Love Factory 3.1.2 released on February 8, 2012.    

  • New feature: added default images for payment gateways: PayPal, Moneybookers, offline.
  • New feature: maximum file size upload (backend settings).
  • New feature: Google Maps integration (use all type of fields as location fields)
  • New feature: check if registration_photos folder exists.
  • Fixed issues regarding membership end date when unlimited, adding a YouTube video to the video gallery (if no thumbnail is uploaded, then the thumbnail from YouTube will be downloaded and used), several other small issues and improvements.

Love Factory 3.1.1 released on February 6, 2012.   

  • Fixed issues regarding search height field (when unit is set to metric), restore backup from older version, Google maps integration on backend (no location defined), membership start and end date calculated with server and user offset, added missing language strings, Google Maps settings on backend (integration map initialization when selected tab is Integrations). 

Love Factory 3.1.0 released on January 31, 2012.  

  • Support for Joomla 2.5.x.

Love Factory 3.0.1 released on January 9, 2012. 

  • Fixed issues regarding changing membership (unlimited time, old one was not marked as expired properly), offline payment (added default notification).

Love Factory 3.0.0 released on November 30, 2011.

  • New Product Concept.
  • New feature: Invoices.
  • New payment plugins: offline payment, Google Checkout, iDeal (targetpay). Attention! Payment plugins were redesigned for an easier implementation and maintenance. Warning! Old plugins will not work on this version!
  • New feature: classic photo uploader (for non-flash devices).
  • Fixed several issues regarding select gateway page, saving settings (when updating the pricing settings), backend messages, unlimited membership, dashboard, profile editing on same gender interaction, Google Checkout IPN, added info tips for settings in Google's Checkout settings page, etc.

Love Factory 2.4.2 released on October 25, 2011.

  • Updated Paypal's IPN validation process (to upgrade, overwrite [Joomla dir]/administrator/components/com_lovefactory/plugins/payment/paypal.php with: [archive]/packages/com_lovefactory.zip/backend/plugins/payment/paypal.php). 
  • Fixed issue regarding banned words not being filtered.

Love Factory 2.4.1 released on October 10, 2011.    

  • Fixed issues regarding use location fields to determine user location, Payments (view full log), view video when smarty templating on, birthday reminder module (include buttons.css file), info bar showing in modal iframe.

Love Factory 2.4.0 released on August 18, 2011.   

  • Support for Joomla 1.7.x.
  • New feature: number of group's posts shown per page (admin settings).
  • Fixed issues regarding radius search page (members grouping), search condition on checkboxes custom field type, display of backend user, memberships and pricing options, shoutbox when SEF enabled.

Love Factory 2.3.7 released on August 1, 2011.  

  • Fixed issues regarding Google map location on user profile view in backend, tags on notifications emails, deleting videos, display banned users on dashboard, dashboard payments, gallery, text field on advanced search page using slider, search condition on text field, random members module (members displayed on rows), create new group link shown when users were not allowed to create new groups, admin creating group from backend with no Love Factory profile (photo, link), backend dashboard latest reports (report type not defined).

Love Factory 2.3.6 released on June 23, 2011.      

  • New feature: Love Factory Latest Viewed: visits are no longer stored in session, but in the database; added date display mode option; added show unique/all option.
  • New feature: possibility to select where to redirect the user after logging in using the Login Form (not the module); requires the Love Factory System plugin to be enabled.
  • Fixed issues regarding display mode in Love Factory Profile Visitors module, My Friends pagination, default language for email notifications, "&" in members map members links.

Love Factory 2.3.5 released on June 9, 2011.       

  • New feature: option to show unique visitors or all visits on the Profile Visitors module.  
  • New feature: Info Bar enabled by default.
  • New feature: added pagination to the Random Members module.
    New feature: email notifications enabled by default for new users.
  • Fixed issues regarding pagination on Latest Members module, permissions when creating the user folder on registration, email notifications field disabled if email notifications are disabled from settings, last seen on field value.

Love Factory 2.3.4 released on April 27, 2011.      

  • New feature: members with same location shown as list (with pagination) in Members' Map and Radius Search page.
  • New feature: member's info shown as tool tip in Members' Map and Radius Search page.
  • New feature: display x number of groups per page.
  • Fixed issues regarding using location fields to determine user position and user location is empty (remove old location), sending multiple notification mails to admins when user changes membership, payment when gender pricing is enabled, swf-upload when system language plugin is enabled, empty option line for fields, template, photo comment add when system language plugin enabled, registration mail as html format, height field when set to metric, spacer field on edit and search page, users not active for "Session Lifetime" minutes (from Global Configuration) will be shown as offline, spacer field update, users online search condition, main photo upload field on the registration page (when not required and user doesn't upload a photo), profile status update with UTF-8 characters, Latest Members module display under IE 7, etc.

