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New XOOPS Module IXTCake

2010-11-03T09:43:03+01:00

IXThemes Project offers you the NEW XOOPS Module IXTCake.

IXTCake is a module for integration CakePHP RAD System into a XOOPS Web Application Platform.

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Hot Features of IXTCake 1.0.5:

- CakePHP 1.3.5 included (2010-10-24);
- SimpleTest 1.0.1 included;
- jQuery 1.4.3 included;
- 105 Core Test Cases;
- 21 Core Test Groups;
- 4 Module Blocks;
- Compatible with PHP 5.2 (5.2.11 tested) and PHP 5.3 (5.3.3 tested);
- Compatible with Themes by IXThemes rel.#4.x

Other IXTCake Properties:

- Compatible with XOOPS 2.3.x, 2.4.x, 2.5.x;
- Full support jGrowl redirect messages for XOOPS 2.4.x, XOOPS 2.5.x;
- 4 module icons for support RMCommon;
- A CSS addon for RMCommon GUI has been included;
- jquery.prettyPhoto.js and tooltip.js for RMCommon GUI has been included.
- A XOOPS preloads property is supported. (for XOOPS 2.4.x, XOOPS 2.5.x)
- A Style for CSS3 Tooltips has been included. (for XOOPS 2.4.x)
- A XOOPS preloads property is supported. (for XOOPS 2.4.x, XOOPS 2.5.x)
- Compatible with RMCommon Utilities.
- Intuitively Clear Interface;
- jQuery Tooltips with a Slide Effect (XOOPS 2.4.x, XOOPS 2.5.x);
- Unforgettable a Module Index Page;
- All Icons in One Style;
- Absolutely FREE.

What is CakePHP?

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. Using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM within the convention over configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development costs and helps developers write less code.

What is SimpleTest?

The heart of SimpleTest is a testing framework built around test case classes. These are written as extensions of base test case classes, each extended with methods that actually contain test code.

DOWNLOAD IXTCake 1.0.5

You can download IXTCake 1.0.5 in ZIP-archive or in 7Z-archive.

The Frontend Screenshot with ixt02905cacao Theme

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The Backend Screenshot

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New Xoops Engine (X3) Goes Public

2010-11-01T04:50:00+01:00

I am very pleased to present you X3, the new Xoops Engine for the next generation of XOOPS powered web application development.

This new Xoops Engine was long time in coming. During that time, we went through different phases of trials and errors, but I believe that finally we have the best combination of features and technologies to strategically position XOOPS as one of the top Web Application Platform solutions.

The new Xoops Engine has been re-designed from the ground up to take advantages of third-party frameworks like Zend Framework and Smarty 3.

Why did we rewrite XOOPS?
XOOPS is one of the most successful Open Source CMS and portal solutions, constantly placing in top places in various competitions, and receiving various awards. But it is showing signs of aging, that would require major rewrites of the Core.
In order to keep us focused on creating a flexible and extensible development engine for developers and a high performance application platform for end users, the development team has decided to use industry-standard frameworks. By doing so, we can focus our limited resources on aspects that make XOOPS unique and special, while leaving standard functionality to be addressed by off-the-shelf frameworks. This way we can take advantage of latest internet developments already included in those frameworks - it's like getting suddenly a whole new team of some of the best and brightest PHP and RIA programmers joining XOOPS!

After much research, we've selected a couple of frameworks at this stage:
PHP: Zend Framework
Template: Smarty 3,
JavaScript: jQuery

Meanwhile the multi-engine mechanism of the Xoops Engine will ensure the possibility of adopting other excellent frameworks in the future, like Yii Framework, Dojo Toolkit, etc.

