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Documentation | RSMonials Joomla Extension

July 19, 2010

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RSMonials is a Joomla Component that works natively in Joomla environment. This is a very simple and user friendly testimonial component. Using this component you can easily able to accept comments / feedback / review / testimonials from your clients or visitors. This is a free component. The features included:

Front End:

  • Display all active testimonials / comments / feedback / review.
  • Visitor can submit a feedback.
  • If you approve the feedback from back-end it will start to display.
  • Secured form by Captcha. (Re-Captcha Enabled).

Back End:

  • Add Testimonials.
  • Edit Testimonials.
  • Delete Testimonials.
  • Publish/Unpublish Testimonials.
  • Manage Front-end display using CSS.
  • Manage Language Specific Content.
  • Easily configure the basic features of the component.

How To Use the Component (Steps):

  1. Download and Install this Component. If you are Upgrading this Component please read the next point.
  2. In case of Upgrade just unistall the previous version first and then install the new version. Do not worry, this process will not delete any “Testimonial” that you have already in your website. But you need to re-configure your settings once again. After you install the new one please access this component and configure the “Settings” and “Language” tab as per your needs. That’s all.
  3. Now go to “Components” => “RSMonials”
  4. Access “Testimonials” tab to Add/Edit/Delete/Publish/Unpublish your testimonials.
  5. Access “Settings” tab to set some basic settings. You can set the following settings:
    1. Name of Administrator
    2. Email Address of Administrator
    3. Display “Testimonial Submission Form” in front end or not.
    4. Show/Hide “About You” field.
    5. Show/Hide “Your Location” field.
    6. Show/Hide “Your Website” field.
    7. Show/Hide “Image Upload and Display” field.
    8. Enable/Disable Captcha Verification.
    9. Enable/Disable ReCaptcha Library.
    10. On/Off Automatic approval of newly submitted testimonials.
    11. Enable/Disable Pagination.
    12. Set how many testimonial will display in a page.
    13. Manage alignment of the pagination text.
    14. On/Off “Administrator Email Alert” for newly submitted testimonials.
  6. Access “Display Style” tab to set some basic display style settings. You can set the following settings:
    1. Border Style of Testimonial Display Block.
    2. Background Color of Testimonial Display Block.
    3. Style of Quotation Images.
    4. Default image for testimonials in no image is found.
    5. Image Position.
    6. Image Width.
    7. Show/Hide Date.
  7. Add one Menu Item to display RSMonials component in front-end:
    1. Go to “Menus” => “{YOUR-MENU-NAME}”
    2. Select “New” button from top-right of the page.
    3. Now select “Select Menu Item Type” => “Internal Link” => “RSMonials”.
    4. Then add “Title” of the menu and click “Save” button at the top-right of the page.
  8. If your website is MULTILINGUAL OR if your website is not in ENGLISHOR if you want to modify the text that is displaying in the front end then please do the following steps:
    1. Go to “Components” => “RSMonials” => “Language”.
    2. Then select the proper language file from the list and “Edit”. That’s all.
    3. If you think you made some mistake and the component is not working properly for that mistake, then just click the “Restore” button of the language file. It will again restore the default settings in the language file. Then again you can edit that as per your requirement.
  9. If you notice that the image uploading is not working in your website, that should be the permission issue. To solve this issue just login to your server using FTP account and then change the permission (CHMOD) of “/components/com_rsmonials/images/” folder to “777″ or “755″. Hopefully this will solve the issue.
  10. That’s All. Now your testimonials will display in the front end. Site visitors now also able to submit their testimonials.

Now 2 modules are also available to use with our RSMonials component:

  1. RS-Monials Module: Using this module you can able to display testimonials randomly or serially.
  2. RS-MonialScroller Module: Using this module you can able to display all of your testimonials in a module position with auto scroller.

