Icy Phoenix is a Content Management System based on phpBB, the goal of this project is to provide a user friendly platform for creating sites with many features already integrated in it. The product is suitable both for basic and advanced users.
IcyPhoenix is one of the better, if It's not !
* CMS Administration recoded with new features (some AJAX) and restyled * CMS Blocks and Layouts recoded from scratch to increase flexibility and performance (now block style is in a single file to help designing new styles) * New template structure: it is now possible to create brand new templates by just creating a CSS and a CFG file, this will reduce the number of files needed for each template, reducing also the job in case of updates or customizations; not only, you will be able to easily create combinations between different templates without having to duplicate directory structure * Common CMS and ACP templates now fully independent from all other templates * Common JS and CSS in common folder and possibility to include extra CSS and JS via PHP without editing TPL * Some Functions and other common includes splitted among several files to reduce memory charge and increase performance * Created new overall vars and switches to increase flexibility and performances (old switches were based upon loops, new ones are based on conditions, which are faster to be processed) * English language files grammatically reviewed (thanks Lopalong!) and in some cases updated to the new phpBB 3 format * New Junior Admin permission which gives full admin power while in the forum but restricted in ACP and CMS (ACP modules can be assigned via Junior Admin management and CMS permission for CMS management) * Brand new Statistics system which integrates new features and replace also old Site History page * Bots Parsing now is DB dependent and bots can now have REG access... also you can now add a switch for bots in TPL files to avoid bots spidering something you don't want them to * URL Rewrite modified to be more efficient * Print Page improved * Added Google Search page to be used alternatively the standard search system, this will reduce the charge on your server * Colorize username function recoded to reduce looping and cache issues with a large userbase * Recoded caching system which in older Icy Phoenix version was proved to fail for high traffic sites: this new way to cache should be more efficient and should reduce CPU charge under stressing condition * Birthdays and Calendar should now use less resources than before, again big sites will benefit from this * New CRON system which should be easier to be customized and improved... basic functions already added, new features to come with future versions... * Created new user related functions to simplify Icy Phoenix integration and coding: user_get_avatar, build_im_link, PM Class, generate_user_info * AJAX Sorting in some ACP and CMS pages to speed up things in administrating things * New Recent Topics page allowing admins to track latest users activity * Forums Sorting capabilities both by adding alphabetical sorts and columns headers links * Higher Lang Encoding compatibility * Mass PM feature integrated in Mass Email section * Brand new Ads and Banners system * Mass Email supports now full HTML format for nicely formatted newsletters * Smileys Categories section... it is hardcoded to improve performances even with thousands of smileys * Step by step DB Backup System similar to MySQLDumper... to avoid nasty timeouts when backing up the site * HighSlide JS (http://highslide.com/) integration * Many smaller updates and features... install the release candidate to discover all of them!
* CMS Administration recoded with new features (some AJAX) and restyled * CMS Blocks and Layouts recoded from scratch to increase flexibility and performance (now block style is in a single file to help designing new styles) * New template structure: it is now possible to create brand new templates by just creating a CSS and a CFG file, this will reduce the number of files needed for each template, reducing also the job in case of updates or customizations; not only, you will be able to easily create combinations between different templates without having to duplicate directory structure * Common CMS and ACP templates now fully independent from all other templates * Common JS and CSS in common folder and possibility to include extra CSS and JS via PHP without editing TPL * Some Functions and other common includes splitted among several files to reduce memory charge and increase performance * Created new overall vars and switches to increase flexibility and performances (old switches were based upon loops, new ones are based on conditions, which are faster to be processed) * English language files grammatically reviewed (thanks Lopalong!) and in some cases updated to the new phpBB 3 format * New Junior Admin permission which gives full admin power while in the forum but restricted in ACP and CMS (ACP modules can be assigned via Junior Admin management and CMS permission for CMS management) * Brand new Statistics system which integrates new features and replace also old Site History page * Bots Parsing now is DB dependent and bots can now have REG access... also you can now add a switch for bots in TPL files to avoid bots spidering something you don't want them to * URL Rewrite modified to be more efficient * Print Page improved * Added Google Search page to be used alternatively the standard search system, this will reduce the charge on your server * Colorize username function recoded to reduce looping and cache issues with a large userbase * Recoded caching system which in older Icy Phoenix version was proved to fail for high traffic sites: this new way to cache should be more efficient and should reduce CPU charge under stressing condition * Birthdays and Calendar should now use less resources than before, again big sites will benefit from this * New CRON system which should be easier to be customized and improved... basic functions already added, new features to come with future versions... * Created new user related functions to simplify Icy Phoenix integration and coding: user_get_avatar, build_im_link, PM Class, generate_user_info * AJAX Sorting in some ACP and CMS pages to speed up things in administrating things * New Recent Topics page allowing admins to track latest users activity * Forums Sorting capabilities both by adding alphabetical sorts and columns headers links * Higher Lang Encoding compatibility * Mass PM feature integrated in Mass Email section * Brand new Ads and Banners system * Mass Email supports now full HTML format for nicely formatted newsletters * Smileys Categories section... it is hardcoded to improve performances even with thousands of smileys * Step by step DB Backup System similar to MySQLDumper... to avoid nasty timeouts when backing up the site * HighSlide JS (http://highslide.com/) integration * Many smaller updates and features... install the release candidate to discover all of them!
Hi all, I wanted just to announce the release of Icy Phoenix 1.3 RC2. For further informations you can read the full article here: http://www.icyphoenix.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5845 Regards, Luca
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