We fixed a minor bug in the news section the last days after the 2.5.2 release. The interesting changes are currently in the trunk of phpMyFAQ. Anatoliy is working hard on the new attachment feature of phpMyFAQ 2.6. With the new classes it’s possible to encrypt attachments and safe the files in the filesystem or in the database. We also are working on a big change at our infrastucture: After 2 years we’ll migrate from SVN to git. We already have an account at github where a public repository will be hosted. And some colleagues implemented a nice working demo with a WebOS application as frontend for phpMyFAQ. More about this really cool stuff at the Mayflower blog.
Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.3 / 2.6.0-alpha
Monday, September 7th, 2009A new phpMyFAQ Team member
Saturday, September 5th, 2009We have another team member: Antoliy Belsky. Anatoliy is working in the same company like me and he already contributed some hundred lines of code and features for 2.5 and 2.6 during the last month so I asked him to join and I’m really happy that he said yes. 
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.2 / 2.6.0-alpha
Sunday, August 30th, 2009The last couple of days I had a lot of work at my daily job and I couldn’t work as much as I like for phpMyFAQ. So some reported bugs are still open but I hope I can fix these issues the next days-
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.2 / 2.6.0-alpha
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009The last couple of days we worked on some minor bugfixes we received after the 2.5.1 release. We also added some minor features for the 2.6.0-alpha release. Both releases are scheduled for september 2009.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.0.16 / 2.5.1 / 2.6.0-alpha
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Today I received a great patch from Lars Scheithauer with some LDAP fixes and some great additions for our LDAP support. With Lars’ patch it’s now possible to authenticate against an Active Directory from Microsoft, using multiple domains in your Actice Directory, and he also added support for the PHP LDAP options. Thank you very much, Lars!
I added all these enhancements to phpMyFAQ 2.5.1 and 2.6.0-alpha. We also fixed some issues in all three supported branches. I think you can expect a release of 2.0.16 and 2.5.1 next week.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.6.0-alpha
Monday, August 3rd, 2009We added three new features the last couple of days. Anatoliy added user adjustable template sets and styles so that you can use mulitple templates. The phpMyFAQ default template was moved from ./template to ./template/default/. Aurimas FiĊĦeras from Lithuania wrote support for TinyMCE translations, thank you very much! Myself added support for multi-language news… funny thing, this was already prepared since phpMyFAQ 2.0 but we forgot to implement it… More new features will be added the next two months, so stay tuned!
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.6.0-alpha
Saturday, July 25th, 2009Yesterday my personal “master of merging”, David, merged our UTF-8 branch back into trunk and almost everything worked like a charm. Only some fixes were overwritten but we’re working on those small issues. Thanks a lot, David!
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.0.16 / 2.5.1 / 2.6.0-dev
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Wow, we got some quite good feedback from our users after the 2.5 release yesterday. We also got some bug reports and we’re already fixed some minor issues. So expect a version 2.5.1 in August. In July we’ll release a maintainance release for phpMyFAQ 2.0. And we’re starting to merge the code of our UTF-8 branch back into the trunk for phpMyFAQ 2.6.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.0.16 / 2.5.0-RC
Monday, July 6th, 2009Today we merged another two new features into phpMyFAQ 2.5: The folder for the attachments is now configurable so that you can upload the attachments outside of the webroot. We also added the permission to approve new FAQ entries and we fixed some bugs. phpMyFAQ 2.0.16 has one open bug before we can release the probably last 2.0.x release…
Back from vacation
Monday, July 6th, 2009I’m back since friday and read a lot of mails and board messages. I’ll fix the reported bugs as soon as possible und will release a third RC the coming days…
Added phpMyFAQ 2.5 documentation
Thursday, June 11th, 2009Just a few minutes ago I added the documentation for phpMyFAQ 2.5 to our homepage. Please feel free to check it.
phpMyFAQ and PHP 5.3
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009If everything works fine PHP 5.3 will be released at the end of this month. PHP 5.3 will be a big step further after the 5.2 release more than two years ago. The phpMyFAQ team did some testing with the last release candidates of PHP 5.3 and already fixed some issues we found. phpMyFAQ 2.0.15 and the upcoming phpMyFAQ 2.5.0-RC will run without any problems on PHP 5.3.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.0-RC
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009We fixed more issues today for the release candidate. The current state is really looking good and I think the RC will be out the next days.
phpMyFAQ 2.0.14 Released!
Thursday, May 21st, 2009The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.0.14, the “Andrei Sakharov” release. This release updates the Vietnames translation, improves the tagging implementation, and fixes a authentication bypass. The content type for the RSS feeds are now correct. It also fixes minor issues.
Work started on phpMyFAQ 2.6
Friday, May 15th, 2009Yes, we started a third branch. My employer Mayflower GmbH is holding the annual Mayflower barcamp there the whole company can code open source stuff for some days. This year we’re in South Tyrol, Italy. Anatoliy and myself chose a project based on phpMyFAQ: the UTF-8 migration. So we branched the trunk (which will be released as phpMyFAQ 2.5 in the next weeks and started to add full UTF-8 support in phpMyFAQ. After 2 days we’re almost done, all language files are based on UTF-8, we added a new PDF library with Unicode support and coded some migration scripts.
phpMyFAQ 2.6 will get more features in the near future, so stay tuned.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.0-RC
Thursday, May 7th, 2009Three days after the release of the beta version we didn’t got any feedback. Is this a good sign? We had more than 100 downloads so far. On my test machines running on MacOS X 10.5.6 and WindowsXP SP3 the beta runs very smooth.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.0-beta
Monday, April 27th, 2009The beta version is a little bit delayed because of some missing layout work in the new administration section. I think we can release the beta within the next two weeks and we hope we get a lot of responses for the release candidate which is planned for June 2009.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.0-beta
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009We’re almost done with the work on our beta release of phpMyFAQ 2.5 – yesterday we removed Prototype from the trunk. Since today everything is based on jQuery. The next days we’ll work on stability to release a stable beta version. Please note that the new backend layout is still not finished in the beta release. The work for the a second beta or a release candidate will be focused on the administration layout.
Microsoft supports phpMyFAQ
Monday, April 13th, 2009As you might know Microsoft is supporting PHP quite good since last year as they noticed how big the PHP market is.
A lot of intranet installations of phpMyFAQ are running on Windows Server, MS SQL Server and IIS. Due to the fact that I only can test on Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X I asked my friend Pierre, who’s working on PHP for Microsoft for a free MSDN subscription. And finally, last week my subscription arrived. I already installed a Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7 and an Active Directory. During the beta phase of phpMyFAQ 2.5 I’ll test also on this environment. Thanks, Pierre and thanks, Microsoft!
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.0-beta
Friday, April 3rd, 2009We put a lot of work on phpMyFAQ the last days because I got some help from my Mayflower colleague Anatoliy. The beta release should be ready after Easter!