Why did we choose Zend Framework for PHP
* The design and coding is professional and state-of-the-art
* Fully Object-oriented and strictly PHP 5
* The documentation is exhaustive, with countless third-party resources available on internet
* The development is very active and sustainable, and its team is backed by PHP development team (Zend)
* Strong support from major corporations (Technology partners include IBM, Google, Microsoft, Adobe Systems, and StrikeIron).
* Use-at-will architecture with loosely coupled components and minimal interdependencies
* Extensible MVC implementation supporting layouts and PHP-based templates by default
* The components are vast and loosely coupled and potentially compatible with other libraries: on-demand pickup
* Proven PHPunit integration for unit tests

The Xoops Engine architecture is designed to build on features that made XOOPS so popular:
* Modularization
* Themes
* Template

What do we expect to improve in new Xoops Engine:
* Flexible architecture and elegant code and implementation
* Modern MVC architecture: faster development, state-of-the-art technology
* Distributed deployment respecting virtual hosts
* Contributor friendly skeleton: easy to manage third-party modules and plugins
* SEO capable URL routing
* Solid and rich libraries and frameworks
* Ready to implement unit test

Since the new Xoops Engine aims to bring the XOOPS Project into the next generation of web application development with solid and flexible architecture and state-of-the-art frameworks, its mechanism and APIs might be sometimes different from what is utilized in legacy XOOPS. However, we will keep doing our best to guarantee compatibility for legacy modules and themes at development level and deployment.

I will be introducing to you the new features in detail in the upcoming documentation.
At this moment, please refer to Technical.txt for temporary description. You might also want to check Todo.txt to see what is scheduled to come.

Testing:
I understand that every XOOPSer is keen to learn about how the new Xoops Engine looks like and how it works. And some developers can't wait to develop modules for the new Engine.

However since this is the first public release of the new Engine, I would like to stress that this Alpha release is mainly for EXPERIENCED developers and designers only, as there will be bugs, missing features, and frequent updates. Please remember: this is ALHPA release.
For end users - please be a little more patient before the new system is made more end-user friendly by the experienced developers and designers.

Testing Platforms:
The code has been tested only on a couple of limited environments:
- WAMPserver
- CentOS/apache/php/mysql
- Uniform Server

We are aware X3 does not run at the moment on some environments (e.g. EasyPHP). However, the goal of the Alpha release is NOT testing if X3 runs on all possible platforms with all possible browsers, but to test functionality and features. Therefore, please try to test on the above platforms, if yours is not working. Once we freeze features, then we'll move into testing on various platforms and making sure that it works there.

System requirements:
Apache mod_rewrite
PHP 5.3+

Bug Reporting
For Xoops Engine development, we'll use a separate Bug Tracker: SourceForce Trac. Please report any bugs only there.
For relevant discussions, please use Sourceforge Forum before the demo site is set up.

Here is the plan for upcoming months:
1) In November, I will work with a few experienced developers like Trabis and MusS to prepare a couple of basic modules
2) In December, a selected small group of people will work on a basic functioning system, including developers, designers, testers and technical writers.
3) Our goal is to present by end of this year a reasonably stable platform for developers and end users to play around.

Dowload:
The code is hosted on SourceForge SVN and experienced developers might want to download tarball from there.
Downloadable packages will be available once the code is ready for end-users to play with.

Thanks:
On behalf of XOOPS developers I would like to thank our great XOOPS community worldwide for the fantastic support and dedication in the last decade.
Special thanks goes to
- Mamba, for helping create this new Xoops Engine
- and the Xoops Engine preview members, including but not limited to: trabis, nicolas, kris_fr, marco, insraq, ezsky, for preview comments and early stage of module/application development

Taiwen Jiang
Xoops Engine Developer
October 30, 2010

Do?ek Nove godine is redesigned

2010-11-01T04:40:00+01:00

Do?ek Nove godine (New Year in Belgrade, Serbia) is redesigned.

The main goal of Do?ek Nove godine is to collect all new year party events in Belgrade (Serbia), and travel agency offers for traveling outside Serbia for holidays.

Last year we had huge interest for our website, so we consider it and redesign it.

There are many events for New Year in Belgrade, and some of them are in clubs, restaurants, on the river or in big halls.

Redesign is based on Xoosla theme.

