[Apc-aa-coders] Changes in AA CVS

[Honza M. <hon...@ec...>]

Hi,

   I will try to refresh old habit - post descriptions of all changes in
ActionApps code to apc-aa-coders list. Such descriptions are also placed
in /CHANGES file. I'm asking all developers to do so, as well.

   Regards,
            Honza


Current CVS state: quite stable   (used on our production server)

Today Changes:
04/11/05 - new possibility to specify "group limit". Group limit is used
(honzam)   for limiting number of items from one category. If you want to list
           items grouped by category.......1, but you want to see just first
           three items from each category, then you could use "group limit".
           You can specify it as:
             3category.......1-
             (limit to three items from category.......1 - descending)
             for "order" slice.php3 parameter, or "sort" view.php3 parameter.
           Another usage is:
             sort[0][category.......1]=d&sort[0][limit]=3
             for slice.php3
           (it is also good in case you want to list all categories header, 
           in which is at least one item - you can just set limit to 1)
         - conditions (conds[]) now could contain also long (unpacked) ids
           for id item field
         - new possibility to define, how the Related Selection Window listing
           should look - define view for it
         - the records with the same key and value is not listed twice
           in the inputform selectboxes
         - fixed dicussion caching - the cache is now invalidated correctly
           after user sendinds the post to the discussion
         - fixed slice.php3 content caching - it was broken since we added
           _#SESSION_ alias, which was different each time the slice.php3
           was called. Now it is done better way (f_e:session) function
         - searchbar now uses better help texts for date fields (the help text
           is in "value" field, not in "operator" field)
         - fixed counting of links in categories (Links module)
         - new possibility to generete standard gettext .PO language files
         - used longer database types for some fields (sql_update.php3)
           (like fulltext_format of slice, view - 2^16 is not enough for some
           aplications)
         - removed all mysql specific functions from perm_sql.php3 (it was last
           place in AA, where we did not use database abstract layer)
         - fixed author/editor security problem in Related Selection Window
           (thanks to Norbert Brazda)
         - category_sort field is now filled by 0 and converted to group_by
           field, when compact view is edited (for very old AA slices). This
           field is there only for backward compatibility - now we use better
           approach (at least three years) - group_by
         - corrected some database queries for easier migration to other
           database engines
         - hierarchical constants are now better handled in inputform - we use
           alias for javascript, which defines the constants, so it is possible
           to change the look of the form without specifying the constants there
         - small speed optimalizations (split() -> explode())
         - imagecopyresampled used instead of imagecopyresized - better image
           (thumbnail) quality generated (based on Norbert Brazda suggestion)
         - new cacheDb(), cacheMemDb(), cacheMem() functions, which joins
           pagecache and contentcache together
         - speed optimalization, set bigger time limit for dictionary aliases
         - improved toexecute class - time measurement implemented so we can run
           as many tasks within given time as possible
             - it allows execute many small tasks or only one big one
         - RSS feeds is able to decode diferent character encoding
           (thanks to Norbert Brazda)
         - better logging of alerts
         - fixed typo in category description cat-description field
         - laguage files updated
         - small fixes/security fixes

-- 
Honza Malik <hon...@ec...>
Econnect