ocPortal, Content Management System, Version 4.3.2 Released
Mar 21, 2010 by Srikanth AD MyTestBox News
ocPortal, which we have mentioned here, one of the upcoming web content management systems has released its new version 4.3 RC 3. This version introduces some new features and a number of bug fixes have been made since the last release. If you haven’t tried ocPortal yet, you might want to check a personal demo here.
Following are the new features and fixes that have been made in this new releae.
Fixes:
- Fixed problems with CSS image paths on SSL
- Fixed that CEDI pages were missing in the Permission Tree Editor
- Fixed errors in the CEDI new-post notification emails
- Fixed some major problems that had developed with Facebook HPHP support
- Fixed problem with main_quotes block on Facebook HPHP
- Fixed Comcode-render permissions on various notification emails*
- Fixed various problems on our inbuilt database for developers
- Fixed stack trace when stock maintenance warnings are sent
- Fixed problems on multi-site installs with regard to template overriding in the default theme
- Fixed stack trace when uploading archives to the attachment system
- Fixed problem with cache-safety of the Comcode ‘list’ tag
- Fixed rare missing parameter error in side_forum_news block, if certain parameters used
- Fixed error when adding a zero-byte file to a TAR file
- Fixed bugs in shopping cart system, with regard to disabling stock control and hiding protected fields.
- Fixed some problems with Javascript-based Comcode tags that theoretically could fail on certain browsers if the site loads in a weird order
- Fixed problem whereby on galleries in flow mode it would say ‘edit image’ for a video (now just says ‘edit’)
- Fixed error when hovering over the Zones icon
- Fixed proxy server support via the cURL library
- Fixed problem with results-browser template producing (unseen) errors
- Fixed the instant messengers intelligent chat message box growth on Google Chrome
- Fixed the mouse monitoring API on IE
- Fixed the Comcode ‘section_controller’ tag so that the controller may go before the content, if desired
- Fixed problem submitting uploaded files on IE if URLs are supported also
- Fixed rare stack trace in XHTML validation code
- Fixed problem with SpellChecker since 4.3.1
- Fixed the ‘switch zone’ warning, which was producing a Javascript error
New Features:
- Upgraded side_weather block for Yahoo’s new location IDs
- Added extra parameters to main_rss and side_rss blocks
- Added date sorting to side_rss block
- Improved catalogue AED usability, less abstract UI
- Made chat bots have decent usernames instead of being just a Guest
- Allowed chat bots to respond to general messages (rather than just private messages sent to them)
- Allowed chat bots to decide whether to make a response or not
- Stopped errors inside previews giving links to show a stack trace
- Speculative fix to an error message showing a problem inside the points API for an AJAX script
- Added Google Chrome detection support
- Changes to primary-key-length restrictions, to ensure compatibility with file-system based database such as our inbuilt development database
- Allowed MySQL ‘DESCRIBE’ queries to work correctly
- Allowed canceling of eCommerce orders that were not taken up, and making them sink to the bottom
- Made the point count on the OCF member bar a link to the logged-in member’s points profile
- Removed ‘network down’ Javascript AJAX error, due to problems of reporting on some browsers in some circumstances
- Added missing description for the products catalogue
- Added warning to stop people accidentally locking themselves out of the Admin Zone by making their usergroup not a super-administrator
- Reference the ‘development tools’ in the footer, in the Style section of the Admin Zone
- Added dismissible warning if the Setup Wizard is never run
Read more about this new release of OcPortal 4.3.2 here.
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ocPortal, Content Management System, Version 4.3 RC3 Released
Jan 30, 2010 by Srikanth AD MyTestBox News
ocPortal, one of the upcoming web content management systems has released its new version 4.3 RC 3. This version introduces some new features and a number of bug fixes have been made since the last release. If you haven’t tried ocPortal yet, you might want to check a personal demo here.
