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Extend-A-Story Version 2.2.0 Released

Version 2.2.0 of Extend-A-Story has been released!

Extend-A-Story is an interactive story where you get to choose your path through the story and help write the story. It is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database.

Version 2.2.0 is the first new version of Extend-A-Story since 2003. This version includes a number of behind the scenes improvements to make it work better with recent versions of PHP and MySQL. In particular, this version fixes an incompatibility with recent versions of MySQL that prevented administrators from logging in to the Extend-A-Story administrative interface.... read more

Posted by Jeffrey J. Weston 2012-08-10

Extend-A-Story version 2.1.1 (security fix) released

Extend-A-Story is an interactive, extendable, choose your own adventure story. Extend-A-Story has been in active use ever since February, 1999 starting with the story, The Never Ending Quest. Since that time, over 12,000 episodes have been written. The first version was written in ASP going against a MS Access database. Since then, several features and enhancements were added.

Release 2.1.1 fixes several bugs that were recently found in the 2.1.0 release. Some of these bugs could potentially lead to security vurnerabilities where an attacker would be able to execute arbitrary SQL statements within your MySQL database at the permission level of your Extend-A-Story database user. It is highly recommended that everyone who is using 2.1.0 upgrade to 2.1.1 as soon as possible.... read more

Posted by Jeffrey J. Weston 2003-12-06

Extend-A-Story version 2.1.0 (feature release) released

Extend-A-Story is an interactive, extendable, choose your own adventure story. Extend-A-Story has been in active use ever since February, 1999 starting with the story, The Never Ending Quest. Since that time, over 11,000 episodes have been written. The first version was written in ASP going against a MS Access database. Since then, several features and enhancements were added.

Release 2.1.0 features numerous improvements over the 2.0.x releases. Primarily, administrator and moderator functionality has been added. The editing interface has also been improved, allowing moderators to edit additional elements of the story.... read more

Posted by Jeffrey J. Weston 2003-07-13

Extend-A-Story version 2.0.1 (bug fix) released

Version 2.0.1 is a bug fix release fixing a small number of bugs found shortly after going live with Version 2.0.0 on The Never Ending Quest. It is recomended that people use this release over the original 2.0.0 release.

Posted by Jeffrey J. Weston 2002-10-01

Extend-A-Story version 2.0.0 (first public release) released

Extend-A-Story is an interactive, extendable, choose your own adventure story. Version 2 is a complete re-write of Extend-A-Story from its original ASP / MS Access origins to PHP / MySQL.

Extend-A-Story has been in active use ever since February, 1999 starting with the story, The Never Ending Quest. Since that time, over 8000 episodes have been written. The first version was written in ASP going against a MS Access database. Since then, several features and enhancements were added.... read more

Posted by Jeffrey J. Weston 2002-10-01