Geeklog - Geeklog 1.4.0 BETA 1

Since this is one of the biggest updates in Geeklog's history, we made a last-minute decision to call it Geeklog 1.4.0 (instead of 1.3.12). After almost one year in development, this update brings you the following new features:

Geeklog now officially works with register_globals = off. Please note, however, that some plugins and add-ons may still require it to be on.
Support for Trackback, Pingback, and pinging weblog directories (blo.gs, Technorati, etc.).
Remote authentication lets registered users of remote services such as Blogger.com and LiveJournal log into your Geeklog site without having to register (optionally, of course).
The Admin sections have been revamped to provide a consistent look and sortable lists.
Ships with FCKeditor (WYSIWYG editor).
To enable, set $_CONF['advanced_editor'] = true; in your config.php.
New syndication framework can both read and write feeds in RSS (0.9x and 2.0), RDF, and Atom (0.3 and 1.0) formats.
New search only returns a specified amount of results per page, thus avoiding the embarrassing timeouts on large databases.
The links and polls sections are now plugins, i.e can be disabled, removed, and replaced easily when you don't need them.
... and more ...

Due to the huge amount of changes in the code, we are releasing this beta version before we move on to release candidates (and the final release, eventually). Therefore, the usual warning: If your life, reputation, or income depends on your Geeklog site, don't upgrade just yet. However, we do need your help here and would like to encourage you to download Geeklog 1.4.0b1 and try it out. Please help us track down the (old and new) bugs in this new version.

The documentation still leaves something to be desired and will be updated step by step. We will also be publishing a few stories over the next couple of days, each focussing on one of the new features. And since our bugtracker is currently down, please use the official 1.4.0b1 bug thread in the forums instead.

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Geeklog 1.4.0 BETA 1

Authored by: tingo on Sunday, November 20 2005 @ 01:47 PM EST

After unarchiving in a directory, Geeklog 1.3.11sr2 is about 6.1 Mbytes in size. The new Geeklog 1.4.0b1 is 11 Mbytes.
Indeed, a lot of changes. :-)

I had just started installation of 1.3.11sr2 for one of my personal sites, now I will install 1.4.0b1 instead. Here goes.

Authored by: Dirk on Sunday, November 20 2005 @ 02:30 PM EST

FCKeditor seems to add a lot, mostly due to lots of small files. I also have a suspicion that the PEAR package could be smaller - have to look into this for future releases.

bye, Dirk

Authored by: ryanknoll on Sunday, November 20 2005 @ 02:43 PM EST

Wow. Anyone have a napkin? I can't stop druelling!! I can't wait!! Great news guys, very nice Christmas present ;)

Authored by: drkrum on Sunday, November 20 2005 @ 04:54 PM EST

Trying to install a copy of 1.4.0b1 on the same server as a production 1.3.11 geeklog site, I initially got "your account is blocked" errors. Turns out this is because I was using the same cookies as in the production site; changing the cookie names (And domain) in config.php solved the problem.

Other than that, this looks like an excellent release! Thank you thank you thank you for putting in remote authentication! I can't wait for the official release of 1.4 :)

Authored by: eyecravedvd on Sunday, November 20 2005 @ 10:21 PM EST

Great work. I can't wait to test it out. Especially since I have over 1500 stories... can't wait to try it out..

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Authored by: phpsocialclub on Monday, November 21 2005 @ 04:59 PM EST

I was about to install FCKeditor on to a site theat I was working on, and I saw that this new version was done and instatalled it instead.

Not only was it easiier to do the upgrade, but everything looks and works great.

The only thing you need ot do is check you headers and d theme files,

great so far

Andrew

Problem with the refresh on firefox on the max

Authored by: phpsocialclub on Monday, November 21 2005 @ 05:04 PM EST

On a mac, fire foox returns a blank page with only this code.

<html><head><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=http://66.84.32.189/admin/plugins/staticpages/index.php">;

You need to add javascript location redirect to the lib common to fix this,

Andrew

Authored by: Dirk on Monday, November 21 2005 @ 05:29 PM EST

That's a known bug with Firefox when you use a WYSIWYG editor (like the included FCKeditor, put also happens with HTMLarea and others) - see the various discussions in the forums.

