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Version
1.4.5 (J1.0) / 1.7.3 (J1.5)/2.1(J1.6+) (last update on Apr 15, 2012)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
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138
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
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347484
Date Added
13 May 2006
Uses 1.6 Updater?
- Yes
For upgrade install it over old version.
This installed easy and has many options that i would usually expect to pay for. Easy to tweak apart from one issue...
link category will not work without section category enabled. I dont want to link section. Maybe a bug, maybe my buggerup. Even so, powerful enough for most users i think.
link category will not work without section category enabled. I dont want to link section. Maybe a bug, maybe my buggerup. Even so, powerful enough for most users i think.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
This is exactly what I was looking for. I needed to create menu items that would display the title and intro text of a content item, with the title linking to the content. With a passing familiarity with PHP and CSS and some patience for experimentation with the format string, this is fairly easy to achieve with this module.
A nice bonus...the module can be used multiple times on the same page. Here's how:
1. Extract all the files in the archive
2. Do a search/replace on the text in each file - replace 'dn' with 'dn1' (or 'dn2', or 'dn3'...depending on the number of times you install it)
3. Rename any filename that contains the string 'dn' to 'dn{X}', as in the previous step
4. Rezip the files (following the same structure as the original archive)
5. Install the archive through Joomla
Cons - I wish it wouldn't strip out the HTML tags of the content by default. This can be prevented by editing Line #55 of mod_dn.php:
Change '$text = strip_tags($text);'
to '//$text = strip_tags($text);'
Also, I don't know why it has its own CSS.
All in all though, no major complaints. : ) Thanks for a great mod!
A nice bonus...the module can be used multiple times on the same page. Here's how:
1. Extract all the files in the archive
2. Do a search/replace on the text in each file - replace 'dn' with 'dn1' (or 'dn2', or 'dn3'...depending on the number of times you install it)
3. Rename any filename that contains the string 'dn' to 'dn{X}', as in the previous step
4. Rezip the files (following the same structure as the original archive)
5. Install the archive through Joomla
Cons - I wish it wouldn't strip out the HTML tags of the content by default. This can be prevented by editing Line #55 of mod_dn.php:
Change '$text = strip_tags($text);'
to '//$text = strip_tags($text);'
Also, I don't know why it has its own CSS.
All in all though, no major complaints. : ) Thanks for a great mod!
I'd been looking for a scrolling new module for some time and then I found this one and it's brilliant, loads of config options and I had it working within a few minutes. Sadly there seems to be one problem that occurs when you view my site using IE as all the items scroll across together one under the other and I don't know if there is a way round it.
Pros: Superb module as long as site visitors use Firefox or Netscape
Cons: Internet Explorer doesn't seem to want to work with it
I guess I will just advise site visitors to get Firefox as this module is too good NOT to use!!!
Pros: Superb module as long as site visitors use Firefox or Netscape
Cons: Internet Explorer doesn't seem to want to work with it
I guess I will just advise site visitors to get Firefox as this module is too good NOT to use!!!
To use with the mbt_shopping template in the left column I had to edit the module slightly. The body of the module was displaying off-center to the right in comparison to the other modules. I had to change line 761 from:
echo '';
to
echo '';
The module then displayed in-line with the other modules in the left column. Other then this slight issue it has worked great!
echo '';
to
echo '';
The module then displayed in-line with the other modules in the left column. Other then this slight issue it has worked great!
I have been looking for something like this for a while now. This is probably the swiss army knife of modules as far as customization goes. Maybe the best yet to display content in a module position with scrolling controls and sized module area. More than the standard features of many other all-in-one modules I have tried. They are all good but this one is great!
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