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Articles Anywhere will help you to place articles anywhere in an easy way.

The syntax for version 0.2.0+ is different to the versions before!

If you use Articles Anywhere, please post a rating and a review at the Joomla! Extensions Directory.

Description

With Articles Anywhere you can place an article anywhere in your site, including inside 3rd party components, modules and even inside other articles.

Security settings

You can enable / disable Articles Anywhere in articles (and sections/categories), components and everwhere else (including articles) separately.

For articles, you can also set a minimum user group level. This means that Articles Anywhere only works in articles with an author that has your desired level or higher. You might not want your frontend authors to have the option to include articles (and potentially mess up your site).

Syntax

You can place article details using the title, alias or id of the article:

{article Some article}...{/article}
{article some-article}...{/article}
{article 123}...{/article}

Within those tags you can place different tags to place different article data/details:

{datatype}

You can choose from these datatypes

  • text (the entire text: introtext+fulltext)
  • readmore (a read more link)
  • url (the url to the article)
  • introtext
  • fulltext (the text part below the read more bar)
  • id
  • title
  • or any other data available (must match the column name in the database)

When showing text (all text, introtext or fulltext), you can also make the tag only show a certain amount of characters. Tags and images are not counted, only the text.
For example, to show the first 100 characters of the entire text:

{text:100}

When showing the read more link, you can also overrule the standar "Read more..." text.
For example, if you want the text 'Please read on!' to link to the article:

{readmore:Please read on!}

Examples

Example: title, intro, read more link

{article 123}{title}
{introtext}
{readmore:>> READ MORE >>}{/article}

Example in HTML: title with link to article, first 120 characters of (entire) text.
(For use in HTML view of your editor)

{article 123}<h2><a href="{url}">{title}</a></h2>
{text:120}{/article}

Installing

The package installs/updates all necessary extensions, like components, module and plugins. (If the package contains plugins, they will be published after install, so you won't have to do that by hand.)

The package makes use of a special installer. This checks to see if it needs to install the extension(s) or update them. So you can just run this package through the Joomla installer without having to uninstall the older version.

You might experience problems during install for certain setups. In that case you can install the extension(s) manually. Please read the INSTALL.txt in the package...

If you run into any problems, please report this on the forum or let me know via the contact form.

Need more help?

Need more help?

If you need more help, please take a look in the forum.
If you can't find your answer there, please post your question. I am very willing to help!

>> NoNumber! Forum

Changelog

Changelog

Changelog

 
  + = Added    ! = Removed    ^ = Changed    # = Fixed
 
NEXT VERSION:
  + Content plugins are now executed over article text (even when placed in modules and such)
  + Added readmore class to readmore links
  # Fixed issue with errors about registry for php 5.0.5
 
09-Feb-2009 : v1.0.1
  + Added some missing language strings
  + Added option to ignore published state of articles
  ^ Reduced number of database queries
  # Fixed location of Joomla! DTD files
  # Fixed issue with deprecated syntax for php 5.3+
  # Fixed issue with preg_match_all error in some cases (when article author is not set)
  # Fixed issue with assignment to JACL user group levels not working correctly
 
20-Jan-2009 : v1.0.0
  + First stable release
  + Added Commercial License Code support
  ^ Moved elements to seperate global plugin (also used by other extensions)
  # Fixed issue with titles with special characters
 
19-Dec-2009 : v0.2.0
  + Added tag to place a read more link
  + Added tag to place the url to the article
  ^ Changed syntax
  ^ Improved way texts get cut of when using maximum length
 
18-Dec-2009 : v0.1.2
  ^ Improved query for texts
  # Fixed issue with all text displaying when choosing introtext / fulltext
 
16-Dec-2009 : v0.1.1
  # Fixed issue with php errors on frontpage
  # Fixed issue with alert in plugin admin page
 
15-Dec-2009 : v0.1.0
  + First beta release
 

Commercial License

is completely free and you DON'T need a Commercial License Code to use it.

However, if you use the extensions on websites you make for / sell to your customer, I would appreciate it if you purchase a License Code.
The License Code will remove the license message from the extensions administrator screens.

Note: If you don't want to pay for the License Code and want to continue to use the extension for free, please do. You will just have to ignore the license message in the administrator.

Note: If you have donated before and feel you should get some reduction on the price, please contact me about it... we'll sort it out :)

more information...

Really no difference?

Here you can see the difference between the use of the extensions without and with Commercial License Code.

WITHOUT Commercial License Code WITH Commercial License Code
Full version download yes YES yes YES
Full functionality yes YES yes YES
Message in administrator license_invalid license_valid
Encrypted no NO no NO
Free updates yes YES yes YES
Free support yes YES yes YES
Free RSS news subscription yes YES yes YES
Free holiday to Barbados no NO no NO