, $_MAMBOTS;

// Hide adding tags on Modules - tags on modules is not supported
if (@$row->content){
return;
}

// Hide adding tags on frontpage
if ($option == 'com_frontpage') {
return;
}

Like the authors said, its a very simple solution - and it works faultlessly.

Enter event categories, and event details and they are listed in chronological order to viewers, with hyperlinks to another webpage if more detail of needed. The listing expires when the event date is passed.

But that's about it. It is not part of the scope of this project to include any booking features for an event - this is a listing component only. And the listing is not included on a calendar, just a list.

I can think of uses for this component, but today I am looking for a more complete solution.

This is a fabulous component, I only wish I could get it to work properly!

I was new to the whole idea of ical, but now I am convinced this is essential content for my sites. This component displays the calanders, looks great and is totally intuitive to use. Its a breeze to set up too.

I just have problems on my sites because I also use the 'tags' component and its matching Xajax plugin. There seems to be some incompatibility between these and Iwebcal that I am trying to resolve - I hope I can.

I tried this out just out of interest, and was impressed. It immediately shows lots of new content with no work to be done. Its smooth, easy to load and well integrated.

So if you want lots of topical and varied content, without any effort, this is great.

For me though I can't find a use. The sites I work upon all have single purpose and I would like to specify the type of content I get. But there are no options that I could see the limit the stories offered to particular themes.

Also I am unsure about the SEO advantages (to me) of placing several hundred content links to another site. Although I am perfectly happy to stand corrected on this point.

I have been struggling to get tabbed information on my site and have invested time and money into the Showcase component that $99 and doesn't really work properly. Don't bother - this is great - free - simple. Love it.

I have been looking a for a great online reservation and booking system, in Joomla, for a while. Solunas was a new one on me and I tried it immediately.

Its easy to set up, but I could see that its easy because it lacks many features that I'd like. However if what you want is basic availabilty calendar displayed in a module this does the job very well. May be I was expecting too much.

A full implementation of Solunas would add a booking form too, that allows guest to book - but this feature is not in this module (or at least I couldn't find it).

A more complete solution would also allow for credit card payments and although there is a feature in Solunas to turn this on, I could not find any pages of help to describe (in simple terms) how.

As a user of Hot Property who, like many, is awaiting further development of that component. I welcome this conversion and update of Accombo.

This component worked straight away. Some work is needed on the English phrasing that is used, but I image that it wouldn't be too difficult to get it just how you want it.

The component easily handles the basic requirement, to list and categorise accommodation in a travel portal - like mine.

There is a link in the accommodation display to an Italian weather site - a useful feature but it couldn't find my town - the 2nd largest city in Ireland. I guess I would remove it or see if I could use an English variant.

It has nice features that you won't get for the $119 you spend on Hot Property - namely a drop down box to choose hotel star rating that shows up graphically in the listing AND facilties graphics selected from a tick box. These show the little graphics to summarise accommodation that are recognisable worldwide - but not available in Hot Property.

The pricing and availablity request features are basic, but as I use other secure booking systems I would not want to have these features built in.

The layouts are attractive but basic and not within the control of admin - I think they use the CSS from the template - but this would be acceptable for many admins.

There is a searchbot that is functionally good, but needs to be translated to English - although it shouldn't be hard.

For me, where Hot Property scores above Alberghi is with its ability to add custom fields and to re-order those fields. PLUS, I extensively use the extra 'free' modules delivered with Hot Property throughout my site. They feature selected (or random) accommodation in module positions throughout the main content of my site and are an essential part of my sales effort. I suppose that it might be possible to create such effects with other modules and Alberghi - but I wouldn't know how.

What neither products offer, and is much requested by Hot Property users is the abilty to have more than 1 level of directory. For example:
Hotel Accommodation/England/London
OR
Cottage/England/Cornwall/St. Ives
(I use '/' to indicate a directory branch)


So in summary - a good free alternative, and if not for the 'free' modules that come with Hot Property I would propably save the money and use Alberghi.

Thanks for this, I would never have come across Chatango without it. Now I have a free online chat helpline on my site.

One small problem, was that the font size variable didn't work in module control. It was an easy edit in mod_chatago.php to add the "f=" variable taht had been missed in the code.