Content Submit
Version
1.5 (last update on Dec 18, 2008)
Rating
Compatibility
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Favoured
109
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
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151344
Date Added
17 June 2008
Editor's Note
- This extension requires registration to download.
In the Joomla! 1.5 Core submission form, you enable all your publishers to publish to all your sections/categories. With CONTENT SUBMIT, you dictate which sections/categories your users can publish to.
Do you want your "Teachers" group to only be able to publish to one section? Do you want your "Students" to only be able to publish to another? CONTENT SUBMIT allows you to do that.
THIS COMPONENT DOES **NOT** ALLOW GUESTS, UNREGISTERED USERS, OR PLAIN "REGISTERED" USERS TO SUBMIT ARTICLES ON YOUR SITE, so don't download CS expecting it to do so, then leave a negative review based on your faulty assumption. A user must still be at least an Author in the Joomla ACL to submit an article.
If you are interested in following or assisting with development on CONTENT SUBMIT, please join us at http://projects.dioscouri.com where you can report bugs, make feature requests, submit code and see our roadmap.
If you want to organize your users into custom user groups and hide your CS menu item links depending on their group, check out JUGA. And if you need to synchronize your content across multiple Joomla websites (even across multiple domains) check out SYNK.
Thanks!
Hello,
This is a very good extension and i'm planning to continue to use it. I recommend it to everybody who wants to have people who post from specific locations to post into a desired section. Unfortunately, i haven't found a way to make it select a default category, which means that articles only get published once an admin 'touches them up'. But this is still a great extension!
This is a very good extension and i'm planning to continue to use it. I recommend it to everybody who wants to have people who post from specific locations to post into a desired section. Unfortunately, i haven't found a way to make it select a default category, which means that articles only get published once an admin 'touches them up'. But this is still a great extension!
Although I don't recall this component having a whole lot of features, it does do me one nice thing, it allows me to have a already selected catigory which would have my users less confused with submissions. I find this component for me atleast worth my while. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers Josh Lewis.
Cheers Josh Lewis.
Content Submit does have its purposes, but it more or less boils down to the built-in Joomla article submission layout with the ability to set links for submiting to specific categories and/or sections. You still have to go through standard Joomla controls for editing or publishing the article. There's no way to publish the article unless you set permissions for publisher. There's no way to edit even your own article unless you have at least editor permissions. And there's no way to prevent people with Publisher and Editor access from messing with articles made by other people. Im sure this will work out fine for a specific group of people that only needs the basic functionality this offers, but for those looking for more powerful controls on the standard Joomla submission system, they will be very disappointed.
I downloaded, installed, and set up in minutes. But when I tested it out I received "Forbidden Access" for the big articles submitted, which my site is heavily reliant on.
I love Joomla, no other CMS has all the solutions - I had a problem, needed to be able to specify what type of article to create in the menu manager. Saw this, registered, downloaded, uploaded and had what I wanted in a minute, what more can u ask for.
Was concerned at little documentation, but there is nothing to document really, once you upload the option to select a category or section appears directly in the Menu Item Manager when you select New Menu Item. Simple!
Was concerned at little documentation, but there is nothing to document really, once you upload the option to select a category or section appears directly in the Menu Item Manager when you select New Menu Item. Simple!
I reckon this extension is great. A good way to let others write blogs extra and keep them located in one area of your site.
Also i've found I can't get into the admin area of my site from my smart phone but with this component means i can get in the front end and add blogs from there. The only thing I'd like in future versions would be to be able to add pics as well.
Also i've found I can't get into the admin area of my site from my smart phone but with this component means i can get in the front end and add blogs from there. The only thing I'd like in future versions would be to be able to add pics as well.
"In the Joomla! 1.5 Core submission form, you enable all your publishers to publish to all your sections/categories. With CONTENT SUBMIT, you dictate which sections/categories your users can publish to."
True, if only having 1/2 groups of publishers with pub. rights. There can be only 2 groups of publisher, Registered (at least author) en the Special (back-end) as public cannot be publishers as states in the description.
Do you want your "Teachers" group to only be able to publish to one section? Do you want your "Students" to only be able to publish to another? CONTENT SUBMIT allows you to do that.
False! when making the menu item one cannot choose a GROUP but only ACCESS LEVEL!
So Content Submit DOES NOT allow you to do that.
You will need the JUGA comp first.
