Release Logs:XOOPS Cube Legacy 2.2.0

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Contents 1 Summary 1.1 What to expect 1.2 Can you check this? 2 System Requirements 3 HowToUpgrade 4 Enhancements 4.1 Admin 4.2 User 4.3 Profile 4.4 Shared Category 4.5 Private Message 4.6 Security 4.7 WYSIWYG 4.8 UI 4.9 Design 4.10 Preload 4.11 APIs (for developers) 5 Fix 5.1 For PHP 5.3 5.2 Others

Summary

• We are developing under Package_Legacy/branches/r2_2_00-branch
• The current phase is "2.2.0 Production version Released" / "2.2.1 Beta1 Released"
• XOOPS Cube Legacy 2.2.0 Download / XOOPS Cube Legacy 2.2.1 Beta 1 Download

• XOOPS Cube Legacy 2.2 FAQ
• Upgrade from XCL2.1

What to expect

• Big improvements - This is the first major upgrade version of the Legacy Base module.
• Bugs - Developers're challenging to fix known issues that the 2.1.x architecture can not fix.
• PHP 5 and later - 2.2.0 can run on only PHP 5 and later.
• Speeding up - Applied nobu's code tuning for speeding up.

Can you check this?

Especially, can you check this?

• Bug 2839172 missing SSLLogin feature, if you have SSL environment.

System Requirements

• PHP 5.0 and later
• MySQL 5

HowToUpgrade

• Upgrade from XCL2.1.* to XCL2.2

Enhancements

• XOOPS_TRUST_PATH Support
  • Directories smarty, cache, templates_c and settings were moved under XOOPS_TRUST_PATH.
  • Add `trust_dirname` field in Modules table. Module Developers should add $modversion['trust_dirname'] to their xoops_version.php if using trust path.
• Keep compatibility with 2.1. Almost modules for XCL 2.1 runs on XCL 2.2.

Admin

• New FileManager using Flash.
• Site administrators can define page title format of modules using new API.

User

• You can download user data as CSV.
• When a user uploads a big avatar image, the avatar image is resized automatically(GD2 library is required).

Profile

• This is a new module.
• You can edit fields of user profile data
  • Site administrators can add custom fields to user data form of your site.
  • Site administrators can show values in profile by smarty modifier xoops_user.

Shared Category

• This is a new module(in extras/extra_modules/lecat).
• Legacy 2.2 supports the category feature as generic feature for modules.
• Site administrators create a category and share it with the plural modules using this feature.
• Hierarchic structure support.

Private Message

• XCL 2.2 employed message module instead of PM module.

Security

• XCL 2.2 installer employed xoops_trust_path policy.

WYSIWYG

• The dhtml text area is "replacable". You can replace the default dhtmltarea with WYSIWYG.
• WYSIWYG Editor for Blocks
• Default Editor WYSIWYG

UI

• AdminWelcomePage
• Admin User Interface

Design

• XCL 2.2 has CSS Framework under extra.
• Because XCL 2.2 supports jQuery, designers can release dynamic themes using jQuery.

Preload

• jQuery_ExternalLink.class.php added to extras/extra_preload/

APIs (for developers)

• jQuery Support. (XCL 2.2 loads jQuery and jQuery UI in default)
• JavaScript and Html Head handling
  • function for set/get http meta element.
  • Set RSS auto-discovery url in LegacyRender Preference.
• Legacy_Utils new APIs.
  • getUid. This new API is easy way to get user or guest user.
  • getDirnameListByTrustDirname
  • getTrustDirnameByDirname
  • formatPagetitle
  • getModuleHandler
  • getUserName
  • renderUri
    • New API "Legacy_Utils formatPagetitle()" formats page titles that site administrators define.
    • XCL 2.2 recommends module developers to use this new API.
• Legacy_TextFilter
  • method purifyHtml() is added.
• XoopsSimpleObject
  • method purifyHtml() is added.
• XoopsObjectGenericHandler
  • method getIdList() is added
• New Delegates
  • XoopsObjectGenericHandler
    • when insert() new record: 'Module.{dirname}.Event.Add.{tablename}'
    • when insert() update record: 'Module.{dirname}.Event.Update.{tablename}'
    • when delete(): 'Module.{dirname}.Event.Delete.{tablename}'
  • New delegates for the category module.
  • "Legacy_Progress" is a new delegate interface for workflow.
  • more extendable.
• Misc Improvement
  • Add member property $mDirname to XoopsSimpleObject and XoopsObjectGenericHandler
  • IN Clause support in Criteria.
  • Define XOOPS_LIBRARY_PATH.
  • Add 'user_name' key in smarty plugin xoops_user
  • SEO Url(Cool Uri)

Fix

For PHP 5.3

• parse_ini_file() compliant for PHP5.3

Others

• Set LanguageManager's LanguageName in globals
• Allow custom module install functin to reference $mlog
• style in legacy/langauge/xxx/global.php
• Move language files to extra, except english.
• PHPMailerlibrary version up to 5.1
• Smarty library version up to 2.6.26
• nusoap library version up to 0.9.5