SMF SSI.php Functions

Simplemachines.org has some exciting news. This July 21-25 we'll be attending O' Reilly's OSCON in Portland, Oregon (USA). What makes this years all the more exciting is its scheduled to be three events in one.

What is OSCON?

OSCON is the Open Source Convention. Now in its tenth year, OSCON returns to the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon July 21-25, 2008, bringing together over 2500 experts, visionaries, and hackers in the trenches to explore all that open source has to offer. 2008 promises interesting developments in the Linux, Java, Web, and open source infrastructures. OSCON will have tracks for Linux, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, Mobile, Databases, Desktop Applications, Web Applications, Administration, Security, People, Business, and Emerging Topics. Learn more at About OSCON . (http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/content/about)


Open Source Conference.  -This year promises to show off some of the best and fastest growing open source projects, just imagine a  convention center filled with developers, hackers, experts, IT managers.

Open Mobile Exchange -( OMX for short), it geared to get those involved in building out the open source mobile space, including platforms, standards, applications, hardware, integration, browsers, location, and services.

Ubuntu Live 2008- The Canonical team is set to show off a wide array of new products including the soon to be popular mobile version of Linux http://moblin.org/ http://www.ubuntu.com/products/mobile
 
This trifecta proves to be promising for SMF. We'll be packed with goodies, swag and we'll be running some SMF demos as well as giving some lectures demonstrating the new features of our 2.x version of SMF. If you are in the area, and are able to attend, drop by the booth and hang out with the team.



What will SMF be showcasing?

• New 2.x features.
• SMF gear, Tee-shirts, pens, cards, card holders & more.
• SMF scalability demo.
• Site setup demo.
• And much more...

SMF team members set to attend:

Confirmed thus far-

• dschwab9- Project Manager
• Rick "rickC" Caudill- Marketing Director.
• Justin "metallica48423" O'Leary- Co-Lead Support Specialist
• Jeremy "SleePy" Darwood- Customizer - Converter Specialist
• Plus one surprise member.

Sometime last year (or possibly even in 2006), I started thinking about improvements to the function DB, and noticed one major issue: due to the way the data was stored, we had to add an entire new function entry if a function was moved or changed in some way (additional functionality, new parameters, etc.). This meant that the function ID would also change in these situations, making it harder to track changes to functions between SMF versions.

I decided to rewrite the function db to address this problem, and addressed a few other (smaller) issues while I was at it. Due to the changes, I had to manually copy over all the function info from the existing function db to a new one which was being worked on in a non-public area of the site. I got busy and didn't have a lot of time to work on this, so it took a lot longer than I had originally planned, but I am pleased to report that the new version is up.

At first you won't notice many changes, as things should still look the same. However, there have been numerous changes:

• Function ID remains the same no matter what changes are made to a function (except of course if it's renamed)
• SMF version dropdown list only shows versions that the file/function you're viewing exists in
• Ability to switch SMF versions while viewing a file/function without being redirected to the main index
• If documented, $context variables loaded by a function are shown on the function details page (most functions don't have any $context variables documented yet - see Admin() for an example
• Ability to specify an SMF version in the URL to view a function or file for that version of SMF (example: .../index.php?action=view_file;id=x;smf_version=1.1.5)
• Ability to view all versions of a function, so you can see the changes that have been made in the development process (page isn't real pretty at the moment, but I'll work on that as I have time)
• All CSS has been moved to an external stylesheet, allowing your browser to cache it

All existing SMF functions (eg all the ones that were already in the function db) have been updated, so details exist for 2.0 as well. In addition, some functions that were added in 2.0 have already been documented (these are mainly ones that we documented from early alpha versions of 2.0).

What's to come? At this point we will be focusing mainly on documenting new functions from SMF 2.0. My goal is to have as many 2.0 functions documented as possible by the time the final version is released later this year.

I hope these changes make the function db more useful. Let me know if you run into any problems

The voting for theme contest has now closed, and the results have been calculated.

First, we would like to thank all participants who entered the theme contest, we saw some good themes and hope to see more themes from everyone in the future.

The top three themes in reverse order are:

3rd Place: Fussilet MC by Fussilet
Prize: Your choice of book from O'Reilly.

2nd Place: Orangeline by crip
Prize: Featured Theme Rotation and your choice of book from O'Reilly

and the winner is

kelo-lt by padexx

Congratulations, you've earned yourself a free Charter Membership, the theme has been entered into the Featured Theme Rotation and your choice of book from O'Reilly.

For the books, RickC will be contacting winners shortly with further details.

Simple Machines

Simple Machines is proud to announce the release of SMF 1.1.5.

This version addresses a few security issues and fixes some small bugs.

We encourage all users to upgrade to SMF 1.1.5 as soon as possible, by either using the fast install option from the admin panel, or manually applying the changes attached to this message.

Among other things, this version fixes the following issues:
* Sanitation of $topic wasn't always done right.
* Increased the randomness of the Captcha sound.
* Require the Memcached version that's compiled into PHP to ensure a better performance.
* Improved the random generator seeding for PHP < 4.2.0 - issue reported by Jessica Hope.
* Fixed a vulnerability with the use of the html-tag - issue reported by Jessica Hope.
* Fixed the CRC function not working properly on 64-bit systems.
* Fixed remembering the infocenter collapse status for guests.
* Don't send the admin a new registration email just because a member changed their email address.


SMF 1.1.4 users:  Upgrading could not be easier. Simply log into your forum and visit your admin center - a notice should inform you an update is available. Follow the instructions to patch your release - this should not generally affect any modifications, language packs or themes you have installed. Alternatively download the attached patch file, upload to your "Packages" directory and visit the package manager to install this fix.

If you cannot upgrade using the package manager, please follow the instructions posted in the Online Manual about installing and upgrading.

SMF 1.0.12 users:  A separate version has been released: 1.0.13. Just like the 1.1.x branch users, you can simply upgrade through the admin center or download and apply the attached patch.

SMF 2.0 beta 3 users: The same goes for members currently running SMF 2.0 beta 3. They can upgrade to SMF 2.0 beta 3.1 through the admin center or by downloading and applying the attached patch.

Finally - please do not use this topic for any support requests. You will get a much more prompt response by visiting the relevant support board!

Thanks,

Simple Machines

Well folks the Theme Contest is now closed. For the last 9 days the team have been busting their brains to narrow the voting down to the final 8. Now it's up to you guys and gals to bring the 8 down to three.

In case you all have forgotten what's at stake, the prizes are listed below.

Prizes:
The Grand Prize Winner
The Grand Prize Winner will receive:

• A FREE one year Charter Member Subscription or one year extension to an existing charter subscription,
• Their theme will be added to the Featured Theme rotation and,
• Their choice of book from O'Reilly.

The First Runner Up
The First Runner Up will receive:

• Their theme will be added to the Featured Theme rotation and,
• Their choice of book from O'Reilly.

The Second Runner Up
The Second Runner Up will receive:

• Their choice of book from O'Reilly.

All you have to do is vote on each theme, rating all 8 themes between 1 - 10 (ten being highest).
The winners will be announced in one weeks time. Designers, get your friends to vote for your theme!

Good luck to all who have made it into the final vote
You can vote here Voting is closed!.

Good Luck
Simple Machines