Joomla Extensions , Joomla Components

What is Deluxe Blog Factory?

Deluxe Blog Factory is an user friendly, webmaster friendly blogging extension for Joomla 1.5, with a native and fresh MVC codebase. Full of features, it is a well thought alternative to Wordpress blogging, allowing you to use Joomla versatility and well known blogging conventions - like RSS Syndication, Bookmarking Sites (like Digg, Twitter, Facebook, etc). Featuring a Web 2.0 Dashboard with draggable panes and all-in-reach controls, your blogging experience is truly comfortable and in a luxuriant environment. With its integrated commenting and following system, Deluxe Blog Factory does not need additional extensions in order to function at full potential. No need to get support from 2 different extension providers that keep pointing fingers at each others program.

User Avatars, Pingbacks, TinyMCE extensions, Youtube and per user settable Media Upload capacities add to the Extension an amazing set of features and possibilities.

What do you get with Deluxe Blog Factory?

• A well designed and user friendly Dashboard where you can see the most important information and have access to the most important functions.
• SEF URLs - native Joomla 1.5 router. Well formed URLs that help your website to gain more relevance.
• Per user Media Management; users can upload Media files up to a certain Quota (admin settable). Your website users will have the possibility to upload images and media from the frontend without overcrowding your hosting.
• Multi-Blogger: You can allow all users to create blogs, or just specific user groups.
• Import Blog Posts into Joomla content. Now the gap between the blogs you host and the content of your site will be bridged.
• Avatars: users can upload their own avatar or use their community builder avatar.
• Fully customizable template based on smarty tags; there is NO php knowledge needed at all.
• Backend Blog administration: you can edit or unpublish any blog entry or any comment from the administrative backend.
• Follow and be followed by other users.
• customizable eMail notifications for the significant events in your site (new post, new comment, reported post, etc).
• Customizable bookmark sites (digg, facebook, twitter, etc).
• CAPTCHA for comments.
• Tag Clouds. Tag filtering, tagging search.
• a lot of free modules to get on your site.
• Integrated Search Plugin.
• Deluxe Blog Factory comes also toghether with seven modules: Random Blogs mod, Tag Cloud mod, Latest posts mod, Top Active blogs mod, Top Rated blogs mod, Top Rated posts mod, Search mod.

Check NOW, what bloggers need and Deluxe Blog provides:

• Frontpage with all posts listed, paged and sorted.
• Individual per blog listings - every user gets his own blog front page.
• Possibility to import Blog posts into regular joomla content sections and categories.
• A lot of Bookmarking sites to choose from and an easy way to add new ones.
• RSS feeds and syndication.
• Pings and Tags, pingback and bookmarking.
• SEF urls.
• Avatars with Community Builder integration.
• Templating System / Easy to change templates.
• Built in Commenting system.
• Built in Media uploader with per user Disk Quota.

How to use the DEMO site of Deluxe Blog Factory?

You can use the login buttons on the left in order to login into the site as different users and test the features of this extension. You can approve comments, leave comments, add posts, and even login into the administrative backend to see all the management features.

For those of you who are developing WordPress templates or you just want to modify existing ones, the following commands sheet should be helpful.

The Loop

<?php if(have_posts());?>
<?php while(have_posts()); the_post();?>
// Custom HTML and PHP Code
<?php else;?>
<?php endif;?>

The Category Based Loop

<?php query_posts('category_name=
Category&showposts=10'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
// Custom HTML and PHP Code
<?php endwhile;?> 

Theme Definition

/*
Theme Name: Wordpress
Theme URI: http://wordpress.org/
Description: Factory Blog
Version: 2.0
Author: the Factory
Author URI: http://www.thefactory.ro
Tags: wordpress, drupal, joomla, cms
*/

Template Include Tags

< ?php get_header(); ?>
< ?php get_sidebar(); ?>
< ?php get_footer(); ?>
< ?php comments_template(); ?>

