Feature Requests

Filed under: Uncategorized — Eike @ August 18, 2008 11:43 pm

I try to piece together a list of feature requests for mod_placehere from the comments. Feel free to add some in the comments.

  • Button in article manager to add article to module
  • Make frontend edit button indepentend from other settings (title/mail/pdf-Buttons)
  • Fix css classnames to be compliant with Joomla templates
  • Edit Button in Frontend (v1.2.1)
  • Trim function to respect word boundarys
  • leading articles not to be trimmed
  • Display images from the content in module positions (v1.2.1)
  • User guide
  • Pagination
  • Zebra Striping for module content (v1.2.1)
  • Add option to show only frontpage articles
  • Offset articles (start with article 3,4,n in a category) (v1.2.1)
  • rotate articles depending on time (e.g. hourly)
  • Show article using the articles own attribs instead of module parameters (choose template “beez with article parameters)
  • Generate an RSS Feed for module content (don’t know how feasible this is)
  • Language File for module settings
  • ‘More Article’ links (like, 3 full articles and then a list of links)

    98 Comments »

    1. No standard Joomla SEF (eg. for readmore link) support.
      Now URL looks like: /component/content/article/12-articles/4-title.html instead of /articles/4-title.html

      Comment by Marcin — June 2, 2010 @ June 2, 2010 5:36 pm

    2. Yes, it’s still on the todo-list (the link was supposed to go to the original feature request). I tried to find an elegant solution, but now I guess I’ll simply whip together something that works.

      Comment by Eike — May 25, 2010 @ May 25, 2010 9:15 pm

    3. Hi Eike. Thanks for the instructions on updating the module without uninstalling it. Worked like a charm.

      Am I correct that the feature request for Pagination is still on your to-do-list? As it was displayed as a link, I thought it might be included in the latest version, but that seems not to be the case. Or am I blind?

      Thanks again and keep up the good work.

      Comment by Eelco — May 24, 2010 @ May 24, 2010 8:00 pm

    4. Hi,

      great module … just a request : possibility to hide the module title when there is no article.

      Thx

      Comment by New request ... if it's possible — May 14, 2010 @ May 14, 2010 5:38 pm

    5. Hi Peter, if I understand correctly what I need then you should be fine if you choose both the “beez” template and “raw” (or “div”) “output mode” in the module settings, that should rid you from all tables.

      Comment by Eike — May 10, 2010 @ May 10, 2010 9:16 am

    6. Hi, thank you for this excellent module. Just one thing… is there a way I can get rid of the multiple tables that get wrapped around the content with the class of “contentpaneopen” and also spans with class of “article_separator”? It would be much cleaner if divs could be used instead. Thanks in advance for any advice on this.

      Comment by Peter — May 8, 2010 @ May 8, 2010 1:12 am

    7. Hi there,

      Is there a possibility that you might be able to adjust this stunning tool to accommodate Virtue mart Fly pages?

      Phillip

      Comment by Phillip — May 2, 2010 @ May 2, 2010 9:32 pm

    8. Bei der Anzeige von zwei (oder auch mehr) Spalten sollte anhand der CSS-Klassen eines Items erkennbar sein, in welcher Spalte es steht. Ich habe das für mich in der “helperhtml.php” (Zeilen 121, 123) angepasst, indem ich noch eine weitere Klasse “col”.$z hinzugefügt habe. Ist vielleicht auch für andere hilfreich.

      Ansonsten: äußerst hilfreiches Modul. Danke!

      Comment by Thomas — April 28, 2010 @ April 28, 2010 5:31 pm

    9. making thumonail of pictur beside contenet is needed

      Comment by prolight — April 5, 2010 @ April 5, 2010 6:58 am

    10. Thanks – this is a must have component on my list!

      Comment by Srini — March 15, 2010 @ March 15, 2010 8:03 am

    11. Hallo Leon,

      das Modul weiss in einer Artikel-Ansicht schon auf welcher Seite es sich befindet. Ich verstehe wohl immer noch nicht recht was es dann anzeigen soll. Um tatsächlich nur die numerische ID auf dem Bildschirm auszugebe wäre das Modul totaler Overkill, das geht kürzer ( echo JRequest::getVar(’id’, 0, ”, ‘int’); ) .

      Grüße,

      Eike

      Comment by Eike — March 13, 2010 @ March 13, 2010 7:04 pm

    12. Danke sehr, Eike, für die schnelle Antwort.

      Was du vorschlägst, passt uns leider nicht genau. Es ging eigentlich nur darum, dass DEIN modul irgendwie ID von dem aufgerufenen Artikel abfängt (von URL oder so) und ausgibt.
      Also, wir müssen uns das Problem nochmal überlegen.

      Thanks once more,

      regards,

      Leo

      Comment by Leon — March 12, 2010 @ March 12, 2010 6:22 pm

    13. Hi Leon,

      es gibt ein recht basales “related article” feature dass man evt. für diesen Zweck benutzen könnte (das sucht nach verwandten Begriffen in den Meta-Schlüsselworten).

