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I have resumed my development on FlatSlash. My main priority was to convert FlatSlash to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Using CSS allows far greater flexibility in layout and styling. Plus, it simplifies coding and setup greatly. And it's the wave of the future. Basically, it needed to happen.
I am now at <a href="http://www.wwu.edu">college</a>, so I don't have an incredible amount of time for development, but it will happen. In this next release, which will be 0.16, the following features will be implemented:... read more

Admin is partially broken in 0.14.1.
To fix it, open up admin.pl, and move line #28, "require "flatslash.pl";", to line 18, above the $tableheader definition. That fixes the problem.

There is a bug with the newsgrabber script in 0.13. It will get all of your headlines perfectly the first time it is run, but it will begin to corrupt the newsfiles after the first, and will eventually cause major problems.
Add these three lines to scripts/newsgrabber.pl:
20: unlink($newstitlefile);
21: unlink($newslinkfile);
22: unlink($newsdescfile);

Without the "20:"'s, of course.

There is a bug with the newsgrabber script in 0.13. It will get all of your headlines perfectly the first time it is run, but it will begin to corrupt the newsfiles after the first, and will eventually cause major problems.
Add these three lines to scripts/newsgrabber.pl:
20: unlink($newstitlefile);
21: unlink($newslinkfile);
22: unlink($newsdescfile);

Without the "20:"'s, of course.

Flatslash v0.13 has been released today. The major change is the comment system, with tons of admin system upgrades, and half of the showcase system.
Enjoy.

As of FS 0.12, anyone with permissions over 1 can access the admin functions.
This has been repaired as of 0.13, which will be released by Sunday.
-----Quick Fix-----
---flatslash.pl----
LINE 307: if ($permissions>@reqperms) {
------change this to:-----
if ($permissions>@reqperms[0]) {
----end----

Problem solved!

Flatslash 0.12 has been released.
My haiatus is almost over.
Life is good.
In 0.12:
-Added polls.
-Added the poll admin. (It doesn't write yet, but you can read about your polls)
-Added error checking in the post function.
-Began the color customization stuff.
-Fixed a bug in the Poll system.
-Created the News system.
-Made the current post system handle a lack of any posts.
-Created the Post Admin system.
-Created the Poll Archive system.
-Created the cron script. =)

I will be going on a short hiatus, for a combination of reasons, not the least of which being the end of the trimesters a-nearing.
I will still be working on FlatSlash, just not with a specific timeline in mind. Expect version 0.12 in maybe a month, as soon as I get in gear.
Version 0.12 will introduce a working poll system.
The comment system probably won't be working until 0.13 or so, with the messageboards probably following soon after that. User preferences are close, they might be working as soon as 0.12. I'm still having problems with the newsgrabber-I might have to skip it in 0.12, and wait a while to get it working.
Well, that's it for now.
Let me know if anyone has any ideas or suggestions.
Adrian Pike
adrian@adriantech.com

FlatSlash version 0.10 has been released!

CHANGES IN 0.10 from 0.01 (adrian@adriantech.com)
0.10 was our first official public release through SourceForge.
- Created the following functions:
Archived News
Current News
Image Archives
Story Submission
Login functions
Weather
Weather Grabbing functions
Post submission review pages.
- Created Flatslash.adriantech.com
- Signed up with Sourceforge.