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Ricardo Costa (Trabis) and Nicolas Andricq (ForMuss) Inducted into XOOPS Hall of Fame

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We are pleased to announce that Ricardo Costa (Trabis) from Portugal and Nicolas Andricq (ForMuss) from France, have been inducted into the XOOPS Hall of Fame

XOOPS Hall of Fame has been created to recognize people who provided in the past extraordinary support and dedication for XOOPS, and helped to move XOOPS forward. It is just a small token of appreciation for all the hours they've spent on making XOOPS what it is today - one of the world's finest Web CMS solutions around!

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Ricardo Costa (Trabis) - the Lead Developer of the XOOPS 2.4.x series and XOOPS 2.6.0. He also developed and updated countless modules. He is one of the finest and most pleasant developers to work with, respected and beloved by the whole XOOPS Community.

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Nicolas Andricq (ForMuss) - the Lead Developer of the XOOPS 2.5.x series and XOOPS 2.6.0. A PHP and JavaScript expert, he revamped together with his "French Team" the 2.5.0 Admin GUI making it looking very cool! He also incorporated Bootstrap into XOOPS 2.6.0 and redesigned the Admin GUI.

While due to new jobs and family responsibilities they had to scale down their XOOPS involvement, we hope that once their lives become less hectic, they'll be able to contribute again to XOOPS!

Please join us in thanking them for all the hard work, their support and dedication to XOOPS!!!!

XOOPS Council
Sept. 16, 2013
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Richard Griffith to lead XOOPS Core Team

The XOOPS Council is very pleased to announce that Richard Griffith (geekwright) has accepted the position of Team Leader for the XOOPS Core Team. As indicated on our Team Descriptions, the key areas for Richard and the Core Team are:

- Perform a thorough review of the security of the code base as a primary priority.
- Produce Development Road map in-line with community expectations and needs.
- Innovate and maintain core software to current technical and security standards.
- Resolve legitimate bugs submitted in the tracker.
- Enlist the best and brightest open source software developers through communication, innovation and integrity.
- Assist in the training and development of emerging developers for the XOOPS Project.
- Assist in preparation of documentation concerning the core, in partnership with the Documentation group.

Richard has been involved in XOOPS for over two years now. In May 2011 he became the "Innovator of the Month" for his work on "gwreports"

Since then he released several more modules:

FBComment
SpeachSearch
Gwiki

He already has made several important contributions to XOOPS Core:

- he incorporated Doctrine DB Abstraction Layer into XOOPS 2.6.0 working together with Redheadedrod. This will make XOOPS database-agnostic, and will enable our users to use any database that is supported by Doctrine.

- helped us to move XOOPS 2.6.0 development to GitHub, and finally

- has updated Trabis' XMF (XOOPS Module Framework) to make migration of XOOPS 2.5.x modules to XOOPS 2.6.0 much easier (more information about it coming soon).

And he is just warming up!

Richard has many plans and ideas for XOOPS 2.6.0, and we can't wait till all of it will become reality! But as he has already proven, he is a man of action, who likes to deliver on his ideas and promises, so we can expect soon a lot of cool things!

We're looking forward to working with Richard, and are welcoming him to XOOPS Council and the XOOPS Community as the new Core Team Leader.

We also would like to thank Trabis for all his work on the XOOPS 2.6.0 Core and his XOOPS Module Framework! He has made tons of important contributions to both, and it is his work and vision than we'll be building upon moving forward, together with all the work that Nicolas did as well, Both of them were the giants of XOOPS Core Development, who have changed and reshaped how XOOPS is looking now:

- Nicolas Andricq and his French Team with their work on XOOPS 2.5.x, and then on XOOPS 2.6.0
- Trabis (Ricardo Costa) with his work on countless modules, the XOOPS Module Framework, and cleaning up and modernizing XOOPS 2.6.0 Core.

We're all extremely thankful to all of them for all their contributions, and we hope that once their lives become less hectic, they'll be contributing again to XOOPS.

There are several new announcements coming up related to XOOPS 2.6.0, and we can't wait to share them with you! The remainder of 2013 will be a very exciting time for XOOPS, and 2014 is clearly the year of XOOPS' comeback! We hope that all of you will join us on this exciting journey and that you will contribute to making XOOPS the best it can be!

Viva XOOPS!

XOOPS Council
Sept. 10, 2013

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Hi, I'm Richard Griffith and here is a brief history of me.

I've lived in lots of places in the USA, and have landed recently in a small town in Iowa, where the challenges of a more than a century old house became a temporary full time job. Spoiling my granddaughter also keeps me busy.

I studied Computer Science in college, and spent more than 2 decades inside a Fortune 100 company as a contractor and consultant. Over the years I have programmed everything from handhelds to mainframes, using whatever languages were needed, and held roles and responsibilities ranging through project development, change management, database administration and many others. My favorite role was always the programmer analyst; there I got to identify the problem, define how software could help and then build a solution.