Support: If you have any question/suggestion or if you wish to report any error please post it in our forum: SUPPORT FORUM LINK (Please do not forget to mention the extension name and the version)
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About Souvik

Web Developer and SEO Specialist with 8+ years of experience in open source web development. He is also the moderator of this blog (www.rswebsols.com)

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127 Responses to “Documentation | RSMonials Joomla Extension”

  1. Laz Says:
    April 7, 2013 at 12:32 AM

    Unfortunately for me, I’m unable to use this component. The installation works fine, but after, I am unable to post any new testimonials — both “Submit Testimonial” and “Cancel” have no effect when clicked.

    On all parts of the component, I continue to have “Strict Standards” errors, and have already disabled display_errors and set error_reporting to E_ALL & ~E_STRICT. The settings are seen effective in Joomla’s PHP Information page.

    Any suggestions? Out of *all* testimonials components/modules, I absolutely love the look of yours the best and would appreciate the opportunity to test it out. Thank you so much!
    ~Laz

    Reply

  2. BINGO Says:
    March 30, 2013 at 5:49 AM

    Hi Souvik,
    I’m using joomla 1.5 and I want RSMonials Module displays 5 posts. Can you help me?
    Thanks

    Reply

    • Souvik Says:
      April 2, 2013 at 11:52 AM

      RSMonials module is designed so it will display only one testimonial at a time. If you wish to display multiple testimonials then you can use the RSMonials Scroller module.

      Reply

  3. David Says:
    March 28, 2013 at 4:05 AM

    Thanks for the great component!

    I am trying to turn off the page heading as I want to replace this with a banner. I have set the page display options in the menu item to exclude the heading and have set the language file parameter to RSM_PAGE_TITLE=”" … and cleared the browser and back-end cache. The previous page title is still showing. Any ideas?

    Reply

  4. Mike R Says:
    March 27, 2013 at 5:29 PM

    Is it possible to turn scrolling off so that I can display a number of testimonials one after the other in the same position?

    Reply

  5. Pavan Says:
    March 9, 2013 at 2:25 PM

    My website is multi-lingual. Supports Russian and English.
    I installed your plug in and its really fabulous. Thanks.

    However, it is not supporting Russian language comments. When users try to post comments in Russian, i am seeing Junk in the back end.
    Could you please provide me a solution for this?

    Reply

    • Souvik Says:
      March 22, 2013 at 12:02 PM

      You need to change the collation of the database table so it can store Russian characters. Database table called “#__rsmonials”. Here #__ can be any value. Edit the properties of the table and set the “Collation” properly.

      Reply

  6. Maxim Says:
    February 28, 2013 at 11:57 PM

    Hello?thanks for really good component,but I have problem with russian lang
    in testimonials.I corrected lang file and on display all ok,but testimonials has “??????????” Would you mind,what I need to do?

    Reply

    • Souvik Says:
      March 1, 2013 at 12:41 AM

      You need to change the “Collation” of the database table. Please go to your server’s database manager section and then go to the database where Joomla is installed. Here you can find one database table called “#__rsmonials”. Here #__ can be any value. Then edit that table properties and set the “Collation” properly.

      If you are not sure how to do it then please contact our support team: http://www.rswebsols.com/support

      Reply

  7. panos Says:
    February 28, 2013 at 7:58 PM

    Hello!
    Perfect component! Thank you for the great work!
    I would like to ask you how can I manage the mandatory fields. I want another field to be mandatory. How can I do that?

    Thank you in advance.

    Reply

  8. steve Says:
    January 24, 2013 at 10:49 PM

    Is it possible to have the “view more” link that shows in the module display the remaining text that is hidden when you limit the number of characters?

    Sometimes people leave very long reviews and that just looks awfull

    Reply

    • Souvik Says:
      January 25, 2013 at 10:42 AM

      You can limit the character in the module and set the “View more” so when anyone click on it it will go the main testimonial page to show your all testimonials. Unfortunately the option you are looking for is currently not available.

      Reply

  9. shiny Says:
    January 10, 2013 at 2:23 PM

    Hi,
    Thanks for uploading RSMonials, its really working well with my website.Everything is fine but at the bottom of my page I’m getting “Powered by
    RS Web Solution” how can i remove it?

