Joomla Extensions , Joomla Components

rss Factory PRO 1.5.9 released on November 12, 2009.  

• Compatible with PHP 5.3.0 and added some tweaks for PHP 4 compliance.
• Improved version_info.php: xml-ul (parsing now with JSimpleXML, instead of domit which is incompatible with php 5.3.0).
• Fixed several issues including category filter, feed title, tooltip, edit add redirect, strip comments from feeds, pagination without SEF, JS modal view, pagination links, html enteties in module, refresh on module voting, save on empty categories, ads related warnings, show only category in module, order categories on UNIX, htmlentities with UTF-8 encoding, import2content word filtering, title links from digg feeds, import from CSV, display date, creation date (from feed GMT), date publish_up (today, after the site time), date publish_down (today + offset_days, after the site time), when voting disabled (same item listed several times), category description, shorten-text in module for item_title or item_description, etc.

rss Factory PRO 1.5.8 released on Octomber 29, 2009.  

• Fixed several issues including module tooltip, module display when only a single category was set for display, duplicate component when creating a new menu entry, images name formating in backend (lowercase, uppercase), notices and warnings on component settings, etc.

rss Factory PRO 1.5.7 released on Octomber 19, 2009.  

• Menu items available to assign on categories even if the settings "show categories" is off.
• Fixed several issues including module, plugin, ads (when nr. of ads bigger then number of stories), i2c full article, "read more" link on articles, incompatibilities with PHP4, etc.

rss Factory PRO 1.5.6 released on September 30, 2009. 

• New module settings for "show only categories" (not id, using multiple selection.
• Improved stories scalability from database.
• Improved SEF.
• Improved pagination.
  
• Fixed several issues including show categories settings, menu items, module issue, ads, draggable divs, etc.
  

rss Factory PRO 1.5.5 released on September 24, 2009.

• Joomla native MVC (building menu items with links to the component is easier).
• Admin improved interface: using xajax for simple tasks like publish/unpublish, improved filtering for listings (feed sources, ads), improved error management.
• Ads can be assigned to one or more categories (this will help displaying only the relevant ads for the feeds).
• Component's settings are now saved in a zip-file instead of the database, increasing the performance and for an easier backup.
• Headlines link to their stories (when displaying categories with preview).
• Module can list feeds using: tabs, sliders, draggable divs, simple list, tiles.
• Module can show each feed details using: tables, overlib, modal box and digg style.
• Filter Categories on feed sources after parent and child indentation.
  
• Experimental feature for import to content: parse full articles as a Joomla Content entry, meaning graphical interface that can let admins set some simple rules to define the container of the full story for each source feed separately; by setting the correct container, our application will be able to parse the full story and import it as article content in your site; this way, the article will contain the complete story, not only the short description from rss.
• Fixed several issues including "draggable divs", bigger text areas for prepend/append text, search input design, ads display, warning on empty submitted feeds, save related-categories, save refresh password etc.
  

rss Factory PRO 1.5.0 released on July 28, 2009.

New Submit features:

• Submitting feeds (enable/disable).
• Enable guest feeds submit.
• Text being displayed to submitter.
• CAPTCHA verification on submit.
  

New Refresh features:

• Three RSS parsers: SimplePie, Domit, Magpie RSS - we strongly recommend SimplePie!
• Added "refresh script time limit" - protection for overloading the server.
• Word filter option (enable/disable).
• List with allowed words (if feed doesn't contain any of these words, it will not be imported to cache).
• List with banned words (if feed contains any of these words, it will not be imported to cache).
  

New Voting features:

• Voting (enable/disable).
• Guests may vote (let unregistered users to vote feed stories).
• Allow negative rating (if "Yes", a feed will be able to have ratings like "-1","-2",...).
  

New Display features:

• Show empty categories (show categories without any feed).
• Show empty sources (show sources without any feed).
• "Choose how to display the full story/news" - added "Modal box" option
• Added "digg-style", "modal" and "custom" as view styles!!!
• Template for each view style (overlib, table, digg, modal & custom) - we recommend modifying only the "CUSTOM" template!!!
  

New Import2Content features:

• Articles published by default (if set to now, every article will be imported as "unpublished").
• Default text perpended to articles (header for each article).
• Default text appended to articles (footer for each article).
• The "Enable Import2Content", "Default Author", "Default Section/Category", "Articles published by default", "Default publishing period", "Default text /appended/perpended to articles" settings can be override for each source feed, while editing it.
• I2C Word filters (enable/disable).
• List with allowed words (if feed doesn't contain any of these words, it will not be imported as an article to content).
• List with banned words (if feed contains any of these words, it will not be imported as an article to content).
  

General code base optimization including:

• Improved speed at parsing feeds (simplepie is faster than magpie).
• Improved speed at display (most of the display code is re-written).
• Improved database speed (optimal indexed tables).
• International Domain Name support (ex. chinese UTF8 characters).
• Full support for "enclosures", inclusive attached files using the "media" namespace (introduced by Yahoo in RSS 2.0 and meanwhile used also by Google).
• Ordering on save feed source.
• Using "divs" instead of "tables".
  

rss Factory PRO 1.2.4 released on April 30, 2009.

• New feature: "Read more" link is added to articles and feeds (in table view) and can be routed through the component (SEO optimized) or can be linked directly to the initial site (view feed in wrapper is not available under this setting). The links from each feed content are having target="_blank" and rel="nofollow"; the first for guest (not to leave the page), second for bots (SEO).
• New feature: "<enclosure>" Tags are parsed; avaialble in feeds as attachements with link to the file.
• New feature: strip HTML tags from content feeds, with the option for allowed tags; tag <a> is NOT recommended to be removed.
• Added the ads table to the Backup.
• Height auto for iframe (at view feed in wrapper).
• Support for gzipped encoded XML's
• Fixed issue regarding replace bot plugin, display of archived feed (on module).