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Exponential 3 changes in 2.9-2

Improved SDK, better access control and bugfixes

SDK

  • Added online coding standards to SDK.
  • Added Changelog system to SDK.
  • Added support for changing the title in SDK parts
  • Added support for changing the forward/back navigators in SDK parts
  • Added support for adding more features to the left menu in SDK parts, placement is also possible.
  • Added better titles for some reference and document items
  • Source view for sdk elements which uses a centralized file for parts works (see doc/ref).
  • Moved sdk doc directories into a separate sdk directory.
  • Added explanation of directory layout.
  • Added explanation of site access

Library

    eZ soap

    • Added support for complex datatypes
    • Added support for boolean response values.
    • Added support for boolean parameters.
    • Added support for base64 in response.
    • Fixed correct content length in the HTTP header
    • Fixed correct content type in HTTP header

    eZ xml

    • Added registration of #text nodes by name in DOM docuemnt.
    • Added support for numeric characters in namespace prefix.
    • Fixed crash when returning textContent of empty DOM node.

    eZ ini

    • Added support for specifying the override directory path
    • Added support for fetching the variables of a block in the order they were read
    • Added hasGroup() function for determing the existence of a group
    • Added reset() function for resetting group/variable data
    • The cachefile name is now dependent on the override directory name
    • Three cachefiles will be created, one for the original file, one for the override and one for the appending. This fixes a bug where deleting an override file would not update cache.
    • Cache files now contains a cache date variable, if the cache date does not exists or is lower than the defined cache date in the eZINI class the cache must be recreated.
    • Added define which can be used to enable some internal debug output.
    • Group and keyvalues are now case sensitive and are stripped for whitespace infront and after the name.
    • Made sure the cache files uses as little memory as possible.
    • Cache write code moved to separate function and changed a bit in how it writes it's data.
    • Gives error messages when group/variables are accessed but do not exist.
    • Changed functions readVariable(), readVariableArray() and readGroup() to variable(), variableArray() and group().
    • Finished save() function, it stores the file in the correct format according to the current OS.
    • Handling newlines for Unix, Windows and Mac files is fixed.
    • All ini values are now converted to the internal charset (and stored in the cache).
    • Made static functions setting whether debugging is used(default false), textcodecs are used(default true) and whether caching is used(default true).
    • Added function exists() to check if an INI file exists, can be used before trying the instance() function.
    • Made sure the ordered group array was properly written to the cache file.

    eZ debug

    • Output report can now be shown as plain text as well as HTML, which is good for console tests.
    • Added support for enabling/disable direct output and logging of messages.
    • Added NullDB class which is used when an implementation is not found, it does nothing and always returns false.
    • Debug output which is fetched from PHP errors are labeled PHP.

    eZ db

    • Changed debug output to use the optional label parameter, this creating better outputs. The number of affected rows is also added to the label (only mysql for the moment).
    • The time taken for each query is shown in debug label with sql output on (only mysql for the moment).
    • Added support for switching database implementation from site.ini
    • Added SQL output debug in PostgreSQL implementation.
    • All sql queries and rows returned are now converted to and from the internal charset. (only mysql for the moment) This behaviour is controlled by a site.ini option.
    • Created an eZDBInterface class which all implementations inherit from, this takes care of general initialization and has some helper functions.
    • Changed the way each implementation is instantiated, instead of harcoding the available implemenations it is search for in a default path and a path set in site.ini.

    eZ uri

    • Added support for changing the current URI string
    • Added function isEmpty() which returns true if the URI is either an empty string or equals /.

    eZ module

    • Added support for creating empty module objects.
    • Added support for creating "features" which allows for dynamic retrieval of objects, lists etc.
    • Added support for freely placed parameters in URI.
    • Added setGlobalPathList function to set the path list once and swapped the parameter positions of the exists function, this means that only the module name is required.
    • Added support for running an error module directly with an error code.
    • Added support for turning post variables into actions, no more need for post variable checking. They can even have post variable parameters.
    • Added support for easier redirection using module, view and parameters.
    • Changed the handleError function, it now takes a second parameter called type which determines the type of the error, for instance: kernel or contentobject
    • Changed the setErrorModule to take a second parameter which defines the error view, default is view.
    • addHook() now takes an extra parameter called priority which defines the order of execution for a hook, lower priorities (negative included) gets executed first. The default priority is 1. If an entry with the same priority is found it will be increased or decreased according to the append parameter.