    Thanks in advance,
    Shiny.

    Reply

  10. Sebastian Says:
    January 7, 2013 at 10:58 AM

    Hi there,
    Could you please tell me how to customize the text that appears at the beginning of the testimonial form? So I want my own text instead of this one “Your input is important to us. Please provide your valuable feedback. Here are some testimonials from our clients:”
    Thanks

    Reply

  11. Tony Says:
    December 27, 2012 at 11:28 PM

    Hi, just switched from the captcha mode to recaptcha. Turned captcha to false and recaptcha to true, and inserted public and private keys, but nothing is showing up? Ideas? Joomla 1.5.26. Thanks!

    Reply

  12. kaan Says:
    December 18, 2012 at 5:34 PM

    How can we adapt rsmonials to joomla 3.0 version?

    Reply

  13. Tapas Das Says:
    October 30, 2012 at 9:27 AM

    Hi, I am getting lots of spam inspite of using re-captha . Please help. http://www.twistnturns.in

    Reply

  14. Josue Says:
    October 26, 2012 at 1:25 AM

    Hi, how i can get categories in rsmonials component.

    i have multilanguage site and need testimonials in english and testimonials in spanish (sory my bad english)

    Reply

  15. Ashley Says:
    October 1, 2012 at 7:18 PM

    I need to remove the bottom of the page of the form. Taking note of rights with the link of the website page. How do I?

    Reply

  16. ray Says:
    September 21, 2012 at 3:12 PM

    i not recieved email bij new post

    Reply

  17. amir Says:
    September 17, 2012 at 10:48 PM

    image upload not working on front end. in admin panel it work

    Reply

  18. Nigel Hancock Says:
    September 12, 2012 at 7:43 PM

    Hi,

    I do not want to show the dates that the testimonials were submitted how do I stop these appearing in the module

    Thanks

    Nigel

    Reply

    • Nigel Hancock Says:
      September 12, 2012 at 7:59 PM

      I know that I can do this in the module but how through the menu select

      Reply

    • Souvik Says:
      September 13, 2012 at 8:57 PM

      Go to “Joomla Admin” => “Components” => “RSMonials” => “Display Style” and then set “testimonial_block_show_date” to “false”.

      Reply

      • Bao Says:
        September 14, 2012 at 12:42 PM

        Hi

        After install the scroller module, publish the module but i did not see any from front page. Only read more text, no testimonial. Did i do any wrong. Please help me, i live this component but i could not see the module working on my site. I install the right version. Thank you

        Reply

  19. NSS Says:
    September 11, 2012 at 5:18 AM

    Excelent, simple design. Realy clever and simple thingie. Thank You! :)
    Was easy to translate and use lang texts while in backend. Nice.

    One minor problem only. Was not able to found setting to switch off testimonials creation date display, and later after translating EN to other language, while in testimonial post date`s month still displays english e.i. september instead of septemberinotherlanguage

    I know it might be overrided in ext>lang>overrides but quick and dirty change in rsmonials.php helped to be it more international friendly :) $dateView = strftime(“%Y-%m-%d”, $timestamp);

    But that was minor problem :)

    Reply

  20. Farhad Says:
    September 2, 2012 at 11:27 AM

    Notice: Undefined index: page in C:\wamp\www\bworld\components\com_rsmonials\router.php on line 20

    why this message?

    Reply

  21. Haris Says:
    September 2, 2012 at 8:32 AM

    nice extension. But I have a problem with security code image that can not be seen. But if I use recaptcha all working normally. I prefer the standard captcha code because it is simpler. How do I fix this?

    link : http://notjustcsr.com/njc/testimonials

    Thanks

    Reply

    • Souvik Says:
      September 2, 2012 at 10:48 PM

      In your case there should be some permission issue. Please try to set “755″ permission to “/components/com_rsmonials” and “/components/com_rsmonials/includes” folder. Then let us know the status.

