WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter # 47 (June 2012)
Welcome to the June 2012 issue of WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter (see here previous versions)
This month was very busy for our Module Developers, with welcome updates to several modules, such as:
NewBB 4.3 RC,
SmallWorld 1.11 RC5,
News 1.67 RC3,
XoopsTube 1.05 RC1,
Defacer 1.11 Final,,
Xortify 3.06
and few others. Many of them need help in testing, so we can solid bug-free Final releases. Please also help with translations!
Work continues on XOOPS 2.6.0, with Mage extracting features into stand-alone modules (like Banners). You can follow the development on XOOPS SVN, or you can subscribe to our SVN mailing list to receive updates.
As every month, we would like to encourage everybody to ask a question:
What can I do for XOOPS?
What could I contribute to XOOPS?
There are many areas where you can contribute, based on your skill level: Core, modules, themes, documentation, providing support on the Forums, and translating XOOPS into local languages.
We need to create more teamwork and more community spirit by getting more people actively contributing to XOOPS.
Let's make XOOPS a true "Community Project"! 
Recent Highlights:
- XOOPS Innovation Award - for people who create something very unique and innovative for XOOPS. This time the award goes to Michael Albertsen (Culex) from Denmark for the creation of SmallWorld, our social networking module.
==> You can see our previous winners here
- XOOPSer of the Month Award: iis given to XOOPS members who show extraordinary dedication to XOOPS, and go the extra mile for XOOPS. This month, it goes to Mowafag Ragas (Mowaffaq) from Libya, for his leading role in winning two very important users for XOOPS: the Libyan Ministry of Defense, and Libyan National Elections High Commission
==> You can see our previous winners here
Congratulations to all of our Winners. Starting this year, all Winners will receive a free book of their choice from O'Reilly. Also a free copy of PHP Storm from JetBrain.
Summary
[Commercial] xOlive Theme
Hello friends,
I bring more one theme for xoops, xOlive theme!
- Three Columns
- No tables
- Beautiful slide
- Two types of blocks (right and left)
- Animated menu (top)
More Screens:
http://bit.ly/NkVmqy
To purchase please contact this link:
http://bit.ly/JOlbil
Or:
http://bit.ly/NkVVkn
I hope you enjoy ;)
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I bring more one theme for xoops, xOlive theme!
- Three Columns
- No tables
- Beautiful slide
- Two types of blocks (right and left)
- Animated menu (top)
More Screens:
http://bit.ly/NkVmqy
To purchase please contact this link:
http://bit.ly/JOlbil
Or:
http://bit.ly/NkVVkn
I hope you enjoy ;)
XOOPS featured on SourceForge
It is our pleasure to let you know that XOOPS has been selected as one of the featured projects on SourceForge this week!
This is a great exposure for us, since SourceForge is home to over 3 million users, hosting a catalog of over 300,000 distinct projects and serving over 40 million unique visitors per month and over 15 million downloads per week.
There more people know about XOOPS, the better for us
Please spread the good news on your local XOOPS support sites!
Viva XOOPS!
DB Optimization Competition with Prizes
Calling all MySQL experts out there!
Recently we had some reports about Core and some modules generating too many queries, as reported by Tatane and Yasir
We would like to announce a competition for best/most MySQL database optimizations in XOOPS. This can happen in following areas:
a) existing Core queries
b) existing popular modules
c) new module with the best optimized way to access and manage MySQL database, incl. a tutorial on how it was done
Please submit your entries by July 15
This competition is sponsored by Webyog, which offers SQLyog, one of the best MySQL tools on the market. See the features here:
http://webyog.com/en/sqlyog_feature_matrix.php
They offered to give us up to 5 copies of the Ultimate version (worth $179 each) to winners of a competition among XOOPS developers. Of course, it will depend on the number and quality of the entries, if we will use all five copies.
There are many very good tutorials and presentations about optimizing MySQL, but we're sure, you all know those tricks:
http://www.percona.com/files/presentations/percona-live/dc-2012/PLDC2012-mysql-query-optimization.pdf
http://www.slideshare.net/guest9912e5/15-ways-to-kill-your-mysql-application-performance
http://www.slideshare.net/posullivan/capturing-analyzing-and-optimizing-your-sql
Let's see how could we use them to improve our Core and our Modules.
