LFRM is an excellent Joomla extension that has saved me countless hours as I do not have much DBMS experience. In addition, the developer has been very responsive in answering my questions. I definitely recommended this extension!!

I used this extension to develop reporting applications for our remote sales staff who work across Europe and the United States. Building each report is as simple as entering the query and the whole application took less than a week to develop and test.

Thanks so much for the great support!

Superb extension that can do just about anything you need to with your database and data. A very steep learning curve but oh so worth it. The support forums are excellent and the developer is very prompt at responding.

Gives you the ability to generate interactive forms and queries against your database with a little effort although the built-in wizard may be the answer for most people.

Be aware - you do need some sql query skills to get the best out of this extension.

Highly recommended and worth the asking price.

This is by far the most powerful extension for Joomla, but you must be prepared to learn a lot.

It is big and complicated, so the wizard is a great feature to help you hit the ground running. It will give you something to start with but the real power comes later when you learn all the features, of which there are many.

The product has many 'hooks' that allow customisation, you need to work at it to understand all the places it can be modified though....

The documenation while very extensive could be better. Have a read and see what you think, as the documentation is freely available.

With some work and focus, you can create very powerful applications.

I've been using it for well over a year, and in my experience nothing comes close.

However, there is a very steep learning curve.

If you're not sure, download the documentation (for both version 2 and 3) and see what it is capable of, you will also see in detail exactly how the product works. There isn't a live demo of the backend but the documentation shows most things, so by reading the documentation you'll have a good understanding of the product before you purchase it.

Also you must know SQL.

Note that you must read the documentation for both version 2 and version 3, even if you only want to use version 3. Also you really should do the tutorial (in the version 3 docs). If you don't do that, then you will have trouble using all the features of the product.

Support is very fast and usually addresses the problem. Ensure you search the forum, most things have already been asked before. Their forum search feature sometimes doesn't work so I use Google with the site: qualifier.

The other good thing is that the product is in active development, the author is always adding new features and addressing issues. At the moment a major new version is almost ready for release.

I've posted many many times to the support forum, and I've always got an answer that I was able to work with. In my experience the author will follow through with a customer until they have resolved the issue or got to a point they can't get any further.

Highly recommended but be prepared to put in the work to get the best results.

This is so far the best development tool I've encountered in Joomla extensions. The authour is really helpful. He usually answers your questions in 24 hours. ^^ The only thing I think he will need to improve is that there is lack of good documentation. However, this can be solved by viewing the codes and asking questions in the forum. If you need a tool to develope your own little application in joomla. This may be a useful tool for you.

I purchased this product and it now sits on the shelf with the menagerie of useless Joomla extensions.

First, They claim to be a FREE extension, however to get it to work you conveniently need to purchase an additional library.

Second, there was no Trial Version that you could download. Of course there is a nice DEMO, that the author has made look very pretty, but the product is almost impossible to accomplish the demos without very intimate knowledge of the product. During the few weeks I was trying to get this product to work, I saw several posts in the forums requesting their money back, without success of course. Strangely those posts disappeared from the forums shortly after.

Third, the product is way under documented. The product is on v3 but the documentation is for v2. Furthermore the author was more interested in producing v4 rather than getting the documentation up to speed.

Forth, support is very weak. There is a support forums, but primarily only the Author answers posts and his answers are very vague. I personally believe the author uses the forums to feed his consulting work for people who get fed up with the product and just want to hire someone.

I will say this product is very powerful if the author would take the time to polish the product and make sufficient trials, demos, samples, documentation and support.

After giving the Users Manual a good read before starting I was very impressed with how the LQM Wizard created my application and input and output queries within minutes. After having the skeleton frameworks built, I found the LQM Reference Manual plus the ongoing helpful support in the forum extremely valuable as I've continued to build my project.

I'm almost done now and surpised how quickly its taken!

I'd certainly recommend LQM to anyone who wants to add database functionality to their Joomla Website - IT'S GREAT VALUE.

Even with limited SQL knowledge you can create some really nice enhancements and applications -- but you must be willing to try. As the developer states this is not your normal extension and technical knowledge is recommended. However, if you have the time and are willing to do some research it is well worth the effort. It brings a level of customization that I haven't found anywhere else.

I really like my experience with this extension. Most my clients are happy with the look and feel of tables, forms, calendar pop ups and others. I am happy because customization can be learned easily and you get sufficient help. Support is great because you do not tend to rely on them giving you solutions. They guide you on how to look into getting the solution for your issues. I strongly recommend this extension to those who wants to write powerful queries and still get presentable outputs.

