Hail brothers and sisters.
At this Weekend I will change the boardsoftware to the latest release. Current we are using the Version 3.0.9 and the latest is 3.1. Further the current design of the website will be a little revised. Not really much, but I think it looks a little bit better.
The last weeks I have tested everything and I think, that now everything is “bug free” (I hope). I was much work to revised everything
The last day I have prepared everything for the relaunch. I think, I will start to prepare the Database tonight. In this time I have to close the Forum. Sorry for that. After that I have to import all the Topics, Users and so on in the other forum. When everything is working, I open the Forum again.
Here is the changelog of the latest release (only the important points. The real changelog is much bigger):
There are some interesting gimmicks. Everyone can have an own guestbook. You find this in your profile.
I hope that everything is working fine after the change. If someone find after the release a bug, please write this here in this Topic!
Greetz Matthias
At this Weekend I will change the boardsoftware to the latest release. Current we are using the Version 3.0.9 and the latest is 3.1. Further the current design of the website will be a little revised. Not really much, but I think it looks a little bit better.
The last weeks I have tested everything and I think, that now everything is “bug free” (I hope). I was much work to revised everything
The last day I have prepared everything for the relaunch. I think, I will start to prepare the Database tonight. In this time I have to close the Forum. Sorry for that. After that I have to import all the Topics, Users and so on in the other forum. When everything is working, I open the Forum again.
Here is the changelog of the latest release (only the important points. The real changelog is much bigger):
User Functions
User Profile and Registration
• New User Profile The optic of the public user profile has been reworked.
• New Friend List The optic of the list of friends has been reworked.
• Last Visitors The last visitors of a profile are displayed in the profile.
• Contact Path A display is available, that shows with whom a user is connected over three corners.
• Last Posts The last posts of a user are displayed in his profile.
• Registration-IP The IP-Address of the registration is displayed in the profile.
• Searchable The user profiles are searchable by search robots and can then be found in search engines.
• New Admin Functions Diverse admin functions are available directly in the profile page (e. g. signature or avatar lock).
• Birthday Note A note is displayed in the profile if it's the user's birthday.
• Style Change If a user changes his style in the profile, the change will be visible immediately.
• Style Preview The style chooser in the profile also contains a preview.
• Own Attachments A list of own attachments is available in the profile.
• Confirm Friends Friendships have to be confirmed by both parties.
• Optional Registrationfields User profile fields can be displayed in the registration form but are only optional.
• Friend List: Easy Delete The friend and ignore list can be emptied with one mouse click.
• Time Filter for Threads The users can add their own time filter for the thread list.
• Avatar Categories The given avatars can be grouped in categories.
• Individual Boarddisplay The boards can be excluded from the lists individually by each user.
Subscriptions
• Time Filter A time filter for the list of subscribed threads is available.
• Easy Delete The subscriptions can be emptied with a single mouse click.
• Prompt for Confirmation A prompt for confirmation has been added when unsubscribing all boards.
• Additional Information In subscribed boards the number of new threads, the last post and the statistic is displayed.
• Link in Header In the page header a link with the subscriptions can be found including the status display.
• RSS-Feed The subscribed threads can be accessed via RSS feed.
User Memo
• WYSIWYG The WYSIWYG editor can be used for the user memo.
• Better Comfort The management of the notes is in general more comfortable.
• Categories The notes can be grouped in categories.
• Deleting Notes Multiple notes can be deleted at once.
User Lists
• Members List The order of columns on the members list can be changed.
• Friend List In the members list there is also a link to te list of friends of a user.
• Visibility A hidden user is visible for his friends.
• Groupleader View The leaders of a group are shown seperately on the team list.
• User Record The user record for the users online counts only registered users as option.
• Guest IPs In the user online list guests with the same IP address are grouped together.
• Order of the Legend The order of the user online legend is equal to the order of the team list.
• Intelligent Team List The link to the team list is shown only if there are team members to display.
• Display in Team List The user on the team list are optionally shown only once, even if they are members of multiple groups.
• Language Display in Members List In the members list a column can be added that shows the language of the user.
User Groups
• Groups as Group Leader A group leader can now be a whole user group.
• Application Status The status of an application is shown directly in the list of user groups.
• Newsletter The group leaders can send e-mails or private messages to all members of the group.
• Group Leader Link in Header The page header contains a link to the group leader area including a status display.
• Notifications for Group Leader The group leader can get notified via e-mail or private message on incoming applications.
Private Messages
• Download The filenames of downloaded files have been improved. Single messages are saved as text file. Also a whole conversation can be downloaded at once.
• Coloured Folders An individual colour can be assigned to own message folders.
• Text Preview The notification popup also contains the text preview.
• Author Information When replying on a message the author of the original message will be specified.