Modules used on Do?ek Nove godine:
- Publisher (cloned 3 times)
- Xoops Care
- xForms
- Planet
- Content (by ForMuss)

Enjoy it, and visit Belgrade for New Year eve. There are a lot of events for everyone. Belgrade is famous of it's nightlife.

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Visit Do?ek Nove godine and it's New Year events.

xNews v1.71 (RC) UTF-8 SEO is Out!!

2010-10-31T08:10:00+01:00

xNews v1.71 (RC) UTF-8 SEO

- Changed Frameworks/tcpdf/config/tcpdf_config.php with voltan's patch
Instead of getting default tcpdf header image and info now you get xoopsroot/images/logo.png and
$xoopsConfig['slogan']); and $xoopsConfig['sitename']);
- Modified xnews/makepdf.php to reflect above changes
- Changed old SEO samples with fixed working ones in xnews/docs/seo-samples
- Fixed Missing tags variable in class.newsstory.php store function
Fixes new news submit issue
- Renamed and deleted xnews/extra/modules/tag content
now only fixed xnews.php plugin and index.html should be there
Fixes Tags not working issue reported by beduino
- Deleted some unneccessary files
- Fixed smaller issues
- Added new options in preferences
- Display attached PDF - If enabled attached pdf files will be displayed in the article page.
- Actvate PDF plugin detection - If enabled this will affect client side browser not to show
PDF iframes if PDF browser plugin is not installed. Works together with Display attached PDF.
- Display attached images - If enabled attached images will be displayed in the article page.
- Modified /language/xxxx/modinfo.php to reflect new additions
- Added new options in submit page.
- Image Display Rows
- PDF Display Rows
- Modified /language/xxxx/admin.php to reflect new additions
- Added a javascript function to detect adobe reader.
- Fixed backend.php outputting html tags.
- Added thumb creation on attaching image files
- Added thumb_maxwidth, thumb_maxheight in preferences
- Modified /language/xxxx/modinfo.php to reflect new additions
- Fixed SEO htaccess file in root level not working with clones - always redirected to xnews
- changed samples in docs

Download it here

For more info and demo go here

FREE Xoops Theme Sd-074-Halloween

2010-10-31T07:30:00+01:00

Sinnedesign is happy to present the new FREE XOOPS Theme with the name Theme Sd-074-Halloween.

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Here can you find the - XOOPS 2.4 Theme Demo - XOOPS 2.5 Theme Demo.

And here is the FREE - Download Xoops Theme Sd-074-Halloween.

Have Fun with Halloween and the new Theme.

The DARK BLUE Colour Scheme for HALLOWEEN

2010-10-28T14:36:47+02:00

IXThemes Project presents to you ixt02905 Dark Blue Theme for Hallowen

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What's New in IXThemes Release 4.2?

- jQuery 1.4.3 included,
- Beautiful Tooltips (The colour scheme is considered),
- To TOP Link on any Page,
- Stretched Content Area,
- Any Block in Slider,
- 3000+ of Layout Variants,
- 9 Widgetized Areas,
- 7 Slide Show Scenarios,
- 3 Variants of Preheader,
- Slider with Bullets Pagination,
- Slider Area on/off Switching,
- Sidebars Areas on/off Switching,
- Footer Area on/off Switching.

Useful Properties of XOOPS Themes by IXThemes:

- 1-2-3 Columns Page Layout,
- Compatible with XOOPS 2.3.x, 2.4.x, 2.5.x;
- Tested on Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, IE6/7/8;
- Flexible and SIMPLE adjustment of columns in %%;
- Very SIMPLE replacement image background for Header;
- Very SIMPLE replacement image background for Footer;
- Roll-up Blocks in Left Sidebar and Right Sidebar;
- Presets for Visibility of Roll-up Blocks;
- Customizable Expanded Footer with 4 Custom Widgets or Module Blocks;
- Two Control Areas for hide/show Footer and Left or Right Sidebars;
- Customizable Expanded Header;
- Self-adjusted Horizontal Menu Bar;
- Customizable Preheader Areas (none, search, buttons-menu);
- Customizable Concatenation of Left Sidebar and Right Sidebar;
- jQuery Library included;
- Customizable LCR, LRC, RLC, CLR, CRL, LC, CR, RC, CL Columns Layout,
- Compatible with a FREE IXTFrameWork 1.0.3 module;

Live Demo

ixt02905 Dark Blue Theme on XOOPS 2.5.0,

ixt02905 Dark Blue Theme on XOOPS 2.4.5,

ixt02905 Dark Blue Theme on XOOPS 2.3.3

Purchase Details

This theme is inexpensive. You can familiarise with purchase conditions in IXThemes Shop.

