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This version of MosCom is a complete rewrite base on my tiny Mose framework that utilize MVC pattern and Ajax. It is just too much change to list them all here but to show the highlight of this new release are:

• Enhance security token processing to ensure no double comment
• Updated Swedish translation from Stefan Lewitas
• Add IP of commenter
• add MosModule integration support so you can use any of MosModule command in MosCom comment
• upgrade jQuery 1.3.2
• Quick post using ajax with spinning wheel
• css and js are now load in the head whereever is possible
• Has better support for SEF enable site
• Detection for auto upgrade of MosCom related tables
• Parameter to set and use username instead of name per popular request
• Parameter to close comment based on contents list
• Parameter to set sectoken (turn on/off invisible captcha)
• Tested for Mambo, MiaCMS, Joomla 1.5+, Joomla 1.0 (ajax only work when edit template not via plugin)
• Minor bug fix on reguser issue
• Minor bug fix to deal with memory exhausted in some system configuration with PHP 5.2.11 and lot of categories and articles... read more

This version of MosCom is a complete rewrite base on my tiny Mose framework that utilize MVC pattern and Ajax. It is just too much change to list them all here but to show the highlight of this new release are:

• Enhance security token processing to ensure no double comment
• Updated Swedish translation from Stefan Lewitas
• Add IP of commenter
• add MosModule integration support so you can use any of MosModule command in MosCom comment
• upgrade jQuery 1.3.2
• Quick post using ajax with spinning wheel
• css and js are now load in the head whereever is possible
• Has better support for SEF enable site
• Detection for auto upgrade of MosCom related tables
• Parameter to set and use username instead of name per popular request
• Parameter to close comment based on contents list
• Parameter to set sectoken (turn on/off invisible captcha)
• Tested for Mambo, MiaCMS, Joomla 1.5+, Joomla 1.0 (ajax only work when edit template not via plugin),... read more

The hightlight of this new release are:

• Add image background support for menu item
• Enhance to work better with SEF enable
• Enhance to validate with XHTML
• Upgrade to jQuery 1.3
• Enhance for compatible with J1.015 and J1.5.8
• Minor fix in flyout.css
• Add param to show new/update image or not
• Language encoding is now changable, defualt is UTF-8
• Minor bug fix

Description:

* MosCmenuTree will show you content in a nice menu without the labor of updating each menu item one by one.  MosCmenuTree is a very comprehensive menu system for content compatible with all version of Mambo, Joomla 1.0 series and 1.5 series in Legacy mode... [read more](/p/coaddons/news/2009/03/moscmenutree-166-is-released/)

The hightlight of this new release are:

* Add image background support for menu item
* Enhance to work better with SEF enable

• Enhance to validate with XHTML
• Upgrade to jQuery 1.3
• fix to work around J1.015 problem

Description:

* MosCmenuTree will show you content in a nice menu without the labor of updating each menu item one by one.  MosCmenuTree is a very comprehensive menu system for content compatible with all version of Mambo, Joomla 1.0 series and 1.5 series in Legacy mode... [read more](/p/coaddons/news/2009/01/moscmenutree-160-is-released/)

Hightlight of this version:

• Enhance to work around "operation abort" in IE for certain kind of template
• Enhance to run typewrite mode as many times on the same pages
• Add additional sort by modified desc together with number of newsflash to get latestX effect
• Minor fix to work better with SEF enable

Description:

• MosNewsWriter is a newsflash module to display content title as hyper link with 4 different styles and many customizable parameters as outline below.
  Features:
• Show newsflash from multiple contents or categories from articles
• Show newsflash from RSS feed
• Enhance RSS parser to better handle feed that moved or behind proxy.
• Display order in Sorted, modified (latestX) or Random (make the flash more interesting!)
• Set number of newsflash to display
• Four different styles to choose: TypeWriter, Flash, Marquee, GH.
• moduleclass_sfx so that you can customize the look of the module
• Borders to set a border width
• Text color to set the color of your link
• Background color to set the color of the newsflash background
• Height to set the height of the newsflash
• Text Length to set the limit of the title length to avoid over run
• Delay of the newsflash
• Pre-text for "typewriter" style to hightlight your newsflash
• Direction for marquee setting: up, down, right and left
• Scroll amount to set how many line to scroll
• Enhance to run as many instances on the same page.... read more

The hightlight of this new release are:

• Minor fix for XHTML validation

Description:

• MosModuleMod will execute any MosModule command in a module.

