What's New for Developers ----------------------------------- 1 Improved XOOPS ORM by enabling extensible persistable object handler: - The improved persistable object handler supports almost all common methods for database access and data treatment, so that developers do not need to write their own classes or methods; - Custom handler is supported. Developers can add their own handler if they want more functionality or to replace XOOPS native handlers. 2 Improved text sanitizer: - Custom extension is supported. Developers can add new filters or methods to sanitizer based on their specific needs. - Built-in extensions, which can be disabled or enabled (e.g. for Flash, YouTube, images, Wiki, syntax highlight, text filter, etc.) - Combined with improved persistable object handler (see above), text input from users will be filtered automatically for security considerations. 3 Custom Frameworks support: - Module developers can add their own library or frameworks (located in XOOPS_ROOT_PATH/Frameworks) which can be shared by other modules. - PEAR, Geshi have been provided as custom libraries in Frameworks. - Once the code inside Frameworks is proven stable and valuable, they will be adopted by XOOPS core and moved into XOOPS core package. This way we can build a standard, efficient channel for third-party developers to contribute. 4 XOOPS editor packages are now supported officially: - A XoopsEditor handler is built to accept third-party editors; - Three editors, including Textarea, Dhtmltextarea, and Extended Dhtmltextarea are provided in XOOPS core. FCKeditor, TinyMCE, Koivi are now provided as third-party add-ons. 5 XOOPS CAPTCHA is built into XOOPS core: - CAPTCHA has been added to registration and comment forms. - Module developers can add CAPTCHA very easily to their applications. 6 XOOPS Control Panel GUI is introduced: - Old administration interface has been kept as legacy - A new interface is designed, although very rough at this stage - Custom interfaces are allowed, ThAdmin by MusS and Kris is the first one introduced 7 XOOPS file and folder engine is added, based on CakePHP. 8 XOOPS Cache engine is built based on CakePHP. 9 Some other improvements and new resources: - XoopsLocal for localization; - XoopsLoad emulating SPL autoload in PHP5; - XoopsUtility as a collection for miscellaneous methods used by XOOPS; - Block clone feature is activated to save module developers' efforts; - Enabled character set and collation support for MySQL 4.1+; - Upgraded Smarty to 2.6.19; - Upgraded phpmailer to 2.0.0; - Added XOOPS data and library folders for forward compatibility with XOOPS 3.0; - Added XOOPS_TRUST_PATH for compatibility with some modules, e.g. protector 10 For more changes, please check changelog.txt What's New for Theme/Template developers ----------------------------------- 1 Rel attribute for anchors is now supported. Developers/designers are encouraged to use (X)HTML compliant "rel" attribute instead of "target". 2 Control Panel GUI handler is introduced thus designers now get the power to make beautiful backend interfaces. What's New for Users ----------------------------------- Some of the new features that might interest users: - Default character set encoding has been changed to UTF-8; - Enabled "auto login" or "remember me"; - CAPTCHA is enabled for registration and comment system; - Block clone enabled so that webmasters have more flexibility; - XOOPS editor package is provided and most visual editors are avilable, e.g. FCKeditor, TinyMCE, etc.; - Side-wide editor; - Mask is added for start page; - Implemented new installer with user experience improvement experiments; - Permissions for access to user profile page is configurable. - Extensible Profile module - Private Messages Module - Extended DHTML as default, with inline preview enabled - EXM Admin GUI as an option System requirements ----------------------------------- PHP: Any PHP version >= 4.3 (PHP 4.2.x may work but is not officially supported, PHP 5.0+ is strongly recommended) MySQL: MySQL server 3.23+ (MySQL 5.0+ is strongly recommended) Web server: Any server supporting the required PHP version (Apache highly recommended) Downloading XOOPS 2.3 RC3 ----------------------------------- Your can get this release package from the sourceforge.net file repository. Both .zip and .gz archives are provided. Installing XOOPS 2.3 RC3 ----------------------------------- 1. Copy the content of the htdocs/ folder where it can be accessed by your server 2. Ensure mainfile.php and uploads/ are writable by the web server 3. For security considerations, you are encouraged to move directories xoops_lib (for XOOPS libraries) and xoops_data (for XOOPS data) out of document root, or even change the folder names. 