I reckon that these chaps are rather good. They have released a very good tool. This module makes a very discrete and gentle pop-up that does not annoy.

Note To Developer: Can you please modify it so that we can alter the colour of the main text or the background? It appears to be picking it up from the template and the text appears very faint on my site with the default yellow background.

A very useful tool indeed

This editor is the best open source Joomla editor there is. It has the ability to link to other content within the site without having to know the full URL.

It has a few quirks, one of which is that when you cut/paste from the JCE WSIWYG editor into an external editor like MS Frontpage using the design tab, the HTML generated has '/administrator/administrator' inserted into every URL link. When you edit that in your external editor and paste it back in, then beware...your links won't work.

I don't know why that is but I've learnt to live with it. I seldom edit externally anyway so it isn't much of a problem.

Another quirk is that the editor is susceptible to the wrong URL, if you put sitename.co.uk in the browser and your Joomla site is configured as www.sitename.co.uk, the editor content pane may not show up at all. This may be a Joomla problem though and not a JCE specific issue.

I have also had problems trying to get JCE as the default editor, sometimes having to de-install all the other editors and re-install JCE a couple of times before it would work.

Once installed and working it is my editor of choice and all my sites now have JCE installed by default.

Yereverluvinunclebert

This module is slick and seems to do the job, however, there is a bug.

If you use more then one template in your site/shop as I do it manifests itself. I have one template for the site and another for a VM shop. Even though I have the second template assigned correctly to the VM shop when I use this module to select a product from the drop down list, it always reverts to the default template - which is no good! It completely screws up the shop, layout & look.

The problem is that this module is deriving the $itemid incorrectly, then using that to determine what the template is. To fix this bug you have to open livesearch.php and force the item id. You can just put the line:
$itemid='56';

(replace 56 with the correct itemid, you can find this out by clicking on a product in the VM shop in the normal manner and view the URL, find itemid = nn and take the itemid from there, SEO needs to be off so that you can see the URL in full)

replacing this line :
$itemid=$database->loadResult('componentid');

This is a kludge but it will make the module work without selecting the wrong template. Someone who is more knowledgeable in PHP than me then me can come up with the correct select statement to get the right itemid.

If this could be fixed then it would be 'recommendations all round'. As it is, it is flawed and will make your two-template site function incorrectly unless you hack the code.

Yereverluvinunclebert

A good working drop down menu, what can I say more?

Yereverluvinunclebert

As supplied this module has a bug. If you install the module and put in the left column it will show the site but only up to the point at which this module is displayed. Afterwards however, it stops the rest of your website from appearing leaving you with a blank screen elsewhere.

Initially, having found this problem I put it in the right hand column right at the very bottom. It was then OK as my site had already been drawn prior to reaching this module. So you can use it as is, as long as you put it as the very last module on the right hand column...

Looking at the code I see that it uses the tag but it does not close it off properly
You need to edit /modules/mod_exchangerates.php

It is not the prettiest of modules and you will have to modify the colours and layout yourself using your Dreamweaver/Frontpage skills.

Apart from these niggles and glitches, it does the job and as such I would recommend it. If the glitch could be fixed for the next version and some configuration added to allow you to set the default currencies to convert then it would be a worthwhile and useful module.

I am experiencing the same problem, installs but nothing happens, no back end configuration, nothing. Something wrong somewhere, removed it immediately. I would recommend you look elsewhere until the install problem is repaired, when some documentation is provided and finally when the download site problems are resolved.

Yereverluvinunclebert

This simple mambot works by inserting a mos tag in place of your current image. As long as you have a large and small version of the image the small will be used as a thumbnail and the large one will be displayed when you click on it.

It is what I needed and it worked when another mambot I had tried did not.

If it is a simple to install, simple to configure, simple to use menu tool you are looking for then look no further. This tool works well for simple drop down menus with simple colour matching to allow you to match it to your existing template.

I have been highly critical of some joomla extensions in the past. I also had a few problems with Virtuemart, these were mostly configuration issues that have been resolved by someone else. I mostly found the answers in the forum after a good bit of searching which took time and effort.

But despite what I have just said, I now have to say that Virtuemart when it is configured and working is really first class.

For me the issues that set the component back were the way it displayed in Firefox and IE. both different, but resolved by removing some unwanted code, trivial but time consuming for me - and not for the uninitiated or code-wary.

Would like some of the functionality that exists in OSCommerce, for example, being able to see which users are currently looking at the shop, what they are looking at &c. Would also like better display of categories and multi category products. The back end needs a bit of TLC with regard to product configuration and import/export. Mixing real items with downloads appears difficult to set up. The configuration of tax was not easy nor was shipping but it all worked in the end.

Despite all these niggles it is still first class, as it works and it is free!

yereverluvinunclebert

I installed this module and the earlier version had a few minor niggles in the configuration and documentation, these have since been fixed. It works exactly as expected and the current version is easy to configure and use.

If you want support then this company is very good for bug-fixing and turnaround of issues. You should have no problems installing and using this module.

Dean

Yereverluvinunclebert