Welcome to the February 2011 issue of WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter - this time a little bit late - sorry for that! (see here previous versions)
And as always, as the first thing in each newsletter we wanted to express our gratitude to all of you who have donated moneyey to XOOPS Foundation! We truly appreciate your trust and support! This month Ian Underwood remains the biggest supporter and donor - thank you Ian! If anybody else would like to donate - please don't be shy!
Work on Xoops Engine, our "next generation" XOOPS architecture, continues!
Xoops Engine, as the new brand name for this new architecture, supports open and extensible engines with its multi-engine design. As for now there are three engines available:
- Xoops: the official engine with new architecture utilizing Zend Framework as the primary library and Smarty 3.0 as the default view templating engine, as well as some third-party libraries like jQuery. Demo will be hosted on http://www.xoopsengine.org;
- Lite: a lite version of the 'Xoops' Engine with no MySQL required, aimed for high performance scenarios;
- Legacy: for backward compatibility to support legacy XOOPS modules and templates.
Some selected features that were most requested by the community are now part of Xoops Engine:
* Built-in cache mechanism for high performance
* Clear MVC with AOP and event hook
* Extensible URL rewrite for better SEO
* App/module clone w/o code change
Highlights of the last month:
XOOPS, There It Is! A CMS for the Masses (a great blog post on SourceForge)
Gerard Vanderveken (Ghia) wins "2010 XOOPSer of the Year" Award
Simon Roberts (Wishcraft) wins the 2010 "Marcello Brandao XOOPS Innovation Award"
All Winners will receive a free book of their choice from O'Reilly

"TechMS" is a 2 columns fixed width theme for XOOPS It is one of the most detail rich themes I ever released on XOOPS and it is the new standard of future themes I'll release from now on. HERE you can view the theme installed on XOOPS 2.5 "TechMS" is dedicated to online stores based on XOOPS or technology related blogs. It features a static slider visible only on system pages, integrated user navigation, 5 different colour schemes (not active in demo) and of course is social network ready and allows easy share of links over Facebook, Twitter and My Space to name just a few. HERE you can read all about it Thank you




Hello, I'm Erol but you might know me as "aphex" and I make themes for XOOPS. Today I launched the 5th version of the themes site you all got to know for some years as Aphex's Themes. The most important change about the site is not the design... The most important thing about the site is the system used, and now is proudly powered by XOOPS (again). The change brings a lot of changes to the structure of the site and a lot of changes to the designs I put up for download, and you will see next week what I'm talking about as a new theme will be published to my download section. For now, you will notice that ALL free items have disappeared and registration is no longer possible. Altho free items will still be published by me, they will no longer be available on the themes site. Regular users have been removed and only the users with active subscription can still login ( unfortunately they will need to reset their password ) As for the old themes... I had a chat with Michael ( Mamba ) and it was decided that since they won't be available on my site, they need a home... their home will be XOOPS's theme gallery and so they will soon be made available to download here on xoops.org Anyway, drop by and check out the new old website and you can read all about the changes... HERE Oh and yeah... prices dropped on everything ;) Thank you
