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chanh.ong  
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 More options Dec 2 2007, 11:33 pm
From: "chanh.ong" <chanh....@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 20:33:09 -0800 (PST)
Local: Sun, Dec 2 2007 11:33 pm
Subject: MosCom 1.1, MosComBot 1.1 and MosComLatestX 1.1 have been released!
The highlight of this new release are:

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.

# Human friendly/Invisible captcha protection:
* Note: Any kind of captcha protection will not stop a human being
from input a bad comment
* Ajax using JQuery to check form for good token to prevent bad
comment
* It use client/server Ajax call to get a secure token with encryption
to validate the session
* The session will be expired in 10 minutes
* The comment server will only server from where the MosCom is
installed
# Add to show comment link in blogcategory and blogsection
# Add better mail handler with 3 types and fall back to php mail
# Add feature to only show comment form when "add comment" is clicked
# Better database config upgrade handling, NO need to write to file!
# Further integrate and simplified in MosComBot and MosCom
# MosCom, MosComBot and MosComLatestX are compatible with Mambo 4.5.2+
and Joomla 1.0+ including 1.5RC3 (w/ legacy mode)

Description:
* MosCom is a comments component for Mambo and Joomla. It is a rewrite
of Phil's Combo script to work with Mambo 4.5.2+ and Joomla 1.0 and
1.5. It allows visitors to comment on content items within Mambo. This
script is used at opensourceCMS.com allowing visitors to leave
comments regarding content management systems.

(Note: Please make sure to download the latest MosComBot 1.1+,
MosComLatestX 1.1+ to work with MosCom 1.1+)

Notes for MosComBot:
* MosComBot is now has comment form without the need to edit the
template.
* Please make sure emailcloak is listed before MosComBot to avoid
scramble the email in the comment form.
* MosComBot can now set to show in 4 places of the articles beside to
show the comment form for MosCom.
* MosComBot can now set to not show comment link on the frontpage.

General Features:
Note: Instead of inconvient your visitor with hard to read captcha
image, after long and hard testing I decide to implement different
form of captcha, a human friendly/Invisible captcha! Please see Spam
protection!

* Completely integrate MosComBot with MosCom so edting template is now
optional but still supported
* A companion mambot call MosComBot to show comment link on frontpage
* A companion module call MosComLatestX to show MosCom Latest X
comments
* Compatible with Mambo 4.5.2 or above and Joomla 1.0 including 1.5RC3
(w/ legacy mode)
* Compatible with PHP 4 and 5, global off and global emulation off
* If you use mambelfish and set the language preference. For example:
"english.php" for English.

Specific Features:
* Spam protection:
# Use phpInputFilter and mysql escape to filter input from comment
form
# Send popup to verify message before submit
# Human friendly/Invisible captcha protection:
* Note: Any kind of captcha protection will not stop a human being
from input a bad comment
* Ajax using JQuery to check form for good token to prevent bad
comment
* It use client/server Ajax call to get a secure token with encryption
to validate the session
* The session will be expired in 10 minutes
* The comment server will only server from where the MosCom is
installed

* Frontend featues:
# Support any component that use content w/ a valid id for example:
like mamblog
# Visitor or member can leave comment on a article
# Vistor URL field can be disable by the site admin
# Ability to page previous or next of comments w/ setable number of
comments per page
# Ability to skin using moscom.css down to detail of meta data.
# Customizable comment title, etc via language file using
_COM_C_ADD_COM, _COM_C_ADD_COM2 and _COM_C_HOMEURL.
# Comments sorting: new entries first or new entries last
# Form position: Behind comments or Above comments
# Add javascript bbcode and tooltips
# Enhanced bbcode support to store as html for ease of retrieval into
article with bot
# Use time offset from configuration when show comment
# Show comment link in blogcategory and blogsection
# Better mail handler with 3 types and fall back to php mail
# Only show comment form when "add comment" is clicked

* Backend featues:
# Complete admin area to monitor, edit and delete comments as
necessary.
# Admin can hold comments for approval
# Highly configurable through point and click admin interface
# Email to be set to require or optional
# Exclude section list eg: 0 for static content
# Exclude content list to selectively not show comment form
# Remember your config preference when upgrade
# Better db config upgrade handling

* Languages support:
# English, French, Rusian, Dutch, Spanish, Portugese, German
# Arabic, Polish, Italian, Swedish, Croatian, Turkish

Note: translation for MosCom:
* You can create you own translation file by copy "english.php" and
create your language translation file. For example: "spanish.php"
please make sure the file name matches your mambo language name.
* Once you have the translation file in place and when you set the
language preference in mambelfish then MosCom will use your
translation file to display the comment in your language. Please
consider share you translation file once you are happy with your work.
Thanks for sharing.!

Credit:
* Please see administrator/com_comments/credit.txt for more detail

Info:
* Support: http://ongetc.com/index.php?option=com_phorum&Itemid=175
* Download: http://ongetc.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ioni...

Any donation$ would be greatly appreciated. Thanks


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 More options Dec 10 2007, 11:23 pm
From: "chanh.ong" <chanh....@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:23:12 -0800 (PST)
Local: Mon, Dec 10 2007 11:23 pm
Subject: Re: MosCom 1.1, MosComBot 1.1 and MosComLatestX 1.1 have been released!
A new patch version of 1.1d has been release to fix some minor bug and
a patch for php 4 backward compatibility.

Please check out the project site or the download sites for detail.

Thanks

On Dec 2, 8:33 pm, "chanh.ong" <chanh....@gmail.com> wrote:


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 More options Dec 15 2007, 1:18 am
From: "chanh.ong" <chanh....@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:18:24 -0800 (PST)
Local: Sat, Dec 15 2007 1:18 am
Subject: Re: MosCom 1.1, MosComBot 1.1 and MosComLatestX 1.1 have been released!
---> Minor bug fix for some Windows vhost, patch for php 4
compatibility, fix to pass html validation

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