4. Make the directory of xoops_data/ writable; Create and make the directories of xoops_data/caches/, xoops_data/caches/xoops_cache/, xoops_data/caches/smarty_cache/ and xoops_data/caches/smarty_compile/ writable. 5. Access the folder where you installed the htdocs/ files using your web browser to launch the installation wizard We also highly recommend the installation of the PROTECTOR module which will bring additional security protection and logging capabilities to your site. To install protector module with a fresh new installation of XOOPS 2.30, copy /extras/mainfile.dist.php.protector to /htdocs/mainfile.dist.php BEFORE installing XOOPS. To install protector module with upgrading from a previous version to XOOPS 2.30, copy /extras/mainfile.dist.php.protector to /upgrade/upd-2.0.18-to-2.3.0/mainfile.dist.php BEFORE upgrading XOOPS. Upgrading from a previous version ----------------------------------- Upgrading from XOOPS 2.0.* above 2.0.14 and 2.2.* (using the full package) 1. Move the "upgrade" folder inside the "htdocs" folder (it's been kept out as it's not needed for full installs) on your local machine 2. Delete htdocs/mainfile.php, htdocs/install/, htdocs/cache/, htdocs/extras/, htdocs/template_c/, htdocs/themes/ and htdocs/uploads/ from the "htdocs" folder on your LOCAL machine 3. Upload the content of the htdocs folder on your LOCAL machine over your existing files on your server 4. For security considerations, you are encouraged to move directories xoops_lib (for XOOPS libraries) and xoops_data (for XOOPS data) out of document root, or even change the folder names. 5. Make the directory of xoops_data/ writable; Create and make the directories of xoops_data/caches/, xoops_data/caches/xoops_cache/, xoops_data/caches/smarty_cache/ and xoops_data/caches/smarty_compile/ writable. 6. Access使用浏览器访问/upgrade/并根据说明7进行操作。按照说明更新您的数据库。8.从您的服务器上删除升级文件夹。9.从模块管理接口更新“system”模块，建议其他模块也进行更新。从任何从2.0.7到2.0.13.2版本的XOOPS升级（使用完整包）：1. 将“升级”文件夹移动到本地机器的“htdocs”文件夹内（它已被保留，因为在全面安装中不需要它）。2. 从本地机器上的“htdocs”文件夹中删除htdocs/mainfile.php、htdocs/install/、htdocs/cache/、htdocs/extras/、htdocs/template_c/、htdocs/themes/和htdocs/uploads/。3. 将本地机器上“htdocs”文件夹的内容上传到服务器上现有的文件。4. 从您的服务器上删除以下文件夹和文件（属于旧版本）:* class/smarty/core * class/smarty/plugins/resource.db.php 5. 确保服务器可以对mainfile.php进行写入。6. 为了安全考虑，建议将xoops_lib（XOOPS库）和xoops_data（XOOPS数据）文件夹从文档根目录移出，或者甚至更改文件夹名称。 7. 使xoops_data/文件夹可写；创建并使xoops_data/caches/、xoops_data/caches/xoops_cache/、xoops_data/caches/smarty_cache/和xoops_data/caches/smarty_compile/文件夹可写。8. 访问/upgrade/ 路径，并在浏览器中按照说明操作9号。再次对 mainfile.php 设置写保护10。从您的服务器上删除升级文件夹11。从模块管理界面更新“系统”模块文件完整性检查-----------------------------------XOOPS 完整包附带一个脚本来检查所有系统文件是否已正确上传到服务器。使用方法如下：1. 将位于 XOOPS 包根目录下的 checksum.php 和 checksum.md5 文件上传到您的 XOOPS 服务器文件夹（将它们放在 mainfile.php 旁边）。2. 使用浏览器执行 checksum.php3. 如有必要，重新上传缺失或损坏的系统文件4. 从您的服务器上删除 checksum.php 和 checksum.md5 模块-----------------------------------此版本仅包含“与系统相关的模块”。如果您需要其他功能，请浏览 XOOPS 模块仓库。注意：由于正在构建新的仓库，当前仓库可能不是最新的，请访问个别开发商的网站以确认您使用的是模块的最新版本。如何贡献-----------------------------------错误报告：http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=41586&atid=430840补丁和增强：http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=41586&atid=430842功能设计：http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=41586&atid=430843发布公告：https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xoops-announcement开发商注意事项-----------------------------------XOOPS 2.30 的发展展示了 XOOPS 社区的极大合作：来自法国、中国、伊朗以及许多其他国际社区的开发者、设计师和最终用户，以及 http://www.xoops.org 网站的“英语社区”。特别感谢 Michael Beck（mamba）、Marc Desrousseaux（marco）、Ricardo Costa（trabis）和杨寿生（ezsky）为本期 RC 版本进行的密集工作，包括测试、调试、整理反馈意见。同时，XOOPS 开发团队感谢正在工业设计硕士学习期间从事 UE 设计研究的孙雪丽。孙雪丽女士正在进行 XOOPS 3.0 的可用性测试和 UE 设计（https://xoops.org.cn/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4433），我们希望 XOOPS 社区能帮助我们完成这个非常重要的任务。XOOPS 开发团队2008年9月15日