You can post solutions in this thread on Forums.
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Recently we had some reports about Core and some modules generating too many queries, as reported by Tatane and Yasir
We would like to announce a competition for best/most MySQL database optimizations in XOOPS. This can happen in following areas:
a) existing Core queries
b) existing popular modules
c) new module with the best optimized way to access and manage MySQL database, incl. a tutorial on how it was done
Please submit your entries by July 15
This competition is sponsored by Webyog, which offers SQLyog, one of the best MySQL tools on the market. See the features here:
http://webyog.com/en/sqlyog_feature_matrix.php
They offered to give us up to 5 copies of the Ultimate version (worth $179 each) to winners of a competition among XOOPS developers. Of course, it will depend on the number and quality of the entries, if we will use all five copies.
There are many very good tutorials and presentations about optimizing MySQL, but we're sure, you all know those tricks:
http://www.percona.com/files/presentations/percona-live/dc-2012/PLDC2012-mysql-query-optimization.pdf
http://www.slideshare.net/guest9912e5/15-ways-to-kill-your-mysql-application-performance
http://www.slideshare.net/posullivan/capturing-analyzing-and-optimizing-your-sql
Let's see how could we use them to improve our Core and our Modules.
You can post solutions in this thread on Forums.
Adverse Reactions Australia - Dr Yolande Lucire & Associates
Adverse Reactions Australia - http://adversereactionsaustralia.org
Adverse Reactions Australia is a website established by the medico-legal professionals Dr Yolande Lucire & Associates. It concentrates on adverse chemical reactions leading to suicide and homicide from the incorrect bonding of chemicals to proteins.
This site strategist to target both friends, family and patient that may be experiencing mood swings, abnormal and harmful thoughts and generally any patient who hasn't had their drug pathways (CYP9) tested before the procedure of medication and as it is in Australia forced care for mental health.
Quoting the about us:
We are a carefully selected associates of doctors, who practice in the best interest of our clients and their families. We look at malpractice and the incorrect dosage of pharmaceuticals in the general mental health and general health categories of both post and pre-doctrinal care to carefully look whether our client have been delivered the easiest form of care with pharmaceutical and other forms of health.
There is many different reasons for health care that offer you the wider variety of legal and para-legal services for the adoption of good health care and a wise judgement in the processes of care.
Currently we are looking for people and families who have had adverse reactions to pharmaceutical and other forms of medication which have provided an incorrect doctrine theology of the patient which combines mistakes on antidepressant, antipsychotic or mood stabiliser in pharmacology of a patient or family member.
Modules Used:
Core & Frame Used:
Site Designers:
http://www.chronolabs.com.au
Site Contact:
Dr. Yolande Lucire
lucire@adversereactionsaustralia.org
http://www.lucire.com.au
Comments?
Adverse Reactions Australia is a website established by the medico-legal professionals Dr Yolande Lucire & Associates. It concentrates on adverse chemical reactions leading to suicide and homicide from the incorrect bonding of chemicals to proteins.
This site strategist to target both friends, family and patient that may be experiencing mood swings, abnormal and harmful thoughts and generally any patient who hasn't had their drug pathways (CYP9) tested before the procedure of medication and as it is in Australia forced care for mental health.
Quoting the about us:
We are a carefully selected associates of doctors, who practice in the best interest of our clients and their families. We look at malpractice and the incorrect dosage of pharmaceuticals in the general mental health and general health categories of both post and pre-doctrinal care to carefully look whether our client have been delivered the easiest form of care with pharmaceutical and other forms of health.
There is many different reasons for health care that offer you the wider variety of legal and para-legal services for the adoption of good health care and a wise judgement in the processes of care.
Currently we are looking for people and families who have had adverse reactions to pharmaceutical and other forms of medication which have provided an incorrect doctrine theology of the patient which combines mistakes on antidepressant, antipsychotic or mood stabiliser in pharmacology of a patient or family member.