The problem is fixed in Firefox 1.5.

Authored by: drkrum on Tuesday, November 22 2005 @ 12:28 PM EST

You can fix this problem with the following change in geeklog (since not everyone is going to be running the newest firefox!). In lib-common.php, change your COM_refresh function to look like (add the 'header' line):

function COM_refresh( $url )
{
header ("Location: " . str_replace ( '&', '&', $url) );
return "<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; URL=$url\"></head></html>\n";
}

Authored by: jcz on Monday, November 21 2005 @ 06:02 PM EST

Did any of the calendar enhancements get in that trinity was working on?

http://www.geeklog.net/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=52758

http://www.geeklog.net/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=53448

Authored by: trinity on Tuesday, November 22 2005 @ 01:05 AM EST

Unfortunetly I lost my local cvs tree with all of that work. It was also deceded that for the next version to only have polls and links turned into plugins. The next release might have this done now that we have a better idea of what it takes to turns exsisting functionality into a plugin. Its a lot of work and even i didnt do a lot of the polls and lin ks stuff myself due to time and work constrants. Oliver and Dirk finished up most of the stuff I wasent able to do. They should get most of the credit for makeing it happen. Perhaps once I get some free time I will devote some time to working on turning the calander into a plugin. and perhaps the story engine as well. hehe well tha might be biteing off more than i can chew :)

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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 24 2005 @ 04:05 AM EST

I am actually already working on this. I am creating a "calendar"-plugin that will have the exact same functionality of the current events and can be installed into geeklog using the same tables and rights. once that is working 100% I will make a patch twoards the final 1.4.0 in order to remove the built-in events code. but, as it was said, this will happen after the 1.4 final release

Oliver

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Authored by: ScurvyDawg on Tuesday, November 22 2005 @ 12:15 PM EST

The GL demo site is 1.3.9sr4 any plans on updating this so that we can try out some of the new enhancements.

BTW - Thank you so very much.

Demo site

Authored by: Dirk on Tuesday, November 22 2005 @ 01:34 PM EST

Yeah, I know. The only problem is - who's going to update all those themes? I have a script somewhere that I used to bring them all to 1.3.9 - guess I have to update that ...

Besides, we would probably have to disable some of the new features, e.g. Trackbacks and Pings, to prevent misuse. bye, Dirk

Authored by: ScurvyDawg on Tuesday, November 22 2005 @ 04:20 PM EST

I would be willing to work with you to update the themes.

Shoot me an email if your interested.

Authored by: Dirk on Saturday, November 26 2005 @ 07:55 PM EST

Demo site updated

Conversion script for themes

Authored by: barrywong on Tuesday, November 29 2005 @ 05:07 AM EST

Hi Dirk

Thanks for creating the demo site. You mentioned that you had a script to modify the themes to fit ver 1.4.0b1. Can you please share that with us? I am especially interested to ensure that Classic and GulMich work with the new release.

As always, your help would be most appreciated.

I can't login!

Authored by: NeoNecro on Tuesday, November 22 2005 @ 05:21 PM EST

I can't login, whenever I try to login I get the following error message:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /opt/www/dimis-site.be/admin/auth.inc.php:115) in
/opt/www/dimis-site.be/lib-commong.php(1060):eval()'d on line 1

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dimis-site.be

Authored by: Dirk on Tuesday, November 22 2005 @ 05:25 PM EST

Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by ...

Authored by: NeoNecro on Wednesday, November 23 2005 @ 12:01 PM EST

Ok, I did that, but I still can't login.
I don't see an error message any longer more, but it doesn't login me in. It looks like it just refreshes the page. But my name apears in the who's online block.

Also, I didn't edit that file. So what is that white line doing there?

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dimis-site.be

Authored by: phpsocialclub on Tuesday, November 22 2005 @ 06:25 PM EST

one more suggestion,

the /admin/install/check.php needs to check the permissions on the fck library path

Authored by: beewee on Wednesday, November 23 2005 @ 09:00 AM EST

Great work guys!

Two questions:

- The FCK editor, does this work only in the article editor, or also in the static pages editor?

