Looking For A Joomla! Mambot? - Handy PHP Is Taking Request For Free Mambots

While developing my website which is managed using Joomla!, I found that a great number of third party components come with everything except a SearchBot. I find it very frustrating that a developer would go to all of the trouble to make a decent component and not finish the job by writting a SearchBot for it. Funny thing is that a full component is much more complicated to write than a Mambot.

None of the forum bridges or components came with a SearchBot. So one day I sat down and started studying the process of writing a SearchBot for Joomla!. It turns out that there isn't that much to it. I must admit that the Mambot tutorials at Joomla! were not very good so I had to break open a couple of the default SearchBots and learn by example, trial, and error.

Currently, I have written 4 SearchBot and have request for 2 more but wanted to let everyone that uses Joomla! know that I am willing to develope new Mambots by request.

There are a large number of Mambot (Plugins) available at Joomla! Extensions so please look before you request. Thus far, I have only worked on "search" Mambot but the process is similar for more plugins. If I can't do it, I'll tell you!

Also, if anyone is interested in developing Mambots and would like to become a part of my website, let me know. New members are always welcome.

In addition to searching Joomla! Extensions, it is a good idea to do a websearch for the mambot. Some developers don't know to list their scripts on the Joomla! Extensions website. Here are a few tips when searching.

• Mambots that search are usually called "SearchBots".
• Discussion mambots are usually called "DiscussBots".
• The relative component's name is usually included in the searchbot name
• Finding a similar mambot to the one you need can give you insite to a possible name for the one you are looking for.
• Review the name used for the rest of the compont's installation file as an example.

So using those tips and knowing that DOCMan comes with a Mambot for searching called "docman.searchbot", we can figure that the Mambot that searches SMF is called "smf.searchbot"!
But the doncman.searchbot installation file is called "bot_searchV1.0-RC-2.zip" and the smf.searchbot is called smf.searchbot1.0.3.zip!

Anyhow, if you need help finding a Mambot or you would like to request one form Handy PHP, just visit the website.

Hope this helps.
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What a pity, our paths are different. I use Drupal, else I would be glad to work along side you. Good luck.

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