Installation:
# Use Mambo module install manager to do the install of MosModuleMod.
# Make sure you publish this module

Features:

• Run all MosModule command in a module without needing to hack the core
• Set align and command to run in this module
• Tested in MiaCMS, Mambo, Joomla 1.0 and Joomla 1.5 Legacy mode
• If you need full MosModule in user module then you will need to hack the core
• Capable of running multiple times on the same page... read more

Hightlight of this version:

• Enhance to work around "operation abort" in IE for certain kind of template
• Enhance to run typewrite mode as many times on the same pages
• Add additional sort by modified desc together with number of newsflash to get latestX effect

Description:

• MosNewsWriter is a newsflash module to display content title as hyper link with 4 different styles and many customizable parameters as outline below.
  Features:
• Show newsflash from multiple contents or categories from articles
• Show newsflash from RSS feed
• Enhance RSS parser to better handle feed that moved or behind proxy.
• Display order in Sorted, modified (latestX) or Random (make the flash more interesting!)
• Set number of newsflash to display
• Four different styles to choose: TypeWriter, Flash, Marquee, GH.
• moduleclass_sfx so that you can customize the look of the module
• Borders to set a border width
• Text color to set the color of your link
• Background color to set the color of the newsflash background
• Height to set the height of the newsflash
• Text Length to set the limit of the title length to avoid over run
• Delay of the newsflash
• Pre-text for "typewriter" style to hightlight your newsflash
• Direction for marquee setting: up, down, right and left
• Scroll amount to set how many line to scroll
• Enhance to run as many instances on the same page.... read more

The hightlight of this new release are:

* Refresh to upgrade JQuery 1.2.6
* Enhance to able to run more than one copy
* Add code to work around J1.5.7 issue
* Some code consolidation

Description:

* MosCmenuTree will show you content in a nice menu without the labor of updating each menu item one by one.  MosCmenuTree is a very comprehensive menu system for content compatible with all version of Mambo, Joomla 1.0 series and 1.5 series in Legacy mode... [read more](/p/coaddons/news/2008/10/moscmenutree-158-is-released/)

The highlight of this new release are:

• Upgrade to use jQuery 1.2.6 min
• Fix to support SEO in MiaCMS and perhaps Mambo too!
• Work around emailcloak issue

Note: Instead of inconvient your visitor with hard to read captcha image, after long and hard testing with a good working captcha for MosCom, I decide to implement different form of captcha, a human friendly/Invisible captcha! Please see the first highlight on the list.... read more

The hightlight of this new release are:

* Refresh to upgrade JQuery 1.2.6

Description:

* MosCmenuTree will show you content in a nice menu without the labor of updating each menu item one by one.  MosCmenuTree is a very comprehensive menu system for content compatible with all version of Mambo, Joomla 1.0 series and 1.5 series in Legacy mode

Installation:

* Use Mambo module install manager to do the install of MosCmenuTree. 
* Make sure you publish this module
* At the minimum you need to set the section ID so MosCmenuTree has something to show on the menu
* Optional: You could also include an additional categories to be part of the menu... [read more](/p/coaddons/news/2008/10/moscmenutree-155-is-released/)

The hightlight of this new release are:

* Thanks to andras contribution the joomfish integration is now only show the selected language rather than show the original and the translated text side by side.  It makes more sense this way and more flexibility.  In the case where it is use in a module via MosModuleMod like the way andras use at his site.
* {mosimage} is supported in translated text
* This feature also support in "readmore" command
* Fix bug in Nok Kaew integration and should work the same for nok kaew.... [read more](/p/coaddons/news/2008/08/mosmodule-151-is-released/)

The hightlight of this new release are:

* Quick fix for Joomla 1.5.4 that change the location of the directory where it run the plugin
* Add MosCom support to have flexibility on comment link placement.