Love Factory 2.3.3 released on April 8, 2011.     

  • New feature: option to show/hide members with default membership from searches: quick and advanced (enable/disable option in back-end settings). 
  • Fixed issues regarding user profile page link, membership plans page (no. of months, smarty display), payment gateway confirmation (dispaly no. of months), swfuploader debug mode, main photo upload on fill-in page IE 7, missing language strings.

Love Factory 2.3.2 released on April 6, 2011.    

  • New feature: Location Fields are now set in the Integration zone for Google Maps: city, state, country.

Love Factory 2.3.1 released on April 4, 2011.   

  • Fixed issues regarding added blank option to date of birth, in case date of birth is not required, users are not assigned a default birth date, AJAX search for friends on Top Friends page.

Love Factory 2.3.0 released on March 17, 2011.  

  • New feature: free members on radius search/members map (enable/disable).
  • New feature: define username maximum field length (characters).
  • New feature: terms and condition link to article.
  • New feature: send change membership email notifications to users that are not Love members.
  • New feature: banned words list filtering in profile fields.
  • New feature: range searchable fields (only fields of type input).
  • New feature: added height field (imperial or metric unit type with slider for search).
  • New feature: disable same gender interactions per membership (message, profile comment, interactions, chatfactory, photo comment, video comment, ask for friendship, ask for relationship, add to ignore list.
  • New feature: filter module results based on gender: user setting (cookie), per module.
  • New feature: default Google Maps position for Members map.
  • New feature: multilanguage notification emails.
  • New feature: manage the registration confirmation email (multilanguage).
  • New feature: add debug mode for swfupload (enable/disable).
  • Improved search page pagination.
  • Improved search and filtering queries.
  • Alert on settings page -> user plugin must be enabled!
  • Added extra checks when deleting files from the frontend.
  • Fixed issues regarding last date seen, document including jquery javascript files, backup/restore.

Love Factory 2.1.0 released on January 28, 2011. 

  • New feature: select available genders for modules: latest, etc.
  • Improved multilanguage support (all fields are now translatable, including the default ones).
  • Fixed issues regarding error when gender changing is set to No and gender field is available on the edit profile page, when registration was set to override and Joomla profile already existed, etc.

Love Factory 2.0.0 released on January 18, 2011.

  • Redeveloped for Joomla 1.6.x.

Love Factory 1.7.9 released on October 25, 2011.       

  • Updated Paypal's IPN validation process (to upgrade, overwrite [Joomla dir]/administrator/components/com_lovefactory/plugins/payment/paypal.php with: [archive]/admin/plugins/payment/paypal.php).

Love Factory 1.7.8 released on June 23, 2011.      

  • New feature: Love Factory Latest Viewed: visits are no longer stored in session, but in the database; added date display mode option; added show unique/all option.
  • Fixed issues regarding display mode in Love Factory Profile Visitors module, display issue for Latest Members module in IE7, file permissions on backup and restore, Chat Factory integration (show in memberships page if Chat Factory is available for each membership), gallery, search form maximum distance field (when using the search mode faster), Chat Factory jQuery integration.

Love Factory 1.7.7 released on June 9, 2011.  

  • New feature: option to show unique visitors or all visits on the Profile Visitors module.
  • New feature: Target Pay Ideal as payment plugin. 
  • Fixed issues regarding permissions when creating the user folder on registration, ReCaptcha and Google Maps fields location on fillin and signup page.

Love Factory 1.7.6 released on April 6, 2011. 

  • New feature: Location Fields are now set in the Integration zone for Google Maps: city, state, country. 
  • Fixed issues regarding default Google Maps starting position on Members Map, user plugin issue (when deleting from Joomla User Manager a user that does not have a Love Factory profile), manual payment validation, pending friendship request link, banned logged-in user redirect, photo comment wallpage entry link, Internet Explorer specific stylesheet is included only for version 8 or lower.

Love Factory 1.7.5 released on April 4, 2011.

  • Fixed issue regarding added blank option to date of birth, in case date of birth is not required, users are not assigned a default birth date.

Love Factory 1.7.4 released on February 1, 2011.

  • New feature: users are able to delete their own groups. 
  • Fixed issues regarding signup model redirecting (instead of returning boolean result for redirecting from controller), in_array using strict type comparison and JRequest::getInt not returning an integer when get_magic_quotes_gpc is on, installation: rename -> JFolder::move.

Love Factory 1.7.3 released on January 6, 2011.    