      Reply

  22. Andre Says:
    August 28, 2012 at 7:08 PM

    I love RS Monials but I’m a little confused. It seems like it’s stripping the meta data from the menu item. Only a title is being generated, no keywords, no description. Is that a known issue or am I doing something wrong?

    Reply

  23. Hugh Says:
    August 28, 2012 at 6:48 AM

    Hi,

    I have downloaded the component for J2.5.x and below is what I got when accessing the component from backend. Pls advise. Thanks.

    ( ! ) Strict standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in C:\wamp\www\joomla\administrator\components\com_rsmonials\admin.rssettings.php on line 52

    Reply

  24. Marck Says:
    August 27, 2012 at 11:58 PM

    Great product. However, I’d like to add a testimonial on multiple pages but it’s not allowing me to do that?

    Reply

  25. Frost Says:
    August 23, 2012 at 12:26 AM

    Hi,

    Great component, I just have a few issues.

    - The module scroller, doesn’t have any space between the testimonials that scroll. So for example, right below the date field in a testimonial when it begins to scroll up, the text for the next testimonial starts on the line right below the text of the previous one which gives the illusion that the two testimonials are part of the same record until the testimonial stops scrolling to view.

    - second, how do you change the text that is displayed in the testimonail? (Date of Post:) I’d like to change that to just Date.

    - third, I turned on the rounded corners feature but it doesn’t seem to work. I’ve viewing in FF.

    thanks.

    Reply

    • Souvik Says:
      August 24, 2012 at 11:46 AM

      1) Try to increase the height of the scroller a bit. This may solve the issue.

      2) Go to “Joomla Admin Panel” => “Components” => “RSMonials” => “Language File”. Then edit the respective language file as per your needs.

      3) For this you need to provide us the URL of your website so we can review it.

      Reply

  26. muditha Says:
    August 15, 2012 at 4:03 PM

    I have a problem in the module RS-Monials Module. how to add multiple ID’s to Testimonial ID(s) tab in the Admin. I normally used 1,2… likewise but it shows only one Testimonial. Please I need quick help

    Reply

    • Souvik Says:
      August 16, 2012 at 9:58 AM

      The module will display one single testimonial at a time. But it will display all of your specified testimonials serially or randomly one after one after each page refresh.

      If you need to display more than one testimonial at a time then use “RSMonials Scroller” module.

      Reply

  27. makevalue Says:
    August 13, 2012 at 2:18 AM

    Hi,

    I love the concept of the extension and it is really funny that I am just now finding it. It is highly configurable and that is great too.

    I do not see a way to categorize testimonials. There are many situations where it would be nice to separate testimonials by products, offices, people, etc.

    Are you willing to customize if for us? For general release? Please consider it.

    Steve

    Reply

  28. Yanis Says:
    August 11, 2012 at 4:49 PM

    Hi, does not send emails to the administrator. admin_email_alert = true, admin_email = yes. Post method: SMTP.

    Please help. Thanks. Sorry for my english)

    Reply

  29. Alison Says:
    August 3, 2012 at 2:26 PM

    Hi
    This is my first joomla site. I love the rsmonials component, but have one issue. On the pages where I have the rsmonials and scroller modules disabled, I get the following error message appear on my site: undefined index: page in /var/www/vhosts/alisontrafford.com/httpdocs/components/com_rsmonials/router.php on line 20 Just wondered what I have done wrong or need to do?

    thank you
    Alison

    Reply

  30. ahsan Says:
    August 2, 2012 at 8:12 PM

    That is Great and Only component for Testimonials. Sir my question is if i want to create RssFeed for my testimonial page, so when a new testimonial comes, it should publish in RssFeed, how can i do this. Is there any way of it. Very Thanks.

    Reply

    • Souvik Says:
      August 2, 2012 at 9:12 PM

      RSS Feed option is currently not implemented in RSMonials. We are very sorry for the inconvenience.

      Also thanks for your recommendation. We will surely try to implement this in our next version.

