When it comes to forms, Joomla doesn't have much of an option. Most of the components are commercials and the few that are open source, they're absolutely an overkill for average user.

CKForm fills in that gap quite well. I like the native user interface and how it displays the form data. Its a simple form component that will make your life simply simpler.

The only thing that I hate about this wonderful component is jQuery. Joomla uses mooTools so you're forced to download around 70KB of JavaScript whether you need it or not. With CKForms, another 60KB gets added to the page. Its annoying when you spend so much time optimizing images, CSS, and all it takes is a JavaScript file to destroy it all.

I really wish the developer would move away from jQuery and embrace mooTools. That would make this component truly 1.5 Native.

It's truly one of the best Joomla extensions out there and I can't say that about many extensions because RD Autos simply makes sense. Its elegant and yet so easy to use that you love working with it. And output is always clean and beautiful. If the gods themselves could have made an extension for Joomla, it would be something like RD Autos.

You may have read the first review where the poster asked for a currency symbol and guess what? The latest 1.5.8 version has an admin field where you can use your choice of currency! Hows that for a change?

Simply put its the only extension you should use if you're in Automotive industry.


My Suggestion To The Developer:
I'm aware that you have a description box where we can put more details about the vehicle like if the car has power windows or not, and whether it has keyless entry or not, etc.

Now if these sort of options can be made available by check boxes, it would be perfect. Because then you can simply tick what else the car offers and be done with the description.

And the description box can be used for "Additional Notes".

To be honest, I would have preferred a plugin that provides the exact same functionality. That being said, this component is still in beta so its rough around the edges but make no mistake, it delivers exactly what it promises. The permission, rename, restore functions work great. Though a bit of security recommendations would have been ideal as in what are the most secure options to choose among SUID, SGID and the Sticky Bits.


A Major Bug:
Once you've renamed the configuration.php file, you can't change your "Global Configuration" settings. Inorder to do so, you'll have to restore the configuration.php file and then make changes. After you're done, just rename it again. So yea, that's an added hassle.


A Minor Bugs:
If you like to see the "configuration.php" file in "System Info". You'll have to change that manually in administrator/components/com_admin/tmpl/sysinfo_config.php - line 32.