The Joomla! Extensions Directory ™

Having fought endlessly with some other You Tube carriers I thought this might solve my issues more speedily. For me, sadly, it didn't work as it had for others & I couldn't get it to work properly at all initially. However after putting up my query on their forum, I got a solution provided within 24 hours which is really superb in comparison to the support some other similar extensions are providing which quite often doesn't come anywhere close.

The guys will understand that's my only reason for bumping it down a star as the solution for my particular problem wasn't something I would have ever managed to figure on my own, and we've yet to track down a reason for it happening. Maybe just an anomaly of my personal Joomla setup or a conflict with one of the other extensions (more likely) - regardless, they got me sorted and that's the important thing, so I'd still highly recommend it. Thanks again guys. :))

Unlike some others before me, I've now applied this "upgrade" to 3 sites and so far not encountered a single problem. It's installed rapidly and easily with no extra work involved in the process and made the whole process SO enjoyable.

So I can't rate it highly enough when I think of the previous hassles I had in migrating from Joomla 1.0 to 1.5!!

For all that I'd equally add my warnings and suggestions that you not only ensure you back up your site (including server structure) but also test it out on a test site rather than a live one if at all possible.

Like everyone else here, I found this superb for providing a short simple Q for our website - easy to set up & mostly self explanatory. But like everyone else I equally got frustrated at not being able to sort the order after putting in the questions - this does seem to give the impression that the developers really didn't properly test it out before putting it live as the vast majority of people will want to change the order after they've finished the list if not before.

But for all that, as a free version I think it's really great and very much appreciate the ease of setup and use. Just keep on developing it guys!!

I previously had tried Sh404SEF but found it continually broke my site and having a lot less PHP knowledge at the time than I do now, I just opted to assume it couldn't be done, and didn't bother trying it again. Instead when the requirement popped up more recently, I opted for this product.

What a joy - unlike the other, the GUI was inviting to work with, and it only took me 5 mins to figure out what needing doing and what I could ignore.

Using the latest version of Joomla 1.5.23 on my 3 sites I had no problems with installation despite each site having very different extensions etc.

I would certainly suggest, however, that if you're going to put it on at all, you do so on a newly installed site rather than one that's been going for 3-4 years and maybe not tidied up much over that time, as I did find it heavily tedious on the 1st site going through the wealth of deleted Joomla files I still had on the system, but long forgotten about.

I put it on for security reasons more than anything, but as my sites are all nonprofit, I do find having to pay to remove the copyright notice a bit irritating - wouldn't bother if it didn't mention the one thing I'm trying to hide - that the site is a Joomla one!! Suspect they know that's the only way many will consider buying the Pro version so have deliberately worded it that way which is the ONLY reason it's dropped a point for me.

Would highly recommend it otherwise to anyone starting up a new site or with little knowledge.

Having been hacked to the hilt whereby a hacker managed to delete my entire site somehow, I figured it was perhaps about time to start taking security a tad more seriously, so hunted for suitable Coms to help with the process. This & one other (RSFirewall) have proven to be the perfect combo. Like others I managed to lock myself out of the site first time around too, and wish I'd had the wit to return here to read how to overcome that easier than doing as I did and deleting the Com entirely off the database! But once I got the knack I've found it hugely useful - at least now I get forewarning of the multiple attacks to gain entrance via the Admin and the sneaky ways that are being used to try to do it. More importantly I can see whether they're succeeding before they get that far i.e. if they get as far as the login page to start with - so far, none have!!

However, I do have a couple of minor issues - while there is now the ability to black/whitelist IP addies, there's no easy way to see which are which once you put them in - all that happens is you get a list and as such I've not put my own IP in just in case it gets black instead of whitelisted without me realising. Would be much better if each list was fully shown as what it is.

And that's the only reason I've not given it a 5 star rating as otherwise it really is great but maybe some more work on it would have it truly superb!