  • New feature: added possibility to change date format (xx minutes/days ago OR custom format) for all dates throughout the component.
  • New feature: administrators can delete comments on profile, photos, videos (enable/disable from the backend). 
  • Fixed issues regarding relationship requests seen as friendship requests when members were already friends and when trying to break a relationship and members are also friends, inbox delete message (smarty template), search results (when no results were returned), cron job (send end membership notification), module profile visitors (when not on Love Factory component page).

Love Factory 1.7.2 released on December 6, 2010.   

  • New feature: horizontal layout for latest members module.
  • New feature: added "from" and "subject" to new message notification email.
  • New feature: user plugin to delete Love Factory profiles when deleting users from Joomla.
  • Chat Factory integration: delete Chat Factory profiles when deleting Love Factory users (requires minimum Chat Factory 1.2.3).
  • Renamed TableMessages to no interfere with other components.
  • Fixed issues regarding email validation on registration, IE7 Javascript on online members page, default Google Maps starting position was not used in registration (filling and profile edit), added blank option to info bar status dropdown box on the profile edit page, etc.

Love Factory 1.7.1 released on November 25, 2010.  

  • New feature: added the possibility to have free memberships if using prices per gender (Attention! Please check your prices after update, as value 0 entered in the gender price input now represents a Free Membership).
  • New feature: possibility to remove the close button from the infobar (enable/disable from backend).

Love Factory 1.7.0 released on November 24, 2010. 

  • New feature: Interest Groups.
  • New feature: token authentification links for notification emails (Factory Token Authentification plugin must be enabled).
  • Fixed several issues regarding friends limit, saving Google Maps location when registering, JavaScript on online users page, users cannot send friendship request to themselves anymore, updating default membership's max. interactions per day, applying for a trial membership (updating chatfactory status, top friends, groups create, groups join), missing language strings, template, etc.

Love Factory 1.6.8 released on November 4, 2010.

  • New Feature: added the possibility when deleting a user, to keep the comments (profile/video/photo), ratings, etc. the user already posted (users -> options).
  • New Feature: users can delete entries from their wallpage (option available only on their wall page).
  • New Feature: possibility to set the ItemId for the registration page.
  • Fixed several issues including shoutbox module (when module class suffix was set), see photos link, custom pagination and ajax, delete friendship, Google Ads and search results (AJAX pagination), date of birth when maximum age was set greater than 100, MySQL 4 search query, IE layout fieldsets, several Smarty templates, last members module layout, sets memory_limit and max_execution_time to greater values when performing backup or restore to prevent script timeout, etc.

Love Factory 1.6.7 released on October 28, 2010.

  • New feature: My gallery (photo & video) action links can now be shown: always or on mouse over (admin settings).
  • Fixed several issues including fancybox navigation buttons not displaying in IE8, registration email validation, link creation for gallery view (id -> user_id).

Love Factory 1.6.6 released on October 20, 2010.   

  • New feature: hide ignored profiles from searches (enable/disable for admin).
  • Fixed issues regarding photo gallery link on profile page, backend main photo field saving field specific parameters when get_magic_quotes_gp, using text before %%username%%.

Love Factory 1.6.5 released on October 15, 2010.  

  • New feature: Videos section (support for embedded videos).
  • New feature: Infobar buttons can now be enabled/disabled.
  • New feature: possibility to set for each Infobar button the ItemId it will use.
  • Fixed several small issues.

Love Factory 1.6.0 released on September 27, 2010. 

  • New feature: added new system fields: a. Profile Rating, b. Spacer, c. Captcha field (using ReCaptcha service), d. Terms and conditions (Attention! Old Terms and Conditions will be lost! Save them manually and restore them after upgrade.)
  • New feature: added Top Friends (enable/disable from backend, different values depending on the membership).
  • New feature: added the possibility to differentiate memberships in search results using CSS classes. CSS file responsible is search.css found in [Joomla dir]/components/com_lovefactory/assets/css/views/. To style a membership add a CSS rule: ".lovefactory_membership_X" (replace X with the ID of the membership you want to style). Check CSS file for examples.
  • New feature: added possibility to group members on search radius page.
  • New feature: added possibility to define the default search field and order for search results.
  • New feature: added possibility to define the number of friends shown on the profile page.
  • New feature: added links to: view my profile, edit my profile, my gallery and my friends on the info bar for easier access. 
  • New feature: Last Visited Module (displays a list of last visited members).
  • New feature: Friends Birthday Module (shows who's friend's birthday is coming up: today, tomorrow, this week, this month).
  • New feature: Users Statistics Module (shows the total number of registered members and for each gender).
  • Improved search page adding Ajax pagination.
  • Improved friends page adding Ajax pagination.
  • Rewritten the frontend language file for easier customization and better maintainability. (Attention! The old language file will not work anymore, you will have to translate the new language file.)
  • Several other improvements and fixed issues including ie8 flash upload and transparent flash upload background, Google Maps location on the View Profile page.