Note: For those that want the flexibility of where to place your comment link in content this version is for you! With this version you can place MosCom comment link anywhere you can put {mosmodule}!... read more

The hightlight of this new release are:

• Add feature to run multiple times on the same page

Description:

• MosModuleMod will execute any MosModule command in a module.

Installation:
# Use Mambo module install manager to do the install of MosModuleMod.
# Make sure you publish this module

Features:

• Run all MosModule command in a module without needing to hack the core
• Set align and command to run in this module
• Tested in Mambo, Joomla 1.0 and Joomla 1.5 Legacy mode
• If you need full MosModule in user module then you will need to hack the core
• Capable of running multiple times on the same page... read more

Hightlight of this version:

• Enhance RSS parser to better handle feed that moved or behind proxy.
• Add addition content as source in addition to category and RSS
• Enhance to run as many times on the same pages

Description:

• MosNewsWriter is a newsflash module to display content title as hyper link with 4 different styles and many customizable parameters as outline below.

Features:

• Show newsflash from multiple contents or categories from articles
• Show newsflash from RSS feed
• Display order in Sorted or Random (make the flash more interesting!)
• Set number of newsflash to display
• Four different styles to choose: TypeWriter, Flash, Marquee, GH.
• moduleclass_sfx so that you can customize the look of the module
• Borders to set a border width
• Text color to set the color of your link
• Background color to set the color of the newsflash background
• Height to set the height of the newsflash
• Text Length to set the limit of the title length to avoid over run
• Delay of the newsflash
• Pre-text for "typewriter" style to hightlight your newsflash
• Direction for marquee setting: up, down, right and left
• Scroll amount to set how many line to scroll
• Enhance to run as many instances on the same page.... read more

The hightlight of this new release are:

• Support Mambo, all version of Joomla 1.0, 1.5 and MiaCMS
• Show banner from banner component in content base on banner id with parameter

Description:

• MosBannerBot mambot is use to display banner from banner component on the content or frontpage.

Features:

• Option to show in 4 locations
• Option to align to left, right, center

Note:

• Important: Make sure to enable MosBannerBot in Mambot manager!... read more

The hightlight of this new release are:

* Add support for MosQ and depreciated MosQBot
* Add support for GigCalendar
* Add support for Nokaew and Joomfish
* Add option to show ReadMore link when introtext is used with articleid command
* Add RSS feed support
* Add inc, a more generic name, to show it can be used for javascript, php, html, etc
* Add readmore command to show number of words with ReadMore link
* Support for MiaCMS... [read more](/p/coaddons/news/2008/05/mosmodule-137-is-released/)

The highlight of this new release are:

* Major rewrite
* Add various configuration option
* Add MosQ manual has various logic queries to show case MosQ simple and more advacnce features
* Refresh to work with the latest version of PHP, Mambo and Joomla 1.0 and 1.5 Legacy mode
* Add export to Word feature for superadmin

Description:

* MosQ is a database query component for Mambo and Joomla. It is a rewrite of Richard S Allinson's MosReporter script to work with Mambo 4.6 and Joomla 1.0 as well as 1.5 Legacy mode. It has logic center where you can put in sql statement to get the data from your database in turn it will show as an menu item on the frontend for user to pick to see the listing by form, list or table. ... [read more](/p/coaddons/news/2008/05/mosq-116-is-released/)

The hightlight of this new release are:

* Add support for mod_mosmodule that call mosmodule in module and check to prevent possible loop
* Minor bug fix on snippet
* Add support for MosQ and depreciated MosQBot

Description:

