08/03/08 I started a new page to make room for new comments 
I fixed (with help from Maurice in the comments) the SQL for the display of section/category names, this should work now. I added more ordering options, and an option to disable pluging for the module content. Alas it is not possible to disable plugins selectively, it's all or nothing. 09/03/08 Edited to add: Plugins are disabled by default, if you want to run plugins on the module content you have to enable them in the module parameters.
This has been tested on J! 1.5.1 J!1.5.2 running under WAMPP.
20/03/08 Added support for the accessible Beez template. At the moment you need to manually set the template in the module parameters. Edited to add: Adam Wallner found a bug in the modules HTML that has been there for some time, I recommend an upgrade to the fixed version, or simply overwrite helperhtml.php with the fixed file from the archive.
Download link: mod_placehere.zip
04/04/08 Mike Bronner fixed an sql error that prevented the author names from showing, and I took Steves suggestion from comment 27 for the readmore-Link.
Download-Link: mod_placehere
14/04/08 Fixed the problem from comment 39/40 (and possibly with other plugins than avreloaded).
Download-Link: mod_placehere
06/05/08 various bugfixes (date, linked titels, additional templates etc). I'm a bit tired and haven't done't too much testing, so if this doesn't work use the download link above instead and drop me a note. but people have been using this for a couple of weeks and there have been no complaints.
Download-Link: mod_placehere
26/07/08 some new parameters. As usual I leave the link above so you have a fallback if there are bugs, but I encourage you to use this and report any errors. See also this post.
Download-Link: mod_placehere
18/07/08 Bugfix Edition
Download-Link: mod_placehere
18./08/08 Fixed 'Module Class Suffix' parameter and added now ordering parameter, tested with 1.5.6
Download-Link: mod_placehere
10/10/08 New trim function that leaves HTML in trimmed text intact.
Download-Link: mod_placehere (V.1.0.1)
04/02/09 Related Article Feature, Start Display with Offset, Zebra Striping, Edit Button in Frontend.
(Note: One commenter wrote that this version does not work for him. You can still download the previous version above, but if you have problems with the new version please file a big report in the comment section.)
Download Link: mod_placehere_v121
20/02/09 Fixed timezone bug; added new template with support for article parameters (article display uses parameters from the article manager instead the module parameters).
Previous Versions:
Download Link: mod_placehere_v122
12/11/09
Version 1.3.0
+ Renames "default" template to "table based template" (since it's not the default anymore)
+ Added "order by publishing date"
+ Patched in Wayne Brockmans change to sort by hits
+ Added integration for Tags extension by joomlatag.org (module view is filtered by templates)
+ You can now enter a range of ids into the id-field (1-3,6-9 will become 1,2,3,6,7,8,9)
Previous Versions:
Download Link: mod_placehere_v1.2.2
Download-Link mod_placehere_v1.3.0
05/02/10
+ 02/05/10 Bugfix Groups (access) for uncategorized articles, also fixes ’stdClass:$groups:undefined property” error
+ 02/05/10 Added option to disable frontend edit button for logged-in adm
Download Link: mod_placehere_1.3.1
If you have feature requests you might add them here in the comments.
Edit icon not showing up
Thanks for your response Eike. I am using the following:
module version 1.3.1
Joomla 1.5.15
PHP 5.2.9
OS Linux Apache 2.2.14
I am only displaying one article through the module, no sections or categories but I tried switching a category on just to see if it made a difference, it didn’t.
I have also tried using the Beez template to see if it made a difference but it didn’t so it must be something else that it doesn’t agree with.
Oh, and I log in via the front end as super admin but it doesn’t make a difference either.
Is it cold in Europe? We are enjoying 36 + down here…
Comment by Frederikke Jensen — February 7, 2010 @ February 7, 2010 1:30 am
Hi Frederikke, the edit icon should show up (works for me on a Windows/ Apache Server with PHP 5.2), so obviously there is some kind of bug that prevents it from working in certain setups. I assume you use the most recent version (published yesterday) so make sure the new setting “show edit icon” is set to “yes” (if you have updated from a previous version you will need to open the module settings and save again). Next make sure that the users logged in to the frontend actually have permission to edit the article displayed in the module (I think users from some user groups are allowed only to edit articles they have created themselves).
But then I assume you have done this already and it didn’t help, so I need your help to debug this. Can you tell me which PHP version your server is running, if your are displaying sections, categories or uncategorized content in the module and if you have access to the error logs look if there are any errors ?