Love Factory 1.5.2 released on September 10, 2010.

  • New feature: XHTML valid.
  • New feature: verify users task from Users page will now remove Love Factory profiles (administration area).
  • Optimization: improved search page (much faster searches for large number of members).
  • Fixed several small issues.

Love Factory 1.5.1 released on August 31, 2010.

  • Fixed issues regarding rendering and no ads are set, when using own created menu item to membership buy (error "selected price was not found"), advertising with smarty templates (not showing up), default photo when main photo is set but file does not exist, save settings, smarty template on profile page, no redirection to profile filling page when Registration Mode was set to ".... but require Profile Fillin" and a user with no profile tried to view his own profile, default photo not being displayed in the latest users module, smarty templates (translation of '%s text' strings), backend user profile photo link to gallery.

Love Factory 1.5.0 released on August 27, 2010. 

  • New feature: Advertising; ads can now be placed between the search results at every x rows (Google AdSense).
  • New feature: Chat 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).
  • Optimized backend menu.
  • Fixed several small issues.
Love Factory 1.4.6 released on August 17, 2010.
  • New feature: added Gravatar integration; users are now able to add their Gravatar just as a regular photo.
  • Added notification on settings page if settings file is writable or not.
  • Added check when creating backup file if backup settings file is writable or not.
  • Fixed issues regarding creating member links using JRoute on members map and radius search pages, creating radio fields, removing user's geo location when user was deleted, two columns in advanced search.

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.
  • New feature: added for main photo field link to point to User's photo gallery on Profile Page and User's profile page on rest.
  • 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, update Google Maps location using location fields when registering and filling the profile, blank profile was created on some particular cases.

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).

Love Factory 1.4.3 released on June 28, 2010. 

  • New feature: Google Maps location is automatically updated using the location fields.
  • Updated About component section to work with php 5.3.x.

Love Factory 1.4.2 released on June 4, 2010.

  • New feature: Trial Memberships.
  • New interaction: Hugs.
  • Added "Radius Search" and "Members map" pages to "Restrict default membership access to" list.
  • Fixed issues regarding photo upload (absolute upload path), added icon on upload picture button in My Gallery, My Gallery display issue under IE.

Love Factory 1.4.0 released on June 1, 2010.

  • New feature: Radius search (using Google Maps).
  • New feature: Members map (using Google Maps).
  • Added 2 new system fields: Google Map location and Distance.
  • Redesigned My Gallery page: now supports multiple uploads and real time progress bar.
  • New option to share pictures with: Public, Available only for friends or Private.
  • New administrator option: allow users to change profile status (enable/disable).
  • Fixed some minor issues.

Love Factory 1.3.4 released on March 16, 2010.

  • New Feature: restrict access to different sections of the component, for default memberships (enable/disable from the backend: Advanced search, Ignore list, Comment (add, delete, report), Friendship (request, accept, remove, cancel, reject), Friends list, Pending friendships requests list, Gallery, Inbox, Interaction (send, respond), Interactions list, Mailbox (empty inbox, empty outbox), Message (send, delete, report), Read message, Write message, My friends list, My gallery, Online users list, Outbox, Other profiles, Rating (add), Quick search, Status, Detailed wallpage).
  • Fixed issues rearding online users query taking into account of normal search conditions, plugin redirect on registration, gender price check, latest members module with no members, restrict guests to view profiles, when users are not validated -> show "Never" on last seen field instead of xxx days.

Love Factory 1.3.3 unreleased.

  • New feature: photo comments.
  • New feature: notification when photo comment received.
  • New feature: send notification to admins when user changes membership.
  • New feature: enable/disable each notification from backend.
  • New feature: enable/disable each action recorded for the wallpage from backend.
  • Fixed several issues including friends photo in profile page, added warning if trying to upload a photo too large in the gallery.

Love Factory 1.3.2 unreleased.

  • New feature: separate subscription payments for genders (enable/disable from backend).
  • New feature: allow users to change gender (enable/disable from backend).
  • New feature: display fields status for fields that are not visible (hidden or only for friends) (enable/disable from backend).
  • Fixed several issues including latest module, action table, etc.

Love Factory 1.3.1 released on February 24, 2010.

