Rule Types

Below you find all the available rule types for Advanced Module Manager, with the respective settings for each.

Menu Items

Set the module to be included or excluded from any of the available menu items.

Also on Child Items

This option allows you to make the rule pass on menu items that are children of one of the selected menu items.
This is very useful when you regularly add menu items and don't want to update the Condition Set every time. Just select the parent menu item.

Home Page

Unlike selecting the home page (default) item via the Menu Items, this will only match the real home page, not any URL that has the same Itemid as the home menu item.

This might not work for all 3rd party SEF extensions.

Date & Time

The date and time rules use the date/time of your servers, not the ones of the visitor's system.

Date

You can make the rule pass Before/After a specific date or, with the "Between" option, in a date range between two dates.

With the "Recurring" option, you can also select to apply the date range every year (so the year in the selection will be ignored).

Seasons PRO

You can choose from these options:
Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall / Autumn

You can also select the hemisphere your website is located in:
Northern, Southern, Australia.

Months PRO

You can choose from these options:
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Days of the week PRO

You can choose from these options:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Time PRO

You can make the rule pass Before/After a specific time or, with the "Between" option, in a time range between two times.

Format: 23:59

Joomla! Content

This rule is based on what Joomla content page is displayed, including Page Types, Categories, and specific Articles.

Page types

You can choose from these options:
Archived Articles, Single Article, List All Categories, Category Blog, Category List, Featured Articles, Create Article

Articles

Set the module to be included or excluded from any of the Joomla articles.

Featured Articles

Set the module to be included or excluded from Featured articles.

Article Publish State

Set the module to be included or excluded from the available article publish states:

You can choose from these options:
Published, Unpublished, Archived, Trashed

Article Date

Set the module to be included or excluded based on any of these article dates: Created Date, Modified Date, Start Publishing, Finish Publishing

After selecting a Date Type, you can make the rule pass Before/After a specific date or, with the "Between" option, in a date range between two dates.

With the "Recurring" option, you can also select to apply the date range every year (so the year in the selection will be ignored).

Article Authors

Set the module to be included or excluded from articles written by specific authors.

Article Content Keywords

Set the module to be included or excluded from articles containing your specified keywords in the content.

You can also turn on the 'Case Sensitive' option.

Article Meta Keywords

Set the module to be included or excluded from articles containing your specified meta keywords.

You can also turn on the 'Case Sensitive' option.

Article Field PRO

Set the module to be included or excluded based on the value of any Custom Field.

You can compare the custom field value with any of these methods:
Is equal to, Is not equal to, Contains, Contains one of, Does not contain, Begins with, Ends with, Is less than, Is greater than, Matches Regular Expressions

For complete details on how to use the Custom Fields rules, the Comparison Methods, and even how to use Relative Dates as part of your checks, see the dedicated Blog Post.

Visitors

Users PRO

Set the module to be included or excluded based on the logged-in user visiting the page.

Access Levels

Set the module to be included or excluded based on the Access Level assigned to the logged-in user visiting the page.

User Groups

Set the module to be included or excluded based on the user group assigned to the logged-in user visiting the page.

Match all

Select to only let the rule pass if all of the selected user groups belong to the user at the same time.

Also on Child Items

This option allows you to make the rule pass on user groups that are children of one of the selected groups.
This is very useful when you regularly add user groups and don't want to update the Condition Set every time. Just select the parent user group.

Languages

Set the module to be included or excluded based on the site Language used by the visitor.

This Languages rule differs from the core in that it allows a selection of multiple languages.

Devices

Set the module to be included or excluded based on the device of the visitor. Keep in mind that device detection is not always 100% accurate. Users can set up their devices to mimic other devices.

You can choose from these options:
Desktop, Tablet, Mobile

Operating Systems

Set the module to be included or excluded based on the operating system of the visitor. Keep in mind that operating system detection is not always 100% accurate. Users can set up their browsers to mimic other operating systems.

Browsers

Set the module to be included or excluded based on the browser of the visitor. Keep in mind that browser detection is not always 100% accurate. Users can set up their browsers to mimic other browsers

Mobile Browsers

Set the module to be included or excluded based on the mobile browser of the visitor. Keep in mind that browser detection is not always 100% accurate. Users can set up their browser to mimic other browsers

IP Addresses PRO

Set the module to be included or excluded based on the IP Address of the visitor.

You can enter a comma and/or enter a separated list of IP addresses and IP ranges. For instance:
127.0.0.1
128.0-128.1
129

Geolocation

Geolocating is not always 100% accurate. The geolocation is based on the IP address of the visitor. Not all IP addresses are fixed or known.
To be able to use this rule, you need to install the Regular Labs GeoIP library.

Continents PRO

Set the module to be included or excluded based on the Continent of the visitor.

Countries PRO

Set the module to be included or excluded based on the Country of the visitor.

Regions PRO

Set the module to be included or excluded based on the Region / State of the visitor.

Postal Codes PRO

Set the module to be included or excluded based on the Postal Code of the visitor.

You can enter a comma-separated list of postal codes (12345) or postal code ranges (12300-12500).

Miscellaneous

Components

Set the module to be included or excluded from specific Components.

Templates

Set the module to be included or excluded from specific Templates.

URLs

The URL rule allows control over specific pages or groups of pages, with support for Regular Expressions.

You can enter (part of) the URLs to match, by using a new line for each different match.

You can also turn on the 'Case Sensitive' option, or select to treat the value as Regular Expressions.

Custom PHP PRO

This gives you the opportunity to show or hide a module based on anything you can think of. You just need to know what PHP code you should use.

With PHP you can call on all data/information available in the variables, URL, database, etc. And then do your checks on this data. You can control the display by ending the PHP code with a return true or false based on your checks.

For examples and ready-to-use PHP scripts, check out the "Using Custom PHP Conditions" guide.

Other Condition Set

You can also nest another existing Condition Set as part of the current Condition Set.

This allows you to add (or exclude) a set of rules from another Condition Set on top of the current Condition Set.

HikaShop

This rule is based on what HikaShop page is displayed, including Page Types, Categories, and Products.

Page types PRO

You can choose from these options:
Author's items, Category, Categories, Content item, Favoured Items (category view), Favoured Items (legacy view), My Items, Search, Tagged Items (category view), Tagged Items (legacy view)