      Der in Joomla vorgesehene Weg den Modulinhalt abhängig vom Artikel zu ändern ist natürlich mehrere Instanzen des Moduls anzulegen. Wenn man das nicht will…. mit vertretbarem Aufwand liesse sich ein Weg entwickeln die Zuordnung als eine Art Array zu übergeben, mit der ID als Schlüssel und den Ids der anzuzeigenden Seiten als Werten. Also in der Art array( “1″=>”4,8,9″, “45″=>”2,3″) womit der Artikel mit der ID 1 die Artikel 4, acht und neun zeigen würde etc.. ist es das was duSie möchtestEn ? Ich verspreche erstmal nix, aber da könnte ich zumindest mal überlegen wieviel Arbeit das wäre und mich dann nochmal dazu äussern.

      Comment by Eike — March 11, 2010 @ March 11, 2010 6:36 pm

    14. Hallo, Eike.
      Thank you for your Module.

      Ich habe so eine Aufgabe.

      Mit einem news-Modul, z.B. BK-News, erstelle ich eine Liste von Artikeltiteln.
      Jetzt nach einem Klick auf einen Titel muss in der danebenstehenen Modulposition den entspechenden Artikel angezeigt werden.

      Deshalb meine Frage: ist es irgendwie möglich, ID-Parameter für den gewählten Artikel an Ihren Modul zu übergeben (also dynamisch).

      Danke.

      Leon

      P.S. Ideal wäre, wenn Ihr Modul mit Ajax ausgegeben würde (also nur der Inhalt der Modulposition geändert würde), aber es ist eine andere Sache :-) ).

      Gruß, Leon

      Comment by Leon — March 11, 2010 @ March 11, 2010 6:16 pm

    15. Hi Eike,

      I really like this module – extremely useful.

      I would like to see a section/category/article pop-up, as used elsewhere in Joomla, so that you don’t have to keep a note of the numbers when filling in the module parameters.

      Comment by Noel — February 26, 2010 @ February 26, 2010 7:09 pm

    16. There is no need for that. Plugins run fine in the module, it’s just that they are disabled in the module settings by default. Go to the settings for the place here modules and set “run plugins” to “yes”.

      Comment by Eike — February 5, 2010 @ February 5, 2010 10:03 am

    17. Hi,

      I think I found out how to get plugins working in your module. If I add the following code to beez.php it seems to be working. Now I’m not a extensions expert, so I might have put it in the wrong place, but maybe its a nice starting point for you to implement it in your module:

      beez.php line 19:
      // DO NOT EDIT BEFORE THIS
      // Dnote begin
      $params =& $mainframe->getParams(’com_content’);
      $aparams =& $article->parameters;
      $params->merge($aparams);
      $limitstart = JRequest::getVar(’limitstart’, 0, ”, ‘int’);
      $dispatcher =& JDispatcher::getInstance();
      $results = $dispatcher->trigger(’onPrepareContent’, array (& $article, & $params, $limitstart));
      // Dnote end

      Comment by Dave — February 4, 2010 @ February 4, 2010 11:31 pm

    18. Thanks for considering adding K2 support. All I’d like to see is the ability to show the contents of an item/article in their original state. Currently K2’s item placement module generates all kinds of list items and CSS styles which alters the output of each item. It’s not very easy to simply put a simple K2 content item in a module position due to this.

      Comment by Lance — February 4, 2010 @ February 4, 2010 4:06 pm

    19. I never tested it so I’d guess you are right. I understand that this is a crucial feature for many so I will try and make it work; however I have a job that will keep me busy to the end of February, so it’ll take a while.

      Comment by Eike — January 25, 2010 @ January 25, 2010 4:05 pm

    20. Your component doesn’t work with joomsfish does it ? I’ve tried on my website but it keeps showing only one language

      Comment by Cirmali — January 25, 2010 @ January 25, 2010 2:40 pm

    21. Hello, it would be necessary the W3C Markup Validation and a way to manage every single article as if it were a module in terms of settings and layout placing as in this website: http://www.kilombo.org; where avery box in a row is an article preview.

      Thank you.

      Cypherinfo.

      Comment by cypherinfo — December 29, 2009 @ December 29, 2009 4:30 pm

    22. Hi Lance, there is a k2 content module that comes with the k2 extension. If I can build something better (suggestions?) I will give it a go, but I don’t think I will replicate functions that are already there.

      Comment by Eike — December 15, 2009 @ December 15, 2009 5:31 pm

    23. Could you add custom Background Image and color options (both) to your module. And a fixed height option as well.

      Comment by Kumar — December 15, 2009 @ December 15, 2009 8:45 am

    24. Here is a request that would combine features from Jeema’s ‘article as a module’ into yours, to make it THE best around…

      include the ability to customise the Header and Artical CSS, ie:
      Header Pre CSS
      Header Post CSS
      Artical Pre CSS
      Artical Post CSS

      to say, change the text size, aligment, style, font….

      Comment by Br Barry Parker — December 13, 2009 @ December 13, 2009 7:34 am

    25. Thank you ! I got your mail and will include this into the next version.

      Comment by Eike — December 9, 2009 @ December 9, 2009 10:13 pm

    26. Hi~

      Decided to add in the ‘order by hits descending’ modification myself. I’ll email you my edits.

