XOOPS Receives "Best Technology Award" for X3 from NEA OSS Forum
We are extremely pleased to announce that XOOPS has received the "Best Technology Award" from the North East Asia OSS Forum for the upcoming X3 version of XOOPS, that will be officially released as Alpha version this weekend. The judges were impressed with X3 architecture, its usage of state-of-the-art PHP libraries such as Zend Framework and Smarty 3, and the direction XOOPS is taking toward becoming a "Web Application-oriented development platform"
As DJ mentioned in the August news, the first public Alpha was scheduled to be released in October 2010, and we're very happy that we're on schedule with this release. It will be a first step to learn more about X3 and to explore it.
Since he will be in Korea, he would like to encourage all XOOPS developers to attend the NEA OSS Forum Conference, so he could meet with you in person while in Seoul and discuss future XOOPS development, as well as to celebrate together this achievement. Please contact him via PM if you're coming to Seoul, so he can arrange a meeting with you (probably in the evening or in between the sessions on Nov. 4th).
On Friday, Nov. 5th, Mamba will be for 7 hours at the Narita Airport in Japan, while switching planes to China, so if anybody from the XOOPS Japan community would like to meet with him there, he would be very happy about it.
On Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 6th and 7th, Mamba will be in Beijing, meeting with DJ and the members of the XOOPS China Community.
We are extremely excited about this "Best Technology Award" for the "next generation" of XOOPS version, and about the opportunity to meet with the Asian XOOPS developers.
The XOOPS Development Team is pleased to announce that a new version of the Top 5 Finalist of 2010 Packt Open Source CMS - XOOPS 2.5.0 RC2 is available for download. Thanks to everybody who tested the RC1 and provided us with feedback and bug fixes!(Don't forget to vote for XOOPS:read here) The XOOPS 2.5.0release is a major redesign of the System Module which has been AJAX-ed with jQuery done mainly by Nicolas Andricq (ForMusS), Cointin Maxime (kraven_30), and Grégory Mage (Mage). Other major contributors include Trabis, Voltan, Kris_fr, and Marco. Some of the new features are truly amazing, like the visual placement of blocks, and we're sure that the users will love them Other major improvements/additions include: - Added: Help System for Admin and modules (see PM module) - Added: MySQL Dump in Maintenance - Added: New Redirect messaging - Added: Column sorting in tables - Added: smarty plugin for icon pack - Added: smarty plugin for breadcrumb navigation - Added: jQuery plugins for display popup or manage drag & drop - Added: File Manager (Plugin) - Added: Maintenance with Cache Clean-up, and Tables Maintenance - Added: Visual module ordering with drag & drop - Added: Visual block placement with drag & drop - Added: Refactor all PHP code for use XOOPS API - Added: Use template in the same way that front user, admin side for module can call a main template define in xoops_version.php - Added: Allow override of template in admin theme like frontend if we set template in ADMIN_THEME - Added: New variable 'system_menu' in xoops_version.php of each module, this variable generate a tab menu for module admin side if set to 1, this feature is for give one unique tab menu for all menu (eg: module PM for). - Added: add jquery plugin in xoops_lib - Added: change install for install admin template and admin setting - Added: manage editor for blocks, comments and for all module if module developper want to use it activate or deactivate system section - Added: choose number of line for admin section - Added: display or hide tips Avatar: - activate/deactivate avatar with ajax Banners: - jquery popup for display banners Block admin: - drag n drop block for manage position and weight - jquery popup for preview Comments: - multiple selection for deletion - purge Groups: - number of user per group - new disposition Images: - lightbox preview + thumbs Modulea Admin: - jquery popup for display info Preferences: - system settings Smilies: - activate/deactivate smilies with ajax Templates: - manage overide of all template online - generated file come from database User Rank: - activate/deactivate userrank with ajax Users: - advanced user management - new disposition - simple and advance search For a detailed Change log, please click here.Videos To see the main features of XOOPS 2.5.0, check out the following videos that were made for the Alpha release: a) In Spanish (by Uskola 2) b) In English (by Vamptrix) c) In English (by Mamba) d) In French (by tutoxoops)
Please remember: This is Release Candidate version for features testing only! DO NOT install it on a production site and DO NOT upgrade any production site with it! ==> New in this release - upgrading from older XOOPS versionDownload it from Sourceforge repository. Please post and discuss all issues related to this release in this forumWe also need help with Translations For installation information, please visit
x-Cake is a Rapid Development Suite for PHP Applications utilizing XOOPS and CakePHP. It has been recently updated by Yoshi Sakai to version 1.28 of CakePHP.