"If you want to organize your users into custom user groups and hide your CS menu item links depending on their group, check out JUGA. "
So the description is NOT 100% true
True, if only having 1/2 groups of publishers with pub. rights. There can be only 2 groups of publisher, Registered (at least author) en the Special (back-end) as public cannot be publishers as states in the description.
Do you want your "Teachers" group to only be able to publish to one section? Do you want your "Students" to only be able to publish to another? CONTENT SUBMIT allows you to do that.
False! when making the menu item one cannot choose a GROUP but only ACCESS LEVEL!
So Content Submit DOES NOT allow you to do that.
You will need the JUGA comp first.
"If you want to organize your users into custom user groups and hide your CS menu item links depending on their group, check out JUGA. "
So the description is NOT 100% true
It does exactly what it says it will do, which is just what I needed. Very simple to install and configure. Just create a new menu item and it will be one of the choices under "Articles". Then you can choose the section or category you want. I presume you can do this more than once (more than one menu item). It's great because I can control what section my users submit articles for, and their only choices are the categories within that section. You can even choose an individual category for users to submit to.
I only wish that Joomla 1.5 had come with this option in the first place. You could do this with 1.0, I believe. I know I had such a menu item on Joomla 1.0 sites in the past.
I only wish that Joomla 1.5 had come with this option in the first place. You could do this with 1.0, I believe. I know I had such a menu item on Joomla 1.0 sites in the past.
This is really a good tool for everyone that needs to allow their members to post something and don't want to use complex blog systems.
There is just one little thing that i cant find anywhere and would be great, i really need that this also allowed people to upload files, like pictures and pdf etc. this would automatically categorize them into their sections etc, so i can create a documentation database
There is just one little thing that i cant find anywhere and would be great, i really need that this also allowed people to upload files, like pictures and pdf etc. this would automatically categorize them into their sections etc, so i can create a documentation database
Does most of the expected things. It will be nice, if restrict some usergroups to only one category submission and other user group to a different category.
Nice work. It should be a Joomla basic.
What I don't understand is why when you use it to submit articles to a concret Section, it adds an extra "Uncategorized" in the categorie list. It could be fine too to delete both "uncategorized" categories, Joomla native and this extension's one.
Thanks a lot!
What I don't understand is why when you use it to submit articles to a concret Section, it adds an extra "Uncategorized" in the categorie list. It could be fine too to delete both "uncategorized" categories, Joomla native and this extension's one.
Thanks a lot!
This extension does exactly what it claims. As the admin, I am able to set limiters on where my registered users can submit their articles--and I can do this very simply from the back end.
Thanks for creating this extension.
Thanks for creating this extension.
Content Submit v1.5.0a/1.5.1 on Joomla 1.5.14
A charming little component!
I wanted my 'special' users (author, editor, publisher) to be able to submit content through the frontend of Joomla, not the (to them maybe too confusing) backend. This makes it possible in a very easy manner.
Of course you need proper permissions to publish an article or to edit it.
Some people reported that "it does redirect to the home page without any message, but the articles do go through", but I do see an "article has been saved" message when redirected to the front-page. (different version?)
I did find that a "submit content" link did not work with PHP4 (result was a blank screen) and only changing the .htaccess file to using PHP5 (host gives me the choice what to use) made everything work again.
Small tip: make your submit content link accessible only to 'special' users, not 'registered' or 'public'.
A charming little component!
I wanted my 'special' users (author, editor, publisher) to be able to submit content through the frontend of Joomla, not the (to them maybe too confusing) backend. This makes it possible in a very easy manner.
Of course you need proper permissions to publish an article or to edit it.
Some people reported that "it does redirect to the home page without any message, but the articles do go through", but I do see an "article has been saved" message when redirected to the front-page. (different version?)
I did find that a "submit content" link did not work with PHP4 (result was a blank screen) and only changing the .htaccess file to using PHP5 (host gives me the choice what to use) made everything work again.
Small tip: make your submit content link accessible only to 'special' users, not 'registered' or 'public'.
This does exactly what it says. When a registered user submits a new article, either the Section, or both the section and category are already set with no other options, making sure the user submits to the correct place everytime. The only downside is that it does redirect to the home page without any message, but the articles do go through.
Works great except for the fact that you are redirected back to your homepage... I have some users who need submit multiple items and the fact that they are redirected back to index.php is frustrating for them and thus very frustrating for me. Otherwise this app is great
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