Web Contact Manager / News: Recent posts

The last formal release was a long time ago. But if you watch this project, there are periodic bursts of activity and you can leverage the improvements by fetching the files. While gradual, there have been many changes and you're encouraged to review the Code - History. Here's a summary:
* Event Manager added
* Update for PHP7
* Update for Google Map API v3 and geocoder
* Update for mPDF v8
* Update email notification to include picture
* Update to import - Excel or vCard
* Update to export - Excel or vCard
* Many minor usability improvements including search

Getting this tool running "the first time" is greatly improved in several ways. The help files are pre-built, so, if you simply unzip and run the interface, it detected it hasn't been installed and points you to the help. The Setup Wizard was also improved to correctly create the db and tables, and permit you to create the first super user for this db. Other parts of the Setup Wizard will also check the server configuration, if the needed folders are writable, and so on.

Revision 199: Numerous minor enhancements (and bug fixes) based on additional installations. A side effect is an improved SourceForge hosted demo version. Significantly revised the help system to have some context sensitive help and as a searchable help - using Doxygen. Unfortunately, this change to the help system eliminated the translations that existed (but were never completed, so not a huge loss).

Version 0.8 of Web Contact Manager is available. In spite of the number, this version is considered production stable and is in steady use.

The code has been in production on a couple of servers for over 6 months. The rough edge is in the installation on new environments, which has been done manually to date. Instructions are in the documentation for the manual install.