What the near phpwcms future might bring....

frold · Post by **frold** » Sun 21. Mar 2004, 10:38

Hey all phpwcms folks!!

Many people ask: when will we see a new release of phpwcms and what will it contains? Maybe I can aswer some of these questions..
We all hope that we will see a new release 7 days from now - on the next sunday... This is a temp. deadline and not a guarantee!!

The work until the next release is based on the poll here: http://www.phpwcms.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1230 and you can look forward to:

A sitemap function - the sitemap can also be used for navigation. And it will NOT be a popup solution - many people use a popupkiller, so this is not a good idea we think. It will be a <ul><li></li></ul> styled list - then it can be formatted by using CSS. You can set a sitemap startpoint and it can be used as simple navigation too. - Done

Unlimited templates defaults - Oliver will transfer template_defaults into database and he will make a workaround for article summary formatting so the layout is easy controled - controlled by some kinds of content related replacement tags or better placeholder. - Done

W3C - The frontend will be w3c valid - Done

Fronend user system - Part one of the frontend user system will be started.

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Sun 21. Mar 2004, 10:43

Newsletter The newsletter section will be extended so that it i possible to send newsletters to subscribed users

Search The search will be enhanced

Planned: Calendar, Blog/News

I have lot of additional ideas - but....

Thanks for your patience

Regards
Oliver

pSouper · Post by **pSouper** » Sun 21. Mar 2004, 11:04

Hi OG, I love your quote...

Thanks for your patience

your are most welcome to our patience, our gratitude and our support.

I have read a million posts in this forum that start with.. "first I must say how great phpwcms is..." they/we are all right, and a million is a big number

You just keep on having fun, bacause when you are having fun we always seem to benefit

regards, your humble servant pSouper
ps: I don't was dishes or Iron underwhere, but other than that I remain your servant

pps: and i'm not really too humble either

ionrock · Post by **ionrock** » Sun 21. Mar 2004, 21:09

Oliver,

On the blogging front I have been looking at making a blog blogger friendly (atom and rss feeds) so we don't have to rewrite everything. This way someone could use blogger, movable type or many other blogging systems. This is good in that they can often time update with things like aim, email, standalone app, etc. It also allows all the syndication stuff to be done without even thinking about it

Just thought I would bring it up since it is usually good not to reinvent the wheel. Looking forward to the new release

frold · Post by **frold** » Sun 28. Mar 2004, 12:22

there will not be a release to day!!

but Oliver is working like a maniac on it - so relax and enjoy this weekend - because Im pretty sure that the next weekend will be a "play-around-with-phpwcms-weekend"

pSouper · Post by **pSouper** » Sun 28. Mar 2004, 13:53

relax it's a weekend as there will not be a phpwcms!!- are you f*cking joking that is how we relax. your most stressfull time with phpwcms is pretty much your most relaxed time ona computer

pSouper · Post by **pSouper** » Sun 28. Mar 2004, 13:54

relax it's a weekend as there will not be a phpwcms!!- are you f*cking joking that is how we relax. your most stressfull time with phpwcms is pretty much your most relaxed time ona computer

.
It looks like I may just have to consider slipping in to a coma to unwind now.

frold · Post by **frold** » Sun 28. Mar 2004, 14:35

pSouper wrote:relax it's a weekend as there will not be a phpwcms!!- are you f*cking joking that is how we relax. your most stressfull time with phpwcms is pretty much your most relaxed time ona computer

Then it is good that we are near the end of the weekend!!

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Sun 28. Mar 2004, 15:12

Hi to everybody,

Not the big bang at the moment - but this is the work I have done until now:
http://www.phpwcms.de?download

Before you install!!!
BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP.
Don't forget the database too.

It should be stable (haven't seen any problems on my local install, but...)

More is coming this week.

regards
Oliver

P.S. There is more done than in this changelog

Code: Select all

================================================================================
PHPWCMS CHANGELOG
================================================================================


27-03-2004

  - New content type E-Card for giving website visitors the possibility to send
    image greetings via email. From now on emails in phpwcms are sent by using
	the phpMailer class (http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net). To send emails via
	SMTP (also SMTP_AUTH) you can set default values in conf.inc.php.
	
  - All external classes from include/inc_lib/ext are moved to include/inc_ext.
  
  - The backend default startup text was moved to "phpwcms_template/inc_default/
    startup.html" and can be edited in backend admin section now.


26-03-2004

  - Many content related database fields like article_title and so on are now
    stored as TEXT (LONG VARCHAR). This helps to optimize handling of non
	western languages like Chinese. Now such languages should have better
	support. Alter your database ONLY if you think you need such functionality.
	It should work also with the old form VARCHAR(255). BACKUP!!!
	
  - Backend files like "login.php" are extended wioth meta tag that should
    prevend these backend files from search engine spidering:
	<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">


24-03-2004
  
  After a long break the development goes on....
  
  - Frontend content should renders now 100% W3C valid code. All non valid
    things like height attribute for table cells are replaced by the style
	attribute height.
  
  - Enhanced image resize function uses now following scheme:
    --------------------------------------------------------  
    ImageMagick | source format | target (thumbnail/preview)
    --------------------------------------------------------
                | GIF           | GIF
                | PNG           | PNG
                | all other     | JPG
    --------------------------------------------------------
    GD1 & GD2   | GIF/PNG       | PNG
                | JPG           | JPG
    --------------------------------------------------------
  
  - If ImageMagick is used for converting animated GIF will stay animated GIF
    and also transparent GIF is supported now. When GD is used transparency
    will be filled with white.

  - If the source image has smaller/equal width/height it will never be resized.
    Such images will be copied as thumbnail and preview now. This improves the
    quality of smaller images especially GIF.
    
  - NAV_TABLE_COLUMN was patched: JavaScript CSS pointer handling changed. Now
    it is handled by style. And JavaScript image rollover is handled by special
    JavaScript function what should increase speed on some browsers.
  
  - Backend language handling was changed: now default language is loaded
    first everytime. This solves problems when new language vars aren't
    translated.
	
  - Changed compression setting to the more current zlib outputcompression
    method. Now, when you set the compression value to ON this is the identical
	value for compression level used for transparent output compression. Set:
	$phpwcms["compress_page"] = 0; // for output compression disabled,
	$phpwcms["compress_page"] = 1; // for output compression level range
	                               // from 1-9 where 1 is low and 9 high level,
                                       // a good compromise is 3

frold · Post by **frold** » Sun 28. Mar 2004, 15:18

I was wrong... I dont hope you get angry

webwesen · Post by **webwesen** » Mon 29. Mar 2004, 03:13

in the newest distribution the entire ./img/hilmond/ folder doesn't seem to be a part of the default phpwcms installation. :)

Gruss

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Mon 29. Mar 2004, 07:52

Forget to delete - delete please

- not official as I told

Oliver

Teragon · Post by **Teragon** » Mon 5. Apr 2004, 17:15

I am sorry, but is in the new version now, a fully functional Newslettersystem?

frold · Post by **frold** » Mon 5. Apr 2004, 17:23

nope sorry... and the release of the 4th april is "just" a semi release....

Teragon · Post by **Teragon** » Mon 5. Apr 2004, 17:25

Doesnt't really matter. PHPWCMS is already a great system!! But can you tell me when there will be the newsletter release?

And what kind of news letter system does you use?

Would be great!!