Comment by Eike — February 6, 2010 @ February 6, 2010 11:55 am
About the edit icon not showing up…
What exactly is it in the Beez template that makes the edit icon show up? How can I add that to my own template so that it shows for front-end users?
Cheers from down under,
Frederikke
Comment by Frederikke Jensen — February 6, 2010 @ February 6, 2010 9:59 am
No edit icon in front-end?
I can see this is a problem for others but it’s hard to find answers on this blog so I will ask again (sorry) I have ticked the edit icon to be on and also show icons but no edit icon appears when logged into front-end…
Please help this is such a great little module and I would love to get it working on this site that I am building right now passionflora.com.au
Comment by Frederikke Jensen — February 6, 2010 @ February 6, 2010 9:54 am
Hi François, make sure that the “run plugins” option is set in the module settings (it’s disabled by default).
Comment by Eike — February 3, 2010 @ February 3, 2010 9:39 am
Hello,
I use {loadposition module} to show a component in an article. When I use place here, the component is not loaded in the article. Could you help me ? TIA Françosi
Comment by François — February 3, 2010 @ February 3, 2010 1:08 am
Hi Simon, looks like I forgot the option to disable the edit button (which apparently doesn’t show up for most people anyway). I’ll fix this later this evening and release a bugfix tomorrow.
Comment by Eike — February 2, 2010 @ February 2, 2010 4:46 pm
Hi Tom, I’m afraid not (except to do it manually).
Comment by Eike — February 2, 2010 @ February 2, 2010 4:43 pm
Hi – is there any way to migrate from Joomla 1.0 to 1.5? I’m in the process of migrating a site, and they have used mod_contentitem on the old site…
Tom
Comment by Tom Harr — February 1, 2010 @ February 1, 2010 8:55 am
Great module. But please could you tell me how to NOT display the edit icon when a user is logged into the front end. Thank you.
Comment by Simon — February 1, 2010 @ February 1, 2010 6:52 am
As feedback, updating broke all pages with PlaceHere modules (displaying a blank page) until I opened and resaved each PlaceHere module. This is not very practical on a large site that uses PlaceHere extensively.
Is the installation process documented anywhere? I looked but could not find it.
Might there be a way to make the installer overwrite the files and refresh the existing PlaceHere modules?
Anyway, it’s a great module. Thank you Eike.
Keith
Comment by Keith — January 22, 2010 @ January 22, 2010 11:21 am
Hi Keith, don’t use the installer but simply unzip the installation files and copy them into the modules/mod_placehere directory (you might want to back up the old files first). If you have used the “default” template in the module settings you need to change this to “table based template” but other than that there should be no problems.
Deleting the old version would indeed lose all your module instances (which is really the reason I try to make new versions backwards compatible).
Comment by Eike — January 22, 2010 @ January 22, 2010 10:30 am
Hi Eike,
I’d like to update from 122 to 1.3.0, but to install, I have to delete the previous version and then install the new one. Will doing that delete all the instances of the module that have already been set up?
Or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks,
Keith
Comment by Keith — January 22, 2010 @ January 22, 2010 10:22 am
I’m looking into it. I’ll send you a mail as soon as I find the problem.
Comment by Eike — January 18, 2010 @ January 18, 2010 10:41 am
Hi Eike, firstable I want to thank you for this great module!
I run into a problem with viewing a JForm in Firefox, in IE it displays well.
Firefox seems to display the inputfields as ‘background’, where you have to put in text.
I hope you can take a look at this, I spend hours and I can’t get it to work.
Many thanks!
Jeroen
Comment by Jeroen — January 18, 2010 @ January 18, 2010 8:32 am
I’ve been using this module for a long time at work. I’ve tried alot of alternative, but this is simply the best of the crop!
Thanks for a fantastic module =)
Comment by Lennard — January 17, 2010 @ January 17, 2010 1:23 pm
it’ be nice to have pagination if more than x artciles.
Comment by jalil — January 15, 2010 @ January 15, 2010 12:01 pm
Hi Eike,
like Rob below, I am just not getting the edit icons in the content items in modules. I am logged into the front end and see them for all the regular articles on the site as normal. The module content article shows up fine, just no edit icon. any thoughts?
Comment by RW — January 13, 2010 @ January 13, 2010 8:27 pm
I am interested to translate some materials for the FREE SOFTWARE COMMUNITY. Texts should be only from English. So I can do translate it into Spanish Language…thnaks for this module…
Comment by Demos Valera — January 8, 2010 @ January 8, 2010 3:15 am
A fantastic little module. Well done!
