Exponential 3 changes in 2.9-5

Bug fixes

Shell

modfix

• Safer file and directory modes.
• Added var/log to checking.

SDK

Kernel

• Debug report can now be place anywhere inside the resulting HTML, it must contain a marker which is a HTML comment, it is <!--DEBUG_REPORT-->.
• Fixed bug with duplicating node on publishing
• Added feature for searching one or more subtrees on the site
• New fetch function layout/sitedesign_list which fetches the used sitedesign for a site, used in versionview.
• Change versionview to use node view for attributes, some changes node view templates were required.
• Added new function createPassword in eZUser which can be used for creating random passwords which are sent to users.
• The eZObjectForwarder class can now use different template roots depending on values from the input.
• New class eZURLTranslator which handles all types of url translations.
• Moved url nodepath matching to the new urltranslator class.
• Added general XML serialization framework for content objects
• Added function to fetch node children by name in eZContentObjectTreeNode
• Added function of calculating price with real VAT value for module shop
• Added function of discount for module shop
• index.php now uses the execution system, this means that controlled exits should be done with the cleanExit function in eZExecution.
• Implemented basic framework for generic information collection ( forms/polls etc )
• Changed browse page. Now the path is shown like on other Exponential 3 pages
• Change section assignments. Removed page before browse.
• Changed node views to use the version for attribute lists, related objects and attribute maps instead of taking it directly from the object (which is always the last published version).

DateType

• Changed the ezprice interface with VAT type choosing and VAT include/exclude choosing.

Library

eZ utils

• Added function for automatically remove escaped ' and " characters done by magic quote

eZ locale

• Added function for returning the timestamp of a date

eZ text codec

• A new function conversionRequired can be used to detect if it's necessary to call the conversion functions in text codec. This improves speed for code which handles lots of strings.

eZ session

• Made sure db is not included or initialized before actually needed, before there were some problems with ini files and siteaccess.

eZ debug

• Made sure debug messages are ignored when debug is off.
• New feature: Accumulators, they can be used for profiling how much time a part the program takes.
• Added support for total script time.
• No string conversion is run if it is not required, this means sql queries are much faster.
• Missing directories will be created.
• If log file could not be opened for writing it will disable file logging and issue an error.
• Made sure serverVariable access does not issue an error.
• Added @s to some file functions, to avoid that they create error messages.

eZ db

• New function setIsSQLOutputEnabled which can enable or disable sql output at runtime, sql output is always disabled at the end of the script to avoid crashes with session.

eZ mysqldb

• If a connect fails the error will be present in the error output.

eZ template

• Moved template parser code into separate classes, that way it should be fairly easy to change the parser engine.
• Made some changes to bring back the element tree caching.
• Added simple element tree caching, it will store the cache in var/cache/template/tree eZPHPCreator
• New class for generating PHP cache files.

eZ setup

• setup tool for Exponential 3. Set the setting CheckValidity in site.ini to true and install eZ publish.
• tests if Exponential 3 can work: PHP version, DB modules, PHP modules, ImageMagick, File permissions
• helps with suggestions what to do if any steps fail
• installs the database: DB type, DB server, DB name, DB charset, creates new DB user if wanted
• installs demo data: unpacks it (if zlib module is available) and install database content
• sets some initial configuration settings (title, domain, charset)
• sends (if wanted) register email to eZ szstems. Can use SMTP server (w/ login) to send email.

eZ sys

• The functions serverVariable and enviromentVariable now takes an optional second parameter called quiet, if true no debug error is shown, default is false.

eZ execution

• New class which helps in detecting fatal errors and does proper end of execution cleanups.