Joomla Extensions by The Factory

Love Factory 1.4.4

The latest Social Community Joomla Extension - Love Factory 1.4.4 allows users to interact in the same way they are used on larger dating or social networking sites, allowing also to use the full power of Joomla features. This Native Joomla 1.5.x MVC code does not require legacy plugin, and through 100% open source allows you to perform special tweaks for a better integration according to your needs.

Using a templating system (in this case we have a simple and an advanced system) your web site will keep a coherent look and a nice web 2.0 feeling. Read more..

Love Factory 1.4.4 released on July 16, 2010.  

• New feature: "In a relationship with" linking the partner (enable/disable from backend).
• New admin setting for starting point and zoom for radius search (if a user is logged in then the starting point will be his home location and the zoom the one set by admin).
• New search filter on gender for radius search.
• HTML support on emails (enable/disable from backend).

Gadget Factory - Virtuemart Sidebar Gadgets for Windows

First of all check your Virtuemart version. Our Joomla 1.0.x component works with Virtuemart 1.0.x version and the Joomla 1.5.x Gadget Factory has support for Virtuemart 1.1.x version. For further requirements check here.

The Factory is providing three unique and very detailed VM gadgets for Windows which will work with any of the component version as long as the requirements are fulfilled. Since we are also Virtuemart users and we appreciate the powerful tool, we wanted to bring also a significant contribution to the community with this special featured gadgets.

All three gadgets should be installed like described in our gadget configuration documentation. After this you can proceed with each particular settings.

VM Orders displays the latest VirtueMart (e-Commerce) Shop Orders information. Following information are available directly in the widget display:

• Order number
• Order status
• User name
• Order value
• New orders marked

VM Orders flyout contains in the title the order number and the order status. In the flyout are then displayed the following:

• List of aquired products and their number
• Payment method
• Order Value
• Customer email address
• Customer complete name
• Customer Address (address 1 from VM)
• Customer Area code
• Customer City
• Customer Country

VM Orders has the following particular settings available:

• Gadget Title (more info under http://www.thefactory.ro/documentation/gadget-factory-installing-windows-gadget.html).
• Title and pagination color.
• Fetch latest x orders from server (the number of latest order to be retrieved from the server and displayed in the gadget).
• Fetch All/Pending/Confirmed/Canncelled/Refunded/Shipped orders (in case you are interested in checking only orders with a certain status).
• Supress first x order number characters (usually Virtuemart orders are starting with 0000; using this you can supress the 0's and display only the last digits.
• Mark latest x hours orders as new (a small icon will mark the newest orders).
• Show first x username characters (in case the usernames are to long, you can limit them, without messing the gadget display).

VM Orders allows you to configure the display as follows:

• Order details (color, size)
• Username (color, size)
• Order value (color, size)
• Background theme (gray, red, violet, blue, olive, green, brown)

VM Totals displays various VirtueMart (e-Commerce) Shop Reports information, representing one of the smallest reporting tool for Virtuemart but also the fastest and convenient one, making reports accessible directly on the Windows desktop. Following information are available directly in the widget display:

• Cell 1: Items/Orders number and New/All Clients.
• Cell 2: Confirmed Orders value (check the component configuration to define exactly what statuses will be calculated as confirmed!).
• Cell 3: Pending/Refunded/Cancelled/Shipped Orders value.
• Cell 4: Refunded/Cancelled/Shipped Orders value.

VM Totals flyout is available for cell 2, 3 and 4, displaying in the title the correspondent order name status and showing a graphical (bar type) representation with the monthly values. By clicking on the bars, a tooltip will display the exact value for that month. The flyout will display all the months fetched by the widget.  