  • New feature: added possibility to show search results on 1 or 2 columns (configurable in backend).
  • Added some more validations after creating the backup file and sending it to the user for download.
  • Fixed several issues regarding: plugin import model, set smarty debug to off, restoring from old version of Love Factory: looking for field, changing "Looking for" field from multiple choice to single choice, translation of multiple choices fields (from entire string -> every option), translation of Looking for field when is set as multiple choice (from entire string -> every option), restoring from old version of Love Factory: main_photo field, campatibility to older MySql versions, latest users module photo (big photo instead of thumbnail when ajax loaded), info bar javascript (removed debug stuff), backend users list (when selecting filters on banned or membership), MySQL install table missing field, performing javascript validation on required (but unpublished fields).

Love Factory 1.3.0 released on February 18, 2010.

  • Re-factored most of the code, for better maintainability and easier extensibility.
  • Improved some SQL queries for better performance.
  • Improved router for better SEF URLs.
  • Implemented three registration modes:
  • 1. Overriding the Joomla's registration system (users only have to register once, a Joomla profile and a Love Factory profile are created at the same time) (uses the Love Factory plugin).
  • 2. Using the Joomla registration system, but require users to fill in their Love Factorry profile before they can use any of the component's functions.
  • 3. Using the Joomla registration system and do not require users to fillin their Love Factory profile (an empty profile will be created the first time they use the component's functions).
  • Implemented a plugin system for Payment Gateways.
  • Added option in the backend (enable/disable) to first sort the results of the search by the membership order and then by the user's selected criteria.
  • Implemented an Infobar (uses the Love Factory plugin) to show information about new messages, interactions or pending friendship requests. This can be enabled/disabled from the backend and on a user level. From the backend the interval at which it refreshes can be set to reduce server load.
  • Implemented Status box (enable/disable from backend): user can set their status about what are they doing right now. Maximum number of characters can be set from the backend.
  • Implemented Wallpage (enable/disable from backend): shows recent activity from the user (status change, photo added, new comments or new ratings).
  • New Module: Last visitors; users can see who who last visited their profile.
  • Added several custom system fields:
  • A. Online status: shows the online status of the user; labels for the online and offline are editable.
  • B. Email: field used only when the registration mode is set to override; can be set to check for availability using ajax.
  • C. Password: field used only when the registration mode is set to override.
  • D. Password repeat: field used only when the registration mode is set to override.
  • E. Main photo upload: field used only when registering or when filling in the profile (users can be forced to upload a photo in order to use the site/component).
  • F. No. of friends: shows the number of friends of the user.
  • The Title of custom fields (user or system fields) can be hidden (enable/disable) from the backend.
  • The Labels of custom fields (user or system fields) can be set depending on the type of page being shown: view, edit or search. (For example: the field Date of birth on the edit page should be labeld as "Date of birth", but on the view page it should be labeld as "Age" and on the search page as "Age between").
  • Custom fields of type Text area can be set to allow HTML tags.
  • Custom fields of types Drop down (multiple select) and Checkboxes can be set their SQL query operand (OR/AND).
  • Last seen custom field can be set to show the date in regular mode or in "x days ago" mode.
  • Main photo custom field can be set to link to user's profile page, user's gallery page or no link at all.
  • Sex custom field can be set to show in 2 modes: Drop down (single select) or Radio buttons.
  • Looking for field can be set to show in 4 modes: Drop down (single select), Radio buttons, Drop down (multiple select) or Checkboxes; using the last 2 options, users can have a multiple selection choice.
  • Username field on the registration page can be set to check the availability using ajax.
  • Improved the pages creation page: zones can be moved around using drag and drop functionality.
  • Added 2 more customizable pages using custom fields: profile fill in page and friends list view page.
  • Users can hide/show the search form.
  • Search results can now be ordered by Number of photos or friends.
  • Redesigned the profile view page, added more ajax functionalities for a better user experience.
  • Added a quick reply mode to received messages.
  • Changed the memberships implementation: all the memberships sold, are now being saved. For example: user A buys membership B for 1 year which allowes him to have a maximum of 10 friends. Six months later the administrator decides that 10 maximum friends are to much for membership B and reduces the number to 5. User A won't be affected by the change, as the membership was saved and it will be applied for the remaining six months. Also, if a user buys a membership for unlimited time, then this membership will be used if no other membership is active.

Love Factory 1.2.1 released on December 10, 2009.  

  • Fixed issues regarding membership for which the payment was made (wasn't being registered in some cases), the search results weren't taking into account radio buttons, PHP4 compatibility, gallery shows only thumbnails, users where allowed to change system fields (sex and looking for) to regular fields issue, backend user photo gallery view, etc.

Love Factory 1.2.0 released on November 23, 2009.  

