v-creator

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: v-creator_1.3-pre1

Notes:


Changes:
Changes from v1.2 to v1.3-pre1
-----------------------------------

2005-08-11 10:56  rolfea

	* doc/: v-creator-reference.pdf, v-creator-reference.ps:
	  Documentation regenerated to reflect changes.

2005-08-10 20:51  rolfea

	* modules/text.php: Comment cleanup and corrections.

2005-08-10 20:51  rolfea

	* modules/dataSetList.php: Document checkMode function.

2005-08-10 20:50  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Function _i_debugMemory removed.

2005-08-10 20:50  rolfea

	* classes/VCPage.php: Comment corrections.

2005-08-10 18:29  rolfea

	* ChangeLog: Change log for v1.2 to v1.3pre1

2005-08-09 12:19  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Added appendScheme parameter to
	  getSiteReference so that the scheme need not be retrieved
	  automatically if a specific scheme is to be forced.

2005-08-09 12:18  rolfea

	* modules/page.php: Added page_append_scheme to getSiteReference so
	  that the scheme need not be retrieved automatically if a specific
	  scheme is to be forced.

2005-08-09 11:38  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Fix: should set quick exit path when form
	  method=post from non-SSL to SSL page warning is given so
	  attempted action is not performed.

2005-08-04 15:13  rolfea

	* modules/form.php: When processing required groups trim each group
	  before exploding the string to an array to avoid generating extra
	  redundant elements.

2005-08-02 19:33  rolfea

	* examples/project_config.php: Document changes to VC_USER_MODULES
	  which may now  contain multiple paths to be searched, each
	  separated by a colon.

2005-08-02 19:30  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Extend useModule function so that
	  VC_USER_MODULES may contain multiple paths to be searched, each
	  separated by a colon.

2005-08-01 11:11  rolfea

	* modules/dataSetList.php: Fix: When building datasets trim values
	  returned by explode as the string passed to use as values may be
	  specified as 'a,b,c' or 'a, b, c'.

2005-07-11 19:15  rolfea

	* classes/: VCDatabase_mysql.php, VCDatabase_odbc.php: Fix thinko
	  in get_error which prevented SQL error messages from being
	  reported.

2005-07-11 10:00  rolfea

	* modules/toolkit.php: Fix sortDataSet when used on dataSets
	  without a header row.

2005-07-11 09:48  rolfea

	* modules/toolkit.php: Rewrite of sortDataSet to improve
	  performance.

2005-06-28 16:36  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Removed nested tag optimizations introduced
	  in v1.141 due to exposure of v-creator tags in source when
	  processing nested loops and loop template data not removed. The
	  template data is not correctly detected as unprocessed tags as
	  that checking had been optimised out as well!

2005-06-23 11:29  rolfea

	* modules/text.php: Fix: When using _i_convertToLink or
	  _i_convertToImage if tag started at position 0 conversion aborted
	  due to incorrect checking of strpos return code.

2005-06-10 12:04  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Fix annoying extra line breaks generated by
	  LOOP/LEND tags.

2005-06-09 10:44  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Optimisations for when we process nested
	  tags. More optimisations for _i_processTags.

2005-06-07 13:22  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Minor performance inprovement for COND and
	  SEC tag processing as well as _i_processTag.

2005-06-07 12:52  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Minor performance inprovement for COND tag
	  processing.

2005-06-07 11:55  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Removed experimental MARK/MEND changes.

2005-06-07 11:52  rolfea

	* classes/VCPage.php: Ammended endPage to return the generated
	  HTML. This is usually pageDriver.php and allows it to be able to
	  work with the data (EG writing to a cache etc).

2005-06-06 13:25  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Addition of new MARK/MEND tags - HIGHLY
	  EXPERIMENTAL CODE!!!

2005-05-27 09:50  rolfea

	* modules/toolkit.php: Performance tweak for nameDataSet function.

2005-05-27 09:49  rolfea

	* modules/dataSetList.php: Added a generic checkMode function for
	  use with List dataSets.

2005-05-24 16:01  rolfea

	* modules/dataSetList.php: Allow sub-selection of rows in dataset
	  by id.

2005-05-24 14:49  rolfea

	* modules/dataSetList.php: New module to easily create quick
	  datasets from a comma separated string when a complete database
	  module would be overkill.

