The description of this module is a little confusing. It isn't a bridge in that it doesn't share user data between vB and Joomla or combine the two into a single package.

This is a Joomla module that allows you to easily display the latests posts from your vBulletin forum on your Joomla site.

I've been looking for exactly this for a long time. Something similar was released a long time ago as a Joomla module but it never worked well and required manual formatting of the data layout in Joomla, so was more hassle than it was worth. It also only worked if both the forum and Joomla site were on the same server and required you to include sensitive login details.

In contrast LastVBF works perfectly and exactly how I wished.

1, You can have your Joomla website and vBulletin forum on two different physical servers and it will still be able to pull the information from the forum to display the latest threads on your Joomla site.

2, No sensitive data is required. You do not need to provide the module with any login details from your forum. All you do is enable external javascript for external data provision in vBulletin, and this is enough for the module to obtain the data.

3, The module is very easy to setup and get working. As a minimum you just need to enter the url to your forum, the max length of thread titles and the number of threads to show. And it then works.

4, Styling and layout is very easy with the module. It was a number of different layout styles built in to display the information. Enough for most. And you can set the link colour, info colour, font size, and row colours from within the module, as well as how each piece of data is titled. And the ability to apply a module class suffix. So more than enough to layout and make the module look how you wish.

So if what you are looking for is an easy way to display the latest posts from your vBulletin forum within your Joomla site then this is the perfect solution. It takes about 1 minute from download to get it up and running.

I had been looking for a reciprocal links component for some time for Joomla and JV-LinkExchanger definitely works perfectly for this purpose. It is quick and simple to install and setup. It supports both text and banner links, as well as one way and two way reciprocal linking between your Joomla site and a third party site.

Visitors can also easily submit their site for inclusion in the links directory, and the ability to pay for monthly featured link subscriptions is also in place.

As a general external web links directory it is however currently missing a few useful additions that can currently be found in some of the other directory web link components such as Bookmarks, so it is worth testing both if you don't need the reciprocal link ability.

Front end link hits is due to be added in the next release so that is a good addition I have wanted as users can instantly see how popular each link is.

I had been using Phil Taylors mosGuestBook on my site since the site was created, but it had a very limited backend configuration and required members to post a website and email to leave a comment which I never liked. It also conflicted with the latest version of Knowledgebase by the same author, and was no longer supported or developed, so it was time to change.

I've looked through all the different guestbooks available, and after testing them EasyBook is definitely the best. It's clean and simple and works well. The backend configuration has all the setting you require and it doesn't force guests to leave details they don't wish to leave.

If you need a guestbook for your site I highly recommend this. And it works perfectly with 1.0.11 with register_globals off.

I wanted to add a Google Site Map to help improve search engine rankings and found Joomap to be perfect for this. It was very easy to install and setup and made adding the sitemap to Google very straight forward and easy to do. I had it submitted in 5 minutes of installing Joomap.

The Site Map also works well on the site and is very easy to configure if you need to hide certain menus from the map.

I was after a component to award members based on competition results I run on my site and forum, and I have found jAwards to be perfect for this purpose. It's very easy to create new awards and to assign them to members and manage existing awards. The Community Builder integration is also a good feature, so that a member's awards can be seen in their profile.

jAwards has just been updated to work with register_globals off, so it will now work with the lastest version of Joomla with the recommended security settings in place.