[Apc-aa-coders] Changes in AA Subversion - 2007-08-24

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

Hi,

   today I submitted some changes in the Subversion. The main change for
today is the Hit Counting, which is completely rewritten. Unfortunately
you need to run sql_update.php3 script, in order the three new tables
are created - hit_long_ids, hit_short_ids and hit_archive. For more
details see

http://www.actionapps.org/en/Designing_Output_Templates#Popular_Items_.28Hit_counting.29

   Honza



Current SVN state: 
   Stable - we run current code one week on our production server.


Last SVN Changes:

08/24/07 (honzam)
 - New version of counting item hits (AA_Hitcounter) with ability
   to display "Most popular item last day/week/month". See

http://www.actionapps.org/en/Designing_Output_Templates#Popular_Items_.28Hit_counting.29
   for more details.
   (you need to run sql_update.php3 script !!!)
 - logging is rewritten to class (AA_Log), the logs are automaticaly
   cleaned (entries older than 40 days) so the log should never became
   so big
 - New ParseMulti transformation for "Modify Content..." feature
   of ItemManager - Divide the text to multiple values on specified
   delimiter
 - Two Boxes input type now allows to move more than one value at time
   (by selecting more values with CTRL key)
 - uploaded new basice ER schema of AA database from Jitka Zavadova
   See doc/AAdb_ER.html
 - updated AA coding standards
 - used size-optimized version of prototype.js library
 - Database eroros messages are less verbose - do not display database
   username, ...
 - _#ID_COUNT gives better results, now - mainly in the casese, where
   we have nested views
 - Alias parameters on the field admin page are now textareas,
   so the code for the parameter could be longer. We also changed the
   database field type, so the length of the parameter is not limited
   to 256 characters (you need to run sql_update.php3 script)
 - do not dislplay errors in img.php3 (phpThumb)
 - some small fixes, name changes and security improvements
 
08/13/07 (honzam)
 - fixed problem of overwriting articles which was fed by RSS or AARSS
   (cross server networking)

08/10/07 (honzam)
- fixed problem with adding item (stringexpand.php3 error)

08/04/07 (honzam)
- Central upgraded to new version with less bugs
- other small fixes

08/03/07 (honzam)
 - AA_Manager class which takes care about all managers - Item Manager,
   Links Manager, ... now support new API for actions (AA_Manageraction)
 - Central manager switched to use new acion API - AA_Manageraction.
   We plan to rewrite all the actions (for item and links) to that new
   API and remove the code for the old approach
 - synchronize scripts added to central admin interface
 - {conds} command obtains third parameter, which do not url encode
   the condition, so for the view you have to use the old version
   without the third parameter:
     {view.php3?vid=9&cmd[9]=c-1-{conds:category.......1}},
   but for {ids..}, where we do not expect urlencoded strings you have
   to add third parameter, like:

{ids:5367e68a88b82887baac311c30544a71:d-headline........-=-{conds:category.......3:1}}
 - The links, which are not active in AA Admin interface is now
   completely hidden (like the "AA" link for Editors)
 - disabled "Update modules table" option in sql_update.php3 since it
   clears the priority field
 - the field "Upload URL" on "Slice Admin" -> "Slice" page is hidden,
   since it is not working, yet.
 - fixed Hirachical constant editor - now works again
 - linkchecker do not produce warnings, if the domain do not exist
 - removed unused function p_arr
 
08/01/07 (honzam)
 - new "Central" admin interface visible for superadmins. It can store
   multiple configurations of AA, so you can manage more AAs
   and databases from one place. Currently it allows to manage
   the configurations (add, edit, delete) and also do sql_update.php3
   on multiple (selected) AAs
 - new table central_conf created in sql_update.php3 script - used
   by "Central"
 - new robots.txt file for more secure setting of the AA install
   (Thanks to carlos Alberto RR <ca...@co...>)
 - new f_z alias function which get the size or type of the file
   (Thanks to Adam Sanchez)
 - new expand function {lastedit:[<date_format>:[<slice_id>]]}
   which displays the date of last modificaton of any item in the slice.
   The format of date is the sane as used in PHP date() function
   (see http://php.net/date). slice_id could be ommited - then check
   all the slices in AA. Thanks belongs to Adam Sanchez.
 - more spam checking for in discussions - you can use the "answer"
   field solution in the same way as with anonymous form for items
 - small refactoring of QuoteColons() in strinexpand.php3 - moved
   to AA_Stringexpand::quoteColons($text) where it belongs.
 - small refactoring in ItemManager - bins internaly uses bit
   representation insted of string
 - fixes in AA synchronization script
 - fixed some SQL queries in sql_update.php3, to not produce errors
   in last versions of MySQL
 - fix database error messages to not produce invalid html code
 - small fix in tabledit
 
07/30/07 (honzam)
 - fixed javascript problem in "Slice Admin" -> "RSS Feeds", so delete
   and edit works again.
   
07/02/07 (mimo)  
 - fixed MLX view caching - enable with define ('MLX_NOVIEWCACHE',0);
 - fixed mlx mini view generator (aka getTranslations)
   now handles MLXView::getTranslations no ctrlSliceID
 - enabling MLXTRACE now gives timing info
 - slight change to what view.php3 passes to mlx->postqueryzids
 - using $_REQUEST to get $keystr in cached.php3 - register_globals
 
06/07/07 (honzam)
 - fixed "Modify Content" action in Item Managrer to work with PHP4
 - fixed Alerts admin page buton - it didn't work after clean-up
   (typo problem)
   
06/01/07 (honzam)
 - export slice now allows convert exported data to utf-8
   It is handy if you are switching slices to another server, where
   AA uses newer - utf-8 character encoding.
   
05/29/07 (honzam)
 - fixed some typos (so view editing works again)

05/28/07 (honzam)  
 - new Optimize_db_feed_inconsistency action in AA -> Optimize, which
   tests, if feeds table do not contain relations to non existant
   slices. Also fixed for use with PHP4.
 - inner node feeding setting page now displays wrong assignments to non
   existant slice (database inconsistence after slice deletion)
 - fixed problems with PHP4
    - _AA_CoLoN_, ... was not correctly unescaped, so such strange
      strings were displayed on the output
    - class names are in lower case in php4, so functions (input types)
      selection did not work correctly
 - fixed typos in sql_update.php3
 
05/28/07 (honzam)  
 - multiple checkboxes input type has its own ajax output
 - new url parameter AAnoSORT (set[]=sort-AAnoSORT) for view.php3, which
   cut the sort setting in view off
 - annonymous filler now supports new possibility to update already
   filled items through aa[u536353...] syntax
   (see changes on 04/15/07 for description)
 - better quoting if the displayed text in {htmltoggle} and
   {htmlajaxtoggle}, so the displayed text should not break
   the javascript
 - database structure updated to last verson in sql_update.php3 script
    - better support for MySQL 5.0,
    - field for grouping items in views by first letter, ...
 - fixed typo in searchbar (admin interface), so it is functional again
 - prototype (javascript library for AJAX, DHTML, ...) updated
   to version 1.5.1
   
05/16/07 (honzam)  
 - fixed help text for site include (thanks to Adam Sanchez)


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