New features
- WordPress, Joomla and HTML web site importer
- iCal exporter and quiz responses CSV exporter
- New ‘importer redirects’, which lets you easily redirect to the appropriate place in ocPortal, for cases when import is done natively through modules
- Added submit-URLs to the side_news block, main_forum_news block and side_forum_news block
- Reply counts have been added to the side_forum_news block
- New Comcode ‘pulse’ tag which is configurable with parameters
- New parameter to main_leader_board block has been added to filter out staff from the points leaderboard
- CAPTCHA support has been added to the main_contact_simple block and main_contact_us block
- Auto search capability for expanded day selection
- Allowed the download A-Z index to support ocFilter notation
New features for developers:
- Generalised shared-installs support so it is more flexible for people
- Improved shared-install functionality, so that theme files and Comcode pages may be shared between sites also, if desired
- Added memory debugging functions for developers
- ocPortal can now run without a database as the inbuilt database is now a bundled feature
- New developer feature has been added for the quick addition of language strings, written (temporarily) in-line into the code
- Added support for running a server behind a proxy server
Read more at ocPortal News
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ocPortal, Content Management System, Version 4.3 RC1 Released
Nov 26, 2009 by Srikanth AD MyTestBox News
ocPortal, one of the upcoming web content management systems has released its new version 4.3 RC 1. This release has huge number of new features and bug fixes. If you haven’t tried ocPortal yet, you might want to check a personal demo here.
This version is a feature release that introduces a number of bug fixes since the last release and some performance improvements and features.
Performance improvements:
- CSS and Javascript files are now automatically minimised (compressed)
- You can now set an option from config_editor.php to make bots receive cached versions of pages, so that bot activity is less likely to slow down your site
- A new “self-learning” technology has been developed to reduce the number of language strings that need to be loaded for individual pages. ocPortal will automatically learn which pages use which strings, so it only needs to load those ones “next time around” (the technology is adaptive, so if the pool of strings is insufficient, it loads more, but learns)
- Extra compression of some of the PNG files (most were already well compressed though)
- Advanced users can configure ocPortal to spread theme images across a CDN(requires use of OcCLE and the Code Book, and a properly configured network of CDN servers)
- Re-ordering of how CSS and Javascript files are loaded to optimise client-side performance; ocPortal will also merge some Javascript files that are served to staff for a common case where they tend to appear together anyway
- A well configured ocPortal server can now get a “Green tick” on Google PageSpeed and an “A grade” on YSlow.
- Memory usage has been improved a bit
- The number of queries used has been improved a bit in certain areas
- The number of queries in general is reduced, by automatic pre-fetching of translate-table content
- Various small optimisations to improve server-side PHP performance have been made
- Removed some unused CSS
- The database connection/initialisation code is now “lazy” meaning that AJAX scripts that do not end up needing to use the database will not establish an unnecessary connection
- New installs will now use the ‘HEAP’ MySQL table type for the sessions table, minimising the need for queries that cause disk writes
- Support for persistent caching on APC.
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ocPortal, Content Management System, Version 4.2 Released
Oct 5, 2009 by Srikanth AD MyTestBox News
ocPortal, one of the upcoming web content mangement systems has released its new version 4.2. This release has huge number of new features and bug fixes. If you haven’t tried ocPortal yet, you might want to check a personal demo here.
New features include:
- Online store (shopping cart)
- Big cleanup of blogging/news features
- Tidy-up of galleries
- Posting-rate graph
- True multi-language support – virtually all content (news posts, forum posts, CEDI pages, etc) can be translated.
- More data-conversion choices – importing from CSV files, RSS and JPEG meta-data, and ocPortal’s new XML format for synchronization of data between sites
- Google Sitemap generation
- Twitter and Facebook syndication
- A new weather block to show the current weather in a given location
- Refreshed forum driver support (IPB3, vBulletin 3.8, SMF 2)
- All the menu templates and CSS have been rewritten to be far easier to understand and modify
- About 30 new config options, to allow greater flexibility
- Error messages are now much more thorough, providing solutions on how to resolve the errors
- Performance improvements, particularly to reduce memory usage
- Search-friendly URLs (URLs with keywords in, rather than ID numbers)
- Reviews support (e.g. people can post reviews for a catalogue entry)
- MkPortal import, and feature parity: Slide-shows and eCards from galleries, Top-sites support
- New ‘carousel’ Comcode tag
- Overhaul of the support ticket system, including SMS alert support
- Encrypted custom profile fields (CPFs) and privacy settings
- Flash and Java based uploaders
- Further improved best practice compliance for web standards, and support for the semantic web (“Web 3.0″) – Microformat support, Dublin Core support, and more.
Check out other features about the ocPortal version 4.2 here.
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