2005-05-23 12:11  rolfea

	* modules/date.php: In split routine correct value for minutes and
	  seconds. We should only use ltrim instead of trim otherwise a
	  value like 30 becomes 3.

2005-05-23 11:26  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: In _i_getFileSecure only use VC_SITE_PATH
	  if it is defined.

2005-05-23 10:45  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: When using VC_CURL_IP in _i_getFileSecure
	  use VC_SITE_PATH after the IP if it is defined.

2005-05-18 16:09  rolfea

	* classes/VCPage.php: Changed VC_DATABASE_BACKEND check to
	  VC_DB_BACKEND to match other database settings.

2005-05-18 16:08  rolfea

	* examples/project_config.php: Added comments and example entry for
	  VC_DB_BACKEND.

2005-05-11 11:25  rolfea

	* sql/vcreator_db.sql: New content table added to support dynamic
	  content module content.php

2005-05-11 11:16  rolfea

	* sql/vcreator_db.sql: Version 1.10 imported and reexported to
	  update MySQL dump format to make compares easier.

2005-05-11 10:47  rolfea

	* modules/content.php: Generic dynamic content module with optional
	  associated image.

2005-04-18 14:55  rolfea

	* classes/VCDatabase.php: Fix getInsertId. It should reference the
	  backend instance for the method get_insert_id.

2005-04-18 14:25  rolfea

	* classes/VCDatabase_odbc.php: Comments added on limitations.

2005-04-18 12:31  rolfea

	* classes/VCPage.php: When setting up the database connection
	  default to MySQL backend if VC_DATABASE_BACKEND not defined in
	  configuration file.

2005-04-18 12:29  rolfea

	* classes/VCDatabase_odbc.php: ODBC backend for VCDatabase.

2005-04-18 12:29  rolfea

	* classes/VCDatabase_mysql.php: MySQL backend for VCDatabase.

2005-04-18 12:29  rolfea

	* classes/VCDatabase.php: Changes to allow use of generic database
	  backends. The constructor now has an additional backend
	  parameter.

2005-04-13 16:15  rolfea

	* modules/files.php: Rename function added - yet to be tested!

2005-04-08 18:19  rolfea

	* modules/text.php: Revert patch to _i_lf2br which tried to be
	  intelligent about linefeeds in pre blocks. Doing so currently
	  breaks a LOT of other formats.

2005-04-05 16:39  rolfea

	* modules/text.php: Patch from JJ - Added subscript s[]s,
	  superscript S[]S and strikethrough -[]- formatting.

2005-04-01 15:05  rolfea

	* modules/user.php: Update default login page to look for in
	  autoLogin from login.php to login.vc. If login.php is still
	  required add $VC_data['VC_Login_Page'] = 'login.php' to your page
	  driver.].

2005-03-30 16:48  rolfea

	* modules/files.php: Get upload function to also return the
	  basename only of the original file uploaded.

2005-03-24 10:18  rolfea

	* modules/page.php: Inconsistency fixed between getSiteReference
	  and getPathReference. getSiteReference now returns it's value in
	  page_site_ref. Sites using this function will require the
	  addition of |{DATA:page_site_ref}| to display the site reference
	  'in page'. getPathReference now sets page_path_ref.

2005-03-23 15:40  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Define for ENG_FILE_NOT_FOUND unused now
	  and so removed.

2005-03-23 15:32  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: In _i_getFileSecure only handle 401 (Auth)
	  status codes. We no longer handle non 200 errors but allow the
	  code retrieved by curl from Apache to be passed through. This
	  allows us to easily use Apache's ErrorDocument  directive for
	  custom error pages. In format don't check for a file's existance
	  - let Apache di it via curl and return a 404. In _i_processPage
	  drop array_flip - expensive to do and not required, also mark
	  additional elements for cleanup. In _i_getTags Only rebuild parts
	  and loop arrays when flagged instead of unconditionally.

2005-03-23 15:16  rolfea

	* modules/page.php: Added getPathReference to return the path only
	  of the current request.

2005-03-14 11:12  rolfea

	* classes/VCDatabase.php: When calling mysql_error pass the current
	  link reference as we may have mutliple database links.

