ArticleLive NX.0.6 Released

Published March 28, 2006 by Jordie Bodlay

Hey all,

I'd like to announce the release of our next minor update for ArticleLive, NX.0.6. It contains a 16+ bug fixes, a minor security tweak, a few minor optimizations, and two new features; A Captcha input field for preventing comment spam, and it now pings weblogs.com when a blog is posted on your site.

This update is now ready for download from the client area. Please make sure you read the upgrade.txt file before doing anything, and please make sure you backup your files.

Here is the full list from the change log:

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Security: Stopped the ability to submit AL Placeholders
    /includes/classes/class.sanatize.php

Optimization: Added new index to Articles table
 *new*  /NX.0.6.update.php
    /admin/includes/classes/class.update.php
    /admin/includes/classes/class.install.php
    /admin/templates/install.schema.tpl

Optimization: Cleaned up the way the list of categories were retrieved from
        the database
    /admin/includes/classes/class.category.php
    /admin/includes/classes/class.helper.php
    /templates/{all templates}/Panels/RootArticleCategoriesPanel.php

Optimization: Eliminate double queries for creating article links
    /admin/includes/classes/class.helper.php
    /templates/{all templates}/Panels/FeaturedArticlesPanel.php
    /templates/{all templates}/Panels/RecentArticlesPanel.php
    /templates/{all templates}/Panels/ViewCategoryAdvancedPanel.php

New Feature: Added CAPTCHA field for stopping comment spam
    /init.php
 *new*  /includes/classes/class.captcha.php
    /includes/classes/class.article.php
    /includes/language/back_language.ini
    /includes/language/front_language.ini
    /javascript/formUtil.js
    /admin/templates/settings.form.tpl
    /admin/includes/classes/class.helper.php
    /admin/includes/classes/class.settings.php
 *new*    /content_images/
captcha/{all files}

 *new*    /content_images/
fonts/captcha.ttf
    /templates/{all templates}/Panels/ViewArticlePanel.php
    /templates/{all templates}/Panels/ViewArticlePanel.html
    /templates/{all templates}/Panels/ViewBlogEntryPanel.php
    /templates/{all templates}/Panels/ViewBlogEntryPanel.html
    /templates/{all templates}/Panels/SubmitCommentPanel.php
    /templates/{all templates}/Panels/SubmitCommentPanel.html


New Feature: When posting a blog, weblogs.com is now pinged.
    /admin/includes/classes/class.blogs.php
 *new*    /admin/templates/blog.ping.weblogs.tpl

Fixed bug: Javascript error when submitting password on locked article
    /templates/{all templates}/Panels/ArticleAuthPanel.html

Fixed bug: Enabling ratings, but disabling comments would result in both being
        disabled
    /templates/{all templates}/Panels/ViewArticlePanel.php
    /templates/{all templates}/Panels/ViewArticlePanel.html
    /templates/{all templates}/Panels/ViewBlogEntryPanel.php
    /templates/{all templates}/Panels/ViewBlogEntryPanel.html
    /templates/{all templates}/Panels/SubmitCommentPanel.php
    /templates/{all templates}/Panels/SubmitCommentPanel.html

Fixed bug: When editing an author account on front end, a success or failure message
        didn't always show up
    /templates/{all templates}/Panels/EditAccountPanel.html

Fixed bug: Double slashes would be changed to a single one.
    /includes/classes/class.template.php

Fixed bug: An error would occur when just viewing www.yoursite.com/categories/
    /includes/classes/class.categories.php
    /templates/{all templates}/Panels/ViewCategoryAdvancedPanel.php

Fixed bug: Cookies not being set to a proper date, therefore failing to set,
        affected things such as favourite, recently viewed articles
    /includes/classes/class.article.php

Fixed Bug: Updated glossary code. It was messing up with HTML, and would cancel out
        links if a keyword was inside the link.
    /includes/classes/class.article.php

Fixed Bug: Sometimes when an author saved their profile settings in the backend their
        username and password would be deleted
    /admin/includes/classes/class.user.php

Fixed Bug: Some text was still hard-coded, swapped to language pack.
    /admin/templates/article.page.row.tpl
    /admin/templates/article.form.tpl
    /admin/includes/classes/class.user.php
    /includes/classes/class.article.php
    /includes/language/back_language.ini
    /includes/language/front_language.ini

Fixed Bug: Sometimes a refresh or bad page load would cause settings to be deleted
        when on the admin settings page
    /admin/includes/classes/class.settings.php

Fixed Bug: New Window option for pages wasn't being saved or retrieved properally.
    /admin/includes/classes/class.pages.php

Fixed Bug: If a template file had a textarea in it, it would cause a problem when
        editing via the admin.
    /admin/includes/classes/class.layout.php

Fixed Bug: Wrong path was being set for images for delete in image manager
    /admin/includes/classes/class.editor.php

Fixed Bug: Stopped Pending Articles from showing up in Article Lists, such as
        Related articles.
    /admin/includes/classes/class.article.php

Fixed Bug: Last file in each section not showing up in "Templates" section
        of the control panel
    /admin/includes/classes/class.layout.php

Fixed Bug: Meta tags corrupted in Directory Pages.html
    /templates/Directory/Pages.html

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