MosModule
Version
2.1.9 (last update on Jun 20, 2010)
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License
GPLv2 or later
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Date Added
22 July 2006
* Add a "nostate" switch to bypass "state" in articleid
* add | as delimiter to support "," in parameter
* add introtext to readmore instead of number of words
* change MM back to mosmodule which cause lot of confusion for people
* add alias support to predefine mosmodule command to override the default value via mosmodule.ini
* add reference to article ID or URL
* add support for itemid in readmore command
* add support for escape comma in parameter like \,
* add support space between comma in parameter
* add parameter support for alias file name
* add multiple parameters support in alias definition
* minor fix on correctly handle comma when use | as command separator without needing to escape comma
* null out any left over %s in alias
* minor change on SEF to deal with J15
* add support for MosPrayer
Description:
* MosModule mambot has the ability to display nested article, author, textsizer, embeded video in a content, exec snippet written in PHP (without tags) and exec external php script file pass with parameter (with tags). You can see an example of that in "mosmodule\hello.php". (See more detail below)
* In my mind, MosModule would give me the potential of reusing article that are common to all article without repeating the same content, make my article more dynamic enrich with php code using snippet or external php script file. With the use of the parameters and querystring you can pass variable between mosmodule and the external php script. The possibilities are endless!
Features & Usages:
* Run as legacy mambot support and ability to run inside module (see below)
* MosModule is a mambot to displays any module, article, textsizer, video, exec snippet and external php script inside a content item, grap content from any url, wrapper to wrap any site into your site, rss feed, Gigcalendar, MosQbot
* external script: Please see hello.php for a sample on passing variable between mosmodule and external script
* Add feature to self parse mosmodule bot
* Add support for mosimage in load article and author
* Add support for Nok Kaew and JoomFish in load articleid
* Show MosModule in section/category description (see readme_advance.txt).
* Support mod_mosmodule that call mosmodule mambot in module
* Integrate with MosCom with ability to place comment link any where in content
Credit: see mambots\content\mosmodule\credit.txt
Info:
* Wiki: http://wiki.ongetc.com
* Support: http://support.ongetc.com/index.php?option=com_phorum&Itemid=175
* Download: http://support.ongetc.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=1&id=149&Itemid=192
Any donation$ would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
This is a must plugin for me.
I use it for inserting custom php scripts into joomla artikles from other databases like Filemaker databases.
For this the mosmodule plugin is exceptional and have no other competitor.
The big issue is that its only working with legacy mode enabled. There are many other plugin and components nowadays that require legacy mode disabled so i find myself looking for a similar plugin to avoid conflicts.
If this is not a problem for you, this is a excellent plugin.
If the author could make this plugin J1.5 native i had given in excellent rating.
I use it for inserting custom php scripts into joomla artikles from other databases like Filemaker databases.
For this the mosmodule plugin is exceptional and have no other competitor.
The big issue is that its only working with legacy mode enabled. There are many other plugin and components nowadays that require legacy mode disabled so i find myself looking for a similar plugin to avoid conflicts.
If this is not a problem for you, this is a excellent plugin.
If the author could make this plugin J1.5 native i had given in excellent rating.
Hi,
this must be a great module.
But as often I reckon the documentation is very bad and unclear. I am French and speak a quite good english and in both languages the documentation remained more than unclear to me.
I am fed up with this. Developpers should be much nicer with people using there extensions. I know they do that for free and that is definitly a great thing.
But please don't forget to make nice and clear documentation. Don't forget important steps and details.
To use that module I believe most people would spend hours struggling to find the right way.
this must be a great module.
But as often I reckon the documentation is very bad and unclear. I am French and speak a quite good english and in both languages the documentation remained more than unclear to me.
I am fed up with this. Developpers should be much nicer with people using there extensions. I know they do that for free and that is definitly a great thing.
But please don't forget to make nice and clear documentation. Don't forget important steps and details.
To use that module I believe most people would spend hours struggling to find the right way.
Owner's reply
I am sorry that you find documentation hard to understand but please realize I spend lot of time and effort try to make it as clear as possible but this extension is an add-on for content so if you never use any add-on for content it is a little hard to understand what it does.
You are welcome to visit my support site at http://support.ongetc.com and post your question in the forum and I will provide as much help as you need.
There are lot more documentation in form of FAQ and samples at my support site as well.
I am using this plugin for quite some time and I am really glad that it exists - kudos to the author.
It is very useful if you want to embed a module in normal content.
However as of today this plugin is the only plugin that still needs to run in 1.5 compatibility mode.
I really would like to disable compatibility mode on my installation as it slows down Joomla. Thank you for considering this.
It is very useful if you want to embed a module in normal content.
However as of today this plugin is the only plugin that still needs to run in 1.5 compatibility mode.
I really would like to disable compatibility mode on my installation as it slows down Joomla. Thank you for considering this.
MosModule… WOW!!! What can I say besides, what a life saver this was for me!
I came across this tool about two months ago. It was a little hard for me to understand at first, as I am fairly new to Joomla!. But, once I harnessed it’s power, I began using the thing all over the place. To take one site for example, we’ll use [www.girlsgonefootball.com]. It is a site dedicated to helping girls/women learn and understand more about both the NFL and Fantasy football.
