| Attribute | Average |
|---|---|
| Features | 1 / 5 |
| Reliability | 1 / 5 |
| Ease Of Use | 1 / 5 |
| Documentation | 1.33 / 5 |
| Vote Count | 3 |
This is a module to be able to easily configure and add the Front Page Slideshow from JoomlaWorks to Drupal. The idea is to create a slideshow and add slides as you would add any other story. The slideshow is then set up as a block which can be put anywhere on the site on any page you want. For the module... [More...]
| Maintainer: | wilco |
| Links: | |
| Categories: | Content display, Media, Theme enhancements, Utility |
| Version | Date | Files | Release notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.x-1.0-beta2 | 2009-Feb-27 | Download | Recommended |
| 5.x-1.0-beta1 | 2009-Mar-02 | Download | Recommended |
| 6.x-1.x-dev | 2011-Feb-25 | Download | Development |
| 5.x-1.x-dev | 2011-Feb-25 | Download | Development |
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This module is tied to a commercial product, is unsupported, is poorly implemented, lacks modern features, and is poorly documented.
First, it requires a third party, commercial Javascript library ($28).
Second, it's not maintained at all. As of today it hasn't been updated in nearly a year and a half and has 39 open bug and support issues that have never been addressed.
Third, it's implementation in Drupal is not as strong as it could be. The module is setup to provide custom content types forcing you to remake any existing content which you want to display in a slideshow. A better implementation would be as a Views row style, not locking you into any specific content type.
Fourth, it has no support for Imagecache. Thumbnails are displayed by shrinking the full-sized images. At best this is a performance/bandwidth hog and at worst it looks terrible in some browsers.
Finally, I can find no online documentation and only a partially written README.txt file which keeps referring to FCKeditor.
There are many better alternatives out there. Start with Views Nivo Slider.
Tried this module to no avail. I finally decided of hard coding the slideshow in my tpl files. The slideshow it self is not ready to be administered by drupal so I guess there is not much the module developer can do until it is.
at least when you have a multilingual site. There seems to be a bug that prevents you from adding slides and therefore this module is not usable for any i18n site.
Potentially this could be a killer module because it ports the very nice joomla slideshow and seems to be really easy to configure (if it will work as advertised anytime in the future). The caveat: You have to buy the fpss from joomlaworks (around 30 Euros) but I did this happily because it really looks great.
But at the moment I can only advise to avoid this module as it has the described bug.
The problem seems to be that the port to D6 was really sloppy. In the documentation are a lot of artifacts of the old version. This made the installation a bit iffy but in principle this is really easy to install even considering the implementation of third party stuff.
So potentially a great module but at the moment totally broken. Very sad situation.
edit: As time goes by and with absolutly no reaction in the issuequeue I upgrade my personal status to: Pretty annoyed!