2005-03-11 10:35  rolfea

	* modules/text.php: Double quotes cleanup. Added tags for
	  Preformatted text blocks ( p[ ]p ) and images/graphics ( g[ ]g ).
	  Only preformat added for format all for now. New function
	  _i_convertToImage added to process image tags. _i_replaceTags has
	  new parameter $substituteTag so an HTML tag can be different from
	  the markup tag.

2005-03-01 15:18  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Make cypher in base64toStr and strToBase64
	  static. Added new _i_debugMemory routine for internal debugging.

2005-02-26 17:12  rolfea

	* utils/genDBmodule.php: When generating code for getDataSet $order
	  was not being initialised before use.

2005-02-21 15:06  rolfea

	* modules/form.php: Update saveFormData to use $_POST instead of
	  $HTTP_POST_VARS as we are now using $_POST which is a separate
	  array.

2005-01-27 12:47  rolfea

	* modules/images.php: Quote file name incase it has spaces.

2005-01-18 14:23  rolfea

	* modules/text.php: Fix typo in _i_buildList. Few nasty hacks in
	  _i_buildList to correct HTML generated - assumes list is within a
	  paragraph block for now.

2005-01-14 10:07  rolfea

	* modules/text.php: Function and processing added for building
	  unordered lists from text lines starting with leading whitespace
	  and an asterisk.

2005-01-05 09:33  rolfea

	* modules/date.php: Timezone added to split() function date
	  information.

2004-12-23 15:50  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: In _i_processPage when cleaning up
	  whitspace from processed tags only remove elements who's length
	  is zero (without trimming). Also validate result of checking for
	  line feeds correctly.

2004-12-23 15:25  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Performance tweaks for _i_processPage and
	  _i_getTags.

2004-12-23 11:39  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Minor optimizations to _i_processPage,
	  _i_CONDtag and _i_SECtag. getTags optimized to remove empty/null
	  tags so they are not processed later on. _i_LOOPtag optimized for
	  when there is nothing between the LOOP and LEND tags.

2004-12-23 11:34  rolfea

	* classes/VCSession.php: Minor optimizations in checkAuthority.

2004-12-22 15:35  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Switch to using superglobals instead of
	  depricated $HTTP_* globals. Also reimplement the moduleCache as a
	  static instead of a global as it is only used in the useModule
	  function.

2004-12-22 15:12  rolfea

	* classes/VCSession.php: Switch to using superglobals instead of
	  depricated $HTTP_* globals. Also reimplement the authorityCache
	  as a static instead of a global as it is only used in one
	  function.

2004-12-22 15:10  rolfea

	* classes/VCPage.php: Switch to using superglobals instead of
	  depricated $HTTP_* globals.

2004-12-21 10:53  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Performance optimizations. Rewrite
	  strToBase64 and base64ToStr using bit logic.

2004-12-21 10:52  rolfea

	* classes/VCSession.php: Minor comparison updates ('==' to '===').

2004-12-21 10:50  rolfea

	* classes/VCPage.php: Modified a == check to === inside a foreach
	  loop.

2004-12-20 19:01  rolfea

	* classes/: VCPage.php, VCSession.php, VCEngine.php: Performance
	  enhancement - cleanup global usage.

2004-12-20 13:38  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: In _i_processPage check array offsets are
	  in range otherwise generates invalid array indexes.

2004-12-20 11:05  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: _i_processPage updated to produce better
	  formatted HTML after v-creator tags processed.

2004-12-20 11:02  rolfea

	* classes/VCPage.php: Trim whitespace from resulting page data
	  instead of doing it in VCEngine::_i_processPage. Then it only
	  gets done once at the end of the page.

2004-12-19 17:42  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Minor optimizations, mostly in use of
	  globals. Caching added for useModule function.

2004-12-19 12:32  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Revert changes to assignment tag (done in
	  VCEngine v1.121) as flagging undefined defines/VC_data values
	  actually catches a lot of development bugs which can be hard to
	  identify if they are not being flagged.

2004-12-16 14:28  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: On the assignment tag if the right hand
	  side variable is not defined or in VC_data the left hand side
	  variable is assigned null instead of throwing an undefined
	  variable error.

2004-12-15 17:07  rolfea

	* examples/project_config.php: Document new VC_CURL_IP setting.

2004-12-15 16:53  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: If VC_CURL_IP is defined improve CURL
	  performance by avoiding domain lookups for self.

