COM_ASK A Native Joomla 1.6 component in order to integrate functionality SIMILAR to Y!Answers or Quora into a website

Note that first priority after installing is to configure ACL according to your needs. By default, unregistered users are neither allowed to display aswers to questions, nor to submit them. Also, PHP errors may appear because of the configuration's absence.

Features:

• ACL Based Rights
• Submit Questions from both frontend and backend
• Submit Answers from both frontend and backend
• Multilanguage support
• IP logging
• GRAVATAR Integration
• FACEBOOK Integration ( Like & Share buttons)
• Categories support
• Vote answers
• Choose / unChoose best answer
• Transparent Captcha for frontend submissions
• CSRF Anti-spoofing
• Tags for questions
• Submission validation
• RSS & Atom Feeds
• Misc View options as menu item options
• Configuration Options
• Frontend Editing of already submitted questions (published or not)
• Breadcrumbs
• Filtering options (Frontend)
  • Display not answered questions
  • Display answered questions
  • Resolved (with chosen answer)
  • Unresolved (without chosen answer)
  • Questions created by the currently logged in user
• Sorting options (DESC / ASC) (Frontend)
  • hits
  • number of answers
  • score
  • number of votes
  • Submission Date

Things to come:

FEATURES v1.0.0:

TODO / TASKS:

• ROUTING

MODULES:

• Tags
• Categories
• Questions (filtering functionality as for component)
• Answers (filtering functionality as for questions)

PLUGINS:

• Integrate with Joomla's search functionality

FEATURES v2.0.0:

• ReCAPTCHA support
• Notify selected users for new additions (per category)
• Filtering & Sorting options for backend
• Users to be able to see their submitted questions even if they are not published
• Custom Code support (i.e for utilizing social plugins)
• Integration with Joomla's ACL 'Debug Permission Report' action

MODULES:

• Tag Cloud
• Top Questions

TODO / TASKS:

• RW the component... Answers and Questions shall be separate model classes
• Improve Backend submenu detection code
• Code Optimization
• AUTO UPDATE FUNCTIONALITY
• Cleanup Obsolete Code

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The project's files are hosted in github: URL: https://github.com/alexd3499/Ask GIT: git://github.com/alexd3499/Ask.git

Issue Tracker at: https://github.com/alexd3499/Ask/issues

Note that first priority after installing is to configure ACL according to your needs. By default, unregistered users are neither allowed to display aswers to questions, nor to submit them.

VERSION HISTORY ( Current Version: v0.6.3 )

25/03/2011 - [FEATURE] [v0.6.1] Added IP Logging Functionality 26/03/2011 - [FEATURE] [v0.6.1] GRAVATAR support 27/03/2011 - [FEATURE] [v0.6.1] Categories support 27/03/2011 - [FEATURE] [v0.6.1] Changes in the shell script that creates the package file 08/04/2011 - [FIX] [v0.6.2] Fixed update bug 01/05/2011 - [FIX] [v0.6.3] Fixed installation bug 08/05/2011 - [FIX] [v0.6.3] Fixed answer submission bug 09/05/2011 - [FEATURE] [v1.0.0] Voting functionallity 10/05/2011 - [FEATURE] [v1.0.0] Answer Choosing functionallity 16/05/2011 - [FEATURE] [v1.0.0] Tags 16/05/2011 - [FEATURE] [v1.0.0] Filtering & Sorting Options 16/05/2011 - [FEATURE] [v1.0.0] Submission Validations