UPDATE:

com_spurgeon available for Joomla 1.7 and 2.5.

This component will display C. H. Spurgeon's Morning and Evening as a Valid XHTML Joomla! 1.5 component. The original excellent com_spurgeon, written by Foster Brereton, was joomla 1.0 built and works to display the articles in legacy mode of Joomla! 1.5. The only drawback was that it did not pass W3C validation.

It has also been announced that Legacy mode will no longer be supported in joomla! 1.6. As of 22 July 2009, all native 1.0 components, including com_spurgeon, have been taken off the Extensions list.

Based on these reasons, I spent time to convert this to joomla! 1.5. (Edit: The main reason is perhaps not so much as valid XHTML, but that this component lives on beyond joomla 1.0. I am just thankful that I am used by God the Almighty in this instance.)

Current users of the delisted spurgeon component are encouraged to download and install this native 1.5 extension. All the code has been migrated to Joomla! 1.5 and provides better security and compatibility with future versions of Jooma! During your testing, you do not need to uninstall the previous version. After you have tested the newer component(Spurgeon XHTML) and are fully satisfied, you can uninstall the older one and turn off Legacy.

The usage is the same with the 1.0 component written by Foster Brereton. This native 1.5 component also does not require administration.
To use the component:

select the menu under the Menus dropdown and then create a new Menu Item.
From the list of components, select Spurgeon XHTML

Please support this component with your reviews.

For questions or comments, please email William Lee at
w i l l i a m @ c h u r c h w e b m a s t e r . c o m

Recent News
Spurgeon component for Joomla 1.7 and 2.5 William Lee 2012-02-05 Now available for joomla 1.7 and 2.5. The Native 1.5 Spurgeon installation package has been re-written to address a bug that does not display the component in the list when assigning menu item in Joomla 1.7 and 2.5. Please email me for the new component. This is only for Joomla 1.7 and 2.5.
Broken Spurgeon image William Lee 2011-05-11 I noticed on some websites the Spurgeon image shows a broken link. This is due to the path to the image being written by the server as follows: http://www.mychurch.orgcomponentscom_spurgeon_xhtmlmediaspurgeon.jpg instead of http://www.mychurch.org/components/com_spurgeon_xhtml/media/spurgeon.jpg As you can see, the '/' separator was removed in some cases. This problem has been fix...
Component used at Bible Institute of Ormond Beach William Lee 2009-09-14 In this site, Avis Ward demonstrates the use of another image in place of the default Spurgeon image. Visual-wise, the text does not appear too close to the image. http://www.emmanuelclg.org/BIOB/resources/spurgeons-morning-evening.html
Encouragement from Foster Brereton William Lee 2009-08-15 I received an encouraging email from Foster, the original author of this component. In his email, he expressed his support for this project: "....You have my complete support, and I'm very excited to hear it is in good hands. Thank you so much for keeping the plugin alive! Blessings, Foster ............."
First release William Lee 2009-08-12 Production stable released 10 Aug 2009. A demo of this component can be viewed at these 2 urls presented differently: http://www.churchwebmaster.com/demo/index.php?option=com_spurgeon_xhtml http://www.berithbpc.com/weblinks/spurgeons-daily

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Description
Display morning and evening devotions from the prince of preacher, C H Spurgeon. This component improves upon the first work written by Foster Brereton - com_spurgeon. Foster's component does not validate XHTML and requires Legacy to be turned on when installed in Joomla 1.5. For these reasons, I started this project.
Developer Info
William Lee
Trove Categorization
Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable Intended Audience: End Users/Desktop License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Programming Language: PHP Topic: Religion

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Native 1.5 Spurgeon Morning and Evening

UPDATE:

com_spurgeon available for Joomla 1.7 and 2.5.