      Reply

  31. Jen Says:
    August 1, 2012 at 3:22 PM

    Great product, thank you! :)

    I am currently rebuilding my website and need to export all of the testimonials from my old website and into my new website. Is there any way of doing this?

    Thanks for your help!

    Reply

  32. bharathi Says:
    August 1, 2012 at 2:15 PM

    very nice component for testimonial.

    Reply

  33. sakis Says:
    August 1, 2012 at 12:09 PM

    i would to ask when some one is sending a new testimonial how can i be reminded in my email account that i have a new in order to check it and puplich it. moreover as fas as a have tested it no email goes also to the customer who made the testimonial

    please help

    thanks in advance

    sakis

    Reply

  34. Janmeird Digon Says:
    July 14, 2012 at 8:18 AM

    Hi! First off, I would like to congratulate you for a really great product! RSMonials surely covers almost everything I need for a testimonial! Congratulations to the developer. I only have one issue though. As I mentioned earlier, RSMonials covers ‘almost’ everything I need. I think what is missing is for the testimonial to be ‘responsive’, that is, to be perfectly viewable on smartphones and iDevices. I tested the RSMonials I installed on http://mattkersley.com/responsive/ and found that the component overlaps the RSMonials module. The component also is not able to display the testimonial message if viewed in a smartphone or an iphone. I hope RSMonials developers would do something about this since the future of the web is leaning towards responsive websites and pretty soon, it may become the ‘web standard’. To see what I mean please try viewing http://www.rswebsols.com/demo/rsmonials at the field provided at http://mattkersley.com/responsive/ or any responsive website testing URLs and you will surely see what I mean. I really do hope you can do something about this. Thank you very much for reading through my post. :)

    Regards,

    Janmeir

    Reply

  35. Lionel Says:
    June 25, 2012 at 8:11 PM

    I am new to joomla.
    I have to upgrade from 1.5.2 to 1.5.3, can anyone please tell me how? I do not want to mess up the customers website!

    Reply

    • Souvik Says:
      June 26, 2012 at 11:15 AM

      Yes, you need to just uninstall the old one and install the new one. You will not loose any testimonials. But the component settings will lost. You need to make the changes in the settings manually again.

      Reply

  36. Wahid Says:
    June 25, 2012 at 12:47 AM

    How can I hide the submission form but still show the link that says “Submit A Testimonial”?

    Reply

    • Souvik Says:
      June 25, 2012 at 7:51 PM

      This “Submit A Testimonial” link will only work when the submission form display in the page. Otherwise this link do not have any other functionality.

      Reply

  37. Webber Says:
    June 23, 2012 at 3:10 AM

    Hi,

    How can I skip the text ‘Powered by RS Web Solutions’ on the footer?

    Thanks

    Reply

  38. rafal Says:
    June 22, 2012 at 11:59 AM

    How to force thhis plugin to display the newest testimonials at the bottom of the page instead of top of the page? Is there any sorting possibility?

    Reply

  39. Ronald Says:
    June 12, 2012 at 4:59 PM

    Hello,

    I am using RSmonials 1.5.2 on my joomla 1.5 website and I would like to update it to version 1.5.3. Can I do this without losing alle data from the guestbook?
    Thanks in advance.

    Ronald

    Reply

    • Souvik Says:
      June 12, 2012 at 8:56 PM

      Yes, you need to just uninstall the old one and install the new one. You will not loose any testimonials. But the component setting will lost. You need to make the changes in the settings manually again.

      Reply

  40. chetan Says:
    June 10, 2012 at 3:32 AM

    how do i display 3 testimonials together, placed one after the other in the module 1 ?

    Reply

  41. chetan Says:
    June 10, 2012 at 3:23 AM

    great extention and easily configurable…

    Reply

  42. Lisa Says:
    June 7, 2012 at 11:54 PM

    How can we change the description that is at the top of the testimonials page?
    I found the place to disable it from showing…….but I’d just like to change the wording a bit.
    Thanks.

    Reply

    • Souvik Says:
      June 8, 2012 at 1:33 AM

      Just go to “Joomla Admin” => “Components” => “RSMonials” => “Language File”. Then edit the respective language file as per your needs.