  • New feature: Dynamic Memberships.
  • New feature: Backup & Restore (database information and settings).
  • Ability to delete profiles in backend.
  • Added titles to page zones.
  • Added username to searchable fields.
  • Added more specific error messages.
  • Several improvements.
  • Fixed several issues including profile field escaping, profile save, user maximum photo upload, end membership adjustments, membership upgrade after successful payment issue, etc.

Love Factory 1.1.7 released on November 5, 2009. 

  • Implemented SagePay payment gateway, form method (http://www.sagepay.com/).
  • Users IP's are recorded and displayed on user edit page (backend).
  • Option to include / exclude banned profiles into searches (backend).
  • Default member photo customizable depending on user's sex.
  • New membership feature: Interactions can be limited on a per day basis.
  • Some improvements to the Settings page (backend).
  • Fixed several minor issues.

Love Factory 1.1.6 released on Octobre 22, 2009. 

  • Latest member modules shows the latest x members (including pagination).
  • Added enable/disable interactions (global and per interaction, new tab in settings page).
  • Added return link on gallery page.
  • Added hidden menu for Itemids.
  • Added currency info tip.
  • Fixed issues regarding Latest Members module, backend user edit issue.

Love Factory 1.1.5 released on September 17, 2009. 

  • Photos save date is stored now for HotorNot Factory integration.
  • Fixed issues regarding viewing full friends list, sign up (accepting terms and conditions), pricing with decimals.

Love Factory 1.1.4 released on September 14, 2009. 

  • Fixed issues regarding all user friends view and smarty show user photo.

Love Factory 1.1.3 released on September 9, 2009.

  • Optimized MySql queries (faster search members times).
  • Main photo is set automatically, no need to click the "Save Order" button.

Love Factory 1.1.2 released on September 8, 2009. 

  • Fixed several issues including joomfish and payment gateway.

Love Factory 1.1.1 released on July 28, 2009.

  • Fixed several issues regarding unlimited messages, limit reach template, menu module, admin reports, set the memberships settings to 0 (max friends, photos, messages) set negative number: -1, if the messages limit has been reached (on replay) detailed error message shown, sending messages, translation issues in admin buttons.

Love Factory 1.1.0 released on July 16, 2009.

  • New feature: added Wink as new interaction.
  • New feature: users can hide specific fields (hide to all users, disable or show only to friends).
  • New feature: edit profiles in backend (see details, edit text, actions on pictures).
  • New feature: restrictions on messages for membership plan (limit nr. messages per day).
  • New feature: custom fields validation (numeric or regex).
  • New feature: emails configuration in backend.
  • New module: "Best Rated Members" (set to view x members).

Love Factory 1.0.0 released on June 17, 2009.

Love Factory is dating and matching Joomla Extension, with fully editable member pages and configurable fields which can be setted by the administrator.

Native Joomla 1.5.x MVC code; no legacy plugin needed.

The main features of the component are:

  • Member Pages with fully configurable fields!
  • Photo Gallery (users can specify the images order)
  • Comment System (page owner can delete any comment on his page or report them to the admin)
  • Messaging System (users can create, send and receive personal messages)
  • Interaction System (sending kisses between user)
  • Rating System
  • Friends List (including pending requests; user can set the page status visible only for friends)
  • Ignore List (to avoid spamming or any unwanted contact)
  • Advanced Search (to find friends or matches after certain criterias like gender, age, etc., criterias which are fully configurable by the administrator from the existing page fields.
  • Membership Plans with integrated Payment Gateways: Paypal and Moneybookers (support for one till four membership-level, so that users can upgrade their account in order to recieve a higher number of allowed photo and friends. For each level, differentiated prices can be set, depending on the time period. The membership plans feature can be enable or disabled by the administrator.)
  • Smarty-based Templating System (can be enabled or disabled by the administrator.)

The Administrator of the system has the following features enabled:

  • Dashboard. The dashboard displays different statistics, user count and levels, latest users, latest payments, latest reports.
  • User List. Configurable member level, ban option and user details including Reports & Payments.
  • Reports List. Administrator can see reports, act (ban, send warning, delete) and set their status.
  • Payments. List of existing payments where the administrator can edit the status in case they require manual approval (for payments with IPN, but as pending, processing, etc.)
  • Page Fields. The administrator can create custom fields, define there type (text area, dropdown, checkbox, radiobox, etc.), set them as required and specify the parameters. Another very important feature is that the administrator can set what custom fileds are visible on certain pages. Also to easy the work, a drag&drop method is avaialble here.
  • Pricing. Membership levels (up to four) can be created, where different prices on each level can be set, for certain time periods.

