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robflo

Reviews(5)
 
Lifestream
While myAPI is very cool and powerful, neither it nor any other ext that I have found allow for the Facebook feed from the main profile to be pulled into Joomla. LifeStream does this with ease. (Well it was easy after I realised that the client needed to create a fresh post so that I could see it. :-) -- Lifestream is not retroactive, which makes sense when you think about it -- Thanks Jeremy for your very prompt assistance. Very happy.
mtwMigrator
I have been putting off migrating several sites due to Virtuemart but witht this tool it was a snap. Once the new site was cleaned out and VM installed. The actual migration took a whole 30sec!!! I have also used the Joomla migrate tool - put of coarse it took longer and left the VM data behind... Make sure you watch the video and read the instructions and this tool will be a real blessing!
byrobflo, March 5, 2009
Fabrik
With the ability to manipulate any Joomla DB table including joining with fresh form data, the application power is huge. Once you get your head around the Fabrik approach, implementation is quite straight forward.
Formating is an area of weakness, appart from simple text WYSIWYG and rudimentary group columns, the only way to format things is to delve into the raw php template files, which is fine if you are a code type, but a bit painful for the rest of us.
Really love the AJAX validation as it seems very interactive to have fields validated immediately.
I look forward to the final release as with the kinks still to be worked out and a lack of patience on my part to figure out the formating, I eventually ended using another component.
If you want real power to create an application then this is THE tool to watch.
Great work so far, Rob and Hugh!
byrobflo, February 18, 2009
Phoca SEF
If you only need a simple redirection utility then this is it! Installation is pretty straight forward and it is easier to edit error.php than .htaccess - just. :-)
Also need to remember that if redirecting old site links you only need the part of the link after the domain name. I guess this should be obvious but it caught me for about 30sec!!
Great work Phoca.
byrobflo, September 6, 2006
Acajoom
Have been using ANJEL, but needed to have a better templating system. While it took a little messing around - due to errors on my part - the end result was very smooth. This ext has started well, and seems to have a bright future from my point of view. Good work Chris.