Recommend Friends (old)
Version
2.0.3 (last update on Jan 6, 2009)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
62
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Views
74230
Date Added
4 July 2008
Component to allow your users to recommend, or invite, their friends to visit your website.
It can send multiple emails including a copy to the Administrator and/or the User. Front end appearance is completely configurable including form field widths and background and text colors! It incorporates Captcha Security to help prevent spam! There is also an option to send emails in Content-Type:text/html MIME format! ALL text for the entire component, front end and back, can be edited on-line in the Admin area of the site! And the component is XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid!
This component uses standard Joomla! JFactory Mailer functions - which should work if your website's email settings are correctly configured for your website server (i.e. Sendmail, PHPMailer, SMTP, etc).
Features
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-Set how many 'Email Fields' are displayed on the Front End.
-Select how the 'From' and 'Reply To' addresses are set.
-Set whether Admin should receive a copy (Bcc) of the email sent
-Change or customize the 'Subject' field for the emails.
-Set a customized introduction message for the emails sent to Friends
-Allow HTML code to be entered in the custom introduction - Including Images!!
-Form field validation through Javascript
-Set the name, email input field widths and user message textarea size
-Change the form field background and text colors
-Set/control the widths of ALL the form fields
-Captcha Security! *NOTE* Your server *MUST* have GD and TrueType Fonts!
-Customize Captcha font text and colors, noise, text rotation, etc.
-ALL text can be edited ON-LINE through the component!
Languages
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The UserInfo module comes with several language files:
- German - de-DE.php - Front End (Thank You Fabian Metzner!)
- English - en-GB.php - Entire Component
- Spanish - es-ES.php - Entire Component (Thank You Luis J. Pumares!)
- French - fr-FR.php - Entire Component (Thank You Patrick Atlas!)
- Italian - it-IT.php - Front End and most of Back End (Thank You Andrea Garbato!)
- Dutch - nl-NL.php - Entire Component (Thank You Adri 'CanBerra' Dekker!)
- Polish - pl-PL.php - Front End (Thank You Stanislaw Kordasiewicz!)
- Russian - ru-RU.php - Front End (Thank You Denis S.!)
- Turkish - tr-TR.php - Front End (Thank You Sedat Oguz!)
Links
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~~ Demo: http://www.dmackmedia.net/recommend-demo.html
~~ Download: http://www.dmackmedia.net/downloads.html
~~ Support Forums: http://www.dmackmedia.net/support-forums.html
~~ D-Mack Media Site: http://www.dmackmedia.com
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I have used so many extensions from here, this is by far one of the BEST I have ever come across.
Its perfect! Easy to install and TONS of features and customization options. You guys will really love this component!!
I have used it on 2 sites. Works really well and my users are very HAPPY. I will be donating !!!!!
Thank you so much for this !!! AAAAAAA+++++++++++++++++++++
Its perfect! Easy to install and TONS of features and customization options. You guys will really love this component!!
I have used it on 2 sites. Works really well and my users are very HAPPY. I will be donating !!!!!
Thank you so much for this !!! AAAAAAA+++++++++++++++++++++
Okay I had to email quite a few people for a coach that needed to send out some information. I sent the email out to dozens but some of the emails had dashes and periods in them which the code would not originally allow. I called the owner and explained it to him and his fixed it in less than 30 minutes and I was able to resend those notes out to the people that it was intended. I like a product that works like this but I like it more when you can get help from the developer. I need to go back to his website and see what else I can use and purchase. I recommend this product and all products that he puts out. Thanks alot for your help and sorry for sending this notice out so late.
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quinton
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quinton
Good for a site like myspace where you invite friends to join, but can also be used to promote your site to other users or possible customers
i found just one problem when i try to install this component.. it is in line 57 of recommendfriends.php file. You must correct it to en-GB.php insted en_GB.php OR you must rename en_GB.php into en-GB.php. It`s stupid mistake but.. I give you the best mark :)
Owner's reply
Issue resolved in v2.0.3 - Thanks for the heads-up and the great rating!!!
Very easy to install, in fact too easy. Took me about ten munutes and nine of those was spent looking for things not working properly before being satisified that all was well.
This is an excellent component, slotted right into the look of my site without any need for tweaking.
Superb contribution to the Joomla community - highly recommended.
This is an excellent component, slotted right into the look of my site without any need for tweaking.
Superb contribution to the Joomla community - highly recommended.
Finally a 1.5 invite that is simple, user friendly, and does what it says. Works with sh404SEF, which others I tried did not. This is not a pop-up window and feels very integrated into the site and not a cheesy white window. Great component!
Wow - this is a great extension. It's easy to customize, works right out of the box, and is very efficient and professional. Thank you so much!
Got to say my only problem is that this guy does not make all my extensions. This one does what it says and more. Loaded and worked with no problem and you can configure everything on it, the lot!
What I did like about this software is that it blended into the theme as if it was written for it.
Just to mention the customer service is great. Fast friendly etc. One to watch in the future for other projects.
What I did like about this software is that it blended into the theme as if it was written for it.
Just to mention the customer service is great. Fast friendly etc. One to watch in the future for other projects.
I honestly will have given this component 5 stars! The only problem is that it doesn't have a module or plugin to accompany the component. It will be hard to convince site visitors to look for and click a menu link before they can recommend your site to their friends. The site owner is the one that needs the favor of their site visitors, so the Recommend component should make it easy for visitors to recommend their friends.
So please come up with an accompanying plugin and module that will make this wonderful component a 5 star joomla extension.
So please come up with an accompanying plugin and module that will make this wonderful component a 5 star joomla extension.
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