• MosModule mambot has the ability to display nested article, author, textsizer, embeded video in a content, exec snippet written in PHP (without <?php ?> tags) and exec external php script file pass with parameter (with <?php ?> tags). You can see an example of that in "mosmodule\hello.php". (See more detail below)
• In my mind, MosModule would give me the potential of reusing article that are common to all article without repeating the same content, make my article more dynamic enrich with php code using snippet or external php script file. With the use of the parameters and querystring you can pass variable between mosmodule and the external php script. The possibilities are endless!... read more

The hightlight of this new release are:

• Companion product for MosModule to run in module

Description:

• MosModuleMod will execute any MosModule command in a module.

Installation:
# Use Mambo module install manager to do the install of MosModuleMod.
# Make sure you publish this module

Features:

• Run all MosModule command in a module without needing to hack the core
• Set align and command to run in this module
• Tested in Mambo, Joomla 1.0 and Joomla 1.5 Legacy mode
• If you need full MosModule in user module then you will need to hack the core... read more

The hightlight of this new release are:

* Add support for MosModuleMod that call mosmodule in module and check to prevent possible loop

Description:

• MosModule mambot has the ability to display nested article, author, textsizer, embeded video in a content, exec snippet written in PHP (without <?php ?> tags) and exec external php script file pass with parameter (with <?php ?> tags). You can see an example of that in "mosmodule\hello.php". (See more detail below)
• In my mind, MosModule would give me the potential of reusing article that are common to all article without repeating the same content, make my article more dynamic enrich with php code using snippet or external php script file. With the use of the parameters and querystring you can pass variable between mosmodule and the external php script. The possibilities are endless!... read more

The highlight of this new release are:

• What's a deal! Ajaxified some frontend and backend and reduce overall code size!
• Add Ajax tab in MosCom admin screen using ui.tabs.pack.js
• Upgrade to use pack jQuery 1.2.3 smaller size
• Updated polish.php
• Add _COM_C_CHECKLINK in translation per request
• Better handling and default to english when $lang is unknown

Note: Instead of inconvient your visitor with hard to read captcha image, after long and hard testing with a good working captcha for MosCom, I decide to implement different form of captcha, a human friendly/Invisible captcha! Please see the first highlight on the list.... read more

MosComCBPlug 0.0.1 is released!

Hot from the press!

Here is a "new" MosCom CB plugin that will show comments post by user in their profile.

The highlight of this new release are:

• Change to work for sites that has cluster servers in the backend.
• Updated dutch.php
• updated brazilian_portuguese.php
• Better position of comment link and better detect J15 none frontpage URL
• Only show comment header when there is something to show
• Updated polish.php
• Minor fix for some version of mysql that has issue with insert config record
• Fix to show comment on com_mamblog
• Enhance to work with Joomla 1.5.1 SEO enable
• Add code to work around some double post issue with Joomla 1.0.15 when preview is on... read more

The highlight of this new release are:

• Change to work for sites that has cluster servers in the backend.
• Updated dutch.php
• updated brazilian_portuguese.php
• Better position of comment link and better detect J15 none frontpage URL
• Only show comment header when there is something to show
• Updated polish.php
• Minor fix for some version of mysql that has issue with insert config record
• Fix to show comment on com_mamblog
• Enhance to work with Joomla 1.5.1 SEO enable... read more

The hightlight of this new release are:

* Add Wrapper to wrap any site into your site

Description:

• MosModule mambot has the ability to display nested article, author, textsizer, embeded video in a content, exec snippet written in PHP (without <?php ?> tags) and exec external php script file pass with parameter (with <?php ?> tags). You can see an example of that in "mosmodule\hello.php". (See more detail below)
• In my mind, MosModule would give me the potential of reusing article that are common to all article without repeating the same content, make my article more dynamic enrich with php code using snippet or external php script file. With the use of the parameters and querystring you can pass variable between mosmodule and the external php script. The possibilities are endless!... read more