WordPress Template Tags

• <?php the_title() ?> - displays the posts/pages title
• <?php the_content() ?> - displays the content of the post/page
• <?php the_excerpt() ?> - displays the excerpt of the current post/page
• <?php the_time() ?> - displays the time of the current post/page
• <?php the_date() ?> - displays the date of a post or set of post/page
• <?php the_permalink() ?> - displays the URL for the permalink
• <?php the_category() ?> - displays the category of a post
• <?php the_author(); ?> - displays the author of the post
• <?php the_ID(); ?> - displays the numeric ID of the current post
• <?php wp_list_pages(); ?> - displays all the pages
• <?php wp_tag_cloud(); ?> - displays a tag cloud
• <?php wp_list_cats(); ?> - displays the categories
• <?php get_calendar(); ?> - displays the calendar
• <?php wp_get_archives() ?> - displays a date-based archives list
• <?php posts_nav_link(); ?> - displays Previous page and Next Page links
• <?php next_post_link() ?> - displays Newer Posts link
• <?php previous_post_link() ?> - displays previous link
• <?php edit_post_link(__('Edit Post')); ?> - displays the edit link
• <?php the_search_query();?> - value for search form
• <?php wp_register();?> - displays the register link
• <?php wp_loginout();?> - displays the log in/out link
• <?php wp_meta();?> - Meta for administrators
• <?php timer_stop(1);?> - time to load the page
• <?php echo c2c_custom('test');?> - displays the custom field1
• <?php get_links_list(); ?> - display links from Blogroll
• <?php get_calendar(); ?> - displays the built-in calendar
• <?php comments_popup_link(); ?> - link of the posts comments

BlogInfo Tags

• <?php bloginfo('name'); ?> - Title of the blog
• <?php bloginfo('charset'); ?> - the character set
• <?php bloginfo('description'); ?> - the description of the blog
• <?php bloginfo('url'); ?> - the address of the blog
• <?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?> - the RSS URL
• <?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?> - the URL of the template
• <?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?> - the pingback URL
• <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> - the URL for the template's CSS file
• <?php bloginfo('wpurl'); ?> - URL for WordPress installation
• <?php bloginfo('version'); ?> - Version of the WordPress installation
• <?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?> - HTML version of the site

BlogInfo Tags

• is_home() - when the user is on the blog home page
• is_front_page() - when the user is on the home page
• is_single() - when the single post displayed
• is_sticky() - check if a post is sticky
• is_page() - when a page is displayed
• is_category() - when a category is displayed
  

Category based menu navigation

<ul id="menu">
<li <?php if(is_home()) { ?> class="current-cat"< ?php } ?>>
<a href="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>">Home</a></li>
< ?php wp_list_categories('title_li=&orderby=id'); ?>
</ul>

Pages based menu navigation

<ul id="menu">
<li <?php if(is_home()) { ?> class="current_page_item"< ?php } ?>>
<a href="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>">home</a></li>
< ?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li='); ?>
</ul>

Love Factory is dating and matching Joomla Extension, with fully editable member pages and configurable fields which can be setted by the administrator. Native Joomla 1.5.x MVC code; no legacy plugin needed. 100% open source allowing you to perform special tweaks for a better site integrations and according to personalized needs. Multilanguage support is also offered for the Love Factory Joomla Extension through the language files and Joomfish Integration.

The Main Features of the component are:

• Member Pages with fully configurable fields!
• Photo Gallery (users can specify the images order)
• Comment System (page owner can delete any comment on his page or report them to the admin)
• Messaging System (users can create, send and receive personal messages)
• Interaction System (sending kisses between user)
• Rating System
• Friends List (including pending requests; user can set the page status visible only for friends)
• Ignore List (to avoid spamming or any unwanted contact)
• Advanced Search (to find friends or matches after certain criteria like gender, age, etc., criteria which are fully configurable by the administrator from the existing page fields.
• Membership Plans with integrated Payment Gateways: Paypal and Moneybookers (support for one till four membership-level, so that users can upgrade their account in order to receive a higher number of allowed photo and friends. For each level, differentiated prices can be set, depending on the time period. The membership plans feature can be enable or disabled by the administrator.)
• Smarty-based Templating System (can be enabled or disabled by the administrator.)
  

The Administrator of the system has the following features enabled:

• Dashboard. The dashboard displays different statistics, user count and levels, latest users, latest payments, latest reports.
• User List. Configurable member level, ban option and user details including Reports & Payments.
• Reports List. Administrator can see reports, act (ban, send warning, delete) and set their status.
• Payments. List of existing payments where the administrator can edit the status in case they require manual approval (for payments with IPN, but as pending, processing, etc.)
• Page Fields. The administrator can create custom fields, define there type (text area, dropdown, checkbox, radiobox, etc.), set them as required and specify the parameters. Another very important feature is that the administrator can set what custom fields are visible on certain pages. Also to easy the work, a drag&drop method is available here.
• Pricing. Membership levels (up to four) can be created, where different prices on each level can be set, for certain time periods.

Various settings for the Love Factory extension are also available on the component backend under the Settings Page.

