December 2009
Beginner
416 pages
9h 53m
English
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Comments: Set Up User Comments Using JXtended Comments
Extension: JXtended Comments
Website: http://jxtended.com
Cost: $30 USD
License: GNU/GPL
Minimum requirements: Joomla 1.5.7, MySQL 4.1+, PHP 5.2.x, Mootools
JXtended Comments is a component that enables users to leave comments and feedback on your articles. There’s also added functionality for sharing articles and ratings on articles. Helen will use many of these features as she posts whimsical articles about her pets and pet experiences.
Figure 18-72. JXtended Comments: Frontend
Figure 18-72 shows JXtended Comments at the bottom of a full article titled Pet Rocks Now Available! Under the article, you can see the Sharing section. This section gives you the ability to add this page to several social bookmarking websites, sharing services, or share directly with friends via email. If you don’t want sharing features, you can disable them in the Content–Comments system plug-in.
Below the Sharing section, we see the rating system—clicking the number of stars to represent how they rate the article. We see that the article is rated four out of five stars. Once a user votes, they can’t vote again. If you don’t want the rating features, you can disable them in the Content–Comments system plug-in.
This brings us to the Comments section of this extension. After listing how many comments this article has, the extension gives you an RSS feed link
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O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.