Joomla Extensions , Joomla Components

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.

The new version of rss Factory PRO brings two new important features. The first major feature is the ability to Import the RSS feeds to the Joomla Content. Here you can set for each existing RSS feed the section and category where it will be imported and also set the author and publishing period. The second major feature is the Archive System. The period of how long the feed contents should be kept is admin configurable. Both new features are extending and maximizing the SEO SEF abilities of a website. Importing the feeds directly to the content will simplify the work of each webmaster, providing always new and updated content on his site. The archive system will provide for regular webpages the possiblity to be found again in a search engine. Regular websites are not so often indexed by the search engines machines and an archive system is providing the necessary requirements, that the indexed pages are still available on your site and any search result will lead to a valid page. We hope that the new version will increase the productivity of the sites and the whole Joomla Community will benefit from it.

Here a list of the features which is also the comparison chart between the Free and the PRO version of RSS Factory:

RSS Factory features	FREE	PRO
•  Categories & Subcategories (unlimited number of levels)
•  Category Management
•  Category Description
•  Category Pathway
•  Related Categories
•  Import Feeds to Content
•  Archive System
•  Category Tree within one, two, three or four columns
•  SEF (compatible with Artio JoomSEF)
•  Session based tracking of already readed news (Feeds will appear “unchecked” if they have already been read)
•  easy Language Management
•  automatic unpublishing of erroneous feeds
•  Tiled View
•  List View
•  Tab Titles View
•  Sliders View
•  Draggable divs View
•  configurable display to show in list of feeds the feed name or the source
•  Pagination available for each RSS source
•  Date Format Customization
•  Dynamic Page Titles (SEO)
•  MetaTags
•  FavIcons for feeds (pulled from the feedsite or custom uploaded)
•  Supress function for embedded objects and images
•  Color customization of Overlib Output
•  Font Size customization for Overlib Output
•  replace ">> >>" with custom words
•  Preview of Feeds in Category List
•  customized output styles
•  several configurable display tweaks
•  Automatic Refresh of feeds though a pseudo-CRON process and CRON
•  Refresh of Feeds using AJAX (backend only)
•  Search Mambot (allows you to search through feeds along with searching through content)
•  Refferal verification to avoid hotlinking
•  automatic Install & Uninstall of Module and Mambot
•  Ads & Banner management
•  Back-up utility
•  Back-up utility including component Settings
•  automatic Version Check
•  Public Support (available on Forum)
•  Extended Support (personal guidance available through our Ticket System)

Although it's a major version we are offering this version for FREE to all existing license holders*. To receive the new version just follow the new procedures described in the "Customer FAQ". With this again we are offering for FREE a major version of a product, like in the latest cases of Auction Factory, Reverse Auction Factory, Article Factory Manager, etc.*

* Promotional Orders are excluded from this offer.

The Factory proudly presents the new - native Joomla 1.5.x MVC code (no legacy plugin needed) - Joomla Extension ADS Factory, specialy designed tool for classifed webads. With this the "make money" slogan started with the Auction Suite can be raised up one more time to "make more money".

Ads Factory is fully SEF including dynamic page titles! Automatic metadescription and keywords are integrated in the component to comply with the actual standards. Tags on ads and a tag cloud module is also present to provide a huge SEF improvement.

The component offers Categories support including a category module, which can be also used as a filter option. The present Watchlist can be set on existing categories or ads based and includes also email notification. Aside this advanced search and filter options are avaialble for the extension.

For each ad a separate location can be entered using the GoogleMaps system. Also the user has the possiblity to upgrade his ad to a featured ad: gold, silver or bronze. The ads can be also saved for later publishing (publish/unpublish; save ads now publish later) or can be date triggered published. A republishing option is avaialble for expired ads; also on expiry a email notification is sent. If not replublished the ads will go to the existing archive system. Ads can de reported to the admin in case of fraudulent behavior. In case that a user wants to ask an ad publisher a certain question, he can use the integrated user messaging system. Please check the demo-server or the product page for screenshots.

A main image and secondary images can be attached to each ad. This will be automatically included in a small image gallery present for each ad. The image gallery is slider based and has also a detailed view option. File attachements can be used also, in order to provide detailed informations. This attachements togheter with the gallery and GoogleMaps are displayed on the detailed view of each ad. GoogleMaps is part of the Community Builder integration and contains the CB "My Ads" and "GoogleMap" tab.

The administrator has extensive control over all ads. He can easily block certain ads with a single click, set up the picture resize values, etc. If desired he can enter multiple currencies and configure all email notifications. Bulk import with images and file attachemnts is possible and also a very easy export to the excel file format.

The webmaster can require (if desired) user payments for:

• pay per Listing (publishing)
• pay per Featured (gold, silver, bronze)
• pay per Contact (publisher details)

Paypal is implemented as payment method along to the multiple payment gateway system.

What do I get buying this product?

• The fully functional open source (no encrypting) component, meaning that you are able to perform modifications if needed for your site.
• Modules: Menu Module, Categories Module (including number of ads and filter funtion), Featured Ads, Random Ads, Popular Ads, Most Valuable Ads, Latest Ads and Tag Clouds Module.
• Community Builder Plugins: My Ads, GoogleMap Tab.
• Full SEF integration, easy configurable language file, Categories Support and Template Engine!

Requirements:

• Joomla 1.5.x
• CRON (a general CRON Tutorial is available in our documentation section).

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

Starting today, like promised at the beginning of the month, we are easing the update request procedures allowing now downloads also fin case of updates, not only on the initial product download. For information regarding requests for a newer version or the update request form, please check our Customer FAQ.

After the significant addition of the Commissions Plugin we extended like promissed this feature introducing differentiated Commissions and enlarged the Payment features adding Moneybookers to the existing Paypal option, multiple Payment Gateways, Pay-per-Contact Plugin, Pay-per-Bid Plugin and much more. 

auction Factory 1.5.5 released on 6 January, 2009.

• New feature: Differentiated Comissions for Powersellers, verified and regular users.
• New feature: Moneybookers Payment Method.
• New feature: Multiple Payment Gateways.
• New feature: Notification on manual payment approval.
• New feature: API for 3rd party Payment Gateways published .
• Fixed several issues and code improvements.

After the important release 1.7, which brought significant changes, we launched in the last days of december two new versions which had new features like Quick Reject buttons on the details page; Display nr. of characters (without spaces and points) and nr. of words on approving; and fixed issues regarding permission from ver. 1.7.1, UTF-8 preview issue, preview listing link, sorting, date appearance listing, multiple delete, frontend approval, CB plugin, mailing flow, etc.