    nice, but alpha - not beta, December 11, 2006 |
I am using this Component for a while to create a special category-feed (on Joomla 1.11 and Opensef).
Looked promising and the idea is right: Appearance like the core rss-module of Joomla, possibility to setup different sources with special custom buttons, pinging of feedburners. Great.
As an other reviewer noticed: the name-ID instead of item-ID is not the best way, but did not care too much for me.
// Issues:
- After a time reading the opensef-redirects I was irritated from strange "9999" requests. Found out that they came from the feed. hm. well, opensef handles this, but the feed uses for EACH item a special URL. so this component doubles your necessary redirects and you have to do check, and recheck. this is not that nice, but somehow acceptable.
- became worse as I wanted to setup more feeds recently: first the setup was not listing new categories-names. seems as if it doesnīt update sql-tables. this is not acceptable.
- so I just filled in these categories (listed or not..), it creates the feed and..
- found out: all feeds leed to the same. ever. the bug is "already known" at the developers-forum. there is an ongoing quiz if it is a "caching problem" and/or incompatibility with core-sef.
//Summary: Component works - for me - with one feed. With URL issues. But the rest unluckily is not working, if you want to use any SEF (also core SEF, as it seems).
So I am sorry, but at the moment "ds-syndicate" is a promising alpha-project.
|
|