Comment by Peter — January 6, 2010 @ January 6, 2010 6:19 am
Not yet. I will add this, but it will probably be the first week of 2010 before I upload a new version (of course you could modify the helplerhtml.php file yourself – this is very straightforward, all articles are in the array $rows and since for a list you don’t necessarily need leading/following articles you can just loop through $rows).
Comment by Eike — December 22, 2009 @ December 22, 2009 3:53 pm
> you ever added the simple functionality as you described it in the Forum thread, to arrange stuff in rows instead of columns?
Not in so many words, but you can set the number of items displayed and the number of columns. If you have the same number of items than you have columns they should be displayed horizontally.
> And/or to have the ability to control the Font size etc of the Links being arranged in rows?
So far I have depended on the “Cascading” part of the CSS acronym (that is, if you have a rule in your stylesheet .mod_placehere a {} it will only affect links in the module content), but since a lot of people ask for this I think I will add something to add inline styles or CSS classes (not this year, however – while I can answer comments via my mobile it’s not a good programming platform).
Comment by Eike — December 22, 2009 @ December 22, 2009 3:48 pm
hi
Great module. Will definitely fill up some void from Joomla core.
Can I ask if you ever added the simple functionality as you described it in the Forum thread, to arrange stuff in rows instead of columns?
And/or to have the ability to control the Font size etc of the Links being arranged in rows?
Many thanks for this
Comment by miki — December 21, 2009 @ December 21, 2009 3:20 pm
Hi, awesome module, i’m glad I’ve found it. However i’ve got one small question: is there an easy way to configure/change the module, that it outputs the articles of a category in an unordered list instead of table or divs? I want to create an accordion and have found a jQuery plugin that wants an ul to format
Comment by jarno — December 20, 2009 @ December 20, 2009 9:51 pm
THANK YOU! This is a fantastic module. It is truly appreciated.
Comment by JJart — December 11, 2009 @ December 11, 2009 8:46 pm
yes the review on the extensions page was mine. it’s very easy to try and turn things around, however it doesn’t take to be a genius to understand that “link to category” actually means linking to a category. and that wouldn’t be a bug nor something unexpected. the problem is with plugins running, the titles AREN’T LINKS. they are set to be links in the module, linked titles are a site-wide policy (that shouldn’t even matter since I’m using the regular beez template, not the one with parameters) and regardless of the “link to category” option being on or off, they remain static text. the read more works but links to the home page. how’s that for a bug? I truly mean it, it would be a great extension if it delivered what it promises. but there are important functional glitches that should be addressed but are pending while cosmetic wording changes and new options are added in the meantime
I really am not a kind of person who runs to blame the developer before thoroughly checking if the mistake is being committed on my end. I’ve spent a great deal of time switching options back an forth, changing templates, removing template overrides, changing site-wide parameters, searching for feedback online. and what will have to do for now is the module loading contents and plugins (btw not all plugins, zaragoza tags doesn’t render, but to me that’s more of a feature request than a bug) but with a non-linking title and with a hidden read more. and while I did the homework on my side, I don’t like to be accused of not knowing how to configure something as simple as a module. I am not the first person reporting the read more issue
Comment by owl — December 11, 2009 @ December 11, 2009 6:37 pm
just encountered another weirdness. if a view mode to display only titles is shown and at the same time “link to category” is checked, the title leads here index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=0 which obviously shows a 404 page
Comment by owl — December 10, 2009 @ December 10, 2009 11:43 pm
the category doesn’t show at all so I don’t even think of being able to link it now. the articles are actually being grabbed from a section where the titles are linkable (as a matter of fact it’s the default policy for the entire website) and still they aren’t links in the module unless I go to the files and just remove the IF statement responsible for the linking choice. but even then the link just leads to the homepage and not to the actual article, like some people have already mentioned here. one person noted that the read more text in the module has to be the same as in the language file of joomla but this sort of voodoo unfortunately doesn’t work in my case
I’m sure many people have been happily using this module, til today I was one of them. it’s just that until today it wasn’t so crucial for me to be able to render plugins and have a working read more. without it I can use one from a variety of modules but it’s this particular scenario that’s really frustrating
Comment by owl — December 10, 2009 @ December 10, 2009 11:04 pm
Hi Owl,
I take this with a grain of salt since most people find the thing quite usable (and it’s been around for quite some time) – but I still take this seriously and will try to do my best and help you. Depending on the template you choose in the module parameters some of the parameters might be overriden by the parameters in the article manager, so try and allow linked titles there and see if it works in the module. The readmore-link is actually working. Propably you checked the “link to category”-Option in the parameters which might not do want you want and is adressed here http://diebesteallerzeiten.de/blog/category/manual/.
