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Reviews(2)
 
bysmartidiot, April 26, 2010
Component Creator
This tool is a real time saver for Joomla extensions developers. Perfect for my need since I develop custom Joomla components for clients and this extension has reduced the development time to a great extent. Hats off!
bysmartidiot, March 9, 2009
Profile Manager for Community Builder
As I mentioned in the review title, only good thing about this extension is the idea behind it. Someone already summarized it all in few words - a poor execution.

I purchased this extension since I was looking for something like this but soon realized that it would have been much better if I had spent sometime coding it myself. It has numerous bugs and that too kind of fundamental programming bugs which even students take care which doing school projects. Of course, you do not get source code hence my above comment is based on the errors we noticed in Apache and PHP logs. This is the worst part, you can't even go and fix the code yourself since it's encoded using ioncube.

Later I realized that many of my plugins and other extensions are not working as expected after installing this extension. After some debugging, I came to know that this extension was throwing some fatal errors due to which other plugins were not getting loaded. Once I disabled this, everything started working as earlier.

After all this, I expected some support from the guy who created this extension but there is no response from even after sending detailed issue details. Looks like he doesn't bother once you have purchased this. We have worked with more screwed up commercial scripts and extensions but either we had source code or good support(if not excellent). Unfortunately, here you'll get no support and no source code so I would not recommend this extension to even developers. Others buy this at your own risk :-)
Owner's reply

We are working on the stable version which will come out soon. Sorry to hear that it didn't work out for you. We are focusing on the latest release of CB and adapting our component accordingly. Ioncube is the only form of protection we use to avoid seeing our component appear on warez forums. Not all files are encoded, just the core featues, the rest is customizable.