XOOPS Theme ixt02905 Cacao Release 4.2

2010-10-27T19:40:00+02:00

IXTheme Project presents to you ixt02905 Cacao Theme

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What's New in IXThemes Release 4.2?

- jQuery 1.4.3 included,
- To TOP Link on any Page,
- Any Block in Slideshow,
- 3000+ of Layout Variants,
- 9 Widgetized Areas,
- 7 Slideshow Scenarios,
- 3 Variants of Preheader,
- Stretched Content Area,
- Beautiful Tooltips,
- Slider with Bullets Pagination,
- Sidebars on/off Switching,
- Footer on/off Switching.

Other Useful Properties of Themes by IXThemes:

- 1-2-3 Columns Page Layout,
- Compatible with XOOPS 2.3.x, 2.4.x, 2.5.x;
- Tested on Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, IE6/7/8, Maxthon, SeaMonkey;
- Flexible and SIMPLE adjustment of columns in %%;
- Very SIMPLE replacement image background for Header;
- Very SIMPLE replacement image background for Footer;
- Roll-up Blocks in Left Sidebar and Right Sidebar;
- Presets for Visibility of Roll-up Blocks;
- Customizable Expanded Footer with 4 Custom Widgets or Module Blocks;
- Two Control Areas for hide/show Footer and Left or Right Sidebars;
- Customizable Expanded Header;
- Self-adjusted Horizontal Menu Bar;
- Customizable Preheader Areas (none, search, buttons-menu);
- Customizable Concatenation of Left Sidebar and Right Sidebar;
- jQuery Library included;
- Customizable LCR, LRC, RLC, CLR, CRL, LC, CR, RC, CL Columns Layout,
- Compatible with a FREE IXTFrameWork 1.0.3 module;

Demo

ixt02905 Cacao Theme on XOOPS 2.5.0,

ixt02905 Cacao Theme on XOOPS 2.4.5,

ixt02905 Cacao Theme on XOOPS 2.3.3

Purchase Details

This theme inexpensive. You can familiarise with purchase conditions in IXThemes Shop.

Frxoops hallowen party

2010-10-27T19:10:00+02:00

Frxoops hallowen party

As the Halloween party will take place this weekend, frxoops just put up a theme dedicated to this event. We invite you to visit here

And do not forget your costumes and candy

Traduction française

Frxoops fête hallowen

A l?occasion de la fête d?Halloween qui va se dérouler ce week-end,frxoops vient de mettre en place un thème dédié à cet événement. Nous vous invitons à venir le visiter ici

Et surtout n?oubliez pas vos déguisements et bonbons

XOOPS Receives Best Technology Award for X3 from NEA OSS Forum

2010-10-27T10:00:00+02:00

We are extremely pleased to announce that XOOPS has received the "Best Technology Award" from the North East Asia OSS Forum for the upcoming X3 version of XOOPS, that will be officially released as Alpha version this weekend. The judges were impressed with X3 architecture, its usage of state-of-the-art PHP libraries such as Zend Framework and Smarty 3, and the direction XOOPS is taking toward becoming a "Web Application-oriented development platform"

As DJ mentioned in the August news, the first public Alpha was scheduled to be released in October 2010, and we're very happy that we're on schedule with this release. It will be a first step to learn more about X3 and to explore it.

The Award will be presented on Thursday, Nov. 4th, in Seoul, South Korea, and Michael Beck (aka Mamba) will be there to receive it on behalf of XOOPS.