Modules Used:
- XCenter 2.16
- XForum 5.78
- XNews 1.69
- Lawsuit 1.54
- Twitterbomb
- Tag 2.3
- Protector 3.51
Core & Frame Used:
- XOOPS 2.5.5
- TCPDF
Site Designers:
http://www.chronolabs.com.au
Site Contact:
Dr. Yolande Lucire
lucire@adversereactionsaustralia.org
http://www.lucire.com.au
Crushing and Screening Powered by Xoops
Modules :
Xlanguage 3.02
SmartSection 2.14
Puplisher 1
Tdmdownloads 1.5
mytube 1.5
Liaise 1.27
extGallery 1.07
XOOPS TAG 2.3
sitemap 1.3
JQuery Marquee 1.3
Thank you Xoops !
Crushing and Screening
http://www.aymak.net
Xortify 3.06 - Cloud Protection & Network Security - XOOPS 2.5
Xortify 3.06 - Cloud Protection & Network Security
Community release by Chronolabs
Download: xoops2.5_xortify_3.06.zip - 197Kb
Xortify Song: xortify.mp3 - by Binary Corpse (CCL) - 4mbs
What is this?
Xortify 3.06 is a client for http://xortify.com - it provides protection on your site from spammers, harvestor, maluser, malbots and other nasties on the web, it also work in conjunction with protectors BAD IP system once you sign up as well as some other higher functions to make a honeypot in the XOOPS Community.
It currently uses 2 honeypots once you have a username on the cloud that is Stop Forum Spam and Project Honeypot. What is a honeypot, well this is something which monitors the community for malicious form submission and other stuff in the IP pool so protection and 3 month banning of an IP Address can occur from both the protector pool of information as well as these other 2 honeypots to provide seemless protection to your site and be 'pre-aware' of any nasties out there on the world wide web.
Just say someone is banned on xortify.com then on any website running xortify then they will be displayed a ban notice. This include bans on Stop Forum Spam as well as Project Honeypot as per your preferences you have set on it.
Already there is a european cloud for xortify also run by the Dutch community which is at the URL of http://xortify.nlxoops.nl which is a secondary option in the cloud which is a floating cloud for xortify. Remember this also prevents captcha sweat shops, that is pretty much slavery to type past captcha and set up accounts on websites for less than $1 dollar a day, so you are helping human rights by running xortify.
Xortify.com now supports IPv6 as well for your site to tunnel to as we have found a permanent home for it which has both IPv4 & IPv6 supported. So if you believe you are being attacked i suggest you run xortify 3.06 on it, which has had some minor fixes since 3.05 with regards to the cron it means you will only have a userbase which is your userbase and very little spam.
What exists in the future of Xortify's development?
We are currently talking with a few providers of spam sampling like Stop Forum Spam to get either a copy or access to their archives and a feed from there api to generate a hierestical checking system so content is checkable on the fly through the $_POST variable in PHP to a base score level for varieties of spam. This will have a limited number of calls without paying for a fee on the API but it will be high somewhere like 500 calls a day on a free account.
This means the content of your site will be checked to see if it contains any spamming hierestics and given a percentil score which you can cut off on base2, base3 and base4 of sentence varieties. It will also have limitations you can set in your Xortify client to the number of TLDs mentioned and so on. So no more Nike Shoe advertisement spammed through your website.
IS this the final production version?
For the moment this is the final production version for XOOPS 2.5, there is a little bit of work to do on the 2.6 version to bring it up to this versions model, but from what we can tell it is completely bug free and ready for any production machine.
Is it available on any other platforms
Currently there is an ICMS version, as well as we are working on a Joomla variety of Xortify called Jortify. The idea of a honeypot is the more people connected the better we are all protected so we are looking to expand to as many platforms as possible with this particular title.
What has the development life-cycle been like?
We have developed xortify now into series 3 in major revision changes, that is 3 major changes in the structure of how xortify works. It has been developed over the last 3 years, and through many bugs and trials and tribulations we have honed protection to it finest for XOOPS CMS. Although at times we have had some bad releases of xortify, this is in its finest hour and a great relief we have a final model for beating the bastards that attack many sites on the web.
