baijianpeng
This ia a must for every Joomla website.
Thanks to the author.
However, there are still many things to be improved:
1. There is NO "email copy" feature which is offered in the Joomla default contact component.
2. Please add support for JoomlaXi Captcha plugin to avoid spam messages.
3. The marker will show the "contact image" again in the bubble. It is useless. I hope the "Marker" feature will allow the webmaster to define several places/locations, each with their own photo, like the building entrance, then these marker will all be shown on the map. For example: Air port, railway station, subway station, and your office. Then visitor can easily choose the places to find the directions/routes.
Thanks.
In these last versions, ContactMap has new features :
Captcha.
email copy.
display the marker or photo contact.
display all your contact on a map and send them a email when you click on his marker.
1. Auto scan the defined directory and list all mp3 files there.
2. Play in a pop-up so if you browse through pages it will continue to play
Cons:
1. Can't show my Chinese ID3 tag correctly. My ID3 tag was entered as UTF-8 encoding and can be properly read by Foobar2000 player.
2. One of my mp3 file can'be played though Foobar2000 can play it with NO problem.
Thank you for your report. Please send a sample of the song in Chinese, we do make changes to the module.
2. very complicated method to add new song.
3. No default album for the module, you have to manually load one.
4. No language files for the component.
However, I just tested it and it can't work on my website. Maybe it only supports the Joomla core SEF, but can't work with AceSEF which I am running to generate SEF URLs.
Hope the author will improve this plugin.
Thanks.
This plugin only works with Joomla! core SEF. If you want this functionality to be included in AceSEF, than that's a feature request for AceSEF, not this plugin. Third party extensions like AceSEF add their own logic to Joomla!, which means that our whole plugin needs to be rewritten (and probably called AceSEF Test plugin). That's outside of the scope of this plugin.
The current version can work very well. However I would like to see the author adding one more feature to make it better:
Custom Links: for example, we can put a new link of "Submit article" to this module along with other links. I think this is better than leave the "Submit Article" link on the "user menu" module. Maybe allow users custom up to 5 links is good.
Thanks.
I think Encrypt Configuration need a new option: Exclude certain component (such as XIJC) or exclude specific forms. Maybe both.
Another thing I would like to see being changed is that Encrypt Configuration has NO language file. I hope the author will add multi-language support in next version.
Thanks.
Change the plugin order setting Encryption plugin before the captcha plugin.
Multi-language support is promissed.
I had tried the v1.0 and reported the IE bug to the author, and he worked out a solution so quickly. Impressive!
Thanks to the author! (and hope Google will fix that bug soon)
My J1.5 was installed in a subfolder to www root, then I noticed that the "browse host" dialog can't show me the files of my host at frontend. It just show me a blank dialog window.
Second, the backend language file is bad, many language Keys in that INI file is NOT uppercase so I had to convert them manually.
Third, some language Keys was NOT included in the language file, so I can't make a complete translation.
Forth, there is NO real CAPTCHA engine in this component, it just randomly use some pre-defined images which contains words on them. This is very bad because such a CAPTCHA can be easily guessed by spam-bots.
Hope the author will improve it soon.
Hi baijianpeng,
Thanks for testing my component.
1. For browse host problem
My test website is also in a subfolder and it's ok. It working also in my production websites (with and without subfolders). It may have another problem (webservice file missing in install, bad parameter...). I will check it.
2&3. Backend language file
This version is in beta yet and backend resource file may have some missing keys. But I will try to check it as soon as possible. If you have the list of missing keys it will be faster to correct it.
4 Captcha
Yes, I know this captcha is not very strong. But "Contact" is a new functionality (Alpha) and I want to know if this will be usefull before to make a stronger CAPTCHA (or remove "Contact" functionnality). But If you know a good, strong and easy CAPTCHA I may include it in my component!
If you have another problem you can add a post in my sourceforge forum (http://sourceforge.net/projects/hecmailing/forums/forum/1020813) or in my tracker (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=281865&atid=1195720).
I will answer about these problems on this forum.
Herve
(HEC Mailing Developper)
Then I checked the source code and found that this module does not retrieve data directly from Alexa, but the author's own website. This is why it is so slow.
Why not just embed the standard Alexa Widget code?
Today I tested Jolomea, found that Jolomea is very good. But Jolomea itself has NO multilingual support, I can't translate Jolomea to my native language.
Another problem is, if I have a long list of extensions, then the list at Jolomea backend is also very long. How about categorize them to different groups, such as Component/ Moudle/ Plugin/Template, etc., and shown in different Tabs?
Thanks.
Hi,
thx for your review.
Jolomea is still alpha. All your critics are welcome.
I am aware of these problems.
Localisation, paging..... are planned features.
Regards
Antoine
The only good point is: when upload image, it will create user folder named after the user ID number for each user.
If you install Joomla in a subfolder, then the uploaded Image/Video/Audio can't show up because the path is error.
I only found one problem: My Chinese language translation for this plugin can't work. So the frontend will show English message along with my Chinese words, it is a little ugly.
I hate that Joomla core will change my article Alias to date-time format if I input Chinese words into Alias field. But now this plugin solved this problem smoothly.
I just wonder: why this feature was NOT included into Joomla core?
Thanks to Luke for your efforts on this best player plugin.
One suggestion: please improve it to work with UTF-8 encoded ID3 tags in other languages such as Chinese and Arabic, then your plugin will be welcomed all over the world!
I think this plugin is a great idea. Thanks to the author.
The original intention of this plugin was to eliminate the need to edit the source of a GPL extension every time you updated it.
However, our understanding of the GPL is that any extension that isn't also GPL is a violation of the core Joomla license. That's why you don't see non-GPL extensions in the JED.
In the same way, you can't say "this is GPL with these extra restrictions", which many extensions try to do. It's simple: if there are extra terms and conditions, then it's not a GPL license. GPL v3 makes this much more explicit.
However, if you purchase a non-GPL extension, you entered into an agreement with the developer and accepted their license. If you choose to use this plugin to violate that license, it is entirely your responsibility. Our position is that non-GPL extensions should never be installed in the first place.
This version works smoothly, at least I did not encounter any problem till now.
Thanks to BK !
This plugin should be added to the Editor's Pick list on JED!
One suggestion: since this plugin can work with gAuthor plugin, why not make the avatar image also link to the author's description page? At least, make this as a new option.
Thanks.