Since he will be in Korea, he would like to encourage all XOOPS developers to attend the NEA OSS Forum Conference, so he could meet with you in person while in Seoul and discuss future XOOPS development, as well as to celebrate together this achievement. Please contact him via PM if you're coming to Seoul, so he can arrange a meeting with you (probably in the evening or in between the sessions on Nov. 4th).

On Friday, Nov. 5th, Mamba will be for 7 hours at the Narita Airport in Japan, while switching planes to China, so if anybody from the XOOPS Japan community would like to meet with him there, he would be very happy about it.

On Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 6th and 7th, Mamba will be in Beijing, meeting with DJ and the members of the XOOPS China Community.

We are extremely excited about this "Best Technology Award" for the "next generation" of XOOPS version, and about the opportunity to meet with the Asian XOOPS developers.

XOOPS 2.5 RC2 Released

2010-10-24T21:10:00+02:00

The XOOPS Development Team is pleased to announce that a new version of the Top 5 Finalist of 2010 Packt Open Source CMS - XOOPS 2.5.0 RC2 is available for download.

Thanks to everybody who tested the RC1 and provided us with feedback and bug fixes!

(Don't forget to vote for XOOPS: read here)

The XOOPS 2.5.0 release is a major redesign of the System Module which has been AJAX-ed with jQuery done mainly by Nicolas Andricq (ForMusS), Cointin Maxime (kraven_30), and Grégory Mage (Mage). Other major contributors include Trabis, Voltan, Kris_fr, and Marco. Some of the new features are truly amazing, like the visual placement of blocks, and we're sure that the users will love them

Other major improvements/additions include:

- Added: Help System for Admin and modules (see PM module)
- Added: MySQL Dump in Maintenance
- Added: New Redirect messaging
- Added: Column sorting in tables
- Added: smarty plugin for icon pack
- Added: smarty plugin for breadcrumb navigation
- Added: jQuery plugins for display popup or manage drag & drop
- Added: File Manager (Plugin)
- Added: Maintenance with Cache Clean-up, and Tables Maintenance
- Added: Visual module ordering with drag & drop
- Added: Visual block placement with drag & drop
- Added: Refactor all PHP code for use XOOPS API
- Added: Use template in the same way that front user, admin side for module can call a main template define in xoops_version.php
- Added: Allow override of template in admin theme like frontend if we set template in ADMIN_THEME
- Added: New variable 'system_menu' in xoops_version.php of each module, this variable generate a tab menu for module admin side if set to 1, this feature is for give one unique tab menu for all menu (eg: module PM for).
- Added: add jquery plugin in xoops_lib
- Added: change install for install admin template and admin setting
- Added: manage editor for blocks, comments and for all module if module developper want to use it activate or deactivate system section
- Added: choose number of line for admin section
- Added: display or hide tips

Avatar:
- activate/deactivate avatar with ajax
Banners:
- jquery popup for display banners
Block admin:
- drag n drop block for manage position and weight
- jquery popup for preview
Comments:
- multiple selection for deletion
- purge
Groups:
- number of user per group
- new disposition
Images:
- lightbox preview + thumbs
Modulea Admin:
- jquery popup for display info
Preferences:
- system settings
Smilies:
- activate/deactivate smilies with ajax
Templates:
- manage overide of all template online
- generated file come from database
User Rank:
- activate/deactivate userrank with ajax
Users:
- advanced user management
- new disposition
- simple and advance search

For a detailed Change log, please click here.

Videos

To see the main features of XOOPS 2.5.0, check out the following videos that were made for the Alpha release:

a) In Spanish (by Uskola 2) b) In English (by Vamptrix) c) In English (by Mamba) d) In French (by tutoxoops)

Please remember: This is Release Candidate version for features testing only!

DO NOT install it on a production site and DO NOT upgrade any production site with it!

==> New in this release - upgrading from older XOOPS version

Download it from Sourceforge repository.

Please post and discuss all issues related to this release in this forum

We also need help with Translations

For installation information, please visit