Various settings for the Love Factory extension are also avaialable on the component backend under the Settings Page.

  • General settings (enable/disable user comments, user messages, user rating, user email notifies, number of search results shown per page, allow guests to view user pages, send membership notification, terms and conditions acceptance and Smarty templates usage)
  • Photo settings (set images size for photo maximum width and height, thumbnail maximum width and height)
  • Membership settings (enable each level, set title, set maximum allowed number of photos and friends)
  • Payment Gateways (set current currency, enable/disable each existing payment gateway, Paypal and Moneybookers e-mail address configuration)
  • Notifications (edit email content of warning messages and notifications)
  • Terms&Conditions (edit)

The component comes also with the followings Modules:

  • Latest Member
  • Random Member 

Multilanguage support is also offered for the Love Factory Joomla Extension through the language files and Joomfish Integration.

Requirements:

  • Joomla 1.5.x
  • CRON (needed for email notifications; a general CRON Tutorial is available in our documentation section).

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

Love Factory is dating and matching Joomla Extension, with fully editable member pages and configurable fields which can be setted by the administrator.

Native Joomla 1.5.x MVC code; no legacy plugin needed.

100% open source allowing you to perform special tweaks for a better site integrations and according to personalized needs.

Multilanguage support is also offered for the Love Factory Joomla Extension through the language files and Joomfish Integration.

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The Main Features of the component are:

  • Member Pages with fully configurable fields!
  • Photo Gallery (users can specify the images order)
  • Comment System (page owner can delete any comment on his page or report them to the admin)
  • Messaging System (users can create, send and receive personal messages)
  • Interaction System (sending kisses between user)
  • Rating System
  • Friends List (including pending requests; user can set the page status visible only for friends)
  • Ignore List (to avoid spamming or any unwanted contact)
  • Advanced Search (to find friends or matches after certain criteria like gender, age, etc., criteria which are fully configurable by the administrator from the existing page fields.
  • Membership Plans with integrated Payment Gateways: Paypal and Moneybookers (support for one till four membership-level, so that users can upgrade their account in order to receive a higher number of allowed photo and friends. For each level, differentiated prices can be set, depending on the time period. The membership plans feature can be enable or disabled by the administrator.)
  • Smarty-based Templating System (can be enabled or disabled by the administrator.)

The Administrator of the system has the following features enabled:

  • Dashboard. The dashboard displays different statistics, user count and levels, latest users, latest payments, latest reports.
  • User List. Configurable member level, ban option and user details including Reports & Payments.
  • Reports List. Administrator can see reports, act (ban, send warning, delete) and set their status.
  • Payments. List of existing payments where the administrator can edit the status in case they require manual approval (for payments with IPN, but as pending, processing, etc.)
  • Page Fields. The administrator can create custom fields, define there type (text area, dropdown, checkbox, radiobox, etc.), set them as required and specify the parameters. Another very important feature is that the administrator can set what custom fields are visible on certain pages. Also to easy the work, a drag&drop method is available here.
  • Pricing. Membership levels (up to four) can be created, where different prices on each level can be set, for certain time periods.

Various settings for the Love Factory extension are also available on the component backend under the Settings Page.

  • General settings (enable/disable user comments, user messages, user rating, user email notifies, number of search results shown per page, allow guests to view user pages, send membership notification, terms and conditions acceptance and Smarty templates usage)
  • Photo settings (set images size for photo maximum width and height, thumbnail maximum width and height)
  • Membership settings (enable each level, set title, set maximum allowed number of photos and friends)
  • Payment Gateways (set current currency, enable/disable each existing payment gateway, Paypal and Moneybookers e-mail address configuration)
  • Notifications (edit email content of warning messages and notifications)
  • Terms&Conditions (edit)

The component comes also with the followings Modules:

