Joomla Love Factory Extension

The dating and matching Joomla! Extension, offering users fully editable member pages and custom fields which can be set by the site administrator.

Watch this short presentation video: http://vimeo.com/116544495

Custom Fields

- Unlimited custom fields that can be created and published in any page
- Multiple field types (Checkboxes, Multipleselect, Textarea, Radio buttons, etc.)
- Fields can be arranged with a user friendly drag and drop system
- Each custom field can be set as searchable, rendering it available in advanced search
- Option to set fields as compulsory
- Visibility restrictions for each field

Layout & Themes

- Fully customizable template system
- Configure with a few simple clicks every section, page, field
- Zones can be arranged with a user friendly drag and drop system
- Smarty based template allowing even more flexibility
- Fully customizable CSS

Monetize

- Paid memberships which limit or grant access to users
- Advertising (place ads between search results at every x rows)

Key Features

- Friends and Top Friends lists
- User status updates
- Photo and video gallery (support for embedded videos)
- Comment system (page owner can delete any comment on his page)
- Messaging system (users can create, send and receive personal messages)
- Interaction system (sending hug, wink and kiss emoticons)
- Relationship requests
- Users can create interest groups
- Rating System
- Ignore list (to avoid spamming or any unwanted contact)
- Users can report profiles, comments, photos, videos, and groups
- Activity stream
- Approval system for various actions
- Admin definable currency
- Google Maps localization
- Info bar (shows on all Love Factory pages and displays notifications)
- Shoutbox
- Invoices

Standards

- Multi-language support, UTF-8 support, comes default with English INI language files
- SEO/SEF friendly
- Default integration with Joomla! user profile, allowing a single login for Joomla! and component
- Easy transition to RTL by editing the product templates
- Simple installation, configuration and updating process

User Profile

- Configurable account details (name, date of birth, interests, location, etc.)
- User status update
- Enable/disable email notifications
- Select profile status (online, only for friends, private)
- Settable Date & Time format
- Personalized fields

Main Settings

- Date & Time format
- Enable/disable user email notification
- Enable/disable friends list, top friends and relationships
- Allow users to change their profile status (online, only for friends, private)
- Registration settings (Joomla!'s or Social Factory's form, redirect page after login)
- Groups settings (allow users to create groups, groups per page and more)
- Approvals (profile changes, photos, videos, comments, messages, groups)
- Photo settings (set images size for photo maximum width and height, thumbnail maximum width and height)
- Page settings (set up various pages: profile view, activity, members map, search, search radius, videos gallery)
- Enable/disable interactions
- Enable and set up Info bar and Shoutbox
- Enable and set up Google Maps
- Enable and set up ReCaptcha
- Manage banned words
- Cron jobs settings (notifications, shoutbox message interval, activity stream entries interval, etc.)

Search

- Simple search after name and username
- Advanced search using various criteria: gender, age, relationship status, etc.
- Radius search using Google Maps
- Searchable custom fields
- Search module based on 2 types of searches: Quick and Advanced

Payments Gateways

- Several Payment Gateways supported for payments towards the site: Paypal, Moneybookers/Skrill, Sagepay, iDealing, Targetpay, Paysafecard, Bank-transfers

Modules & Plugins

- Search module based on 2 types of searches: Quick and Advanced
- Groups module
- Modules that display members based on various criteria: latest registered, best rated, last viewed, my profile visitors, random, friends' birthdays, latest active (multiple instances module)
- Users statistics module
- Shoutbox module
- User and system plugins

3rd Party Integrations

- Google Maps
- ReCaptcha
- Gravatar
- Chat Factory
- Blog Factory
- Embedded video integration

Notifications

- 15 different types of email notifications for all important events to users and administrators
- Customizable email templates

Backend Management

- Actions: manage membership plans, deal with reports, approve or reject actions, etc.
- Backup and restore Love Factory database and settings (can also include Joomla! users)
- Import data from Jomsocial (fields, user profiles, blocklist, messages, photos, photo comments, videos (YouTube only), video comments, groups, friends)
- User management
- Groups management
- Payments management
- Dashboard containing several statistics and information

Requirements

- Joomla! 4.x, 3.x
- PHP (min. 7.1.3)
- MySQL (min. 5.1 + ) or PostgreSQL
- CRON (a general CRON Tutorial is available in our documentation section)
- cURL, GD2 libraries enabled

FURTHER DETAILED INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE PRODUCT HOMEPAGE!