[Chinese] Introduction to joomla1.7 extension metamod (module Management)

Metamod

Plugin category: Access & Security => modules Management

Supported versions: 1.0/1.5/1.6/1.7

Degree of attention: [none]

Type: Module

 

Control your modules!

Control your module!

... By date, time, recurring time, geoip (country of viewer), browser type and language, user name, group, page within other component (e.g. virtuemart), on-page text, article keywords, by article, Section/category, domain, referrer...

... You can use metamod to obtain the date, time, return time, And geoip from other components (for example, receivemart), browser type and language, user name, user group, page, text on the page, article and keyword, chapter/category (exists in previous versions of joomla1.5), domain name, page source...

... And much, much more!

... There are many more... A lot!

 

Metamod is a "meta module"-a module that includes des other modules, according to a set of rules.

Metamod is a "meta modeule"-a module that includes other modules according to a set of rules.

 

By installing the free geolite country or city database from maxmind, You can include country names/cities/States etc in your rules.

Install the geolite country or city database from maxmind for free. You can include country names/cities/continents that comply with the rules.

 

Suggested uses:

Recommended:

* Receivemart: Hide or show different modules at checkout, cart, product pages, categories etc.

* Receivemart: hides or displays different modules, such as check-out, shopping cart, product page, and category.

* Timed modules: recurring daily/weekly times and dates (Great for radio/TV/broadcasting sites)

* Timed modules: cycle of the daily/weekly time and date (Great for broadcast/TV/broadcast websites)

* Versions ages: show different menus/modules based on the front-end language the user has selected (e.g. With joomfish), or according to their browser Language

* Ages: displays different menus/modules (for example, together with joomfish) based on the browser language selected by the user.

* Users: show a module for users registered for more (or less) than a certain time period, or target modules to certain users or groups

* Users: displays a module (in a period) that can be registered by users, or some users and user groups.

* Make a module disappear once someone has logged in (There's no standard way to do this in joomla 1.5 !)

* When someone logs on to joomla, a non-standard method is used to remove a module (in joomla 1.5 .)

* Section/category-specific modules: Target modules according to the Section/category of the displayed article

* Chapter/category-special module: This module displays the chapter/category of an article.

* Domain & referrer: display different modules depending on which domain is being used for the page, or which site the user linked from

* Domain & referrer: displays different modules based on which domain names are being used by pages or which sites are linked by users.

* Browser Detection: Switch modules depending on the user's browser & browser version (e.g. Show a different module when people view the site with Internet Explorer IE)

* Browser Detection: select based on the user's browser and browser version (for example, when someone browses this website using IE, a different module is displayed)

* Control modules based on text found in the main component of the page

* The control module searches for text in the main components of this page.

* Control modules such as rsform (show a different form based on where in the world someone is ing from, etc)

* Control module, such as rsform (display different forms based on the links of some people, and so on)

* Target modules onto specific pages in jreviews, communitybuilder and almost any other component

* Modules targeting specific webpages, such as jreviews and communitybuilder, also have many other components.

* Dynamically control the parameters of other modules on the page as well as whether the modules appear or not

* Dynamically control the parameters of other modules on this page, just like whether to display or hide modules.

* And so much more!

* More!

 

Please more uses can be found in the documentation on the site, and in the forums. See you there!

More usage can be found in dcoumentation on this site, and can be found in forums. Hope to see you there!

 

Version note:

* V3.x is only compatible with joomla 1.6/1.7

* V2.x is only compatible with joomla 1.5.

* Please download and install the right module for your joomla version!

 

Recent improvements

V2.12 (31 Oct 2011)

* Receivemart: improved page detection on sites using one step checkout

 

V2.11/3.7 (3 Oct 2011)

* Improved detection for "articlesubmit" Page type

* Receivemart: added ability to detect previous purchases, so you can base module selection on whether certain items have been purchased before.

 

V2.10/3.6 (12 sep 2011)

* Improved jomgenius detection of your emart page types

 

V2.9/3.5 (15 Aug 2011)

* Revamped geoip handling. you can now specify an IP address for metamod to use instead of the Client IP address. this makes it possible to test the output of metamod from different IP addresses/countries/cities.

 

V3.3 (for joomla 1.6 & 1.7)

* V3.3 now works in joomla 1.6 and 1.7