      Reply

  43. Iraklis Says:
    May 31, 2012 at 2:14 PM

    Good day,

    here is my question. Can this extension publish, for example, the 5 most recent testimonials in the homepage too or do I need an extra module to do that?

    Kind regards
    Iraklis

    Reply

  44. João Paulo Lopes Says:
    May 28, 2012 at 8:41 PM

    Hi,
    I have just installed RS-Monial Component and RS-Monial module on my website (version 2.0 – joomla 2.5) and I can’t find the option Display “Testimonial Submission Form” in front end or not.”
    Help me please,
    Thanks in advance,
    João Paulo Lopes
    Portugal

    Reply

    • Souvik Says:
      May 28, 2012 at 9:07 PM

      There is a little update in the new version. Now this option you can get in time of adding the menu item. Just add your menu item and you can see one parameter for this.

      Reply

  45. paco Says:
    May 15, 2012 at 5:09 PM

    Hello Souvik.

    If i install this component on my joomla 1.7 /2.5 can it be made compatible? Is there an option which can it make to work?

    Hoping to hear from you.
    Regards,
    Paco

    Reply

  46. Gershon Says:
    March 22, 2012 at 4:29 PM

    Hello,

    I searching a lot extension exactly like this, and
    I like to know if you have the rsmonials extension for joomla 2.5.x OR
    you Update the extension for 2.5.x.

    p.s – please update the extension….

    Reply

  47. Victor DeCastro Says:
    March 3, 2012 at 2:25 AM

    Love the Testimonials Module. The only thing is that it doesn’t scroll horizontally. Would be possible in the future to add this capability?

    Great solution.

    Thanks a lot.

    Victor DeCastro

    Reply

  48. Sanjeev Jain Says:
    February 24, 2012 at 2:38 PM

    Hi,

    I have just installed RS-Monial Component and RS-MonialScroller module on my website. Both of these are great extensions and I was up and running in less than five minutes. However, I am facing one issue with RS-MonialScroller module. It displays “undefined” below the testimonial I have received from my clients. Please guide me to solve this issue.

    Thanks,
    Sanjeev Jain

    Reply

    • Souvik Says:
      February 28, 2012 at 10:16 AM

      Hi Sanjeev,

      As the scroller module is designed to display more than one testimonials, just add more than one testimonials and the module will work perfectly.

      Thanks,
      Souvik

      Reply

  49. Victor Says:
    January 13, 2012 at 11:02 PM

    I like a support for RSMONIALS when my users open my website using IE.

    Thank you.

    Reply

  50. mike. Says:
    December 28, 2011 at 5:47 AM

    Hi,

    i have just uninstalled rsmonials 1.5.2 and installed 1.5.3 and the testimonials main page is no longer displaying with the sites default theme? I have used the styles css and copied the code to the template.css file but this has made no difference? any advice please?

    Thanks

    Reply

  51. Adam Says:
    November 11, 2011 at 1:50 AM

    I’m trying to change the background color and font style in the testimonials. I have made the obvious changes in the “component” section… but nothing shows up on the front page. Any ideas?

    Reply

  52. peter Says:
    November 3, 2011 at 2:46 PM

    Hey
    Am kinda having some issues with the component and module
    1.Show/Hide “About You” field.
    2.Show/Hide “Your Location” field
    the information shown at the bottom of the comment has a background of white and my selected font colour for the whole site is white so I cant see the bottom information. Pls could you advice on how to solve this

    Reply

  53. Leandro Says:
    October 19, 2011 at 4:30 AM

    I like to know if you have the rsmonials extension for joomla 1.6.3

    thank you
    Leandro

    Reply

    • Mike Says:
      August 24, 2012 at 4:32 PM

      Hey!

      Thank you for amazing Component

      is it possible to post both french and english testimonials, and have the french ones appear on the french testimonials menu page and the english ones to appear on the english testimonials page?

      Thanks alot

      Mike

      Reply

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