VM Totals has the following particular settings available:

• Gadget Title (more info under http://www.thefactory.ro/documentation/gadget-factory-installing-windows-gadget.html).
• Title and month color.
• Number of months to fetch from server (the number of latest months to be retrieved from the server and displayed in the gadget).
• Cell 3 configuration replacing the pending orders with Refunded, Cancelled or Shipped orders; this settings will change only the display for previous months, not the current month.
• Cell 4 configuration to display Refunded, Cancelled or Shipped orders.
• Show Currency in widget (will display the currency in cell 2, 3 and 4).
• Select tendency type between Values and Percantages. The calculated tendecy for the current month is calculated with the exact period from the previous month, taking under consideration also the exact hours, minutes, sec. For the rest, complete months are calculated.
• Override display settings for tendency positive and negative values (color, size).

VM Totals allows you to configure the display as follows:

• Statistics including Items/Orders number and New/All Clients (color, size)
• Cell 2: Confirmed Orders (color, size)
• Cell 3: Pending Orders (color, size)
• Cell 4: X Orders (color, size)
• Background theme (gray, red, violet, blue, olive, green, brown)

VM Reviews displays the latest VirtueMart (e-Commerce) Product Reviews information. Following information are available directly in the widget display:

• Product name
• Rating (1 to 5 stars)
• User name

VM Reviews flyout contains in the title the product name which received the rating. In the flyout are then displayed the following:

• User name from Joomla that rated the product.
• Rating (1 to 5 stars).
• Complete review.
• Date and time when the review was given.

VM Reviews has the following particular settings available:

• Gadget Title (more info under http://www.thefactory.ro/documentation/gadget-factory-installing-windows-gadget.html).
• Title and pagination color.
• Fetch latest x reviws from server (the number of latest reviews to be retrieved from the server and displayed in the gadget).
• Mark latest x hours reviews as new (a small icon will mark the newest reviews).
• Show first x username characters (in case the usernames are to long, you can limit them, without messing the gadget display).

VM Reviews allows you to configure the display as follows:

• Product name (color)
• Username (color, size)
• Background theme (gray, red, violet, blue, olive, green, brown)

RSS Factory PRO 1.6.0 - Import Full articles in your website

RSS Factory PRO is a professional RSS Aggregator and RSS Reader for your Joomla Website. It brings different view styles that will enhance your website look and feel, category browsing to create that SEO edge you might need, different story display (no need to get your visitors off from your website), IMPORT to CONTENT, including the new and complex feature of FULL Story import from the Source website and many more...

rss Factory PRO 1.6.0 released on March 29, 2010.

• New feature: Hits for feeds.
• New feature: new view sytle (iframe with toolbar).
• New feature: add link at the end of the article to the original page.

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.

Joomla PDF generator - eBook Factory 1.6.2

eBook Factory is the only component who can build full eBooks out of the content of your site!

eBook Factory renders a PDF out of the content items of your site in matter of minutes and stores it on your server in order to have it ready for download or newsletter mailings!

Since Joomla’s own PDF engine is merely a basic text to PDF convertor, we put our best work into developing a component. This component not only respects the standard layout of an eBook, but also includes Graphics, Fonts, and External Links that you used in your content.

All of your work is done in the administration panel of Joomla. There, you can create a set of eBooks containing Chapters and sub-chapters from your content items. You can use the Sections and/or Categories: as Chapter titles, as well as Sub-chapters. Read more ...

eBook Factory 1.6.2 released on March 18, 2010.  

• Ffixed issues regarding some characters not properly rendere, strip inline style definitions.

eBook Factory 1.6.1 released on February 23, 2010. 

• New Feature: Front-end Module to display by administrator selected files and offer them for download.

eBook Factory 1.6.0 released on December 7, 2009. 

• New Feature: Front-end usage for users. (enable/disable)
• Fixed several issues.

eBook Factory 1.5.1 released on September 4, 2009. 

• Improved language support, by adding all constants to the language file.
• Fixed some issues regarding &nbsp spaces and special character spaces.

eBook Factory 1.5.0 released on Juli 15, 2009.

• Joomla 1.5 Support (Joomla 1.0 support discontinued, available only till version 1.3.x)
• New PDF generator.
• New feature: select link color.