How many sites use Xortify?
Xortify itself has had over 3000 signups to it cloud, however in the site or user pool with the combination of Project Honeypot and Stop forum spam, so the use of 3 honeypots, there is over 5 million sites that use the technologies behind xortify to provide protection to you on the web as a webmaster.
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Community release by Chronolabs
Download: xoops2.5_xortify_3.06.zip - 197Kb
Xortify Song: xortify.mp3 - by Binary Corpse (CCL) - 4mbs
What is this?
Xortify 3.06 is a client for http://xortify.com - it provides protection on your site from spammers, harvestor, maluser, malbots and other nasties on the web, it also work in conjunction with protectors BAD IP system once you sign up as well as some other higher functions to make a honeypot in the XOOPS Community.
It currently uses 2 honeypots once you have a username on the cloud that is Stop Forum Spam and Project Honeypot. What is a honeypot, well this is something which monitors the community for malicious form submission and other stuff in the IP pool so protection and 3 month banning of an IP Address can occur from both the protector pool of information as well as these other 2 honeypots to provide seemless protection to your site and be 'pre-aware' of any nasties out there on the world wide web.
Just say someone is banned on xortify.com then on any website running xortify then they will be displayed a ban notice. This include bans on Stop Forum Spam as well as Project Honeypot as per your preferences you have set on it.
Already there is a european cloud for xortify also run by the Dutch community which is at the URL of http://xortify.nlxoops.nl which is a secondary option in the cloud which is a floating cloud for xortify. Remember this also prevents captcha sweat shops, that is pretty much slavery to type past captcha and set up accounts on websites for less than $1 dollar a day, so you are helping human rights by running xortify.
Xortify.com now supports IPv6 as well for your site to tunnel to as we have found a permanent home for it which has both IPv4 & IPv6 supported. So if you believe you are being attacked i suggest you run xortify 3.06 on it, which has had some minor fixes since 3.05 with regards to the cron it means you will only have a userbase which is your userbase and very little spam.
What exists in the future of Xortify's development?
We are currently talking with a few providers of spam sampling like Stop Forum Spam to get either a copy or access to their archives and a feed from there api to generate a hierestical checking system so content is checkable on the fly through the $_POST variable in PHP to a base score level for varieties of spam. This will have a limited number of calls without paying for a fee on the API but it will be high somewhere like 500 calls a day on a free account.
This means the content of your site will be checked to see if it contains any spamming hierestics and given a percentil score which you can cut off on base2, base3 and base4 of sentence varieties. It will also have limitations you can set in your Xortify client to the number of TLDs mentioned and so on. So no more Nike Shoe advertisement spammed through your website.
IS this the final production version?
For the moment this is the final production version for XOOPS 2.5, there is a little bit of work to do on the 2.6 version to bring it up to this versions model, but from what we can tell it is completely bug free and ready for any production machine.
Is it available on any other platforms
Currently there is an ICMS version, as well as we are working on a Joomla variety of Xortify called Jortify. The idea of a honeypot is the more people connected the better we are all protected so we are looking to expand to as many platforms as possible with this particular title.
What has the development life-cycle been like?
We have developed xortify now into series 3 in major revision changes, that is 3 major changes in the structure of how xortify works. It has been developed over the last 3 years, and through many bugs and trials and tribulations we have honed protection to it finest for XOOPS CMS. Although at times we have had some bad releases of xortify, this is in its finest hour and a great relief we have a final model for beating the bastards that attack many sites on the web.
How many sites use Xortify?
Xortify itself has had over 3000 signups to it cloud, however in the site or user pool with the combination of Project Honeypot and Stop forum spam, so the use of 3 honeypots, there is over 5 million sites that use the technologies behind xortify to provide protection to you on the web as a webmaster.
[Free Theme] Theme Factory v6
Theme Factory is my framework for creating themes for XOOPS, all my themes, paid or free, are based on this framework. Many changes were made to this version, please access:
Download: http://bit.ly/MTJcaa
Demo Online: http://bit.ly/MTJjT3
Screens:
http://bit.ly/MTJKNn
http://bit.ly/MTJMoe
http://bit.ly/MTJPk6
http://bit.ly/MTJPQW
http://bit.ly/MTJQEt
Note: The width of the theme is controlled in the file "tpl / centerZone.html"
Note²: There is documentation in Portuguese, if someone is interested in translating into English please send me, thanks.
