Sylbi / News: Recent posts

Added edit functionality. Users can now edit posts that they own.

Added installation Perl script and instructions. Creates Sylbi database (optionally overwrites existing one), generates the schema, sets up initial admin user, and generates Config.pm. I have only tested this on Windows.

Added reset user password functionality to the administrator panel, and added logic to prevent login if a user's status is set to disabled.

Added user management to administration panel. Can search users, and change their type (User/Moderator/Admin/Disabled). Still to do: purge user and posts completely, reset password. Also, enabled moderators to access moderator functions.

The official Sylbi blog has been launched, and is running under the Sylbi demo. It can be viewed here: http://sylbi.arbingersys.com/demo/blog.cgi?uid=5 The design is adapted from a free template created for http://www.blogger.com and gives a good example of customizing Sylbi using advanced HTML/CSS techniques. (Not to mention that it looks pretty.)

Fixed problem with Conversation module and template. User panel was always displaying. Now it can be removed or modified as just another piece of the template.

Added paging to blog view, added blog navigation to the user panel, and modified blog template to allow bloggers to remove site specific markup. Note: There has been a modification to the blog_config table. If you are already running Sylbi and want to add this release without losing any data, see "upgrade.sql".

One of the targets of Sylbi is to run on as many systems as easily as possible. It has currently been running under WAMP (Win+Apache+MySQL+Perl), and I have been successful installing it to my web hosting provider (under LAMP). Now it has also been installed under IIS. For instructions, go to: http://sylbi.arbingersys.com/docs.html

Added paging to the topic view of conversations. Admin can set paging for the site in Config.pm with 'convers_paging' parameter. If no paging is defined, when a user selects a topic all conversations are returned.

Added moderator functionality. Now you can delete individual posts, and delete conversations. Added the "Moderator.pm" module, since site moderation is a subset of administrator duties, and users with the "moderator" flag, not just admins, will be able to perform these functions.

Added 'app_trace' functionality to the category matching methods (they're the trickiest!). Some comment/code cleanup, modified CSS

May be downloaded via SVN or File Release.

Update: Bug fix, added "trace" capabilities.

- Fixed a bug in conversation re-categorization
- Added tracing via 'carp' that can be enabled/disabled by user