You can quickly write modules for XOOPS if you know the Cake Method and structure, or import your existing Cake Framework Application into a more dynamic environment like XOOPS. For support and information look on CakePHP website.
After being hidden in the file repository for several months, XoopsPoll 1.31 is now released.
This version is a small update to the 1.3 version released in the beginning of 2010.
Added features (compared to 1.3): + Log of votes for each poll available in admin section (thanks to X-Bandit for this feature) + No. of comments incl. link to them available in block (if comments enabled) + No. of total votes available in block + Poll description on the voting and results pages + Redirect back to original page after vote if voting from block, otherwise redirect to results page
Changes/bugfixes: - Removal of links to vote on index and results pages if a user has already voted
Install: If upgrading from 1.3, just copy over original files and update module. If upgrading from version 1.2 or earlier, please uninstall original version of XoopsPoll and make a fresh install.
From the very beginning to this day IXThemes Project adheres to a principle "EATING YOUR OWN DOG FOOD". Following this important principle for us we are glad to inform you about creation of 3 more websites powered by XOOPS 2.5.0 RC!
It's always important to "walk the talk", or Eating your own dog food, so we have updated our Website to XOOPS 2.5.0 RC. This will allow us to find any problems before we release it to you, our users, as a Final release. The update went very smooth, and as you can see, XOOPS 2.5.0 RC is working just fine, handling tons of traffic here However, please DO NOT use XOOPS 2.5.0 RC on your production sites, it is, after all, still NOT the final release. We have the experts in house, so we can fix things very quickly, which might not be the case with you. So please test it on your local PC and let us know any issues that you might have. We would like to release the Final within a week or so, unless you report any major showstoppers. So let's focus this week and testing and more testing! And don't forget to vote for XOOPS in the Packt's Open Source CMS Awards!!! We need you vote!!! (Click here)
This was my first title with the use of API's and a cloud server. Cloud computing is all the rage now and even yoursite with any later xoops 2 will be able to be a cloud with the right plugins written.
This applet for XOOPS allows you to maintain the ban list in the cloud, whenever someone attempts a security intrusion in xoops and you are running xortify it will pick up this ban and pass it onto everyone in the cloud, preventing xoops from being farmed or having a farmed attack.
Once someone is banned by protector, that is put into the bad ips bin, xortify will port this IP and details to http://www.xortify.com via an API, this is then distributed to everyone else within the time frame you have xortify cycling on. If the person gotos that site then they are assumed banned being on the clouds IP range and displays a ban notice.
The bans are also aggregated via RSS on the site as well so you can even tweet about a ban. This is a must for any security conceited individual and I can highly recommend it. Personally I think this is the addition feature protector is missing and this applet should be included in all distributions.
Well for awhile now I have been making API for XOOPS. What are these? Well the TLA API stands for Application Programmable Interface, this is a tool on a site that allows other sites to embed data from them with the use of an API.
Many sites use these an example of one is twitter and all the scrolly tweet feeds you can see around the place. These work with an API that has an associated username and password with the site.
I recently added to the family of API which was originally only available with SOAP with two newer titles X-cURL and X-JSON. essentially these second apis are functionally the same at this point of development.
This is hopefully the final release of X-JSON, I have been busy making a cloud with it called Xoritify which is hosted on http://www.xortify.com which uses API technology to link my modules with a centralized data source. At the moment I am having to meet monthly billing straters so sometimes it is offline but most of the applications at least the cloud side is designed to goto sleep when this happens.
If you would like to download X-JSON the following links are available:
Well for awhile now I have been making API for XOOPS. What are these? Well the TLA API stands for Application Programmable Interface, this is a tool on a site that allows other sites to embed data from them with the use of an API.
Many sites use these an example of one is twitter and all the scrolly tweet feeds you can see around the place. These work with an API that has an associated username and password with the site.
I recently added to the family of API which was originally only available with SOAP with two newer titles X-cURL and X-JSON. essentially these second apis are functionally the same at this point of development.
This is hopefully the final release of X-cURL, I have been busy making a cloud with it called Xoritify which is hosted on http://www.xortify.com which uses API technology to link my modules with a centralized data source. At the moment I am having to meet monthly billing straters so sometimes it is offline but most of the applications at least the cloud side is designed to goto sleep when this happens.
If you would like to download X-CURL the following links are available: