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!

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.

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'.

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

great extension! the only drawback of this is when someone click on edit it will show all categories and sections again. you can simply avoid it by enabling the 'content edit control' plugin in the joomla extension directory

Great Component. Perfecto for my site.
Thanks

This does exactly what it promises - no more, no less. It is easy to install and configure. Thank you!

After we click ok or cancel button, we are redirec to the homepage (index.php).
This behaviour is driving me (and a lot of people too) completely crazy.
If only after the click, we were redirected to a page written something like.
"Your article has been saved".
Voilá. That's all we need.
It seems the implementations, whether they be commercials or not, had the bad habit to inheret this satanic behaviour of the default joomla article submit implementaion.

Well, this plugin works ok but offers not much in comparison with "Content Templater".

For "Content Submit" as well as "Content Templater" it would be highly desirable to have the option box "plugin" NOT shown to the frontend user. See, that would be really smart - i.e. the front end user cannot make changes YOU as the administrater does not want.

... what it should but it´s not really to clear. I bought JUGA and realized, that JUGA is not a penny worth for me, because it doesn not do what I like.

Here in the description it says, that I should consider JUGA if I want to have the ability for registered users to submit content. That simply doesn´t work, JUGA seems to be only good for if you want to give other users Access to the backend and then limit it. But you have to do it for every single user manualy.

Back to Content Submit: It makes no sense for me that a server-error is shown when a "normal" User klicks the link. Couldn´t at least an information-site be shown?

I tried to contact support and I didn´t really get answers. The main problem I see in the documentation. The one point, that seems to be not really clear:

CONTENT SUBMIT and JUGA are worthless when you want to handele rights or submissions by normal users. CONTENT SUBMIT is only usefull to work with at least publishers. JUGA is usefull only for restricting access to other Administrators.

When you hit this requirements the software could be usefull. If you don´t ... you should read bouth really carefully so you understand, what the software does and what not.

Best wishes, Julian!

Downloaded, installed, added a link through my Menu Manager and presto.

Easy as pie and it does exactly what they say it does.

Thank you, Dioscouri!

Like kspoddar,I too thought this extension would ease the process of submitting article for the guests through some form (as mentioned in description). It just allow to write to particular category.. nothing special.

I'm giving 2Star because the developer tried to do something.

Little guy does what it says it's going to do: sets the section or category for a content submit page.

The feature mentioned for this extension "front-end Article Submission forms" is misleading. I thought I could create forms with which content could be uploaded by site visitors without too much hassle.

This extension merely fixes the category/section which anyway the user can change.

I live in a cooperative community with around 210 units, and are making a 'members website'.

Content Submit is perfect for our needs as most of the people who will be regularly adding articles are not 'net savvy' (general manager, board members, committee members). This allows me to let them type up new articles without needing to know what to plug into the technical fields (category, section, ect). They just type it up and click save. Beautiful.

I agree that it would be nice to not have the technical fields show (everything except title/article). That's not a big negative, to me anyways. More of a possible huge plus.

Would also be nice if you could make it where a non-author (registered user) could make articles with it. This would allow me to set up an area for general members to post articles of their own and have control where it was posted to (This feature would -only- be useful if the above feature were possible. Because like said earlier, all someone has to do is change the fields. Where I trust our managers/board/committees, I'm not so sure I have faith in general members)

Again, good extension, works beautifully for our needs.

This component did exactly what I needed it to do. Restrict the Author to be able to submit articles to a specific Section / Category within Joomla.

Easy to manage. Simply upload component, Go to your Menu Manager and link to this component and select your section/category for Authors. Thats it!

Awesome AAA++++++++++

I don't know why all the other reviews are so wanky. I think this extension did its job.

I needed an extension to allow my users submit articles into a section, and that is what it did.

If you want all of your users to submit content, just follow these steps:

1. Install this extension
2. Change all old and new users to 'Authors'. don't worry, they don't have admin access
3. Create a menu link for this extension and that is it!

Thank you so much for making this extension!

The admin must be able to decide which articles are published and what not ...

It is a bad idea that the articles were published automatically, as they have been poorly designed will result in an ugly layout...

Good and simple component, does exactly what it says.
NOTE: It's a component but it has no Component Menu.
You have to create a MENU item and choose ContentSubmit choice, then choose a CATEGORY or SECTION