Joomla Data Share and Storage Extension - Briefcase Factory 1.6.1

Briefcase Factory 1.6.1

Briefcase Factory 1.6.1 is the Joomla 1.5 equivalent for the Yahoo's Briefcase service - A new approach to document and file sharing.

The user interface is intuitive and uses AJAX for several operations, therefore no page reloads to slow down your work. You can ADD more than one file at a time; number can be set in admin backend. The uploaded Files can be SHARED with one user, more than one user, all users, or with the public (registered and unregistered users). Read more...

briefcase Factory 1.6.1 released on April 14, 2010.

• New feature: added the possibility for autoshare files to the admins.

briefcase Factory 1.6.0 released on November 17, 2009.

• Added to the kit the standalone modules and plugins: Community Builder Plugin Pack (My files and Private files), Top Module, Statistics Module andVodes Credits Module.

briefcase Factory 1.5.5 released on Octombre 19, 2009. 

• New feature: administrator overrides.
• New option: "Allow public downloads for guests" (enable/disable).
• Tabbed settings in administrator area.
• New module: user frontend module to display the files which were shared directly to the user by the admin user group.
• Fixed several issues including: multiple pages users select share, particular template display problem, public shared files tab shows up only when public shares are enabled or an admin has shared public files overriding the default setting, etc.

briefcase Factory 1.5.3 released on April 17, 2009.

• Sort categories alphabetically.
• Fixed issues regarding overlib, SQL, Share files only with these admins, Public share, loader bar under IE, redirect to login form, CB integration, new Vodes table names.

briefcase Factory 1.5.2 released on March 19, 2009.

• Fixed some issues regarding chmod 0777, xajax error handle and Vodes points.

briefcase Factory 1.5.1 released on March 13, 2009.

• New feature: added new Search Plugin Option (Search my files, my shared files, public files).

Hot or Not Factory 1.0.8 - Joomla Photo Rating

The HOT or NOT Factory extension 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. Dont forget to check also the Deluxe version!

HOT or NOT Factory 1.0.8 released on March 29, 2010.

• Fixed issues regarding users being able to vote a higher rating than the maximum scale top, etc.

HOT or NOT Factory 1.0.7 released on Octomber 20, 2009.

• New module: Latest Picture.
• Bug feature: added confirmation and error messages after voting.
• Fixed issues regarding random module, php and mysql different timezones issue, Love Factory integration, BMP files, notification when trying to upload a file too large, use full path for urls.

HOT or NOT Factory 1.0.6 released on July 14, 2009.

• New feature: Love Factory Integration.
• Added Edit TAGS for Administrator.

HOT or NOT Factory 1.0.5 released on April 27, 2009.

• Added itemid to redirect links.
• Fixed issues when voting interval 0, empty module, tags selecting.

HOT or NOT Factory 1.0.4 released on April 8, 2009.

• Added itemid to all existing links.
• Some minor issue fixed.

HOT or NOT Factory 1.0.3 released on March 30, 2009.

• Fixed some particular issues regarding module Itemid links.

HOT or NOT Factory 1.0.2 released on March 26, 2009.

New feature: counting votes to database; for loged users votes after userid and for guest after IP.

Yahoo Answers Clone - Janswers v 1.1.3 for Joomla 1.5

jAnswers Factory  provides the perfect Question and Answers Solution for the Joomla CMS integrating features from the well know Jahoo 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 Favourite Questions or use the extended search through the Knowledgebase. Read more...

jAnswers Factory 1.1.3 released on April 28, 2010.

• New feature: reCAPTCHA validation on questions/answers submit.
• New feature: anti-spoofing tokens in forms that submit questions/answer.
• New feature: allow HTML tags in questions' details field or in answers; added settings values to allow only the desired HTML tags and attributes for those tags (white-list filtering), this way preventing XSS forgeries.
• Fixed several issues including adding new category, editing user profile in backend, inserting embedded code in questions/answers (youtube movies), multi-language sites compatibilities.