I have a handmade card website so was seeking a mod that would highlight gallery cards to promote sales/interest and this little mod has done a wonderful job in that respect. I had a lot of issues initially trying to set it up as I was doing so on a test site in a subfolder, & it's primarily aimed at root folder installation, but the guys over at FlashXML are AWESOME!! They will patiently work through any and all issues you might have with any of their multiple similar mods of this type, and can be trusted with your site details if you need them to go in and do the work for you. I truly can't rate them highly enough for providing so much for nothing and on-the-spot help and support. EXCELLENT!

I normally update manually using FTP, however, when I reinstalled the latest version of this updater I was amazed at the speed it undertook the whole (patch) process. To download it manually takes approx 2-3 mins, another minute to unzip and 5-10 to upload to server is a LONG time in comparison to the less than 10 seconds it took to do it using this Com. Superb utility and one of the greatest you can have installed given the need to keep updating versions regularly. REAL time saver!!

Takes a lot to impress me to the point of paying towards a (free) mod, but this one was worth every penny of the donation I provided. It was so easy to install, and easy to understand the instructions on what to do, as well as configuration. The real-time stats are a blast, and while I've only just started with it, I really look forward to seeing its full potential. Haven't found a downside yet, but don't expect to, given the wealth of other excellent reviews on here. Trust them if you want a solid stats mod - they're right in what they say - it's one of, if not, THE best around!!

I found it excellent. Installed first time without any problems, and very quick and easy to get it up and running. Tweaking it is slightly tougher, but not that hard to figure out how to do. It provides the exact type of site map I wanted - which segregates everything by the menu items and shows very clearly where info is located, and of course provides the link to get there quickly. Definitely one to get!!

I was a newbie not only with Joomla but any sort of ecommerce when I discovered VM, and yes, I did have quite a few problems in setting it up esp where shipping costs were involved, but doing multiple searches on their forum and seeing how others had tried to fix similar issues, along with a lot of trial and error, I eventually overcame them - admittedly probably not correctly (e.g. I've had to stick in a ridiculous weight of 1 kg for a handmade card in order to provoke the correct shipping options) but they work and the system works and I've certainly had no problems with it.

I like the frontend which is fine for a small site like mine and in particular loved how easy it was to get it set up with payment options.

I have another site on another platform which doesn't support VM and am having to try to use the much heavier OsCommerce which I can tell you is a TON tougher to set up and work with. And there's almost as little support for it sometimes too, and I agree - nothing more frustrating than not getting an answer at all to a problem, let alone it taking days to do so.

But overall, I would have to agree with others here who've commended the module as I truly feel it's worth the hard work and effort to get it up and running. And given how I've got next to no PHP knowledge or understanding I wouldn't agree that you need to have much - a very basic appreciation of where your modules are stored and how to tweak some basic code lines is about all you might need, if even.

Like so many such calendars, you can never please all of the people all of the time, and I'm very aware of that in writing this review. I downloaded it primarily for use on a church website where it would hopefully show weekly services and club meetings etc. Initially I thought it was going to suffice for all our needs, but the more I play with it the more I realise it isn't as yet. Our weekly services obviously change in content but there are some elements that would be standard each week. On our old site using an Access driven calendar I could copy the standard info across as many weeks as I desired (albeit manually which was slow work), but then all I had to do each week would be to update it with the specific info for that week. With JCal I can't utilise the repeat event because it repeats the entire information for any one week across all of them, so the only option is to then do every week separately which is ok but would have been nice to have more options on the repeat event. I would just have preferred for more than 1 weeks worth of services to show on the main calendar otherwise it wouldn't be an issue. Plus (unless I'm mistaken) I can't find any way of making a particular view e.g. Monthly, as mandatory - while again it's great for the user to have the various options offered to them, some people wouldn't see that menu and thus think what they were seeing (the weekly?) was the only view available and maybe miss meetings as a result. Again, our older calendar always and only showed a monthly view which was really helpful. Small points and very specific to our own requirements, but would be nice if yet more flexibility could perhaps be built in on future updates? Overall tho - definitely one of the best around.