• Develop powerful, engaging, effective, and easy-to-use CMS websites for businesses, clubs, or organizations
  Implement your own design or any HTML /CSS template into CMS Made Simple with step-by-step instructions
• Integrate an e-commerce shop with PayPal checkout
• Easily implement YouTube videos into templates or pages
• Create custom forms of any complexity with individual fields using a builder
• Integrate a photo gallery or newsletter feature with ready-to-use modules
• Build print-friendly PDF versions of your sites on the fly
• Develop protected pages available only for members and manage visitor logins with a sign-in form
• Build your own functionality with module maker
• Much more…

You can find more information on the Packt Publishing site.  Since this is a book for an open source project, Packt sends us a percentage of the total sales to further the project.

I’ve received a couple of copies of the book and started reading it over.  It covers a lot of great topics and answers questions that are asked repeatedly on our forums.  It should be a good resource to new users and veterans alike.

Congratulations to Sofia on the publishing of this book. Let’s hope it’s a big seller and the first of many.

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With that, we’ve decided that there will be a 1.7 release of CMS Made Simple. This version will basically a 5.3 compatible version of CMS Made Simple, but it will most likely break PHP4 compatibility. Since we’ve been basically saying that PHP4 has been deprecated since 2007, but never acted upon, this shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to everyone. We’re not positive that we won’t be able to keep PHP4 working with 1.7, but it’s a possibility that people should be prepared for.

All future releases of 1.6 will be security patches only, and only if necessary.

CMSMS 2.0 development will still continue on. 1.7 will only be getting a percentage of the dev team’s time in order to get PHP 5.3 working. Probably won’t be a ton of new features here as well. We’re trying to keep all the major work in the 2.0 branch.

So, in short:

1.6 – Security patches only. PHP4 compatibility.
1.7 – PHP 5.3 compatibility. Minor feature additions. Possible PHP4 breakage.
2.0 – Major redesign and redevelopment. PHP 5.2+ only.

Repository Changes

If you follow CMSMS development in subversion, we’ve moved some branches around in order to facilitate these changes. The original 1.7.x branch, which became 2.0 will be in the trunk. The old trunk became the old-2.0 branch, and we copied 1.6.x to 1.7.x for 1.7.x development. It looks something like this:

/trunk moves to /branches/old-2.0
/branches/1.7.x moves to /trunk
/branches/1.6.x copied to /branches/1.7.x

If you have a checkout of one of these branches, you can easily change it to the new location with svn switch. For example, if you’ve been following 2.0 development, you can go into your checked out version and do the command with the location of the moved branches location like:

svn switch http://svn.cmsmadesimple.org/svn/cmsmadesimple/trunk .

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Thanks to Beenu Arora and 0×6a616d6573 for testing and pointing out the flaws.

Below is the full list of changes. Enjoy!

Version 1.6.7 – Teremba Bay
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- #3999 Upload a file with apostrophe make problem
- #4137 small text typo in admin/login.php
- #4192 Extra Page Attribute’s are listed in the wrong order
- #4208 Don’t show inactive template in the page 404
- #4431 UDT names not validated when being edited
- Improvements to XML module generation
- Fixes to prevent possible remote file inclusion vulnerabilities
- Minor improvements to the News module
- New version of TinyMCE
- Improvements to File Manager and Image Manager
- Improvements to Module Manager; upgrade now possible from the “Available Upgrades”-tab
- Adsense-plugin modified, to accept the ad_slot parameter

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For the forum-post (in Dutch) with the list of registered users, check the following post of “erpee”. The organisation of this workshop is done by different users:

The post in the forum

For those that want to join in, just leave a reply in the thread.

Ronny

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The latest release (version 1.6.6) has been downloaded over 9900 times since its release at the beginning of October, or approximately 520 times each day (not including direct check-outs from our SVN repository).

This groundswell of support is the result of thousands of developers recognizing how CMSMS can simplify their web site deployments. They are seeing how it helps them to build feature rich, dynamic websites that empower end users to maintain their own content. Handing control over to end users then allows the website developer to move on to the next project.

CMS Made Simple is used by thousands of professional web developers all over the world to develop web presence sites for small businesses, corporations, standards organizations, magazines, charities, and whatever you can imagine.

At this point, The CMSMS development team would like to thank our user community for their outstanding support of this product over the last few years. This incredible enthusiasm gives us the energy to continue developing the best content management system for professional web developers and their customers.

(CMS Made Simple is a free, PHP based, community developed, Open Source Content Management System released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.)