    eZ file

    • New class for handling file operations
    • Added support for creating directories with permission mask, can create missing parents as well
    • Added function splitLines() which splits the lines in a file into an array.

    eZ template

    • Added check for GB with image conversion of ttf fonts in template operator lib.
    • The section function now uses the show parameter for controlling the section-else part.
    • Better error output when operator parameters are not properly closed
    • All examples uses Capital letters for namespaces according to the naming conventions for templates
    • Named types in operators are no longer referenced, thus fixing the problem with operators only working once.
    • The section function can now loop over strings, each loop will set $item to the current character.
    • The parser is changed so it doesn't care about namespace when creating the tree, the namespace is only used when fetching data, that way the trees can be reused.
    • Supports charset conversion using the eZTextCodec.
    • Added extra parameter for operators, it's the first parameter will be operator element object.
    • Added extra namespace parameter to process functions, this is needed by template functions which will change the current namspace (eg. section), the old namspace parameter will be used for variable retrieval and represents the namespace for a given template file.
    • New template operator concat which takes all input parameters and creates a string out of it, it will traverse arrays recursive.
    • Added extra parameter called $extraParameters for loadURI, load, fetch and display, this parameter is passed to the resource handler and can contain special options for that handler.
    • max and offset may be set on section, to minimize items used.
    • Added exclude and include sub functions which defines rules to run in order, the result of the function are either true or false, if true the current iteration is performed, if not it is skipped.
    • delimiter for section function can now specify a modulo value which means that the delimiter content will only be included each n times, the parameter name is modulo. It's also possible to specify the parameter match which will be fetched and evaluated each time the delimiter is to be used, if the value is true the delimiter is used.
    • Added support for template objects, that's object which has a function called templateData implemented. It will return an array which will either define pure text or a template to be used for representing the object.
    • Added support for autoloading functions and operators, this means that the classes aren't included or instantiated before they are needed by a template.
    • Added autoload files which defines functions and operators, since the search path list is controlled by site.ini it's possible for plugins for template functions and operators.
    • Improved parsing with regards to negative numbers.
    • New arithmetic template operators, sum, sub, inc, dec, div, mod, mul, max, min, abs, ceil, floor, round
    • New operator fetch which can call a module function and get the result data.
    • New operators array_prepend, array_append and array_merge
    • New function default which allows for setting default data to non-existing variables.

    eZ httpfile

    • Added two more attributes for fetching the category and part of the mimetype

    eZ httptool

    • Added function for setting a post variable.

    eZ executionstack

    • New class for handling URI executions in a given session, it will remember visited URIs and allow for easy backtracking.

    eZ httppersistence

    • Added support for fetching checkboxed field members.

    eZ translator

    • New system for handling context sensitive text translation. It currently supports reading .ts files(Qt translation), leetify(1337), character shuffling and random picking.

    eZ inputvalidator

    • New class for handling input validation and correction, it currently has a regexp and integer validator.

    eZ locale

    • New format type called DateTime and Short DateTime which displays both date and time in a long and short format.
    • Changed the locale format, the locale is now specified with one locale string, for instance nor-NO, the first part is the language and the second the country. The local will either look for an ini file named as the locale string or try to find the language and country separately.
    • Added function httpLocaleCode which returns the localcode usable in the HTTP header.

    eZ language

    • Removed, see eZ locale

    eZ i18n

    • New class eZCodePageAlias which converts alias charset names into real charset names.
    • New class eZCodePageMapper which handles conversion from one charset to another using codepages and without using utf8/unicode as an intermediate value.
    • New class eZMBStringMapper which handles conversion using the mbstring extension in PHP.
    • Redone class eZTextCodec to handle proper text conversion, it's not done yet.
    • Added support for doublebyte characters in eZCodepage.
    • Added support for codepage to utf8 string conversion and strlen.
    • Added function httpCharset which returns the charset usable in the HTTP header

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