The phpMyFAQ Team is pleased to announce phpMyFAQ 2.6.8, the “Laurent Fignon” release. We dropped the Oracle database support and added a new TinyMCE plugin for adding internal links by a suggest search. We also added a basic HTML5 powered administration backend and improved the setup and update functionality. The bundled TCPDF library was updated to version 5.6.000, the bundled TinyMCE editor component to version 3.3.8 and the bundled phpseclib to version 0.2.1. We also updated the Russian and the Portuguese translation. We fixed a XML rendering issue and many minor bugs.
phpMyFAQ 2.6.8 Released!
August 31st, 2010Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.6.8, 2.7.0-alpha and 3.0.0-dev
August 14th, 2010This week we branched the new 2.7 branch from the current stable 2.6 branch. 2.7.0 will be the next major version of phpMyFAQ with a focus on a brand new user interface and some social improvements like better Facebook and Twitter integration. We changed the minimal PHP version for phpMyFAQ 2.7 to PHP 5.2.3. The current master branch was re-versioned to 3.0.0-dev and will need PHP 5.3, but it will take more than a year before you can see something here.
phpMyFAQ 2.6.7 Released!
July 29th, 2010The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.6.7, the “Theo Albrecht” release. This release includes a complete refactored and unittested search backend, an improved pagination functionality and we fixed various problems with Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP. We also fixed some minor bugs.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.6.7
July 25th, 2010Yesterday I finished the big refactoring/rewrite of the search backend. Now I’ll test the new code base and then release 2.6.7 asap.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.6.7
July 6th, 2010Today I had a little bit of free time for refactoring because I was at home with a summer cold. The old search routines are now removed from our codebase and the new search classes are already committed. The code is also unittested but I think I’ll release a 2.6.7-beta before the final release of 2.6.7.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.6.7
June 26th, 2010Some parts of the phpMyFAQ codebase are quite old because phpMyFAQ is almost 10 years old. Currently I’m working on the refactoring of the search component which hopefully will be part of phpMyFAQ 2.6.7. You maybe ask why I do this in the stable version and not in the master branch? The answer is quite simple: my spare time is limited so I will concentrate the next weeks and months on improve the 2.6 code base which will also be merged into the master branch for phpMyFAQ 2.7 and later.
phpMyFAQ 2.6.6 Released!
June 21st, 2010The phpMyFAQ Team is pleased to announce phpMyFAQ 2.6.6, the “Heidi Kabel” release. This release includes a refactored database abstraction, fixes OpenLDAP authentication, fixes duplication of search results, fixes an issue with duplicate sitemap characters and some solution ID issues. We improved the glossary deletion workflowand updated the Brazilian Portuguese and Norwegian Bokmal translations. We also fixed some minor bugs.
Comparison of knowledge base management software
June 4th, 2010Yesterday I found a quite interesting link in the English Wikipedia: Comparison of knowledge base management software. Looks like phpMyFAQ’s feature set is capable of competing. 
phpMyFAQ 2.6.5 Released!
May 24th, 2010The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.6.5, the “Ronnie James Dio” release. This release updates bundled TCPDF library to version 5.0.009 and TinyMCE editor component to version 3.3.5.1. We refactored OpenSearch plugin code base and fixed small update issues in update script, a missing language fallback issue in instant response, the user deletion in admin backend and a backup/restore bug. We updated the Polish, Russian and Thai translation. We also fixed some minor bugs.
phpMyFAQ 2.6.4 Released!
April 18th, 2010The phpMyFAQ Team is pleased to announce phpMyFAQ 2.6.4, the “Eyjafjallajökull” release. This release adds experimental support for Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP and includes an improved FAQ record administration frontend and Sitemap titles. We updated the German, the Romanian and the Swedish translation. We also fixed some minor bugs.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.6.4 / 2.7.0-alpha
April 17th, 2010The last couple of days I fixed some minor bugs in the 2.6 and 2.7 code base. I have to work a lot during my daily work and so the development of phpMyFAQ 2.7 slowed down. Today I added the experimental support for Microsofts SQL Server Driver for PHP which will reduce some problems with the old PHP MS SQL Server driver. We’ll release this new driver support with phpMyFAQ 2.6.4 the next days.
Back from holidays…
April 6th, 2010After 4 great weeks I returned last friday from my Australia trip. I already fixed some issues reported the last weeks and I thought about the next 2.7 release. I think it won’t be released in summer as I planned because a lot of things are still not implemented and currently I do not have the time to work as much as I want to for phpMyFAQ. More news on the 2.7 release time the next weeks…
On the road again…
March 3rd, 2010Tomorrow I will leave Germany for 4 weeks to spend my vacations in Australia. I’ll do a roadtrip from Sydney to Melbourne together with my girlfriend. Will be fun!
So don’t expect any releases or support until April 2nd.
phpMyFAQ 2.6.3 Released!
March 3rd, 2010The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.6.3, the “Steve Fossett” release. This release fixes various mail issues and improves links rewriting, sitemap for Chinese, Japanese and Korean content and the meta keyword handling. We updated Portuguese and French translation. We also fixed a lot of minor bugs.
Dutch PHP Conference 2010
February 17th, 2010I’m speaking at the Dutch PHP Conference 2010 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
My talk “Agile PHP Software Development” is scheduled for June 11th. For more information click on the DPC homepage.
phpMyFAQ 2.6.2 Released!
February 1st, 2010The phpMyFAQ Team is pleased to announce phpMyFAQ 2.6.2, the “Hildegard Knef” release. This release fixes an update script issue, the display of Chinese, Japanese and Korean content in PDFs, some issues with RSS feeds and the broken Spanish translation. We also updated the French translation and fixed some minor bugs.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.6.2
January 25th, 2010Due to a stupid bug added by myself during some tests for the 2.6.1 release I have to release phpMyFAQ 2.6.2 as soon as possible. Currently 2.0 and 2.5 users cannot upgrade with the update script included in the 2.6.1 package. Sorry for that. Beside this bug I fixed the Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters in the PDF exports with the help of some users in our forums.
phpMyFAQ 2.6.1 Released!
January 24th, 2010The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.6.1, the “Oleg Velyky” release. This release updates the bundled TCPDF library to version 4.8.026 and we improved cookie handling. We also fixed a lot of bugs reported by our users the last two weeks.
phpMyFAQ 2.5.7 Released!
January 19th, 2010The phpMyFAQ Team is pleased to announce phpMyFAQ 2.5.7, the “Herbert Wehner” release. This release improves the glossary detection and contains updated Dutch, Indonasian, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese and Norwegian Bokmal translations. We fixed many minor bugs.
Thoughts about a new layout in phpMyFAQ 2.7
January 17th, 2010The last couple of months I thought about a new layout for phpMyFAQ. After Anatoliy’s work on the user-specific templates I decided to re-work the whole design of phpMyFAQ. We will re-work the whole layout, the XHTML and the CSS so that easier and more flexible layouts are possible. We will use a CSS framework for that, too. Together with the final release of phpMyFAQ 2.7 we will also provide more designs for 2.0 and 2.5/2.6 based layouts.