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ValAddThis 
*** NEW in this Version ***
* Support for secure Web-Server (https).
* Type in your own texts in order to replace the AddThis ones.
-=== Introduction ===-
* This module works with the Bookmarking service script of AddThis.com and is inspired from a module by JoomlaMafia.com called "mod_AddThis".
* The "ValAddThis" module is free software, which has been released under the GNU/GPL v2.0 license. ValAddThis produces valid markup for XHTML (1.0) as well as for CSS (level 2.1).
-=== Features ===-
* The following can be adjusted:
- CSS class suffix for user-defined styling
- The alignment of the module
- The ID of the AddThis account
- Installation on secure or non-secure Web-Server (https)
- Choice between 2 new types of AddThis buttons (RSS-Feed, Email-only)
- Choice between 14 different buttons, which are included within the module
- Optional user-defined image and/or text for the AddThis button
- Optional user-defined texts to replace the AddThis ones
- Optional CSS style for the text
- Optional "alt" text for the button
- Optional user-defined Brand name
- Optional user-defined Logo
- Type of the popup box
- The header text color of the drop-down AddThis window
- The header background color of the drop-down AddThis window
- The bookmarking Services you want to appear in the drop-down window of AddThis
- The Offset from top and left for the AddThis button
-=== ChangeLog ===-
*Latest Version 1.2.0 (19 May 2009)*
* Added: option to install the module on a secure Web-Server.
* Added: option for user-defined texts in place of the AddThis ones (no need to wait for any translations in your own language anymore).
* Changed: the file helper.php changed so that the module supports the PHP version 4 (some versions of PHP 4.x stated error messages).
* Changed: some of the parameters will no longer be passed to the AddThis script, if they are not needed (e.g. the Hover delay will not be passed if the RSS Feed button is used).
Please vote for the extension if you like it. Thank you!
I would have given it the full 5-stars except, now I have to "hide" the "Read more..." and add my own, and have this text within the article link to a menu link for this page, and ensure the menu link is selected in the module definition. A few more steps that would be necessary with a plug-in. It does meet my needs.
Thanks for your vote! I'm glad the module met your needs; As with every module, you may have any module appear within an article and that would work just fine if you need it for an "Article Layout" view; Although if you intend to use it inside "Category/Section Blog Layout" views, it will probably not pass the appropriate URL/Title of the article, rather the Category's/Section's URL. For this kind of article layout-views it would be better if you used a content-plugin.
Thank you so much too for your kind words! I'm glad that I have been helpful.
Minor problem: You can't give a relative path in the custom button (only "http://...." works for me).
Has to do with the variable $but_link used as well as for the function "getimagesize" as for html "image src".
Thanks for the positive review! As it concerns the minor problem, I've just checked it out and it works for both absolute and document-relative links. The only type of link it gave me an error message was a "site-root" one; the one with a preceding "/". Try to use either absolute (as you do now) or document-relative links, ie. "images/myimg.png" (without any preceding "/"). Let me know if it works for you too.
You're very welcome. Very kind of you and thanks for the review!
Thanks for the good words, I'm glad you were satisfied with it. In the near future there is a possibility to make a plugin that utilizes the script from AddThis. For now you could use Joomla's own "Load Module" plugin, in order to display the module within an article. I have a tutorial on my website on how to do that, check it out if you want.