Leagueman

• server side validation
• requires unique username
  
• requires unique email address
• lets the user enter his email address twice for preventing incorrect spelling
• unobtrusive anti-spam-challenge (but effective)
• Terms & Conditions checkbox a user have to check if there is an appropriate content item defined as "Terms & Conditions"
• popup of Terms & Conditions in a modal thickbox window
  
• easy to install through Mambot-Installer
• easy syntax to put the form in to a content item
• DEMO
  

• { register:0 } for no Terms & Conditions
• { register:123 } for content item with ID = 123 defined as "Terms & Conditions"
• without spaces
• make sure, that mod_login points to the new registration form
• make sure, that com_registration&task=register redirects to the new registration form
  

• simple installation through Mambot-Installer
  
• configuration is to pass an email-address only
  
• server side validation
• using mosMail() with copy (can (un)checked) to visitor
• DEMO

• { contact:email@email.domain }
• without spaces
  

What do you need to implement a feature like this?

All you need is:

• com_vodes, a component by Emir Sakic that lets your users buy points via Paypal
• a module to show the user his current account balance
• a plugin to say your content its price for reading it.

Read more, see it in action and download this solution for only 30 Vodes (3 €).

Makes sense or not, but I dont like the exceptional position of the com_content component in terms of SEF. I cant read URLs like: /content/view/2/1 or /content/blogcategory/1/3

Which param is the Itemid?

Instead of that I really prefer /components/option,com_content/task,blogcategory/id,1/Itemid,3

All components are equal, com_content is more equal. No more this way. For me it's absolutely satisfactory. But now the /components part is obsolete. How to get rid of that?

As a result of my last implementation (a week ago) of a simple spam protection for com_registration I can say, there was no dubious registration on this site.
Obviously all registered users are able to solve a little arithmetic problem, spammers aren't.

Found a little helpfull tool to produce 80x15 buttons.
Here is the link: RSS Graphic Generator

Oh my god, what is a league feed? :-)
An example: There are 18 teams in Germany's premier soccer league 1.Bundesliga. Each team (or club) has a website. Each website should offer an RSS-Feed with team or club news.
Now I want to create a new feed from all these club feeds.
Joomla 1.5 already uses a library called simplepie, Joomla 1.0.x not.
With simplepie it is possible to read and create RSS-Feeds very easily. There are some examples on its project site, which help building this bundeled feed.
A demo of this 1.Bundesliga league feed you can see here.

In this post I want to tell you some facts taken from my webalizer stats.

• 2200 users have registered on this site to download com_leagueman or com_jbulletin
• Every day 300 people find my humble site
• most people come from Joomla's extension directory
• a lot of people are searching for players from com_leagueman demo
• Last but not least: Google Pagerank is now 5! and I dont know why.

Docman 1.3 RC2 uses hardcoded "mos_" database prefixes in docman.class.php you have to fix when your installation uses another prefix (default Joomla database prefix is "jos_"). Make sure all database queries make use of "#__", which will replaced by your real database prefix defined in your global config. Search for "mos_" or "jos_" and replace with "#__".