Hey there.  I just updated this site so you can now add your own news, downloads, and links.

I added a Directory to build up a listing of Joomla sites and so people can exchange links with me.  I have turned on the Featured Links feature of the directory which allows you to submit your link to appear on each page of this site in the top left corner under the Featured Links heading.  This is on a subscription basis for $5 a month.

Also, once you are registered you will see a My Account link on the top right which you can edit your account info under.  It also has some links to submit your content to this site.  This includes news and downloads.  Once you submit it I will review it and decide to publish it or not.  In the interest of keeping things organized and useful I may decide not to publish some items.  I really like Joomla templates so if you have anything to do with Joomla templates feel free to submit it.  But I generally will accept anything to do with Joomla as long as it's in a friendly tone and has been spell checked and looks neat and tidy.

Things are in a testing phase right now so you may run into errors. If you do find errors or have any comments or suggestions please report them to me in the forums or in a comment or by emailing me directly.

Also I added the ability to donate since people are occasionally asking me where they can donate to.  I think I had a link on here at one point but it got lost so this one seems pretty nice.  When I donate to people sometimes and it makes me feel good =)  If I get enough donations I will send it back into the Joomla community by donating to other people.

Thank you!

Ryan

Here is the Date and Time module 2.1.8 with a fix in the ordering of the code thanks to a user on the forums.

Visit the page here for the complete changelog and details on using the module.

I just updated the Date and Time Module for Joomla to 2.1.7 which hopefully fixes the problem with not being able to show only the date.

Also I added in a fix posted on the Joomla extension site that jonusc posted to remove another PHP notice. Thanks jonusc!

I also extracted the changelog out of the code and made a page just for the module on my site which you can get to by clicking here.

I updated the Date and Time Module for Joomla to version 2.1.6.

2.1.5 was the wrong file, sorry to anyone who downloaded it. I uploaded it late at night when I was tired.

This version includes a fix for the spaces in the module params showing up as weird characters. They will still show up as those characters in the module params but will be converted to a space when displayed on the site.

I added support for multiple instances of the module so you can display the time in multiple places on the site, and each one can have a different time zone.

I also attempted to remove the PHP notices that show up but if you are seeing any PHP notices you should probably lower the error_reporting value in your php.ini file if you are on a live website and not a dev site.

Please report any bugs or errors you find either in the forum or by contacting me directly. Thank you =)

Lately I have been getting lots of emails on some sites registering that are spam. Even with all my things to try to prevent it that I have tried it is an ongoing battle and you have to always be ready to stop it. I decided I wanted to block all emails from mail.ru from registering since they seem to be spam usually but I didn't know how to do that. So I figured I would track down a way and eventually found myself in the Joomla forums.

I discovered a post by SundanceKid on how to ban certain email domains from registering. Thank you!

I modified it slightly so it didn't have yahoo or gmail in it. I also changed the error message below to be less obvious because I figured if they know its the email domain causing the error they will probably just try another one. But if they do this you can add another one to block by copying one of the lines in the middle of the code below and modifying it with the new domain.

Please post comments of any domains you find that are known to be spam and I will add it to the list for future use.

I was thinking that maybe there is some better way to do this by hooking it to some sort of database that probably already exists out there but this is good for now since all I really wanted to do is block mail.ru.

File: components/com_user/controller.php
Line: 266 (may differ per Joomla release)

  // ##### BEGIN: SPAM DOMAIN FILTER #####
  // Kick out spam domains
  $email = $user->get('email');
  if ( strpos($email,"gawab.com") ||
  strpos($email,"mail.ru")  ||
  strpos($email,"list.ru")  ||
  strpos($email,"bk.ru") ||
  strpos($email,"minivds.ru") ||
  strpos($email,"nakgirls.ru") ||
  strpos($email,"yandex.ru") ||
  strpos($email,"info1a.cn") ||
  strpos($email,"gooogletartsert.net") ||
  strpos($email,"freemeilaadressforall.net") ||
  strpos($email,"goodemailadressforfree.net") ||
  strpos($email,"5opicforum.cn") ||
  strpos($email,"pozitifff.com") ||
  strpos($email,"2008bases1.net") ||
  strpos($email,"nm.ru") ||
  strpos($email,"goldwoof.net") ||
  strpos($email,"megapochta.cn") ||
  strpos($email,"meta.ua") ||
  strpos($email,"fene4ek.net") ||
  strpos($email,"mail15.com") ||
  strpos($email,"googlemail.com") ||
  strpos($email,"yandex.com") ||
  strpos($email,"inmail24.com") )
  {
  JError::raiseWarning('','Error');
  $this->register();
  return false;
  }
  // ##### END: SPAM DOMAIN FILTER #####