• General settings (enable/disable user comments, user messages, user rating, user email notifies, number of search results shown per page, allow guests to view user pages, send membership notification, terms and conditions acceptance and Smarty templates usage)
  
• Photo settings (set images size for photo maximum width and height, thumbnail maximum width and height)
  
• Membership settings (enable each level, set title, set maximum allowed number of photos and friends)
• Payment Gateways (set current currency, enable/disable each existing payment gateway, Paypal and Moneybookers e-mail address configuration)
  
• Notifications (edit email content of warning messages and notifications)
• Terms&Conditions (edit)

The component comes also with the followings Modules:

• Latest Member
  
• Random Member

Demo: The demo-server for Love Factory is available under http://lovefactory.thefactory.ro - to login for the frontend or backend, just click the login buttons available on the page. Feel free to test as you please; the server resets itself each hour.

With the last released versions, the Reverse Auction Factory solution is consolidating one of its main goals, serving as a freelancing platform. Among other new features, the new version comes with a special new template, which can be also seen on the new updated demoserver available under http://reverse-auctions.thefactory.ro/

Other noticable features are:

• New feature: Gallery Plugin, Gallery settings in backend.
• New feature: New Gallery Mootool.
• New feature: Differentiated Comissions for Powersellers, verified users and regular users.
• Improved quicker and lighter coding; rbidsVersionCheck replaced with JOOMLA_RV_VERSION.
• Improved SEF.
• Fixed several issues including Short Open tags, watch category, tags filter with spaces search when trimmed and display results (twice), search after country and city without CB, quickButton (in J!1.0) finding JOOMLA_RV_VERSION, including file Router.php, CB date format my auctions & my watchlist, installer CB plugin Google map, etc.

Also for the payments towards the site, Multiple Payment Gateways with integrated payment methods like Paypal and Moneybookers are now availble, with the possibility through API documentation for each webmaster to implement new one.

Toghether with the new features, the Reverse Auction Factory Solution stands for a professional e-commerce platform, providing the possibilty for its users to obtain a good price or a good deal and also last but not least o good income for the webmaster, through the available commissioning systems.

Why use Reverse Auctions? Reverse auctions do assure the lowest price for buyers, discouraging imprudent bidding practices (closed auctions conducted by invitation only) and allowing the fairest live and consistent auctioning system through the Open Bidding System. The two round bidding ensures that the winning bidder is qualified and prescreened complying with federal and certain state procurement laws.

Buyers Benefits?

• Save Money On Every Single Purchase
• Save Time without Comparing Store Prices
• Posting an Order for wanted item is free: No Bids, No Fees. Risk Free!
• Quick Turnover, Get IMMEDIATE Results. Just start asking for what you want to buy.
• Reverse auctions eliminate the possibility of corruption (in procurement), etc.
  

 

MediaMall provides is a powerful solution to manage media files online distribution with a built-in Credit System. Using this component the site can easily sell media files online, like for ex. Video Tutorials (including sample files).

Using the MediaMall solution users can post their media files on your site. For each media file a number of Credits can be perceived in order to visualize the file. The poster will earn credits, which can be later converted into a payment by the webmaster. Accepted media file formats are: video files (flw, swf, mov and wmf; avi files are also partially supported, but not all codecs are included.) audio files (mp3) archives (zip, rar, gz, bz2, arj, arc, '7z) - used generally for tutorials; if a user is posting video file with a photoshop tutorial, in the archive he can include the sample files.

In order to purchase the credits easier the system provides a Paypal integration. Clean payments are transformed automatically into credits. If any problems the payments are going into the "Payment/canceled Payments, where the administrator can decide further actions. A further income method, if set, can be the pay for Contact. Here a user will pay with credits in order to send a contact email to the author.

The administrator can create and manage Categories, set credit related settings and manage credits and views. Another important administrator feature is the management of the author payments. The system also includes user notifications on certain actions.

Viewers can use the integrated Rating System to rate and also place comments for any media file. This is allowed for free media files and for commercial media files only after viewing in order to avoid any abuses.

Surely the media files can be also posted for free, allowing the view without any credit purchase. The administrator can configure this allowing the view for guest or logged users.

Among other features, the component benefits also from Joomfish Integration, offering multilingual support.

jAnswers Factory provides the perfect Question and Answers Solution for the Joomla CMS integrating features from the well known Yahoo Answers system.

Users can ask questions, Community provides answers. Once a question placed, this can be extended (as period) if not answered. A Ranking system for answers is also available. Users can Report offensive text, mark Favorite Questions or use the extended search through the Knowledge base.

You can test this new Extension on our DEMO Server - you can log on the Front end or Admin Back end in order to check all features and settings

jAnswers Factory brings also several charging possibilities, so that the webmaster can transform his site to a profitable business. From this features it worth mentioning the followings: Pay-per-Question Pay for featured Question Pay-per-Contact Support for "beer money" payments Multiple Payment Gateways including Paypal and Moneybookers Native SEF integration (all question links are SEF!)

