Testers wanted

[dcb]

We are looking for persons willing to test the latest development version of phpLD as we are approaching the launch of 2.0 final.
{old link removed} you can download the latest developement tarball which includes the fixes for all issues discovered in RC4 (I hope) and the new "Send Email and Add Link" mod by yktan.

Any help on this is much appreciated.

[minstrel]

Question: Is the list of changed files at {old link removed} complete?

In other words, can I just apply the changed files, rather than having to redo my customizations?

[dcb]

Here is the list of modified or added files:

/add_reciprocal.php
/captcha.php
/rss.php
/include/tables.php
/include/constants.php
/include/functions.php
/admin/email_message_edit.php
/admin/init.php
/admin/email_send_and_add_link.php
/admin/dir_links.php
/admin/dir_links_edit.php
/libs/captcha/filters.class.php
/libs/captcha/captcha.class.php

/templates/submit.tpl
/templates/add_reciprocal.tpl
/templates/admin/dir_links_edit.tpl
/templates/admin/email_message_edit.tpl
/templates/admin/email_send_and_add_link.tpl
/templates/admin/messages.tpl

So theoretically there should be no problem upgrading from RC4. The files that are normaly customized have not changed.

[David]

Yes, so you could:
1. Make a backup of the current version
2. Upload overwriting the current files
3. Run install again (will not affect your db, but will add new fields to table)
4. Overwrite with your old template files

Once you have done this a couple of times, the whole process takes less than 10 minutes. :)

(but scary at first) :lol:

[minstrel]

Clarification:

I am currently running RC4.

Are there new tables to add to the database beyond that? Do I need to run install again?

[dcb]

No, from RC4 you only need to update/add the files listed above.

[minstrel]

Okay.

Thanks, guys. I'll upload them now.

[minstrel]

OK.

Uploaded just the changed files.

This did not solve the problem of being redirected out of the admin panel after deleting a submitted link.

It also added a new problem: My email notifications both to admin and to the submitter now have no sender (sender unspecified), which is bound to end up in most spam baskets.

[minstrel]

Reverting to my RC4 backup now.

[David]

Thanks for the feedback. We appreciate the testing, though I'm sorry it is not working for you yet, but this helps us get to final, so thank you.

[CapriSkye]

cool now that languages are being added.
have a question though, why are the variables named with these
$__LANG['bdce1a99aaf929539a09d564a830f4ad']
instead of something readable?
i think using something readable is better for future updates, if wording needs to be rephrased.

also please consider adding charset in the language file, i believe it is still being hardcoded in the source.

[dcb]

Don't start translating those files, they are not updated.
The strange id for the language variables is in fact a hash of the english text, thus assuring that the same text does not appear twice in the language file.
Charsets are not used, everything is UTF-8. You just have to make sure that you edit the language file in UTF-8 mode.

[webcrew]

and how many files will require editing to change charset ?
it's pretty hard to make win-1251 displaying right everywhere...

[Ap0s7le]

I'll be installing it shortly.

later

[Tommo]

I don't mind testing..

I tried to upgrade this morning but failed miserable so i did a complete new install..

found the following so far ...

tarball /temp/templates and /temp/cache folders aren't in the tarball so had to create them

as previously stated emails have no from and to fields If you don't select the submit template in notifications the following is sent by default. Not sure if it's a bug but can't find it documented..:-)

Title: XXXXXXXreers
URL: {non working link removed}
PageRank: 3
Description:

Owner Name: mat
Owner Email: {email address removed}
Reciprocal URL:
Reciprocal PageRank: {LINK_RECPR_PAGERANK}

[KPR]

Trying this out now.

Thanks
Kev

[Tommo]

Captcha is still difficult to read!!...well to my old eyes anyway

[KPR]

Tried this on another domain and this is error i get although the files are writable.

The installer cannot start.
Please make sure that the folder /home//public_html/temp/templates is writtable by the user the webserver runs under.

[yktan]

Hi KPR,

To solve the problem, just create a directory called "templates" in the /temp directory. After that, just set the permissions of the /temp/templates directory to 777 or something. You may have to set the permissions for the directory /temp too.

Regards,
YK