If you’re interested in the Enthusiast changes, if Enth works for you now, you don’t have a reason to update to 3.1.16. However, if you have been keen on getting it to work with WordPress, this will help with that. I am still testing out a barebones WordPress plugin, but hopefully I’ll get it tested well enough and put that up as well (likely GitHub and not the WordPress plugin directory, but we’ll see).

For most of you, the change of licensing does not mean a thing. You will still be able to use Enthusiast for whatever use you may see fit. For some of you who like to tinker with code, well, this means you can modify and release your modified version of Enthusiast (under the same license), provided I am credited.

Moving forward, I will be updating Indiscripts and removing the downloadable files from here soon, while everything else continuous on at GitHub–with the username angelasabas (please note, I am not the usual angelamaria on there!). You can download the scripts by clicking on the “Downloads” button on the project page. Separate upgrade zips are not needed nor available–config file samples have been renamed for your overwriting pleasure (and safety).

• enthusiast
• enthusiast-lite (this is the Enthusiast 2.x codebase, which I believe a minority still use due to it being a standalone management tool as opposed to Enth3’s larger scope)
• siteskin
• onho
• lj-magpie

If you’re interested in finding out why and how this change came about, I’ve just posted about it on my blog. :)

I will not be getting back into hobby coding just yet, but I’ve been coming back slowly to work on some of my websites. As Indiscripts has been broken in different ways over the past few years, naturally it was the first one I came back to fix. I haven’t finished with it yet–there will be a couple more fixes incoming–but if you see anything amiss right now with the website, let me know anyway :)

Please note that this does not change the “status” of my scripts, which is basically “what you download is what you get”, and unsupported by myself. I will be relatively protective of my revived interest in my hobby websites and so I cannot let myself rush headlong into any support capacity. I hope you understand. Thanks!

I am moving over to a new host, a new main domain; and I’m consolidating my blogs. This change does affect my scripts, but hopefully not to an alarming degree: scripts.indisguise.org was merely a scripts archive way back when–and it’s going back to its roots now. I will be keeping the site up for some time yet, while I prepare the new archive and whatever documentation I can still keep around; but comments are now disabled on all pages.

It’s been a long night porting everything over to the new blog, so I will have to get into details at a later date; but please feel free to drop by Whimsical.Nu and ask if you have any questions. I’d love to see you there. :)

All downloads are still available at the quick download page. Please head on there to get any script(s) you may need. Thanks!

Please download the upgrade zip or the full zip if you prefer. The upgrade will be slightly more painful than the previous upgrades.

Before I get on with the upgrade instructions after the cut, I would like to take this time to say I apologize for the lack of updates and the sudden hiatus of Frontend Friday — I’ve moved houses and things have been rather crazy the past couple weeks. I haven’t forgotten this blog, I swear ;)

And now for the upgrade instructions. This is all in the upgrade zip, not to worry. :)

Important notice: the upgrade is not as simple as the previous upgrades, hence the additional instructions. Do not blindly overwrite your config.php file!

1. Overwrite the following files on your Enthusiast 3 main installation using the files found in the upgrade zip:
   • enth3/show_enthversion.php
   • enth3/show_join.php
   • enth3/show_joined.php
   • enth3/show_lostpass.php
   • enth3/show_owned.php
   • enth3/show_update.php
2. Open the config.php file found in this zip and fill in your database information. For each listing you own, you must overwrite your config.php file for that listing with this new configuration file. Please don’t forget to change the listing ID variable to the correct listing ID!
3. The following may be optional, depending on your setup, but highly recommended for forward compatibility and ensured security — you will need to update your code snippets to use the PHP constant ENTH_PATH instead of the PHP variable $path, like so:

   <?php include 'config.php';
   $show_list = false;
   include ENTH_PATH . 'show_joined.php'; ?>

   The install.txt file included in the upgrade zip will contain all the new code snippets if you need to take a look.

Please upgrade your Enthusiast installations as soon as possible. If you encounter issues with this upgrade, please feel free to post comments regarding the issues.

Remember: You must also overwrite the config file found in your collective. Basically, all configuration files except for the one inside your Enth3 administration panel will need to be updated.

