News

This patch encloses a lot of features, corrections and improvements.
Let's begin withe the more obvious:

The Blog

The calendar of the blog was limited to the temporal interval extending from the month of the first active note to the current month. It avoids the referencing of "empty" pages.

Asked pages, which do not exist, are now identified as such. An error "404 Not found" is indicated to avoid or delete the referencing of these pages.

The mode "blog widened" was corrected. The "member" parts and "the search", situated at the bottom of page, are not any more shown when they are deactivated.

The Forum

Pages asked, which were archived, send an automatic redirection in the "Archives of the forum", rather than to how a "empty" page.

Asked pages, which do not exist, are now identified as such. An error " 404 Not found " is indicated to avoid or delete the referencing of these pages.

The mode "widened forum" was corrected. The "member" parts and "the search", situated in the top of page, are not any more shown when they are deactivated.

The RSS feeds

The display of RSS feeds integrates now the charset. If necessary, the characters of the RSS feeds are converted in the charset of GuppY, to ensure a homogeneous display.

RSS feeds produced by GuppY includes now the field "pubDate" (date of creation). The e-mail address published is now the one of the website and not the one of the webmaster.

Statistics

The statistics had several problems, making them not reliable. These problems were corrected. The statistics of the blog are now recorded correctly.

The display was revised. It presents now the name of sections rather than the name of the corresponding files PHP. The statistics of access to the administration are shown only in Administration, not for public.

The XHTML validation

Lots of small corrections were made to make possible the validation of pages by the W3C.

It is possible that the W3C still refuses the validation of your pages. Indeed, the old contents can not be "valid". Generally, the re-recording of the contents "invalidates" should be enough to correct them using FCKeditor. Also, some skins do not validate, it is then necessary to see with their authors.

The « add to favorites » function

This possibility was extended to a great majority of browsers and is no more limited to Internet Explorer alone.

Filling in the postguest form

It was revised to avoid the loss of the input information, when you use by mistake an already used member name. Now, after the window of alert indicating the usage of an already used member name, the user returns to the form keeping the datas of the fields.

Migration Script

It was corrected. He will permit in the future quieter migrations.

Let us end with things less visible:

• The icon of "Documents RSS" is now available in administration.

• The code determining the holidays was optimized.

• One HTTP header is now sent clarifying the character set used by GuppY.

• The activation of the icons of the main menu was revised to avoid some false activations.

• A directory "inc/jshead" was added. All the files javascript "*.js", which it contains, are automatically loaded with the HEAD of the shown page. It will avoid to fork the file inc/hpage.inc in many cases.

• The function "Recommand" is now controlled since the page Config. Services of administration. it is deactivated, by default. Think of activating it if you used it before applying this patch.

• To improve the security, the password Administrator cannot any more be "empty".

To finish

In the complete pack, the demo database was updated.

Le language files are uptated, the EN anf FR language pack are provided with the new lines
EN
// ----------- added in v4.6.9 -------- //
$web438 = 'No ticket this month.';
$web439 = 'There is no ticket yet.';
$web440 = 'Be the first to write one ticket.';
$web441 = 'Some answers are accessible only to the members.';
FR
// ----------- added in v4.6.9 -------- //
$web438 = 'Aucun billet ce mois-ci.';
$web439 = 'Il n'y a pas encore de billet.';
$web440 = 'Soyez-le premier à en écrire un.';
$web441 = 'Certaines réponses ne sont accessibles qu'aux seuls membres.';

If you use any other languages don't forget to upgrade your language pack and to send it to the team to include it in the language pack.