This component is super-cool. I think those negative reviews from last year must have been with a less mature version of the component because I installed this thing and used the sample data as the starting point for my own "Request a quote" form which I managed to set up within 10 minutes of installing the component. So, literally, 15 minutes after downloading the extension, I had a working form on my site. Just make sure you don't forget to install the sample data immediately after you install the component your first time. It's easy to miss the demo data link if you're not paying attention, but if you install it, it will make it much easier to get started quickly. If you're experienced with building forms and web apps from scratch, you'll think this is a total breeze to use. Unfortunately, the stable 1.x version doesn't have any kind of "dependent" form field functionality, so for instance, you can't have a couple of radio buttons that toggle a set of dependent fields on and off. You can still hand-code that kind of functionality within the auto-generated form and the Fabrik forums have detailed instructions on how to do that if you can find the right thread. Apparently a "dependent form fields" feature is slated for version 2, which is currently in alpha. Other than that I have no complaints after a whopping 30 minutes of using the extension, so three cheers for Fabrik!

Running Joomla 1.0.11 I had no trouble initially setting up SOBI2 RC2.7.4b, but none of the SOBI plugins (MP3 Player, Media, Download) seem to work right, at least not in the admin interface. I'm getting javascript errors in both Firefox2 and IE6. In particular, the showPopWin javascript function is not defined when I click the "upload files" button when editing an item. I did find it in the "download" plugin source code, but it appears that it is not being written to the page in the admin interface, so I can't get it working well enough to tell if the user frontend is broken too. Also, none of the template editors are working for me.

I like the AJAX features, but there appears to be no way to categorize downloads despite there being a category heading. No documentation, but it works pretty well. There is a bug in the AJAX editing -- quotes are not handled properly. They are not properly unescaped after retrieval from the DB. So if the category function and the quotes were fixed, it would be great.