KalleLoad 1.5 Beta 5 soon? kthx

Written by Kalle - August 26, 2007, 4:18 am, No Comments
Blah, As many have been waiting on, then the biggest release of KalleLoad is on the end to be released. Currently Im finishing off some of the last components in the Control Panel core before its ready.
 
What I need to do before Im done:
  • Save / Update settings
  • Settings Template is not using phrases, so I have to convert it all into phrases
  • "Updating All" services doesn't have a good UI so needs to be fixed
  • Orphan files is not displayed correctly
Its not that much so expect it very very soon =), so why have the development of this release taken so long, and what have been improved?
  • Added the basic new control panel with improved features compared to the old version in the 1.4 series.
  • Added new image watermark / thumbnail support (XPM, GD, GD2, TGA (read only) & BMP (read only))
  • Added alot of internal functions for user, data, settings ect. management
  • Added XML Parsing support (PHP5 only (currently)!)
  • Fixed PHP4 startup errors (Seems to have been there since Beta 1)
  • Fixed error on not sending database error email (Seems to have een there since Beta 1)
  • Fixed possible XSS in 'index.php'
  • Fixed major bug on show/hide javascript
  • Fixed WBMP support named XBMP
  • Removed 'KalleLoad_Template::allocate_default_vars()' method (this is now build into '/includes/construct.php')
  • Removed the 'NO_IMAGE_SUPPORT' magic constant (Each file that requires image support are required to load the image class)
  • Removed the 'white_buttons' style
Thats just out of 113 (as of writing that has been completed), I will try post more updates once I make them here, you can also follow updates from the KalleLoad thread on ClanTemplates at:
http://forums.clantemplates.com/showthread.php?t=74174
 
Ive also been thinking of putting up a public bug tracker and maybe discussing forum once the final 1.5 package is released. For those whos not following the update tree which ive posted in parts in the KalleLoad thread, then here it is for 1.5:
  • Beta 1 - Watermarking
  • Beta 2 - Thumbnailing
  • Beta 3 - Templating
  • Beta 4 - Language System
  • Beta 5 - Control Panel
  • Release Candidate 1 - Installer + More control panel components
  • Release Candidate 2 - Upgrade system (1.4, 1.4.1 & 1.4.2) + More control panel components
  • Final - Repair tools + Last improvements
The ones marked with bold means they have been released, and the one with italic means its currently in the process of development.
 
KalleLoad 1.6 - KalleLoad 1.7
As some people might have heard me talk about on messenger, then ive official annouce the future versions of KalleLoad. Currently only the "New feature" as each major KalleLoad release contains.
 
KalleLoad 1.6 will contain a user system where public users can register and gain access to a public gallery or create private galleries with password protection.
 
KalleLoad 1.7 will contain a crop feature and some improved image creation and manipulation functions like "Resize image to thumbnail size AxB".
 
 
Hope this was interesting, check back later for updates on the development of KalleLoad ;)

CT Dev: Tutorials development update

Written by Kalle - August 24, 2007, 5:20 pm, No Comments
So today Opserty finished most of the client side of the new tutorial system which Vineet annouced a few days ago.
 
What currently needs to be done is some internal improvements to the code and then pagination is missing some places around the new system. When that is done we start working on the Admin section while letting staff and maybe a few members try out the new system.
 
I attached some screenshots for you to see, remember the system is currently in development so the screenshots may change from the final release, enjoy ;)
 
View tutorial:
Submit tutorial:
Category view:
Search tutorials:

Sorry for the watermarking, I was just testing out the watermark feature on KalleLoad ;)


Alright, so mysigs is back...

Written by Kalle - August 22, 2007, 9:59 am, No Comments
Alright, so now mysigs is back i decided to try it out, it looks like the old one, however after browsing the User Admin Panel there was a few things i didn't like.
 
News titles
You can only have a news title that havn't been used by anyone else on another blog which is quite bad imo. Its hopefully gonna get fixed sooner or later.
 
Template Coding
Heres a few things i really dislike, but okay its maybe just because i wanted to be able to skin my blog 100%.
 
<?xml ... ?>
Doesn't work, i guess its cause to remove php code inside the template, but i still think it should be allowed!
 
"Code trimming"
Mysigs seems to trim all my template code which i don't really like, since it gets alot un-structured and non professional looking.
 
<!DOCTYPE ...>
After saving a template and then going to edit it, then mysigs changed the doctype tag from whatever you have been using to the old HTML 4.01 doctype, not sure if this is mysigs or the FCKEditor used.
 
HTML Special Characters
If saving a template with special HTML markup, lets say the copyright mark: &copy; is being decoded when doing to make a change to your template which makes square boxes around the template and invalid HTML markup.
 
"Top bar isn't skin-able and looks ugly (sorry Vin)"
It took me a while to try figure out how to skin the top bar on my mysigs page, but last i found the way; Javascript, since the top bar doesn't include any ids i had to use getElementByTagName and three for-loops which is kinda bad but it worked out, I will post a hack later on how to hack the top bar on your blog.
 
Auto-removing off omitted tags
So i noticed since i had to use a meta tag insted of the <?xml ... ?> which aren't avaible mysigs is removing the omitted part, <meta ... /> which is pretty bad and overall forces you to go back to HTML 4.01 =/
So thats what i don't like about the new MySigs, however i love the new User Admin Panel, its really nice and easy to use if you compare it to the old one, Good job!
 
One thing i think Mysigs is missing is RSS feeds for blogs, which i hope will be implemented sometime soon, else i can't say anything other than good job.
 
I will also finish skinning my blog soon, so you can use the shout box, news comment and gallery ;)