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All I wanted to do was be able to switch off a module based on whether a user was logged in or not.

Installed no problem.
set-up no problem.
Configuration no problem.

Would highly recommend this extension.

I was trying to find a way to display different information/ads to my website visitors based on their country of origin. I was going to try and somehow use another module which is used to display IP Address and country flag for a website visitor but luckily I found this Metamod module first.

I initially tried it out in my test area and encountered a problem when I used it more than once on the same webpage. But within a few hours of sending Stephen an email he sent me a fix, which solved the problem. We also exchanged a few more emails and he explained how I could simplify what I was planning to do, so rather than call another module containing my Ad code I could actually put this code in the MetaMod module and not specify the id for a module to be call by MetaMod.

So now I can embed calls to MetaMod modules in my web page content using a mambot for this purpose, and have ads displayed relevant to my visitors country.

Another feature of the module I have not tried out but will be useful, is the ability to specify an end publishing date, so if need be I can stop ads being displayed for example when the ad offer expires etc.

An excellent module, exactly what I needed and more with fast an useful support from Stephen.

This is a great app - one of Joomla's best I think. I run a couple of websites locally for Australia - but get a lot of traffic from the US - frustrated me that I couldn't sell my products to these guys...

Enter MetaMod and Amazon Associates - and kerrrr--Ching - made my 1st US sale today.

Easy enough to set up - although a forum where people could discuss solutions/approaches would be great.

This provided a simple but very powerful solution to a personalization problem on a website I'm working on. Not only does this little module allow individual users to customize which modules they want to see on a page (and in what order), the developer is quick to answer questions and willing to offer custom solutions. When I asked him about resizing MetaMod depending on the module being pulled in, he responded extremely fast and offered to take a look at our site to help with pinpointing how to change the CSS. You can't get much more helpful than that!

This module has already gotten me out of three binds that would normally have taken hard-code edits.

On two of the occasions, Stephen gracefully offered his service in helping fix the problem. His support is honestly the best I've received online!

Kudos to the great module.

I used this module to fix a problem with a module not appearing every time a particular component appeared (Mosets Tree and its file explorer-like navigator module). It just took a simple conditional. I can envisage using this tool again and again as a solution to when Joomla's menu-link based module configuration just doesn't quite cut it. Functionality like this should definitely be considered for part of the future Joomla core.

This tiny module can do anything!

I had a module which showed up great on Firefox and Safari but could not get it to work in IE, so I wondered whether Metamod would come to the rescue and serve a substitute for this module for IE users. I had no idea how to do this though! :)

Stephen was more than happy to help, providing me the exact code to do what I wanted Metamod to do and voila, it worked like a charm.

Here's the code I used:

$UA = isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) ?
$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] : '';
$IE = strstr($UA, 'MSIE') ? true : false;
$IEV = $IE ? preg_split('/msie/i', $UA) : false;
$IEV = $IEV ? floatval($IEV[1]) : false;

if ($IEV >= 7) return 92; //module for IE7
if ($IEV >= 6) return 92; //module for IE6
if ($IE) return 92; //module for any IE version
return 80; //default module


I really have to commend Stephen for his extraordinary help. I appreciate his support every step of the way.

I have yet to find something that Metamod cannot do!

...and I was looking for a way to show modules according to user language-selection.

MetaMod is so versatile, it does SO many things, and it can show modules according to language-selection too!

I don't use JoomFish, because on Joomla1.5.2 it messes up with Community Builder.

Actually I don't need to use any of the language plugins, they are too much trouble for nothing if you ask me!

I only needed to put 5 lines of simple code in only 4 of my files, to have a language-selector on front-end, and articles showing in user's language of choice!

Components use language files!
Modules too!
BUT not Joomla's menus (!!how's that?)

So how was I to show language-specific menus on my site??

MetaMod came to save the day!!
And Stephen was MOSTLY helpful!
the solution to my problems became ridiculously easy by using MetaMod!

in my case I only had to add a code in MetaMod's PHP textbox like this:

$language = $mainframe->getCfg('language');

if ($language=="en-GB") return 11;
if ($language=="el-GR") return 22; //example numbers

Now my site is totally multi-lingual, without going nuts with all the menus, and buttons, and options, and editing, and,and,and of applications like JoomFish, M17N, and the likes!

Wonderful!!

Thank you again Stephen for this fantastic module!

I was looking for something that would allow a start date and end date for publishing a module.

The organization that I belong to have two different meetings every month and some events during the warmer months. The template that I am using has three module positions at the bottom of the front page that was an ideal spot for this information.

MetaMod allows me to set up these dates for a whole year and then automatically publishes them at the appropriate time with the correct meeting/event dates throughout the year in the selected module positions. This has been a lifesaver for me, keeping track of when to change the module dates manually would have been quite a chore as each of the three monthly dates are at different times of the month.

The author was very helpful!! I emailed him for help with the code to do what I wanted (I can't be accused of being a programmer!). He responded almost immediately with the required code. Works great, after I did some tweaking of the dates in the code.

Steve, sorry for the "wait" to post here. I needed to see if it worked........... and it does! Thanks a lot for taking the time to help me out.

Some modules offer a fraction of what this powerful tool does and they are commercial modules! This module fulfils a number of my wishes and gives me some extra on top that I had yet to imagine. It enables me to make my site more users friendly; it gives me one of the most powerful marketing tools that make me and my international partners very happy. Meta it is indeed, my enthusiasm for this module is of titanic proportions.

Great concept and it just simply works. I had some issues with the Geo feature since I'm building a global Intranet site so all the IP addresses are internal. Stephen (the developer) responded very quickly with some solutions to my issue that will allow me to configure my own IP address mapping.

I am running this module with the geo feature turned on.. This allows me to show a similar module customized for individual countries.. I can basically have one website set up to target-market many different nitche markets. Genius I must say! I have downloaded many, many extensions but I must say this is a gem! Thanks!

This is a very interesting module/extension with the ability to control module publication according to date and PHP scripting rules from within Metamod.

This gives very useful functionality to Joomla and makes it worth delving into PHP a little more to take full advantage of a well thought out extension.

I haven't found any bugs yet with limited testing.

The only things missing are to auto-unpublish Metamod if no modules are set to display and to auto publish a specific module if another named module expires, although this might be possible with PHP scripting.

Documentation is good, so you will have no trouble getting the extension up and running. The author has clearly put in a lot of time and thought into this.

Thank you for sharing this module.