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Additionally, we think we’ve solved once and for all an issue that caused the imagemanager to redirect back to the admin login form… and why some people had problems getting the wysiwyg editor to work. it was related to their hosts not having session.use_cookies enabled. This is not a recommended setting, and although we’ve added in some code to let this work in the short term, we will not be supporting it in future versions of CMSMS. So please everybody, make sure your hosts turn this on.

Below is the full list of changes. Enjoy

Version 1.6.6 – Bonde
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– #3777 Documentation Error: redirect_url plugin
– #3923 Adminlog download, tab separator single quoted
– #3926 Little typo in stylesheet.
– #3935 Validation error in stylesheet ‘Accessibility and cross-browser tools’
– #4002 menu parameter start_level=’2′ don’t show results.
– #4068 Admin Log, update “HTML Blob” to “Global Content Block”
– #4118 die() with blank page
– Fix problem with showinmenu for separators.
– Fix error pages being able to be set inactive in listcontent.
– Fix error in permissions checking for copying content.
– Fixes issues with the PDF output only working of the pdf flag was turned OFF
– Submit is not taken on forms, when .htaccess is used and page_extension = ”.
*** FIXES RELATED TO session.use_cookies == off ****
NOTE: This is not a recommended setting, and future versions of CMSMS will not in any way
support this setting. Please contact your hosts to ensure that this setting is enabled
properly.
– This issue has probably been the cause of many tinyMCE issues in the past.
– The install and upgrade routines will fail if this setting is off
– The install and upgrade routines now explicitly check for this setting.
– TinyMCE 2.2.5 now supports session.use_cookies == off (for now)
– ImageManager no longer displays the login screen with session.use_cookies == off

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Since the very beginning, CMSMS has been using Zoneedit as their DNS hosting provider. This was in the days before every domain registrar offering their own DNS hosting, so Zoneedit was the perfect solution for some quick, free DNS hosting. Since budget was such an issue in those days, we gladly accepted it.

Early Friday night, we started getting random reports of CMSMS sites not being able to resolve. Of course, since all of our DNS hosting was on Zoneedit, it was the only place to look for answers. It looked like ns19 (our first server) was totally out, and ns8 (the secondary) was intermittently answering.

We let it go for a few hours, but things weren’t getting resolved and more and more people started to question what was going on. So late Friday evening, I decided to move the DNS totally over to Godaddy, since that’s where the domain is registered anyway. I’ve been using the service for a few years and never had any issues, so I figured that it can’t hurt.

However, at some point in the near future, I will come up with a tertiary DNS server, so that if Godaddy does experience some kind of outage, we’ll at least have one more server to handle any new requests.

DNS name server changes can take anywhere between 1 and 72 hours to show up, depending on network conditions and your ISP’s caching. Most users should be fixed shortly, and if not, patience please… the DNS changes should be coming down your line soon.

Hopefully we won’t have any more issues like this in the future.

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Version 1.6.5 – Poya
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- Fixes a problem with bulk deletion of pages that have inactive children.
- Fixes many problems with ability to get content objects
- Fixes the CreateFormStart method to reliably get the page url.
- Fixes problem with pretty urls (internal or mod_rewrite) and GET parameters on the URL.
- Printing
– Fixes problem with stylesheet not being found if pretty urls were being used
– Fixes problem with parsing the URL to print.
- News
– Fixes trivial issue with editing an article that had expiry dates set.
- MenuManager
– Fixes problem with having a default database template
– Fixes problem with being able to delete the default database template.
- TinyMCE
– Fixed bug disabling the wysiwyg togglebox upon saving the basic toolbar profile
– Fixed bug with truncated menutexts with quotes in them not getting properly escaped, breaking config
– Updated to latest TinyMCE 3.2.6

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You are encouraged to upgrade your sites to CMSMS 1.6.4 as soon as possible, as we now only support CMSMS 1.6.3 and 1.6.4

Enjoy!

Changelog: Version 1.6.4 – Moindou
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- Fixes a problem with the showinmenu option not being available to other content types
- Fixes a problem with the lang stuff and a required reference operator
- Fixes a problem with checksum verification and generation
- Fixes a problem in filemanager where access time was shown and not creation time.
- Adds tabindex to the list of selectable properties in the site preferences.
- Fixes a problem with 404 errors if using internal pretty urls, and adding parameters to the URL
- Fixes a problem with the parent page property for restricted content editors.

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Additionally, a couple of minor errors relating to deactivating and re-activating content in the content list… and to using {cms_selflink} to point to inactive pages have been fixed.

Please upgrade ASAP.

Thanks!

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