This wasn’t my first time working for an all-girl team, but it may have been my last (just kidding). As we developed the site, it became clear to me that they wanted more and more on the site, and that we were ending up with less and less room.
Enter MosModule to the rescue! The center section of the home page is made up entirely of MosModule’s. Three easily made menus, and an ad slider. This allowed me to add a virtual ton of information to the site without making it look overwhelming or shoved together.
But my favorite use of MosModule was for the “Tweets” page. I was able to put four RSS feeds from real NFL players in a nicely laid our format. Heck, I could have done ten if I wanted to.
Using MosModule has certainly changed the way I design Joomla! websites. If you’re smart, you’ll start using it too. Once you figure out the steps, it becomes so easy a Caveman could do it! (This in no way was designed or stated in an effort to offend any or all Cavemen who may be reading this article.)
I came across this tool about two months ago. It was a little hard for me to understand at first, as I am fairly new to Joomla!. But, once I harnessed it’s power, I began using the thing all over the place. To take one site for example, we’ll use [www.girlsgonefootball.com]. It is a site dedicated to helping girls/women learn and understand more about both the NFL and Fantasy football.
This wasn’t my first time working for an all-girl team, but it may have been my last (just kidding). As we developed the site, it became clear to me that they wanted more and more on the site, and that we were ending up with less and less room.
Enter MosModule to the rescue! The center section of the home page is made up entirely of MosModule’s. Three easily made menus, and an ad slider. This allowed me to add a virtual ton of information to the site without making it look overwhelming or shoved together.
But my favorite use of MosModule was for the “Tweets” page. I was able to put four RSS feeds from real NFL players in a nicely laid our format. Heck, I could have done ten if I wanted to.
Using MosModule has certainly changed the way I design Joomla! websites. If you’re smart, you’ll start using it too. Once you figure out the steps, it becomes so easy a Caveman could do it! (This in no way was designed or stated in an effort to offend any or all Cavemen who may be reading this article.)
Owner's reply
Thanks so much for your thoughtful and great review and I appreciated very much.
You have put MosModule in very good use!
There are lot more feature you can take advantage of like snippet, and so much more.
Please check my support web site for FAQ for more detail or post my support forum if you need any help or suggestion.
http://ongetc.com
Thanks
Works like a charm: finally the ability to add whatever module INTO my content-items and articles. Fab, thank you for the great work.
One little note: please change the text above. The correct syntax is {mosmodule module=LogIn} and NOT {mm # module=LogIn} !! You wouldn't believe how long it took me to get it right, awful. So please, spare others this frustration ;-)
Cheers
One little note: please change the text above. The correct syntax is {mosmodule module=LogIn} and NOT {mm # module=LogIn} !! You wouldn't believe how long it took me to get it right, awful. So please, spare others this frustration ;-)
Cheers
Owner's reply
I added the NOTE to explain the MM and the reason for this is to avoid parsing of mosmodule instead of showing the command.
Thanks for your feedback.
Using the lagacy plugin on a Joomla 1.5 instance really slows down my performance.
Mosmudule is probabaly the greatest thing to happen to Joomla, but it needs to be converted to 1.5 native.
I use this module on 7 sites now, and I have upgraded all of them to 1.5 and except for mosmodule, all of my modules are 1.5 native.
Mosmudule is probabaly the greatest thing to happen to Joomla, but it needs to be converted to 1.5 native.
I use this module on 7 sites now, and I have upgraded all of them to 1.5 and except for mosmodule, all of my modules are 1.5 native.
Owner's reply
Thanks for your kind words!
The native 1.5 will come eventually unfortunately there are so many competing priority!
Thanks
Love your mambot, especially the diversity of it!
Removed several other mambots now in favour of this one.
(Small glitch I found is that the video appears on top of all DIV's. Solved it by adding wmode="transparent" as an extra option in the generated html: .)
Chears! Nico
Removed several other mambots now in favour of this one.
(Small glitch I found is that the video appears on top of all DIV's. Solved it by adding wmode="transparent" as an extra option in the generated html: .)
Chears! Nico
Owner's reply
I am not sure I follow what you are saying. Can you send me the before and after and what it does differently?
Thanks for the feedback!
This is FANTASTIC - might change the way I build Joomla sites forever!
I have used it on a Yoga website, and means that I can include various teacher bio's in any page, and update them in just one place.
At last the claim "Joomla is built on a database so you NEVER have to enter data in two places" is true!
I have used it on a Yoga website, and means that I can include various teacher bio's in any page, and update them in just one place.
At last the claim "Joomla is built on a database so you NEVER have to enter data in two places" is true!
Owner's reply
I am glad that you find practical use of MosModule for your your site.
Thanks for your feedback!
I like the mambot. It adds a lot of versatility to display of content.
One minor annoyance with it is that it inserts BR tags between some of the content it inserts. I think it's not a good idea to automatically add spacing to the content - that should be the site dev's choice.
A solution I would prefer is either adding nothing or surrounding the insertions with DIV tags of a particular CSS class so that dev can style the content as desired.