Remember #2: By “code snippets”, I mean all code snippets, including the collective code snippets, and the fanlisting code snippets. In that regards, it means that the config file for your collective and each of your fanlistings will need to be updated. The process is similar to when you first set up your websites — take the config file with the commented listing ID line and put it in the collective web root, and then take the same config file, uncomment the listing ID line and plug in the correct ID, and put it in the listing web root. Rinse and repeat. :)

This update includes:

• Added mass rejection of new members feature
• Fixed bug where PEAR Mail class gets called twice when joining in certain server and/or website settings
• Fixed bug where showing/hiding of member emails do not get updated correctly when members update their information
• Fixed bug where there are still target attributes in links for the fanlisting statistics
• Fixed bug where non-numerical offsets are allowed in the pagination query

I’ve been vocal about not adding a mass-rejection feature for Enthusiast, but in the interest of helping those of us whose fanlistings get spammed, and the goal to make sure Enthusiast caters to an ever wider audience due to its openness and flexibility, I’ve finally added the feature in. However, as this is just one additional feature, I decided not to bump up the version to 3.2, as it feels rather sad that way ;)

You can download the full 3.1.4 release, or get an upgrade zip file instead.

If there are problems with regards to this upgrade, please feel free to leave comments, however all regular troubleshooting requests and support-related questions should be directed to the Enthusiast support forum at CodeGrrl. Thanks!

On the subject of Enthusiast, I would like to assure everybody that I have not “abandoned ship”. Believe you me, I’ve been through a lot because of Enthusiast, from disgruntled users who swear at me or my script, to people who have ripped my script and claimed it as their own. Yes, I have thought of “abandoning ship” plenty of times, and I suppose this might keep happening far into the future.

But I haven’t thrown in the towel just yet.

That doesn’t mean, however, that everything will be oh-so-fine and dandy and scripts will get chugged out of this scripts archive/tech blog at a steady pace. I wish I could, but there are only 24 hours a day, and seven days a week. I am no longer a college student, as the case was when I started Enthusiast all those years ago and virtually no one knew about it.

(I started to break down my time in an attempt to show just how scrapped for time I am, but I decided not to let it go that far.)

Enthusiast is not the only thing I have to put my time on. I have three blogs, and none of them even get updated as regularly as I like. My first love is creative writing, but I can’t even allot proper time for that. If you look at my fanlistings, a whole chunk of them haven’t even had new layouts in a year, some of them over two! I’ve even relegated to using layouts made by others in my journal (and maybe others) in an attempt to cut down on whatever coding I need to do. I’m a developer/designer, coding is what I do, but I can’t have time to whip up a quick CSS file to customize my own things. How sad is that?

Enthusiast is not the only thing I want to do. I have three scripts I want to create, one script that desperately needs a revamp (and I mean really desperately, but guess what? Enth development is still ranked higher), and I have a couple of others (featured here) that needs an update sometime soon. They’re all competing for attention, and I’m trying to manage it all, along with my work as a Yahoo, the little things we need to do daily so that we continue living, take care of my health, interact with the people around me.

That said, Enthusiast is important to me. I don’t think any one of you who are using it can claim that Enthusiast is more important to them than it is to me. It is important to you only so far as it helps you maintain your fanlistings, but Enth as an entity by itself is useless to you. You’re free to move to other scripts if you find Enthusiast lacking, I’m not stopping you.

To those of you who have shown me support, who help others with their Enthusiast installations, who have donated a little bit to my tip jar for my efforts…I thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Your show of support does not go unnoticed, and they continue to fuel the work here when times are tough. <3

Changes include:

• Tightened login security
• Rebranded script to take in different kinds of troubles lists, not just fanlistings
• Added ability to add/edit/delete troubles statuses/reasons
• Updated look of the script
• Fixed insert new entry bug
• Added version number to actual layout so you can see what version you’re using.

For those of you concerned about security vulnerabilities as posted by Jem on her website, rest assured those issues have already been righted since November 2006 with the 2.2 release candidate. :)

Please note that since this is a release candidate (and not an actual release yet), I will not be putting up an upgrade script. In any case, there is nothing much required to upgrade your installation — just copy over all the files except for config.inc.php and you’re done.

Please post on this entry if you come across any problems with this release candidate (layout problems, usability problems, etc). I’m hoping to promote this to an actual release by end of the week.

Download OhNo 2.3 RC 1 here!

Just in case the new WordPress mucks about with the download pages on my website, remember that you can always use the quick download page to download the scripts. :)

Known issues at the moment

I have accidentally left out code block styling, and the download pages’ comment form looks rather weird with all the floating and margins. I’ll be getting on that once I get back home. ;) Edited to add: Done! :)

If you see anything amiss, let me know.