While there were lots of valuable lessons learned in that environment, it was obvious that real growth and innovation occurs in smaller, more agile environments. Sifting out the most valuable lessons from the large conservative corporation approaches and deploying that value as an asset in smaller organizations became my focus.

I was very attracted to XOOPS when I was first introduced to it many years ago. The module structure really appealed to my view of how things should work. Over time, I've offered up many solutions based on XOOPS or some of its derivatives. While I continued my endeavors for the benefit of existing clients, I was eagerly awaiting some much needed modernization. Conversations with the XOOPS evangelist you know as Mamba led me to realize I was not alone in wanting a powerful, modern web application platform based on the XOOPS model. I agreed to a more direct involvement, and one thing led to another. I was scared, humbled and honored as we entered into the discussions that lead us to this point.

I hope that XOOPS can benefit from my experiences in the same way XOOPS has benefited me. Together I think we can create a powerful platform that exceeds our dreams and still retains that character that makes us XOOPS.
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MySQLi Connectors for Xoops 2.5.6 and 2.6

MySQLi connectors are now available for 2.5.6 and 2.6. These connectors should be considered as Beta and should not be used on a production server at this time.

These have been designed as a drop in addition to the current MySQL connector.

The current MySQL connector used by Xoops allows Xoops to talk to the MySQL database. This older connector has been around since MySQL version 3 and not only does not support new features of MySQL 4 and 5 but is now officially Depreciated in the latest release of PHP. For now this doesn't mean much to most but means that the current MySQL connector will no longer work in the future.

MySQLi was released to take advantage of the features in the newest versions of MySQL and as such is the direct replacement for the older MySQL connector. I used a script that converts old MySQL code to MySQLi compatible code as my base and went from there. Although I still have some questions for a core developer about some of the code the script created it does run without any known errors.

The use of these connectors is very simple. You download the version of mysqlidatabase.php that you need and copy it to your class/database folder. You then modify the database type in your secure.php file from MySQL to MySQLi and you are on your way.

Both of these connectors can be found in the SVN.

Connector for 2.5.6 MySQLi and for 2.6 MySQLi.

Please direct bug reports to the following thread:
https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=354793
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XOOPS Council adds new members

The XOOPS Community is blessed with many great individuals, who dedicate countless hours to help XOOPS to move forward. We see them on the forums, and we see the results of their hard work in new and/or updated modules, themes, and bug fixes.

The key to XOOPS success is to have a strong team working together.

Today we would like to announce new additions to the XOOPS Council to lead and guide XOOPS forward (you can see their detailed bios below):

International Support Team: Christelle Gaulupeau (Cesag) from France

Modules Team: Jim Garrett (Zyspec) from USA.

Documentation Team: Alain Thivillier (Alain01) from France

Support Team: Ali Nili (Irmtfan) from Iran

Design Team: Angelo Rocha (AngeloRocha) from Brazil

Core Team: Trabis who was leading the development of XOOPS 2.6.0 together with Nicolas, is on leave of absence, but we hope he'll be back soon. In the meantime, the Core Team members will continue with the development as a team.

Today we would like to also thank Nicolas Andricq (ForMuss) and Eduardo Cortés (Bitc3r0) who have resigned from the Council due to new jobs and not having enough time. However, BitC3r0 is committed to continue with the further development of RM Common Utilities. Their help and support over years was instrumental in improving XOOPS, and we very much appreciate it!

We are all looking forward to working together to keep moving XOOPS forward!
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Nominate XOOPS for Critics Choice CMS Awards

The Critics Choice CMS Awards are now accepting nominations for 2013... and XOOPS needs your support!

Nominations are open through August 1, 2013. Actual voting takes place from September 1 - November 1, 2013.

Please consider nominating XOOPS in any (or all) of the following categories:

- Best Open Source CMS
- Best Free CMS
- Best CMS for Small / Medium Sized Businesses:
- Best Enterprise CMS
- Best Website Builder

Last year, XOOPS was the Runner-up for the People's Choice for Best Free CMS, and we lost by only few votes!

So please help us to win this year, and the first step is to make sure that we're nominated!

Please nominate XOOPS today!