- Links is now a plugin, does that mean it is now possible to show the links block as a centerblock on the homepage, like other plugins?

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Authored by: trinity on Wednesday, November 23 2005 @ 10:28 PM EST

the links plugin, though now seperate, does not have any extra functionality as of yet.

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Authored by: beewee on Thursday, November 24 2005 @ 02:41 AM EST

OK, thanks!

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Authored by: NeoNecro on Wednesday, November 23 2005 @ 03:55 PM EST

Ok, I found the problem. When I changed config.php I did something wrong with the cookie domain, after changing it works now.

Good work guys! And thanks for the help.

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dimis-site.be

Authored by: phpsocialclub on Wednesday, November 23 2005 @ 05:09 PM EST

I must repeat how happy I am that FCKeditor is now included in the base
install.

One more suggestion, I think that the editor-toolbar should be set in the
config.

You might have to change /public_html/javascript/staticpages_fckeditor.js to
be a php file instead so it can include the vars from the config, but it would
be very cool to do this,

It would also be very cool to have an admin and common user tool bar, that
could be set here as well.

thanks so much for adding FCKeditor, it truely takes GL to the next level

Authored by: Blaine on Thursday, November 24 2005 @ 09:00 AM EST

I actually had a dropdown option inside the StoryEditor to select the toolbar dynamically but only worked in IE so I did not release this functionality.

I was thinking of making it a user preference option.

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Successful deployment of Geeklog 1.4.0 BETA 1

Authored by: bero on Saturday, November 26 2005 @ 03:37 PM EST

After some playing around on a test box, I've decided to upgrade our production server --- arklinux.org is now running geeklog 1.4.0b1 + php 5.1.0, seems to fix all problems we've seen with earlier versions. Keep up the great work!

Authored by: DanGarion on Thursday, December 01 2005 @ 02:50 PM EST

Does this version still use the same RSS/news with furl? There are some major hosts that have disabled the ability to use furl and now require the use of curl instead. Is there any discussion on implementing this?

Authored by: Dirk on Thursday, December 01 2005 @ 04:12 PM EST

The feed reader uses PEAR's HTTP_Request class now (whatever that uses internally ...).

Authored by: tt0ne on Saturday, December 03 2005 @ 01:08 AM EST

Great work guys! Just want you to know that the crew over at HeavenlySanctuary.com has been running geeklog for just over 2 years and WE LOVE YOU!

- Marco

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Authored by: TechSys on Monday, December 05 2005 @ 11:25 PM EST

Just installed 1.4.0 B1. I like it a lot. No problem at all once I read the install docs.
Keep up the good work, can wait for this to be out of beta

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Authored by: dani_ca on Tuesday, December 06 2005 @ 05:53 AM EST

I also updated my weblog to 1.4.0 BETA 1. Since i'm using a modified TabularDynamics, i had to change lots of things in .thtml files, but apart from that, nice and easy.

I specially appreciated the wysiwyg editor and the trackback functions.

Thanks.

Congratulations!

Authored by: samstone on Tuesday, December 06 2005 @ 01:16 PM EST

恭喜！谢谢！
Thanks the Geeklog Team for this wonderful version. As you know, I've complained a lot about the annoying html cleaning system that corrupted Chinese language, and as a result it seemed that I am the only one left as a Chinese GL user because I know how to remove it. But with the v.1.4, the Chinese characters come out smoothly out of the box. I haven't tested extensively yet, but I am very grateful for its promising appearance so far.

As soon as 1.4 final come out I am planning to set up a Chinese GL site as I have registered geeklog.cn, and hopefully will attract some creative Chinese girls :), I mean, to help us design more attractive themes.

Merry Christmas to you all!

Sam

Thanks, but ...

Authored by: Dirk on Tuesday, December 06 2005 @ 01:36 PM EST

I don't think we've done anything specifically to improve support for Asian or other non-western character sets. It's probably the new kses class that makes the difference - and that's the same that we already upgraded to in 1.3.11sr2.

Authored by: samstone on Tuesday, December 06 2005 @ 07:55 PM EST

Dirk, I realized that, but in any case, I am very happy!

Sam

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