2004-12-15 16:51  rolfea

	* classes/VCPage.php: Defines added for VC_AMP and
	  VC_QUESTION_MARK. Can be used with session:checkIdNeeded.

2004-12-15 16:50  rolfea

	* modules/session.php: Added checkIdNeeded function to return the
	  name/value pair for the session ID if cookies are not being used.

2004-12-15 13:46  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: In _i_HIDEtag if data to be hidden is empty
	  set VChId to a value of '1' which is a marker value for nothing
	  actually being hidden.

2004-12-15 13:44  rolfea

	* classes/VCPage.php: Check for VChId value of '1' which is a
	  marker value for nothing actually being hidden.

2004-12-15 11:57  rolfea

	* classes/VCSession.php: To improve performance there is now a 1 in
	  100 change of orphans being checked and old sessions being
	  purged.

2004-12-15 11:46  rolfea

	* classes/VCSession.php: Processing added to remove orphaned
	  sessions.

2004-12-12 20:54  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: in format function fix rebuilding of the
	  query string passed to CURL.

2004-12-10 15:51  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: fixPage updated to handle multiple forms on
	  a page.

2004-12-10 15:16  rolfea

	* classes/VCPage.php: Uses new VChId parameter from URLs. Backwards
	  compatability added for old VChid via new supportVChid function.

2004-12-10 15:14  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Removed temp overrides in str2hex/hex2str.
	  base64ToStr and strToBase64 now use ',' as padding character
	  instead of '.'. _i_HIDEtag now generates new VChId instead of
	  VChid. encrypt_ssl and encrypt_mcrypt use new strToBase64.
	  decrypt_ssl and decrypt_mcrypt use new base64ToStr. getCypher
	  inlined into strToBase64 and base64ToStr.

2004-12-10 14:10  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: In fixPage fix =/== typos and removed
	  unused variable allocation

2004-12-09 19:23  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: Experimental modified base64 encoder added
	  to produce smaller VChid identifiers (around 30-40% smaller).

2004-12-09 11:19  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: fixURL - correct logic for when to add the
	  session id by taking the scheme into account. This stops links
	  like mailto links for having session ids added.

2004-12-08 17:01  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: fixPage updated to also fix image map area
	  tags.

2004-12-08 16:33  rolfea

	* modules/user.php: VCEngine:fixURL called before sending header
	  redirects. Only log redirects when debug is set on.

2004-12-08 16:32  rolfea

	* classes/VCPage.php: endPage modified to call VCEngine:fixPage so
	  pages work even without cookies for session IDs.

2004-12-08 16:30  rolfea

	* classes/VCMaintenance.php: fixURL called before sending header
	  redirects. Only log redirects when debug is set on.

2004-12-08 16:29  rolfea

	* classes/VCEngine.php: New functions fixPage and fixURL added to
	  handle sessions without cookies. fixURL called before sending
	  header redirects. Only log redirects when debug is set on.
	  _i_URLtag cleaned up using fixURL.

2004-11-25 12:21  rolfea

	* modules/text.php: When formatting links a[]a will launch link in
	  a new window, A[]A will use current window.

2004-11-24 16:19  rolfea

	* modules/toolkit.php: Added render function to provide a hook into
	  VCEngine::inline_format to process v-creator tagged data on the
	  fly.

2004-11-19 15:12  rolfea

	* utils/genDBmodule.php: When a module is generated if there is an
	  existing source file it will be checked for a special comment
	  marker. If the marker is found any code below the marker will be
	  preserved in the new	generated source. However this has ment
	  that the generated source is no longer directed to stdout for
	  redirection. This feature will be added back in a future version.

2004-11-19 11:05  rolfea

	* utils/genDBmodule.php: Allow order by clause to be modified in
	  modifyDataSet.

2004-11-16 13:55  rolfea

	* modules/files.php: Fix index not found error for file extension.

2004-11-14 21:58  rolfea

	* classes/VCSession.php: Make sure sessions expired for an extended
	  period are cleaned up.

2004-11-11 19:48  rolfea

	* utils/genDBmodule.php: Added modifyDataSet function and hooked it
	  into getDataSet to allow beter customisation via subclasses so
	  database module can be regenerated without losing customisation.

2004-11-11 11:23  rolfea

	* modules/text.php: a[]a and m[]m markup modified to take
	  descriptions.