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The help page has been updated to include guides on creating categories and reviews. More help is always needed so if you feel you can contribute please contact me via the forum.

Some users may get an error when adding a category due to their database user having insufficient privileges to lock tables.

If you can’t add a category turn on your site’s debug mode (under Joomla’s global configuration). Try adding a category again, if you get an error similar to this:
Access denied for user 'myuser'@'localhost' to database 'joomla' in /home/www/joomla/html/DOM2/includes/database.php on line 307
then your database user doesn’t have permission to lock tables. Simple Review needs to lock the Category table to keep the data structure consistent. If possible you should grant lock permissions to your database user via phpMyAdmin. If you are unable to do so then you can install this patch. As long as you don’t have multiple people adding categories at the same time you will be fine.

You can download the patch from here, unzip it and follow the instructions in README.txt.

After a very, very long wait version 2.0 of Simple Review has been released!
You can download it here.

This is NOT an upgrade release. You cannot install it over an earlier version of Simple Review (this includes 2.0 betas).

The Top and Latest modules have also been made available for download, unfortunately at the moment there is currently no search bot for 2.0.

As I mentioned in the previous post user reviews are still not implemented.

I am in need of a new logo, see this post.

If you have any problems/comments please post them in the forum.

Whats next?

1. An upgrade release for previous versions.
2. Updated Search bot.
3. User reviews add-on.
4. Joomla 1.5 compatibility.

I have decided to bite the bullet and just release version 2.0 as is. This means that it will be stable but wont have promised features such as user reviews. I believe that all the major bugs are gone and I will spend the next couple of weeks creating a database upgrade script for 1.3.5 users.

It has been a long time since the last update, but rest assured it is still being worked on. I have been working on the bugs listed in the forum.

I have sent out beta 5 to those who requested it.
I know of a few small issues but of nothing major.
I have only tested it on Joomla 1.0.13 php and mysql 4.
To sign up click see this thread

The final release will depend on:

• How many bugs are found.
• How long it takes me to finish removing old redundant code.
• How long it takes to get a database update script complete.
• How busy I am.

I would estimate it being about 90% complete.

Please see this for info on beta 5 see this thread

Update:
The sign-up link is see this thread.

I am currently on holiday and will not be able to respond to emails or forum posts until after I get back.
thanks

The new project site for downloads is http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/simplereview/.

I have only put up 1.3.5 and not 2.0 beta 4. There will be a new beta release in a months time, in the meantime the old beta releases are not available for download so please don’t ask.

Mamboxchange is down so I am moving the project to http://joomlacode.org/.
Once the project is approved I will post the download links here.