News module version 1.43
Date 2005/11/17 20:40:00 | Topic: Modules
| Hello,
A new version (1.43) of the News module is out. It only contains bugs corrections.
I want to specify that this version is the last before the 2.0 series (except if there were bugs
or security problems).
For this moment I don't have any date to give you for the release date of the 2.0 version.
I must first "analyze" what this new serie will be. (so please don't ask me when it will be available)
- This version is compatible with Xoops 2.0 AND Xoops 2.2.3
Event
I think the News module needs a specific place, just for it.
So I took CBB as a model and decided to create a site for the module.
In the same way, the News module will be renamed to Zola
When this site will be opened (soon), you will find :
- a forum to ask your questions, report bugs and suggest new features
- a wiki (wiwi module) for the documentation
- a directory module so that you can post a link to your site (if it uses the News module)
- a downloads module where you will find the latest version, translations, older versions, hacks, doc, etc
- an event module
...
Documentation
A french version and a spanish version of the documentation is available, I'm still searching for people
who could translate it in other languages (english for example).
When the site devoted to the module will be publicly available, I will give the permissions to edit/modify/create
the documentation to the personns who want to do it.
Download
You can download the module to its current homepage
Don't forget to also download and update the backend.php and pda.php you can find on the root of your
website, you can find new versions of those file in the above link.
Upgrade
You can upgrade from any previous version, from the 1.1 to the 1.42
If you have doubts, simply follow this rule :
- copy all the files to the module's directory (and be sure to erase existing files please)
- launch http://www.example.com/modules/news/admin/upgrade.php
- Go in the Xoops modules manager and update the module
You can also read the file called UPGRADE.txt wich is provided with the module.
Finally, you can consult the FAQ
Notes / Bugs / Problems
- There were no changes in the translations
- If you can't edit or post articles, don't forget to verify that
a) you can set the module's option "Enable authors to edit their posts"
b) you have correctly set the permissions on the topics in the appropriate module's page.
- Users of Xoops 2.2, please upgrade to Xoops 2.2.3 many corrections were made in this Xoops version
I will not bring any more support to Xoops 2.2 users if you don't use the last version (2.2.3) and bugs reports
will be removed without even an answer when they concern something that was corrected in Xoops 2.2.3 (it may sound brutal
but I'm a bit fed up to always give the same answers to the same (already answered) questions).
- If the topics permissions are not saved when you set them and if your Xoops version is not the last, please upgrade your Xoops.
- There are still some problems with utf8 languages (PDFs, words highlight etc).
As I tried to explain recently on the forums of this site, it's not because I ignore the "rest" of the world but because
that's not a subject I know for this moment. I have began to work with a french utf8 version of Xoops and of the module
but he results were not convincing so if someone can give me a test site and an admin access (and an ftp access) to a well
installed and configured site using utf8, please contact me.
If you still have a problem, don't forget to activate the Xoops Php debug's mode and to give your Xoops version before to report a bug (or a problem)
Changelog
Quote:
> Code corrected because of the bug "Call to a member function getConfigsByCat() on a non-object in include/functions.php on line 328"
This bug was appearing under some rare circumstances.
> A better Php 5.0.5 compatibility
> Some corrections in the generation of PDFs
> There was a bug when you was trying to edit a news from the admin panel
> The prune manager was not removing the comments, the votes, the notifications and the files attached to the news
> I have modified (and corrected) backend.php and pda.php to run with Php 5.0.5
> The option "Enable authors to edit their posts" is now checked by default
Happy Xoopsing,
Hervé
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