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This utility for easy install and upgrade of nonumbers extensions is brilliant, and the fact that it is open source for potential reuse is amazing.

No Number's plugins have always been the shining example of 'how it should be done', and this plugin, Articles-Anywhere is one I install on my Joomla sites without even thinking about it.

Does what it says on the tin, essential, simple to use.

One of my clients uses this backlink service, and of course the Weblinks default joomla extension is not suitable as it does not actually list the proper url for the site.. just a dbase id.

Looking at this plugin I was happy.. till I saw it was only useful for one of their paid (and quite expensive) LDM services. Listing as non-commercial is the truth, but it is useless without the commercial service.

Its hard to put into words the achievment of this amazing program. I have been trying to save time, and have been using all the web-based 'generate a basic component' and been frustrated with timeouts, session expired and gave up.

Then I tried this one, enter your information, select the predone database tables.. and bang.. one program ready for configuration.

I know its not the only one out there, but the simplicity is beyond awesome.

I am developing a commercial component with over 40 tables, and 600 fields, this baby hammered out the skeleton of the component with forms, layouts, lists, views (front and back) in seconds.

YES, you will need to tidy the code, but the boring bit is done for you. I have saved maybe 3 months work with this gem!

My only issue with the program is the that the calender control didnt appear properly in forms, but easily sorted.

My suggestions for the future.

1 - Instead of an (edit) button just make the name link to edit record like most joomla components (easily done with a site wide find - replace)
2 - Publish should be a radio button, not a text field (sorted same way)
3 - Sort by option on the fields in table views.
4 - (a real wish list, but I would happily pay for this as a commercial plugin) a generated search plugin that searches tables based on a 'searchable' tick box during the creation stage.. or just the entire of the table specified in the component itself.
5 - Optional 'forms' for the front end as well

Utterly BRILLIANT.. Thanks