• Newsletter The private messages can be send via administration panel to all users, certain user groups or individual users.
• Message Filter Filter for incoming messages can be set up.
• RSS Feeds The private message can be accessed via RSS feed.
• Conversation as Thread The conversation with a user is displayed like a forums thread.
• Delete All All messages of a message folder can be selected and deleted at once.
Search
• Sort The default sort of the search results can be defined through administration.
• Thread Display by Default "Show results as threads" can be enabled by default. The checkbox in the search form is displayed further up.
• Relevance When sorting by relevance new posts are rated higher.
• New Search Options Search for threads that are started by a certain user.
• Permalink The permalink of a search can be accessed.
• Link Added "Mark all Forums as read" is available as a link beneath the search results.
• Similar Threads Improved The search for similar threads prefers threads of the same forum.
• Sort Results The sort of the search results can be changed afterwards.
• Result Display The display of the search results can be changed afterwards.
• Search Settings Changeable The settings of a search are displayed on the result page and can be changed afterwards.
• Language Filter The search results are filtered with the chosen language(s).
Forum
• Post & Thread Count The number of posts and threads of a forum can be shown in the forums list.
• Language Display The language of a thread can be displayed in the thread list with a flag.
• Tagging The threads can be tagged - you can search by tags.
• Double Post Control Multiple replies in a row of one user in the same thread can be prohibited.
• Subforums in RSS Feeds The posts of subforums are contained in RSS feeds.
• Page Links in Thread List Threads with several pages get page links in the thread list.
• Search for New Posts The new posts since the last visit can be accessed any time through the search popup.
• Permission Denied Pages with the error message "Permission denied" also contain a form where the user can login.
• Improved Display The user is informed that there are more threads available that cannot be seen only because of the chosen filter.
• Pagination Pages where the content ranges over several subpages (e. g. threads) have this extra information added in the page title (e. G. "Page 2").
• Reason for Editing When editing a post a reason can be added.
• Notes for Moved Threads The notes that are displayed when moving a thread can be deleted automatically after a certain time.
• Quick Reply A quick reply function is availabe on the bottom of a thread.
• Languages for Guests The administrator can choose if guests can only see content of certain languages.
• Attachments in the Text Attached images can be included in the text flow.
• Portable Attachments The attachments can be taken into other posts.
• Sortable Attachments The order of the attachments in the posts can be changed.
• Multiple Attachments The upload of multiple attachments has been made easier.
• Smiley Categories The smileys can be grouped into categories.
• Smiley Display The post form shows only a limited number of smileys by default.
• Capitals in Subject Line The exclusive use of capital letters in the subject line can be prohibited.
• Style Chooser A dropdown in the footer is available to change between different styles.
• Public Polls Public polls can be created so you can see who voted for what.
• Poll Results The results of different polls on one page can be displayed.
• Image Display Enlarging attached images will make use of a technic like Lightbox.
• Global Quotes The qoutes can be exchanged through different areas (e. g. forums and private messages) of a site.
• Paragraph Quotes The quote function offers an easy way to quote the paragraphs of a post.
• Deletion Display The user will be informed how long deleted content will stay in the recycle bin.
• Gender Display The gender of a user is displayed next to the post as an icon.
• User Online Marking The user online marking can be used also for displaying usernames in a thread.
• Centralised Settings The settings for user information in posts, private messages, events etc. have been centralised.
• Birthday Note A note is displayed in the post if it's the user's birthday.
Technic
• Extended Template Engine The template engine has been extended a lot.
• Template Scripting The dynamic language variables also support template scripting.
• Flexible Cachesystem Between different types of caches can be switched (e. g. file system, Memcache, eAccelerator).
• Update Log The changes of a package update will be logged and are available through the admin interface.
• Updates with Proxy A proxy server support for the package update has been added.
• Util Classes in Standalone Applications The __autoload() function also searches in all package folders.
• Pagelocations Case Insensitive The Pagelocations are case insensitive now.
• Event Listener Priority The execution order of event listener can be controled by priorities.
• CSS-IDs in Main Menu The main menu links have all a unique (CSS-)ID so it is easier to make individual CSS changes.
• Language Independence PAGE_TITLE / PAGE_DESCRIPTION as well as the Legal notes page can be filled with language variables.
• Captcha Extended The captcha offers more versions.
• Security The security token system is widely in use.
• IP-Block Validation The block validation of IP addresses of sessions can be enabled.
• Style API reworked The style API has been cleaned up and standardised.
• More Placeholders Several additional placeholders are available in the templates.
There are some interesting gimmicks. Everyone can have an own guestbook. You find this in your profile.
I hope that everything is working fine after the change. If someone find after the release a bug, please write this here in this Topic!
Greetz Matthias