One minor annoyance with it is that it inserts BR tags between some of the content it inserts. I think it's not a good idea to automatically add spacing to the content - that should be the site dev's choice.
A solution I would prefer is either adding nothing or surrounding the insertions with DIV tags of a particular CSS class so that dev can style the content as desired.
Owner's reply
I will consider your suggestion for the future release.
Thanks for your feedback!
This is a dream come true extension very easy to use
and since Joomla! dont have any "assign single article to multiple categories" this is the closest one you can get.
I have a suggestion.
You cant display article titles while using articleid=xxxx
I think this is very very important.
Now here comes the huge bug. My Joomla! version is 1.51.
Lets say you click on an article with id 30 and there is a {mosmodule} command there
If you use random command or even articleid command
if the random article becomes the same one which u are looking (in cour case it is id30) the page becomes a huge blank page.
This is not a big issue while using article id since you will probably not put the same article twice in same page. But when it comes a random it is very very important.
and since Joomla! dont have any "assign single article to multiple categories" this is the closest one you can get.
I have a suggestion.
You cant display article titles while using articleid=xxxx
I think this is very very important.
Now here comes the huge bug. My Joomla! version is 1.51.
Lets say you click on an article with id 30 and there is a {mosmodule} command there
If you use random command or even articleid command
if the random article becomes the same one which u are looking (in cour case it is id30) the page becomes a huge blank page.
This is not a big issue while using article id since you will probably not put the same article twice in same page. But when it comes a random it is very very important.
Owner's reply
Title is not there for articleid to avoid confusion to have duplicated title on the same content. Please provide an example for a use case and why is it important.
Now for showing on the same paging with the same id with the random, is that more of a feature request then bug? How would you expect this to be handle if you have the same article on the same page? The random is intent for use of the content from a different section not for the same section of displaying article.
In my case this module has tipped the scales for Joomla and against Drupal, EZPublish, Typo3 and other CMSs.
The reason is the big freedom mosmodule gives me of showing whatever I want to my visitors. In my case especially the phpinc function is of great value!
Thanks!
The reason is the big freedom mosmodule gives me of showing whatever I want to my visitors. In my case especially the phpinc function is of great value!
Thanks!
Owner's reply
I am glad that you find it useful!
Thanks
I have just installed this module & I tell you that it worked so greatly & nicely. Fantastic module, what I was looking for!
I would plan to donate this project once my site is up & running!!:)
I would plan to donate this project once my site is up & running!!:)
Owner's reply
Thanks for your nice comment.
I appreciated!
Wow, how could a Joomla developer do without this module? I find Joomla pretty handcuffed without this.
One comment/question: I noticed that all the help reference used the term {MM command} to invoke the module in article context. It is said that "MM substitue for mosmodule". I am curious, was this done just to simplify documentation? using {mm command} does not work for me at all - only using the verbose command {mosmodule command} works. Should the abbreviated "mm" work? If it is not supposed to, I would recommend spelling out the word "mosmodule" as the proper command in the documentation. Maybe I am not very smart, but I found it confusing at first!
Either way, thanks for the fantastic module. Excellent work.
One comment/question: I noticed that all the help reference used the term {MM command} to invoke the module in article context. It is said that "MM substitue for mosmodule". I am curious, was this done just to simplify documentation? using {mm command} does not work for me at all - only using the verbose command {mosmodule command} works. Should the abbreviated "mm" work? If it is not supposed to, I would recommend spelling out the word "mosmodule" as the proper command in the documentation. Maybe I am not very smart, but I found it confusing at first!
Either way, thanks for the fantastic module. Excellent work.
Owner's reply
The reason for the MM is to avoid parsing of the command when it is show on Mambo or Joomla site that has MosModule installed. I was using { mosmodule ...} but people miss the space and keep having problem so I just replace it with a capital MM so it will stand out better.
Also as a result the document is smaller and easier to read!
Thanks
MosModule isn't one of Joomla's most popular extensions - but it should be.
Using MosModule you can add generally well-styled modules into your content items - a desire of many, many, Joomla users for various extensions.
The use of the bot is easy : {mosmodule module=modulename}
And give you a lot of options. And you aren't just limited to adding stand-alone modules (like 'latest news') either. A number of components come with their own modules, and MosModule can generally add them as well.
This has been a HUGE plus for my Joomla sites - for example - this way, I can add the 'Frontpage Slideshow' to a content item, or one of many other component/modules.
A great module - well made - and not well-enough known. Thanks!
Using MosModule you can add generally well-styled modules into your content items - a desire of many, many, Joomla users for various extensions.
The use of the bot is easy : {mosmodule module=modulename}
And give you a lot of options. And you aren't just limited to adding stand-alone modules (like 'latest news') either. A number of components come with their own modules, and MosModule can generally add them as well.
This has been a HUGE plus for my Joomla sites - for example - this way, I can add the 'Frontpage Slideshow' to a content item, or one of many other component/modules.
A great module - well made - and not well-enough known. Thanks!
Owner's reply
I would love to see how you make use of MosModule.
Thank you very much for the nice review!
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