[Phpwebsite-developers] Proposed changes for phpWebSite 1.5.2

[Olivier S. <ob...@fr...>]

Hi all,

First of all, many thanks for phpWebSite, it's a wonderful piece of 
software that makes the management of my website much easier.
I recently upgraded from 0.10.2 to 1.5.2 and while it is working fine 
now, I must say it was not an easy path to follow. Thanks to the help of 
many individuals, I got it working as I like, with a theme of my own and 
support for the French language everywhere.
If you want to see the results, it's available here: http://www2.obones.com
It's not "live" just yet (by live, I mean www instead of www2) as I need 
to check a few more things, but I'm quite confident I'm 99% done.

If I'm writing to you today it's because along this course, I had to 
make quite a few changes inside phpWebSite's own source code and I would 
like to propose the changes to you.
I know you are working on the next version (1.6.0) but I'm not sure all 
the issues my changes fix have been seen already.
At first, I'll only post here a summary of the changes I've made. Then, 
if you are interested in them, I'll post the diff files (I'm using 
TortoiseSVN) for you to look at.
So, here are the changes I had to do :

Blog conversion:
  Take into account international characters in the content and summary
  url for the key points to message instead of comments which does not 
work anyway.
  Set summary in the key, it is used by the RSS module.

Menu conversion:
  Take into account the fact that not all keys are to elements of the 
webpage module.

core/class/Init.php:
  Take into account the fact that the ".UTF8" language Id might not be 
installed
  Look for mo files in the /locale folder by default for all modules, 
this makes life easier for translators/maintainers

.htacess
  Add the RewriteBase directive, required on most servers

mod/controlpanel/class/Link.php
  Translation of label and description at runtime to allow language 
change after installation.

mod/controlpanel/class/Tab.php
  Translation of tab title at runtime to allow language change after 
installation.

mod/blog/class/Blog.php
  Encode date/time in UTF-8 as month names may take accented characters
  If no content in the post, do not display the "read more" link

mod/blog/class/Blog_User.php
  Exclude sticky entries from "recent blog entries" block
  Sticky entries show up on every page.

mod/users/class/Form.php
  Replace spaces by non breaking spaces in the "Control Panel" link.

mod/rss/class/Channel.php
  Encode the strings before output in the RSS file to avoid problems 
with unrecognized entities.

mod/alert/class/Alert_Item.php
mod/calendar/class/User.php
mod/calendar/conf/config.php
mod/comments/class/Comment_Item.php
mod/comments/class/Comment_User.php
mod/notes/class/Note_Item.php
mod/pagesmith/class/PS_Page.php
mod/photoalbum/class/Album.php
mod/profiler/class/Profile.php
mod/rideboard/class/Ride.php
mod/search/class/Stats.php
mod/users/class/Users.php
mod/version/class/Approval.php
mod/version/class/Restore.php
trunk/mod/version/class/Version.php
trunk/mod/webpage/class/Volume.php
  Encode date/time in UTF-8

Modified templates to respect the following structure:

<div class="box">
  <div class="box-title">
    <h1>{PAGE_TITLE}</h1>
  </div>
  <div class="box-content">
  </div>
</div>

The modified templates are those ones:
blog/view.tpl
menu/menu_layout/basic/menu.tpl
miniadmin/mini_admin.tpl
related/bank.tpl
related/create.tpl
related/edit.tpl
users/usermenus/top.tpl
webpage/page/basic.tpl
webpage/page/prev_next.tpl
webpage/page/short_links.tpl
webpage/page/verbose_links.tpl

I needed those changes to apply the correct styling in order to get the 
rounded box effect that I wanted. I also made changes inside the article 
module, but I'll contact the author directly.

Let me know what you think of these changes, if you want them and under 
which format.

Cheers
Olivier