Media Mall Factory 1.0.5 - Media selling extension

MediaMall provides is a powerfull solution to manage media files online distribution with a built in Credit System. Using this component the site can easily sell media files (ex. Video Tutorials) online.

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 vizualise the file. The poster will earn credits, which can be later converted into a payment by the webmaster. Read more...

media Mall Factory 1.0.5 released on April 20, 2010. 

• fixed issues regarding 'category' Parameter SQL injection vulnerability, sef 404 with ajax loading content.

media Mall Factory 1.0.4 released on April 9, 2010. 

• new feature: Payment History.
• new feature: users are able to edit media (enable/disable from backend)
• new feature: CB Community Builder tab to shows Purchased Media List and My Media Stats (check inside the downloadkit, install manually).
• added animation on upload.

media Mall Factory 1.0.3 released on March 18, 2010. 

• new feature: added 2 restrictions (groups of users can upload only free media and groups of users have limited uploads).
• new feature: CB Community Builder tab to show My Files (check inside the downloadkit, install manually).

Joomla Classifieds Extension - Ads Factory 1.5.4

Ads Factory 1.5.4

Classified Web Ads System for Joomla. 

Ads Factory has extensive user support offering HTML description for the ads and a user extended profile. The content display is fully configurable through a template, since the component uses a template engine. This make the adjustment to the site template very easy offering full freedom - Tutorial. To this, two listing methods are offered: list and grid view mode including a expiry countdown. Read more...

Ads Factory 1.5.4 released on February 26, 2010.

• Optimization: added Ad title with reference to the transaction under Admin/Classifieds/Manage payments/View Payments Page.
• Optimization: default order by date, id and title desc.
• Optimization: for multiple record listings.
• Optimization: "General Settings / Display subcat. listings in parent" to count all subcategories; if disabled, the same workflow like till current version.
• Fixed several issues including display currency in column listing, saving end date on submission, cancelled filter, search ads after start and end date, extending ads date, custom filed text area display, repeating tags, not displaying ads of deleted users, charset, categories status in backend, etc.

Ads Factory 1.5.3 released on February 17, 2010. 

• New feature: Language transliteration for Cyrillic chars and others (using iconv php extension) of URLs.
• Modified Ads links and category links.

Ads Factory 1.5.2 released on January 30, 2010.

• New feature: Custom fields attributes (html meaning) and parameter new properties.
• New feature: Custom fields are read from ini file.
• Fixed issues regarding Custom Fields Charset, Custom Fields Radio Box Type saving value, Date using Joomla in other language files, ItemId got lost After save when Instalation List Ads menu Item not published (now ItemId is kept the "New Ad" menu Item id instead of List), Category not displayed Ordering in backend, Ads CB tabs issue (upgrade manually the CB plugins), image uploading missing message, price contact, deprecated method replaced (processTemplate instead of processDisplay), price when more payments gateways enabled, etc.

Ads Factory 1.5.1 released on December 30, 2009.

• New feature: search by only Categories with ads method.
• Fixed issue regarding listing price (category not saved when category page option enabled), SEF Category, custom Fields Search, custom Fields Edit (add empty options), custom Fields Ads, User via Page Positions, Listing disabled featurings, method to display only ad containg categories, messages tab reply, scroll on reply, Price Listing Edit Fee and Optimisation: user friendly message when payment is in progress for the unpublished ad to edit (so users will know not to buy again listing for the same ad!), Smarty Helper Tab, Template charset, etc.

Raffle Factory v 1.1.1 Lottery System - Organize your own tombola.

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.

Raffle Factory 1.1.1 released on January 8, 2010.

• Improved Custom Fields.

Raffle Factory 1.1.0 released on August 21, 2009.

• New Feature: Custom Fields for sections: Raffle, User Profile (if not using CB).
• Fixed several issues including ACL task maping (buytickets added to all), several notices on install, winning stage mail, price listing, etc.

Raffle Factory 1.0.0 released on April 13, 2009.