  • Latest Member
  • Random Member

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

Comparison chart for
features and administrator Settings

HOT.or.NOT
Factory 

HOT.or.NOT
Deluxe.Factory

Enable/disable voting for guests (unloged users)  Blocked
 Blocked
Enable/disable upload images for guests (unlogged users)  Blocked
 Blocked
Set 1-10 or 1-5 voting scale  Blocked
 Blocked
Categories for images  
 Blocked
Watermark for images (enable/disable; admin configurable)    Blocked
Set upload folder, Resize height and width, Thumbnail size, Nr. of uploaded images at once  Blocked
 Blocked
Enable/disable image description, Description length, Enable/disable require description on upload  Blocked
 Blocked
Enable/disable tags, Maximum allowed nr. of tags, Enable/disable require tags on upload  Blocked
 Blocked
Allow comments from: visitors/registred/disabled  Blocked
 Blocked
Approval system for Images in backend (enable/disable), with filter option and email notification to admin when new image was posted and to user after approval    Blocked
Approval system for Comments (enable/disable) and email user notification. (user menu/manage comments)    Blocked
Display nr. of images per page, Display last x comments per page (0 for all)  Blocked
 Blocked
Users have the ability to delete their own photos (enable/disable)  
 Blocked
Minimum nr. of votes for an image to appear in TOP (settings/global)    Blocked
Email reporting (enable/disable)  Blocked
 Blocked
Reset votes (settings/maintenance)    Blocked
Latest added view    Blocked
"Upload your photo" user editable info text (new tab in admin backend: Info Boxes)    Blocked
Extension Modules    
Menu Module including Top Rated, My Pictures, Upload and advanced Search option.   Blocked  Blocked
Newest Picture module  Blocked  Blocked
"Categories to thumbnails" module leading to image thumbnails view from each category    Blocked
"Categories to vote" module leading to direct image voting    Blocked
Last voted module  Blocked  Blocked
Random Picture module  Blocked  Blocked
TAG Cloud module  Blocked  Blocked
Integrations    
Integration with the Love Factory Joomla Extension. By enabling this feature, profile pictures from the "Love Factory" Extension, can then be voted through the "Hot or Not Factory" Extension.  Blocked  Blocked

HOT or NOT Deluxe Factory 3.1.0 released on January 31, 2012. 

  • Support for Joomla 2.5.x.

HOT or NOT Deluxe Factory 3.0.1 released on January 19, 2012.     

  • New feature: module option for "Categories" and "Categories to Vote" modules to show/hide the uncategorized link.
  • Fixed issues regarding pagination, show photo link not working properly when SEF activated.

HOT or NOT Deluxe Factory 3.0.0 released on November 28, 2011.    

  • New Product Concept.  
  • Fixed issues regarding pagination on backend images, sfxclass missing on frontend module.

HOT or NOT Deluxe Factory 2.1.0 released on August 19, 2011.   

  • Support for Joomla 1.7.x.

HOT or NOT Deluxe Factory 2.0.1 released on April 20, 2011.  

  • Improvement: redirect to Top Rated (when no more images to vote)
  • Fixed issues regarding category setcookie for task category, show random image as menu item, etc.

HOT or NOT Deluxe Factory 2.0.0 released on January 11, 2011. 

  • Redeveloped for Joomla 1.6.x. 

HOT or NOT Deluxe Factory 1.0.8 released on August 29, 2011.  

  • Fixed issues regarding image approval system, Love Factory integration, image not showing with SEF enabled and menu item created (not menu module).

HOT or NOT Deluxe Factory 1.0.7 released on April 20, 2011. 

  • Improvement: redirect to Top Rated (when no more images to vote)
  • Fixed issues regarding category setcookie for task category, etc.

HOT or NOT Deluxe Factory 1.0.6 released on January 10, 2011.

  • New feature: added the category name to the page title when viewing the category pictures.
  • Fixed issues regarding guests comments not being deleted or approved in the backend area, setcookie on category.

HOT or NOT Deluxe Factory 1.0.5 released on May 18, 2010.

  • New feature: added possibility for administrators to change the image category.
  • New feature: added module class suffix for all the modules.
  • Fixed issues regarding Love Factory integration to hide private photos or only for friends photos, comments for guests photos will appear in administrators manage comments section.

HOT or NOT Deluxe Factory 1.0.4 released on April 20, 2010.

  • New feature: added the possibility to select the Itemid used for the modules links.
  • Fixed issue reagrding upload page when using own menu, new paragraph in comments show as "n"; some links that redirected to homepage instead to a new image.

HOT or NOT Deluxe Factory 1.0.3 released on March 3, 2010.

  • Fixed issue regarding display category icon, ajax comments, missing language strings to the language file, users being able to vote a higher rating than the maximum scale top.

HOT or NOT Deluxe Factory 1.0.2 released on February 10, 2010.

  • New feature: added Top Rated in the Categories module.
  • Fixed issues regarding Love Factory integration, BMP files, redirect not logged in users to login page when trying to upload and only logged in users are allowed to upload, notification when trying to upload a file too large, use full path for urls.

HOT or NOT Deluxe Factory 1.0.1 released on December 9, 2009.

  • New feature: possibility to edit the image description from the backend.
  • New feature: added confirmation and error messages after voting.
  • Fixed issues regarding saving image details from the backend (and no tags were entered), php and mysql different timezones issue.

HOT or NOT Deluxe Factory 1.0.0 released on October 15, 2009.