Latest Update: 15th December 2009 - Read the release notes here.

redCOMPETITION is a brand new Joomla 1.5 native MVC component that makes doing competitions as easy as childs play in joomla.

Install the component and content plugin and in a matter of 2 minuttes you can setup your very own joomla powered competitions.

redCOMPETITION includes the following features:

• Unlimited amount of Competitions, Questions and Answers
• Dynamical options for answer type (Radio, Checkbox, Textfield or Textarea)
• Complete statistics over signups and newsletter attendance
• Draw a winner functionality
• Auto email looser and winners or only winners
• Auto email new registrations on sign up
• Integration with the open source mailinglist project PHPlist and the Joomla 1.5 native component ccNewsletter
• Optional form fields for contact information - chose if the elements in the form should be included or not
• Content plugin for easy adding of competition to _ALL_ joomla content that supports content plugins
• Add custom styles to input fields trough backend and style in template css
• English and Danish languages (looking for more - contact me if you are interested in translating to your native langauge).
• and much more...

Updates

Updates Component + Plugin (v1.5.4 Stable):

New features

• Fixed send notification to be ignored

Updates Component + Plugin (v1.5.1 Stable):

New features

• Updated redCOMPETITION constestants view to new redFORM (2.0b4.0) structure
• Updated redCOMPETITION to new redFORM (2.0b4.0) structure

Updates Component + Plugin (v1.5 Stable):

Fixes

• Fixed error when fullname field is not present

New features

• Updated icons
• Added redFORM selector to competition editing
• Added plugin to automatically install 

Updates Component + Plugin (v1.5RC1):

Fixes

New features

• Added German language
• Added option to choose which answers to check

Updates Plugin (1.5b3):

Bug Fixes

• Minor fixes and updates to reflect changes to redFORM integration  

Updates Component + Plugin (v1.5b2 / 1.5b2):

New features

• Updated answer checking to check against all correct answers instead of just one  

Updates Component + Plugin (v1.5 / 1.51):

New features

• Integration to redFORM moving over the static contact details into redFORM for dynamics
• Added Selects and Multiple Selects as new field types directly in redCOMPETITION
• Fullname, Username, Email, File Upload, VM Integration trough the redFORM integration 

Updates Component (v1.3):

New features

• Updated winner information
  Introduced a new tab under competition details that shows the winners and their details. 

Licensing:

redCOMPETITION is licensed under GNU GPL v.2.

Requirements:

The extension is not garanteed to work under lesser vsioners of PHP then PHP 5.

Demo Competition:
The demo competition runs for 1 month and the winner is drawn using the "Draw winner" function in redCOMPETITION on the 30th of November.
The winner gets 1 years single site subscription to redCOMPONENT.com

 

Screenshots:

 

Userguide:

See the screenshots and read the full redCOMPETITION Userguide for complete documentation.