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 1.1.5 released on July 28, 2010. 

  • New feature: added 2checkout payment gateway.
  • New feature: min. and max. length for tags to be displayed (as Tag-Cloud module options).
  • New feature: on backend, for undecided questions, a new button for each answer, so it can be chosen as best answer.
  • Fixed several issues including Tag-cloud, category module (items counter), backend counting answers, display frontend "best answer chosen by", frontend question countdown, voting buttons, add/remove from favorites.

jAnswers Factory 1.1.4 released on May 25, 2010.

  • Fixed several issues including CRON services, display for UTF-8 characters in category-tree module, redirect for guests (when adding questions to favorites), wrong input processing on systems with "magic quotes" enabled, fatal error on "remove from watchlist", display for "watchlisted" questions, etc.

The latest Social Community Joomla Extension - Love Factory 1.4.5 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 1.4.5 released on July 28, 2010.   

  • New feature: added Shoutbox module (enable/disable).
  • New feature: restrict access to Shoutbox (no access/only read/full access) depending on membership.
  • New feature: added new location for the infobar - top.
  • New feature: allow administrator to set infobar location (top or bottom) or allow users to set individually.
  • Redirect user to membership plans page when trying to perform an action that required a superior membership (enable/disable from backend).
  • Optimization: own jQuery library for no interference with other components.
  • Fixed issue regarding distance field on the search page.

 

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 1.5.9 released on July 21, 2010.

  • New feature: New Mail types - New Ad Posted To Site Admin (unpublished) and New Ad Published To Site Admin.
  • Optimization: Attachment validation issues (hard-coded error messages, must display compulsory attach after extension validation). 
  • Optimization: Custom Fields Values "remembered" after error in validating saving ad.
  • Optimization: Listing Positions Verified Query removed (deprecated).
  • Fixed several issues including: Joomfish XML Option Fields not installing, Backend Positions Save Template Issue on file location, Payment Gateway Toggle State Error, Purging the Category SEF in backend, Backend Integration when in saving field associations, Site Integration not redirected to selected user profile, Hard-coded Text Replaced with constant in price_listing.

Chat Factory 3.1.0 released on January 31, 2012.   

  • Support for Joomla 2.5.x.

Chat Factory 3.0.0 released on November 25, 2011.    

  • New Product Concept.
  • Fixed issue regarding spam protection (messages per minute), uninstall module issue.

Chat Factory 2.1.1 released on August 24, 2011.   

  • Fixed issues regarding mod_rewrite when SEF enabled, multi-language site and IE (links were being redirected), Love Factory integration (members map and radius search page), scrolling on chat window jQuery 1.6.2, chat windows positions stored in cookie (different paths), module language file installation, module missing language strings.

Chat Factory 2.1.0 released on August 18, 2011.  

  • Support for Joomla 1.7.x.

Chat Factory 2.0.2 released on April 12, 2011. 

  • Fixed issues regarding display under IE9 and Opera, chat history container (bottom line), Community Builder (not using thumb avatar).

Chat Factory 2.0.1 released on March 11, 2011.

  • New feature: Love Factory integration on restricting same gender interactions (when integrated and enabled from Love Factory).

Chat Factory 2.0.0 released on January 11, 2011.

  • Redeveloped for Joomla 1.6.x. 

Chat Factory 1.2.4 released on April 8, 2011.  

  • New feature: after closing the main chat window redirection to same page instead to home page.
  • Fixed issues regarding display under IE9 and Opera, chat history container (bottom line), Community Builder (not using thumb avatar), CB back-end integration, case sensitive when including one JavaScript file.

Chat Factory 1.2.3 released on December 6, 2010. 

  • New feature: Chat Factory user plugin; option to delete Chat Factory profiles when deleting users from Joomla.
  • Fixed issues regarding Chat Factory and Love Factory integration (users added to ignore list in Love Factory), user profile deleted after logout.

Chat Factory 1.2.2 released on November 19, 2010.

  • Fixed issues regarding some cases where the window position was not being restored, renamed a css class that could interfere with other templates, on uploading avatar and not having "Public Front-end" in the "Allowed groups".

Chat Factory 1.2.1 released on September 27, 2010.

  • New feature: added class suffix for module.

Chat Factory 1.2.0 released on August 27, 2010.

  • New feature: Love Factory advanced integration allowing users to chat only if they purchased a Love Factory membership with chat rights (requirements: minimum Love Factory 1.5.0 and Chat Factory 1.2.0).

Chat Factory 1.1.0 released on June 10, 2010.

  • New feature: enable/disable chat for registered users and guests.
  • New feature: message history.
  • Added images to the module.
  • Added confirmations on several actions like add or delete friends.
  • Optimisation: own jQuery library for no interference with other components.
  • Fixed several issues regarding stripping HTML tags on ads, upload avatar, display avatar on userlist, advertisements, visibility of blocked users, session cookie.

Chat Factory 1.0.0 released on May 18, 2010.

The main front-end features of Chat Factory are:

  • users can enable/disable the chat system
  • no need to register: users can chat as guests (if enabled by administrator)
  • show/hide offline users from users list (only for registered users)
  • registered users can block chat messages from guests
  • user avatars: users can upload their own avatar, use Community's Builder avatar (if enabled), or use no avatar at all (only for registered users)
  • ignore list: block messages from individual users (only for registered users)
  • friends list (only for registered users)
  • possibility to share a message (only for registered users)
  • possibility to change status: available, busy, invisible (only for registered users)
  • implemented emoticons, buzz
  • minimize chat windows and preserve position when navigating through the site (only for registered users)
  • quick search (only for registered users)
  • advertisement area

On the back-end the chat extension for Joomla has the following main features:

  • emoticons management: administrators can add as many emoticons as they want
  • advertisements management
  • IM ads: on login or on specific interval
  • allowed groups: select the groups that are allowed to chat
  • Community Builder integration (enable/disable)
  • set refresh interval of user list, new messages and new friendship requests to reduce server load
  • spam protection: set the maximum number of messages users can send per minute.

Requirements:

  • Joomla 1.5.x

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