[Phpwebsite-developers] phpWebSite Updates

[Matthew M. <ma...@tu...>]

Greetings,

Well, I am back from a relaxing vacation and ready to get to work.

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Special thanks to Adam and Steven for keeping the coals warm in CVS with
their new classes. I am anxious to see them in action. If they function in
reality as well as in theory, a huge chunk of work will be eliminated in
module development.

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Also thanks to those who spoke up about the module adoption and
registration. Two thoughts on that.

I am not sure if module adoption will occur. If it does, here is what I
suggest.
1) Again, the module developer has to agree to the adoption.
2) The module has to be sponsored by an in-house developer. The sponsor
will work with the current developer and together they will be responsible
for the module.

I think the sponsorship should meet many of the concerns that people have.
The sponsor would keep the code to standard, suggest improvements, etc.
Should the developer and sponsor get it together, we will substitute or
add the module to our distributions. The sponsor will be responsible for
the upkeep of the module should the main developer decide they do not want
to support the module. The sponsor will be responsible for assigning
another sponsor should they be unable to remain with the in-house team.

Let me know if this would work for everyone.

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As for the registration, I agree that having a communication system with
our site is needed, but I agree that we do not want a thread created per
visit to check on it. Further discussion on this is warranted and I am not
sure it can be implemented by final release.

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foreach error on 262: If you are getting this error, please download the
Database.php file from CVS. This was a very strange error because it
worked fine on our side. By default, Pear assigns SQL queries in numeric
order instead of by association. The sqlSelect function was not setting
this to associative until after the query had taken place. The only reason
I can think of as to why it worked sometimes is that some Pear
installations had the associative default set instead of the numeric.
Anyway, I got back from break and I got the same error so I was able to
pinpoint the problem. Please let me know if this solves this problem.

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Plans for Next week

I would really like to press for a final release this upcoming week. This
release would include the upgrading of the phpwebsite home page. I also
want to implement the new core at a couple of university sites. I believe
this will accelerate working the kinks out. If anyone has any issues the
would like to see before final release, please post them.

Also if you are updating your module, please try to make an update package
to post to the update directory. I will be attempting one for calendar
that will include the week view and some bug fixes.

Best regards,
Matt

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Matthew McNaney
Internet Systems Architect
Electronic Student Services
Appalachian State University
Phone: 828-262-6493
phpwebsite.appstate.edu
ess.appstate.edu