Users can ask questions, Community provides answers.
Questions can be extended if not answered (period).
Ranking system for answers.
Report offensive text.
Favourite Questions.
extended search in the Knowledgebase.
Pay-per-Question.
Pay for featured Question.
Pay-per-Contact.
Support for "beer money" payments.
Multiple Payment Gateways including Paypal and Moneybookers.
Extended User profile (avatar, location, yahoo id, paypal email).
CB-Integration.
including 5000 records database.
Description
jAnswers Factory provides the perfect Question and Answers Solution for the Joomla CMS integrating features from the well know Jahoo Answers system.
Native Joomla 1.5.x MVC code; no legacy plugin needed.
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 Favourite Questions or use the extended search through the Knowledgebase.
jAnswers Factory brings also several charging posibilities, so that the webmaster can transform his site to a profitable bussiness. From this features it worths 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!)
Other noticable features are the extended User profile (avatar, location, yahoo id, paypal email) and Community Builder Integration.
On the back-end side, the solution brings also important features and settings to offer the needed flexibility for the site administrator. Here a short list:
set avatar size
set time period for questions
block offensive questions/answers
manage abuse reports
manage payments
import/export questions & answer
manage extended profile
user statistics
The component comes also with a free5.000 sample records database to provide a valuable start-up (due to this the downloadkit is approx. 5 MB). This is not a limitation of the database, it's sample data which can be imported so that the site can start already from 5.000 existing questions with answers. Bigger sample database packages are available upon request for an additional charge. Again, this is not a limitation of the database, just sample data which can be imported!
Available modules are:
Latest Questions
Popular Questions
Open Questions
Random Questions
Featured Questions
Tag Cloud, etc.
Requirements:
Joomla 1.5.x
Installation: DO NOT USE directly the received downloadlink as a install kit! The file "jAnswers_Factory_CHECK_INSIDE_1.1.0.zip" contains inside two zip files, who are the actual installation kits:
jAnswers_Factory_1.1.0.zip (Install Kit),
jAnswers_Factory_sample_data.zip (archive including the sample data).
Version Info
jAnswers Factory 1.1.1 released on March 18, 2010.
New feature: Backup/Restore
Fixed several issues regarding reported questions/answers, events, levels, sql install.
jAnswers Factory 1.1.0 released on March 3, 2010.
New feature: Points/Events system.
New feature: Permissions/Levels (according to the number of points).
New feature: nested set Category model (for a higher scalability).
New feature: added possibility to implement own plugins based on the component predefined events (at this time 5 events are implemented).
New feature: Answer more then once; users are allowed to answer a question several times (administrator option, enable/disable).
Improved code and SQL queries for better performance.
Fixed some issues regarding SQL, saving answers, display date answers, choose best answer, favorites, etc.
jAnswers Factory 1.0.7 released on February 9, 2010.
Fixed issues regarding SEO and non-seo links behaviour, permissions, user notification on own question, profile saving, table indexes, etc.
jAnswers Factory 1.0.6 released on July 5, 2009.
XHTML 1.0 transitional compliant
Improved SQL queries
Improved search after TAGS
Fixed issues when "select" multiple tags (with lots of "options", like those for users or categories), edit questions containing ' and " (on frontend and backend), treeview module (changed from YUI to jquery), install of treeview module, tagcloud module (if no tag exists).
jAnswers Factory 1.0.5 released on June 26, 2009.
New feature: "voting answers" permissions (public, registered, special); for "voting answers" set on public: option to store the guest vote in a cookie, preventing multiple voting.
Fixed issues regarding "escaped" question on display, voting system, terms and conditions link, user rights notice, admin edit question containing '"' in the title, db tables indexes, some xhtml compliances.
jAnswers Factory 1.0.4 released on June 16, 2009.
Fixed issues regarding SEF and router.php file, about page on backend, improved coding, etc.
jAnswers Factory 1.0.3 released on June 3, 2009.
New feature: Public/Registred/Special statuses for different actions.
New Feature: CB Plugin.
Added possibility for users to edit their questions and add/remove answers from the backend for administrator.
Fixed several issues including categories display, cb issues, formatting of answers, username display, TAG search and SEF, etc.
jAnswers Factory 1.0.2 released on May 28, 2009.
Fixed several issues including saving profile information, status fields, removed notices.
jAnswers Factory 1.0.1 released on May 18, 2009.
Fixed several issues.
jAnswers Factory 1.0.0 released on April 17, 2009.
Screenshots
To see exactly how it looks please check our Demo Site - to login for the frontend or backend, just click the login buttons available on the left side.
Screenshots are representing version 1.0.0 of jAnswers Factory.
Reviews
Customer Reviews:
Erik Folberth (Friday, 17 April 2009) Rating: jAnswers is a new way to find and share information. You can ask questions on any topic, get answers from real people, and share your insights and experience.
jAnswers Factory 1.1.1
