This 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.
Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.6.8, 2.7.0-alpha and 3.0.0-dev
Saturday, August 14th, 2010Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.6.7
Sunday, 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
Tuesday, 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
Saturday, 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.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.6.4 / 2.7.0-alpha
Saturday, 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…
Tuesday, 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…
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.6.2
Monday, 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.
Thoughts about a new layout in phpMyFAQ 2.7
Sunday, 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.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.7 / 2.6.1 / 2.7.0-alpha
Friday, January 15th, 2010This week was very good. We released phpMyFAQ 2.6 and got a lot of feedback after more than 1,000 downloads within the first 36 hours. Due to the big amount of feedback we also received a number of bugreports. We already fixed a lot of them, so expect a 2.6.1 the next two weeks. We also try to release a 2.5.7 maintainance release for phpMyFAQ 2.5 installations. phpMyFAQ 2.7 is under heavy development and currently very unstable because the changed already the complete category code base.
phpMyFAQ 2.6 branched
Monday, January 4th, 2010Today we added the new 2.6 branch in our repo and started the development with phpMyFAQ 2.7. phpMyFAQ 2.6.0 will be released the next days, so stay tuned!
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.7 / 2.6.0
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010We fixed some minor issues the last days and we’re now preparing the 2.6 release. So there won’t be a RC2 anymore. I also thinking about supporting 2.5 until the 2.7 release planned for july 2010.
phpMyFAQ 2.7 on the iPhone
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Today I played with HTML 5 and the iPhone Simulator and this is the first result:
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.6 / 2.6.0
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009I’m still ill at home but I’m feeling better. Today I fixed three issues on phpMyFAQ 2.5.5 and I merged the patches also to phpMyFAQ 2.6.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.6 / 2.6.0
Monday, December 14th, 2009I’m ill at home for one week now and I even cannot develop anything. Until now I didn’t get any feedback from the RC release but I’ll prepare a second RC for the next week. So 2.6.0 will be a 2010 release like the 2.5.6 release which will be the last 2.5 release. Please don’t forget that the support for phpMyFAQ 2.0 ends in 17 days…
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.6 / 2.6.0-RC
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009We’re in the final stage of fixing the last bugs we found during testing the beta version of phpMyFAQ 2.6. As the current state is already quite stable the next version will be already our release candidate. If everything works well the final release can be out around christmas. Beside stabilizing the 2.6 version we’re still supporting the 2.5 branch some time. We also have some plans for 2.7. 
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.4 / 2.6.0-alpha
Thursday, November 5th, 2009Well, phpMyFAQ 2.5.4 and 2.6.0-alpha are almost “done”. Anatoliy and my colleague Max Koehler helped me a lot to improve the 2.6 release with some nice features. You’ll need less clicks in the administration backend than before. We also fixed all known issues in phpMyFAQ 2.5.x. I’ll have to travels a lot the coming weeks but I’ll try to release both versions this month.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.4 / 2.6.0-alpha
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009The last couple of days with fixed some minor issues in phpMyFAQ 2.5.x, we also received updates for the Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese translations. In phpMyFAQ 2.6 we finished the rest/json API and the alpha release will be in the next couple of days.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.3 / 2.6.0-alpha
Sunday, October 11th, 2009The last couple of days were full of bugfixing for the 2.5.3 release. I also started to re-work the export stuff for 2.6… As we support Docbook XML export I was wondering if anyone is using this?
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.3 / 2.6.0-alpha
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009The first 10 days after the switch from SVN to git were full of bugfixes and some new features. David Soria Parra fixed some SQLite issues, Anatoliy started the work for a new Pagination class, and I fixed some bugs in the 2.5 and master branch. I also re-added one missing feature: the internal FAQ link plugin in TinyMCE. The 2.5.3 release will be sometime in october, the 2.6.0-alpha release won’t happen before the end of the same month. The final 2.6 release won’t be in 2009…
Zend Debugger for Snow Leopard
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Yesterday Zend released the Snow Leopard compatible 64 bit ZendDebugger binary. So I can debug again.
imac:extensions thorsten$ file ZendDebugger.so ZendDebugger.so: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures ZendDebugger.so (for architecture i386): Mach-O bundle i386 ZendDebugger.so (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit bundle x86_64