      Great coding style; so rare for me to find GPL code that’s clear and documented!

      Cheers~

      Comment by wayneb — December 8, 2009 @ December 8, 2009 12:43 am

    27. First, thank you for an indispensable module! Should have been core functionality in Joomla 1.5 in my opinion.

      Second, a feature request: the ability to do primary ordering by Most Popular (most hits).

      Thanks, and have a terrific holiday season!

      Comment by wayneb — December 7, 2009 @ December 7, 2009 11:26 pm

    28. Hi Eike,

      Could you inform me about the progress including the JoomlaTags into mod-placehere?

      kind regards,
      Hans Kuijpers

      Comment by Hans Kuijpers — December 7, 2009 @ December 7, 2009 10:23 am

    29. Hi,

      PlaceHere is an indispensable tool for Joomla. Thanks for making it!

      I do have a feature request. Would it be possible to make it pull in content items from K2 for http://k2.joomlaworks.gr/?

      Thanks!

      Comment by Lance — December 6, 2009 @ December 6, 2009 9:39 pm

    30. I have to look into this – it surely is possible, but I have to see how much work this takes. Ill get back to you.

      Comment by Eike — November 26, 2009 @ November 26, 2009 4:29 pm

    31. Hi Eiki,

      For the portfolio page of our website I’m going to add tags to the contentitems using JOomlatags from http://www.joomlatags.org/
      In the right column I want to add a module with the following content:
      x amount of introtext from contentitems from a selected category with a given Tag.
      The first part can be done with your module “mod_placehere”. The latter part “with a given Tag” is not included yet in your module. It would be cool if you can include this functionality. It would highly improve our website.

      Is it possible that you add this to the module?

      Comment by Hans Kuijpers — November 25, 2009 @ November 25, 2009 12:47 pm

    32. Hi,

      thanks for creating this very handy module. I am using it to display articles from several categories.

      But currently the ordering by category / section sorts by category ID / section ID. This is not practical because these IDs are automatically created by Joomla. Instead the sorting should depend on the ordering of categories and sections.

      This can be achieved by only small modifications to helper.php:

      1) append to SELECT in the SQL statement:
      ‘, cc.ordering, s.ordering’

      2) modify switch statements for the ordering:
      – replace all ‘a.sectionid’ with ’s.ordering’
      – replace all ‘a.catid’ with ‘cc.ordering’

      Maybe you could include this in the next version. I am sure many other users would appreciate this as well.

      Thank you!

      Comment by Andreas Fritz — October 1, 2009 @ October 1, 2009 3:33 pm

    33. Hello,
      It’s a very nice extension. I’d like to know if there is a way to display, at the bottom of module, a link to “blog_category” core system, with the category id set in the module parameter. So, we can send the visitor to a riepilogue of the entire section/category.

      Anyway, thanks for the hard work!!!

      Comment by Fabio — October 1, 2009 @ October 1, 2009 10:37 am

    34. Excellent module, dude. If I might add one thing is the ability to sort articles by rating. That would be great, there isn’t many modules with that capability.

      Comment by El Astrólogo — September 22, 2009 @ September 22, 2009 9:47 pm

    35. Thank you very much, Eike!

      I’m looking forward to hearing from you soon.

      Regarads,

      Randy.

      Comment by Randy — September 15, 2009 @ September 15, 2009 2:27 am

    36. Hi Randy, I feel this is something I can safely promise to implement during the next weekend, since I have already a bit of code to test that seems to work quite nicely. So you just have to wait a couple of days.

      Comment by Eike — September 14, 2009 @ September 14, 2009 9:32 pm

    37. Hi,

      Thank you for your great module!

      I have a question related to this module and I hope some of you could help me out.

      I want to add nofollow attribute to all article links. For example, I have one full article on content arena and 3 other links which link to 3 other articles. My question is, how could I add nofollow attribute to 3 article links? Where should I modify in the module?

      Thanks,

      Randy.

      Comment by Randy — September 14, 2009 @ September 14, 2009 5:13 pm

    38. Hi Marko,

      I have never tested this with any multilanguage extension (I think you are the first to ask). However I don’t think you’re doing anything wrong. Can you elaborate on what extension you use for internationalization ( I have no idea what or who N17m is), and I will see what I can do.

      Comment by Eike — August 30, 2009 @ August 30, 2009 6:29 pm

    39. Hi Eike,
      great module! Is there any possibility to filter the language of content items. On website language is set up by N17m, but placehere show all contents ignoring language parameter… Maybe I´m doing something wrong….
      Best regards,
      Marko

      Comment by Marko — August 30, 2009 @ August 30, 2009 4:43 pm

    40. Hi Eike,

      I have an additional feature request that I imagine other users would also find useful. Currently if you create a category blog for display in the content area you can select a parameter (’authorized content’) to display the titles, intro text etc. for unpublished articles (viewable if the current user has the correct credentials). It would be great if we could choose to display unpublished articles using your module as well.

      Thanks for considering our requests in your feature list.

      Comment by Mark — July 30, 2009 @ July 30, 2009 8:12 pm

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