I can wholeheartedly recommend LQM to anyone needing to run reports or do any kind of query on data stored on their database. Although a little understanding of SQL language is a plus, it's not necessarily required as LQM has a built in wizard that will help you create your queries. Support from Toby is great and there is an answer to most questions on their forums. Definitely worth the cost (which isn't very much anyway!).

Just to say few words about this great component.
1. It incorporates one of the best AJAX libraries available today - ZAPATEC AJAX lib and that it even enough to by this component. It is worth every cent.
2. You get fantastic tool for easy development of forms in JOOMLA.
Creating very good looking grids is easy like never before.
3. Querying you database in variety of ways give you apsolute control over you data in database
4. You have got excelent support of the developer of the component.
What to say more, I highly recommend this component. it fulfills all my expectations.
BCS Slavko Gruba

I was looking for a joomla component that was not only a forms builder, but that permits to exploit databases. I found in LQM what I was looking for, because I knew already the sql language, that is the only necessity.
The way that this sofware is conceived offers (with a minimum of work) the possibility to built complete applications, passing from query results to other query by links, or menu options.
PHP code permits to go farther in possibilities (in header file ie). I didn't know this language but some samples can be customised to obtain desired result. The support on the web site is good and fast and the development of new features is continuous.

I acquired LQM 1.0 and now 2.0 ...
This extension gives you the power to manipulate database fast, efficient and reliable. The adjectives written to the extension also is applied to the support that has a further advantage, the sympathy.

I'm a heavy user and recommend it ....

This is a robust, extensible component.
The author was very quick to answer to my questions posted on the gmitc forum.
I only wish the documentation was better - it would save me from searching the forum for answers that should have been there in the first place... otherwise, very happy with it!

I'am not a developer even if I know sql and some basics languages such as vb.
Toby is really very helpful but the written documentation is really poor and not updated.
For example, the "connection" screen description is not corresponding to the reality.
Dealing with results presentation is a hell: css files are not documented (especially the Zapatec css)as they should be: I did a lot of trials to understand what class takes care of what but I am still wondering how they work!
So, a little bit disappointed by this component.... because one must be quite knowledgeable to be really performant.

I always wanted to build my own database app with a AJAX interface. The problem is, that I'm one of those developers that hates twiddling with Javascript.

This component allows you to build an application to query, filter, and update data using AJAX from the frontend. The built-in filters are a snap to use and make aggregate filtering a snap to use.

The power of this component is in it's initial ease-of-use, customization options, and modularity. Each aspect of the application can be configured easily from the default options, or tweaked into something very specfic by editing or creating files in the component's logical file structure.

Coming from DBQ, I heard the ideas tossed around for this component not too long ago. I am amazed to see a quality release within about a year of seeing that TCP was looking at integrating a powerful AJAX framework - the results are impressive and he has a lot more in store for us.

joomlamoves

I was using the DataBase query with joomla 1.0 and few days ago I upgrade to joomla 1.5 and LQM to upgrade my customer billing application.

The product, the documentation and the forum support you get from the developer are excellent. I paid $60 to buy it, but if you ask me, it worth at least 5 times more.

This is, in my opinion, a critical component for the Joomla system. Components and plugins provide great functionality, but if you want to create more of an application inside the Joomla framework, you need easy access to tables.

LQM allows you to quickly create query forms (with great control over formatting) and results in Ajax tables with built-in sorting and inplace display.

New features in LQM that I particularly like is the ability to display LQM queries directly inside of content items and module positions. So you can create live content articles, displaying results from your database.

I am a formatting system with the LQM and I can say that he is exceeding my expectations showing up robust and powerful in the treatment of queries

I started not knowing anything on PHP and MySQL. LQM is easy to learn and its all MySQL to start with and MySQL is easy. The output is all taken care of and no PHP.

Then I started a database project for students registration, course, results and payment module. It started rather simple with a registration form and from there add the subjects for each semester and grades. Learn a bit of PHP to customize the delearship template for print output of each semester results.

I have opted for LQM approach cause in time there will be a few thousands students and linking the tables to a form or other output query seems a good idea. I guess it can get as powerful as MySQL in future version, tho with the present 1.1 version is enough for my project and there are still some other LQM capabilities that I have not used due to my limited knowledge in PHP.

The forum is a good place for answers from toby and also from reading members post.

I am new to this db design but I think I got a usable product so says my users. Imagine, they were using excel microsoft before this.

I have been wanting to learn MySQL and PHP and somehow LQM makes it easy.

roslan