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2.1.0 RELEASED

row1 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:08:35 +0000

Version 2.1.0 of the Simple Review component and modules has been released. There have been numerous fixes and small features added (most of which have been covered in beta releases), of course the main point is that it now runs natively on Joomla 1.5. I have included a German translation in the main release (look out for translation instructions soon).
If you find any problems please post them in the forum.
Download here.

An upgrade path for existing users will be made available in the next few days.

Simple Review 2.1 Beta 2 Released

row1 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:42:45 +0000

Beta 2 has quickly released to fix a bug in Beta 1.

Changes:

Fixed configuration layout in Internet Explorer.
Fixed error after saving configuration.
If a review has a type or Link or Rating it will be rendered as a link or star rating (if star ratings are on) when using {sr_title1},..,{sr_titleN}.

Known Issues:

The review titles are not rendered on the category page.
When Single Category Bypass is on ‘Top N’ do not get displayed.

Still Workin’ on it

row1 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:27:10 +0000

Work on 2.1 is going well and hope to have a beta out early September and then a final out October.

I recently added a new tag call Page Name which should be used as the URL to the review (or category) instead of the review titles. I was previously restricting it to numbers, the English alphabet and hyphens, I have removed this limitation and you can now use items from the UTF character set. For example a link to your URL could now look like this:

sardless.com/reviews/18-Characters-From-Your-Language.html (sorry I cannot seem to get foreign e.g. Japanese characters to work in this post so use your imagination)

However the caveat is that since the URL gets encoded Internet Explorer (even version 8.0) will still show the encoded text in the status and URL bar, Firefox and Chrome however will (correctly) decode the URL and display it in its native language. For the previous reason and others such as people who can’t type in your language cannot manually enter the URL I would recommend sticking to the English alphabet.

At the moment I am thinking about dropping support for Joomla 1.0.X and Internet Explorer 6 … we shall see.

Simple Review 2.1 Alpha 2 Released

row1 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:21:52 +0000

Simple Review 2.1 Alpha 2 has been released. You can download it from here, make sure you download com_simple_review_2.1.0_alpha2_joomla1.5.zip.

Changes:

Languages have been cleaned up and moved into:
www\administrator\components\com_simple_review\
addons\modules\Language_Module\languages\
Note that at the moment the language cannot be changed from en-GB, you are free to modify en-GB to test.
The category layout has been moved into a separate file:
www\administrator\components\com_simple_review\
addons\modules\Category_Module\templates\Default
Note that at the moment the template cannot be changed from Default, you are free to modify Default to test.
Works on PHP 4
Created By and Last Modified By are now being saved (broken in Alpha 1)
{sr_categoryID} tag now works
Can now submit a comment with rating 0
Non-ASCII titles in URLs are now handled correctly i.e. non-ASCII character removed, temporary solution a new field will be added for the Url.
The administration review listing now has a category filter.
Provide alternating star image in review listing.

You can see a list of known issues here, please also post any new issues you may find.

Simple Review 2.1 Alpha 2

row1 — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:55:13 +0000

The second alpha for Simple Review 2.1 will be released shortly. The current version does not work on PHP 4 due to get_class() returning a value in lowercase, as opposed to PHP 5 returning the correctly cased value. The category HTML has been completely separated into a separate and simple file (view), so now almost anyone should be able to easily change the layout of the category pages. The languages have also started to be migrated into a new format in a central place. I am not using the Joomla 1.5 ini format as it makes it more difficult to maintain compatibility with Joomla 1.0, however the new format for Simple Review will be just as easy for translators.

Joomla 1.5 Native Component Released

row1 — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:43:03 +0000

Version 2.0.1 of the component has been released. It works natively on Joomla 1.5. It is an alpha release so there will be issues – do not install it on a live site.
Please download it and report any bugs in the specific forum. There are some known issues which I will report in the forum. I have also re-opened registration on the forum.

The license has also changed from the MPL to the GNU GPL.

Existing modules and mambots do not currently work.

Special thanks to the the following sites which made the upgrade possible:
www.kanich.net
theartofjoomla.com

Joomla 1.5 Weekly Update

row1 — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:07:42 +0000

Simple Review now installs and functions on Joomla 1.5! I will be releasing an Alpha version this week for testing purposes.

Joomla 1.5 Weekly Update

row1 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:31:20 +0000

Been a bit busy with my “real” work. All the back end is currently done bar configuration. So things are still getting closer and closer.

Joomla 1.5 Weekly Update

row1 — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:32:42 +0000

Progress is going well. I considered trying to finish a beta version this long Easter weekend. I have gotten close to a releasable version but it was time for me to take a break and have decided to spend the remainder of my holiday doing something more important/fun

I am still working on the administration screens, so far you can create Awards, Categories and Templates. Reviews are also nearing completion, so the end it definitely insight.

Joomla 1.5 Weekly Update

row1 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:52:29 +0000

Currently working on the administration screens. There is a decent about of work removing references to the old Joomla 1.0 HTML helpers, luckily most of this was already wrapper up so it is not as painful as it could of been.