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For more information, seehttp://www.cmscritic.com/critics-choice-cms-awards/.
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XOOPS 2.5.6 Final Released

The XOOPS Development Team is pleased to announce the release of XOOPS 2.5.6 Final. This release is focused on making XOOPS 2.5.6 compatible with PHP 5.4.x, on security enhancements, and on updating external libraries to their latest versions: - Smarty 2.6.27 - TinyMCE 3.5.8 - jQuery 1.8.3 - jQueryUI 1.10 Since this version includes security fixes, it is highly recommended to update to this version ASAP! See the Changelog for more details. IMPORTANT NOTE: ----------------------------------- Due to changes related to security, it might happen that in one or two modules saving of the Permissions in Admin might not work. We are finalizing the Basic Module Pack, where all modules have been tested on XOOPS 2.5.6. Please check the News on XOOPS Website for a special announcement about the updated modules, or ask on the XOOPS Forums. Or you can read more detailed information about how to fix it yourself in /docs folder in the file: "fixing_permissions.txt" Please post and discuss all issues related to this release in this Forum We also need help with Translations using Transifex System requirements ----------------------------------- PHP: Any PHP version >= 5.3.7 (PHP 5.4+ is strongly recommended) MySQL: MySQL server 5.0+ Web server: Any server supporting the required PHP version (Apache highly recommended) Downloading XOOPS ----------------------------------- You can get this release package from the Sourceforge repository. There are .zip and .gz archives provided.
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Smallworld 1.15 RC 12

This release is concentrating on bug fixes and adjusting javascript on the newer jquery 1.90+ versions wich has changed a lot of functions as well as removing others.

The module does have new functions though.

Smallworld is a module to simulate a social network system. Add friends and follow them to keep track of updates .

New in this version.

For admin.
- Make module accessable for visitors.
- Choose wich users can post in home page.

For users
- Private user settings (let visitors read your comments / post in homepage - if not all they will see is a message to register).

Allround new.
- Added a permalink icon to all posts to open in new window if there is a lot of comments attached.
- Sanitizing content for xoops (making xoopsCode, smileys etc available)
- Updated most javascript including new version of image uploader for gallery, jQuery, Bookmarks etc.

A few new language defines also. I have merged english text in language files but here they are

/docs/lang_diff.php (or find them in files)

See demo here. (only admin is avail in startpage for testing)

Download here

Feedback / suggestion / bugs here
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New installers for XOOPS on BitNami

We are very happy that BitNami has just released BitNami Stack for XOOPShttp://bitnami.com/stack/xoops.

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It is an easy one-click installer for Windows, OS X and Linux. They are self-contained and independent so you can install it without modify your system.

You can also download a Virtual Appliance ready-to-run or you can deploy it for free in the Amazon or Azure Cloud.

They ship XOOPS v2.5.5 and dependencies: Apache 2.4.4, PHP 5.4.13 and MySQL 5.5.29.

The main benefit for XOOPS of being in BitNami distribution will be an increased number of choices for users to install XOOPS, and making it easier for them to install XOOPS with one click on various platforms.

It is great that after being included just last month in SourceForge's Directory for "Enterprise-Ready Open Source Projects", now we are also included in BitNami distribution.

We very much appreciate the hard work by the BitNami team and their support.

Please provide feedback in this thread.
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SourceForge adds XOOPS to its directory of "Enterprise-Ready Open Source Projects"

SourceForge has recently announced creation of a directory for "Enterprise-Ready Open Source Projects", or "Enterprise Directory". These are the projects that are geared specifically for use within a company. This might include areas such as project management, office suites, or customer relationship management (CRM) software, and of course CMS.

The SourceForge Enterprise Directory is the authoritative destination for researching and downloading Enterprise-Ready projects. It allows for rich community interaction on Open Source titles through the new reviews and ratings system, and enables direct reach to the developers of these titles.

We are very proud to announce that XOOPS has been added to this directory!

This is a clear testimony to the quality of XOOPS and the hard work of the XOOPS community!

The inclusion in the Enterprise Directory is reflected now in the new look of XOOPS on SourceForge, which will appear only on select Enterprise-Ready projects:

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Viva XOOPS!
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XOOPS 2.5.6 RC 1 Released for Testing on PHP 5.4

After close to 45,000 downloads of XOOPS 2.5.5, we're getting closer to release of our next version: XOOPS 2.5.6

As more and more hosts are switching to PHP 5.4.x, some of our users are having issues with XOOPS 2.5.5, since it was not certified for PHP 5.4.x

Therefore we will be releasing XOOPS 2.5.6, that will run without any problems on PHP 5.4.x

Please note: the fact that the XOOPS Core runs correctly on PHP 5.4.x, doesn't mean that all your modules will run correctly, therefore you'll need to test them.

However, the recently released modules that qualify for our Basic Module Pack, are all tested on PHP 5.4.13, and they should run just fine.

There will be more modules coming soon (see this list)

For all others, please let us know about any issues you might have.

Download: SourceForge File Repository.

Please remember: This is RC Release version for features testing only!!!!

DO NOT install it on a production site and DO NOT upgrade any production site with it!!!

Please post and discuss all issues related to this release in this thread


XOOPS Development Team
March 27th, 2013
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