On the back-end side, the solution brings also important features and settings to offer the needed flexibility for the site administrator. Here some of the available features: set avatar size, set time period for questions, block offensive questions/answers, manage abuse reports, manage payments, import/export questions & answers, manage extended profile, user statistics, etc.

The component comes also with a free 5.000 records database to provide a valuable start-up (due to this the downloadkit is approx. 5 MB). Bigger database packages are available upon request for an additional charge. Some of the available modules are: Latest Questions, Popular Questions, Open Questions, Random Questions, Featured Questions, Tag Cloud, etc.

Raffle Factory comes as a new product to provide more power to our  eCommerce  Extension Suite. 

A raffle is a competition in which people buy numbered tickets. Originating in southern Italy, it is a popular game in numerous countries and is often held to raise funds for a specific event, charity, or occasion.

The raffle involves many people buying tickets for a chance to win a certain prize or prizes. At a set date, the winners are drawn from a bucket containing a copy of every number or a tombola (from Italian: tombola ['to:mbola]). The ticket is then checked against a collection of prizes with numbers attached to them. A raffle also often involves several different possible prizes that can be won and a ticket will simply be drawn from the group at random for each of the prizes one by one.  Our Raffle Solution provides allot of the features encountered in the "Auction Factory Suite", but this time specialized in the raffle field, with specific settings like:

• Price per ticket.
• Buyer can purchase several tickets; ticket numbers will be sent to the buyer, for each purchased ticket.
• Administrator statistics to see the number of purchased tickets per each auction.
• Payments will be processed with the integrated payment methods, like paypal, moneybookers or with the possibility to integrate new payment gateways using the published API.
• email notifications for all stages (enable/disable)
• public statistic to see original total number of available tickets and total number of tickets sold to date.
• Seller has option to end raffle early before all tickets sold, a winner will be automatically random chosen, notified and displayed in the auction.
• user can see his purchased tickets (won/selected for top 100/selected for top 10/selected for top 3/lost).

The raffle can end automatically with a predefined work flow as follows, where the winner is announced 4 days later after the end of raffle, then displayed in the details and notified.

• 1st day (change "top" to "random") 100 participants will be displayed.
• 2nd day (change "top" to "random") 10 participants (from 1st day's 100) will be displayed.
• 3rd day (change "top" to "random") 3 participants (from 2nd day's 10) will be displayed.
• 4th day random 1 participant from 3rd day's 3 will be chosen winner and displayed.

In case of notary usage, instead of the work flow above, a ticket list can be exported  to be used for an outside draw, then the winner ticket number has to be entered in the platform.

You can test all functionalities on our demo sever here

In order to provide maximum flexibility to all the administrators, Raffle Factory also uses a template engine. Detailed informations about how to personalize the Raffle Factory Extension can be found here, in the Template Tutorial. 

The native MVC Joomla 1.5 component provides an easy voting system, requiring only a single click action for a speedy process. The component can be used to rate different images like landscapes, art, etc. or if the genre mode is enabled, more particular for male and female images. The upload is very easy, allowing also multiple upload. For each picture a sharelink and the number of hits will be visible and if admin enabled the description, comments and tags. To allow the administrator content control on the site, each picture and comment can be reported.

You can log into the demo site and check out frontend and backend Settings

Administrator Settings:

• Enable/disable voting for guests (unloged users).
• Enable/disable upload images for guests (unlogged users).
• Set 1-10 or 1-5 voting scale.
• Set upload folder, Resize height and width, Thumbnail size, Nr. of uploaded images at once.
• Enable/disable image description, Description length, Enable/disable require description on upload.
• Enable/disable tags, Maximum allowed nr. of tags, Enable/disable require tags on upload.
• Allow comments from: visitors/registred/disabled.
• Display nr. of images per page, Display last x comments per page (0 for all).
• Enable/disable genre mode (male, female).
• Enable/disable email reporting.

The component comes also with the following modules: Menu Module including Top Rated, My Pictures, Upload and advanced Search option. TAG Cloud Module. Random Picture. Last Voted. Requirements: Joomla 1.5.x

It's been eight months since we introduced the legacy support for the Briefcase component. Today, we are proud to announce the release of a new product, compatible with the Joomla 1.5 native mode. Briefcase Facotry is the Joomla Component which is offers any Joomla Site, a very similar functionality as Yahoo Briefcase, but with a multitude of extended features.

briefcase Factory 1.5.0 released on March 3, 2009.

• Redeveloped to be a native Joomla 1.5.x component.
• New feature: File FTP Upload for Administrator.
• New feature: Set allowed file types.
• New feature: Search Mambot for Joomla Search.
• Several improvements including find user when sharing, AJAX on upload files, etc.