Comment by Eike — December 10, 2009 @ December 10, 2009 10:28 pm
this would be a great module, however I need to use it to show from 1 specific to several newest articles from a category, they need to render plugins and need a WORKING read more link. right now they either render plugins but the read more link leads to the homepage or I have a working read more link but no plugins. therefore the module is unusable. it has other bugs as well (linking the title doesn’t work, displaying the category doesn’t work, etc). the module raises great expectations and then doesn’t deliver the goods. something as gross as the read more bug should have been prioritarily fixed long ago. sorry for being so sour, I’ve spent many hours trying to tame this beast
Comment by owl — December 10, 2009 @ December 10, 2009 8:53 pm
Hi Keith,
about this request:
> add a Primary Ordering that uses the “Created Date” with the time
The “Recently Added First” option in the primary ordering should do exactly that (and it works on my test server, too). If it doesn’t work for you can you send me a screenshot of you module parameter settings, so i can try and reproduce your problem ?
I will definitely use your date range idea – it’s not difficult, but a lot of typing, so give me another day or two.
Comment by Eike — December 10, 2009 @ December 10, 2009 8:09 pm
Actually, scratch that – it looks like i don’t know my own module. Set “Hide current article” to “yes” in the module parameters and you should be all set.
Comment by Eike — December 10, 2009 @ December 10, 2009 7:54 pm
That feature is currently missing – it’s no big deal, though, I will add this tomorrow (a checkbox to exclude the current article)
Comment by Eike — December 9, 2009 @ December 9, 2009 10:20 pm
I’m on it (but not yet there). As to your second question, would it help if you could specify a range (something like “10-20″ in the id field which would include all ten categories) ?
Comment by Eike — December 9, 2009 @ December 9, 2009 10:17 pm
How do I disable from the articles to appear twice? The article will show where I moved it using the module, but then it will also show in its original place.
Thank you.
Comment by Fletcher Pendergrass — December 9, 2009 @ December 9, 2009 10:06 pm
Hi Eike,
Have you had any chance to verify that Article Ordering is working and to add a Primary Ordering that uses the “Created Date” with the time? A useful element of this would be not only the ability to order by Created Date, but to specify a range of Created Dates.
I would use the ability to select date ranges to show for example, separate Section lists of tango festivals this month (Dec 1-31), and tango festivals next month (Jan 1-31). I use the Created Date to establish the order. When festivals are on the same day, I use the time portion of the Created Date to set the order.
Also is there any chance you could enlarge the ID field? I have hundreds of categories because there are hundreds of tango festivals in the world. Would specifying hundreds of categories in the module create usage problems?
Thanks for your help.
Keith
Comment by Keith — December 8, 2009 @ December 8, 2009 8:43 am
Hi Eike.
Thanks for getting back tome about using a fixed height for the module. I don’t see any CSS though with the module? Correct? I run the website still local, as soon as I have it online I will let you know.
One more question about the module though: is it possible to display titles only and from there link to the article? Say I have 5 articles in a certain category, I then would like to display this category and therefor the titles only of the articles on my frontpage.
Cheers.
Tom
Comment by Tom — December 7, 2009 @ December 7, 2009 10:46 am
Hi Rob, sorry I missed you question. You should see an edit icon in the module if your are logged in in the frontend (being logged in into the backend will not suffice). This should at least work with the “beez” and the “default” templates from the modules parameters.
Comment by Eike — December 6, 2009 @ December 6, 2009 9:50 pm
Hallo Eike,
Du hast wirklich ein tolles Modul geschrieben. EInfach klasse. Nur die Funktion, wie man statt den Artikel den Modultitel ausgeben lassen kann vermisse ich. Ansonsten sauber programmiert und sehr universell einsetzbar. Weiter so
Comment by Stephan — December 5, 2009 @ December 5, 2009 10:50 pm
I’m not quite sure why nobody answered my question, but I found the answer on the forum of a similar module:
http://www.kksou.com/php-gtk2/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=67&func=view&id=2882&catid=21
Comment by Rob — December 5, 2009 @ December 5, 2009 6:18 pm