Hope you enjoy ^^
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Download: http://bit.ly/MTJcaa
Demo Online: http://bit.ly/MTJjT3
Screens:
http://bit.ly/MTJKNn
http://bit.ly/MTJMoe
http://bit.ly/MTJPk6
http://bit.ly/MTJPQW
http://bit.ly/MTJQEt
Note: The width of the theme is controlled in the file "tpl / centerZone.html"
Note²: There is documentation in Portuguese, if someone is interested in translating into English please send me, thanks.
Hope you enjoy ^^
Profile 1.78 - Tom Foley's Social Networks Edition
Profile 1.78 - Tom Foley's Social Networks Edition
Community Release by Chronolabs
Profile module has taken a good turn, I have started to intergrate oauth applications like Twitter, Facebook & Linkedin to allow for uses to signup using those account creditentials from those social networks to both create an account on your system, reauthentication to that account as well as downloading avatars and customising the account as best can be.
Complete with Speed and locational checking, Profile 1.78 is the first release with any new features. I have also been developing in profiile 1.78 (which will be completed in later versions) an oauth 1.0 server, so profile will behave as a sentry for other websites using something like X-REST API and an oauth token to query APIs on your own site. This is the plan anyway.
Complete with service discovery and blocks for you to select which social network you want to connect from, I will be adding OpenID in the next version release. If you can suggest any other oauth application interfaces for authentication purposes then please comment or raise an issue for support of it, or forever hold your peace.
What is new in this version:
Download:
Google: xoops2.5_profile_1.78.zip - 392 KB
Sourceforge: xoops2.5_profile_1.78.zip - 392 KB
Report Bugs & Issues: http://code.google.com/p/chronolabs/issues/list
Thread: https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=75173&post_id=346818#forumpost346818
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Community Release by Chronolabs
Profile module has taken a good turn, I have started to intergrate oauth applications like Twitter, Facebook & Linkedin to allow for uses to signup using those account creditentials from those social networks to both create an account on your system, reauthentication to that account as well as downloading avatars and customising the account as best can be.
Complete with Speed and locational checking, Profile 1.78 is the first release with any new features. I have also been developing in profiile 1.78 (which will be completed in later versions) an oauth 1.0 server, so profile will behave as a sentry for other websites using something like X-REST API and an oauth token to query APIs on your own site. This is the plan anyway.
Complete with service discovery and blocks for you to select which social network you want to connect from, I will be adding OpenID in the next version release. If you can suggest any other oauth application interfaces for authentication purposes then please comment or raise an issue for support of it, or forever hold your peace.
What is new in this version:
- oauth server
- oauth authentication with Twitter
- oauth authentication with Facebook
- oauth authentication with linkedin
- Linked in authentication block
- Twitter authentication block
- Facebook authentication block
- All Suported authentication block
- Social network group assignement
Download:
Google: xoops2.5_profile_1.78.zip - 392 KB
Sourceforge: xoops2.5_profile_1.78.zip - 392 KB
Report Bugs & Issues: http://code.google.com/p/chronolabs/issues/list
Thread: https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=75173&post_id=346818#forumpost346818
Free Sd-094-Print Theme
I'm happy to present my new FREE XOOPS Theme with the name Sd-094-Print. The Free XOOPS - Theme was made with friendly help from Firmenschilder aus der Digitaldruck-Fabrik .
Here can you find the XOOPS 2.4 Theme Demo - XOOPS 2.5 Theme Demo.
And here is the FREE - Download Xoops Theme Sd-094-Print
Here is the direct Download - Link (without registration)
Happy XOOPsing!
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Here can you find the XOOPS 2.4 Theme Demo - XOOPS 2.5 Theme Demo.
And here is the FREE - Download Xoops Theme Sd-094-Print
Here is the direct Download - Link (without registration)
Happy XOOPsing!
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