PointComma web content management system / News: Recent posts

In preparation of the upcoming 4.0, PointComma version 3.8 beta was released today. Happy testing!

This upcoming release of PointComma, tagged pc38dev in CVS, will be numbered 4.0, considering the important changes that have been brought to:

- the database structure (module and types identifier are now user-assigned, ensuring that table and column names are meaningful and portable)

- the data-management features (type inheritance, simpler date management)

- key functions such as getList() (changes in parameters to make it easier to use, more robust and more flexible, and addition of extra features to reduce the footprint of a PointComma-based site)... read more

The 3.6 version of the PointComma web content management system was released today. The system now features a good rich-text editor and a more complete installer. This release is the most stable yet. More information at http://www.pointcomma.com/

Better handling of a default PHP configuration (no magic_quotes or register_globals, fewer non-fatal PHP warnings or notices), a rich-text editor (IE/Win and Mozilla only), and a better installer.

PointComma is getting cleaner.

The arrival of Lodewijk in the development team brings us a cross-browser, cross-platform, rich-text editor in the upcoming release of PointComma (repackaged from somewhere else I believe). Well, by cross-browser, I mean Internet Explorer 5.5 and up on Windows, and Mozilla from 1.3. We've also ensured that PointComma can now be installed on a default config of PHP, i.e. with register_globals turned off. It handles elegantly a rather strict error reporting policy. This is a first cleanup before we make the bigger jump of bundling PointComma with Smarty templates, and providing templates management within the PointComma admin interface.

Check out the downloads section at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15616 for the latest and greatest PointComma ever. Admin-moderated user self-registration with email verification (yeah, I know, that's standard, but still), default rights for such users ("profiles"), and function-based user management make this release suitable for the creation of sites with a rather large user base, such as the Westlanders web site http://www.westlanders.net/... read more

This intermediary version introduces a major change: the one-table-per-type database format. It should have been there all along, it is now available. The upgrade process is made rather painless by a converter. The expected speed increase is between 7 and 10 fold, and from a technological point of view, the new structure makes a lot more sense.

The next version of PointComma will offer the possibility to choose between a fixed database layout and a one-table-per-type layout. This will allow for simple RAD and the sharing of DBs between sites (as it is the case now with version 3), and, with the new configuration, for more powerful searches.

The caching "technology" created for PointComma 2 has not been carried over to version 3, and this is a shame. I am working on this issue at the moment.... read more

The documentation applicable to PointComma version 3 has been released today at http://www.pointcomma.com/documentation/

The third version of PointComma, which has been in the works for almost half a year at the HKU, is now implemented in a web site. The pre-beta version is visible at http://nuclear.hku.nl/pointcomma3/ and the admin interface at http://nuclear.hku.nl/pointcomma3/admin/

By all means, check out the documentation (which is the point of it all, with the cleanliness of the code) located at http://nuclear.hku.nl/?p=250... read more

Check out the "Docs" pages of PointComma: I've posted a fairly extensive 'commercial' description of the system as it is going to be in a couple of weeks!

The PointComma project is alive, although using SourceForge is difficult for me. A the moment, I am a 4th year student at the Utrecht School of Arts (http://www.hku.nl/ - HKU), in the faculty Art, Media and Technology (KMT), in Hilversum, the Netherlands. 4th year means EMMA (European Masters of Media Arts), and my group (http://nuclear.hku.nl/ - Team Nuclear) has an assignment which is going to make good use of PointComma. But we need to clean it up and extend it, too.... read more