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github sponsors beta enrollment

Hi,

some time ago I expressed my interest for the Github Sponsors program, and I received a message yesterday to tell me I was accepted in the beta.

At the moment it looks like the sponsors program is aimed exclusively at individual github accounts, and not at organisations. This means people will need to sponsor a single individual.

I haven't had much opportunity to look into it in detail, I will comment in here once I have more information and background.

Did you enroll in the program, or do you use other types of systems/sites to partially fund your development work? I'd be interested to hear about them.

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Refactoring the system module templates

During the period that 1.4 is being finalised, I came across the Bulma CSS framework and i wanted to try it to see if it would be a good fit to develop a new, more modern, admin theme. The work is not yet done, but during that initial search I identified that in fact most of hte templates for the ACP part of the system module simply didn't work. It is possible to change the general appearance of your ACP with a theme_admin.html file, but the specific contents of the different ACP screens are locked.

Bummer.

The reasons were two-fold :

  • in many places, the template file was hardcoded to the one in the module, and not the one in the theme
  • where the theme template was referenced, the reference was using a path structure in the identifier, and that didn't work with the templating engine (smarty 2 at this moment still).

As a result, there are 2 PR in the 1.4.0 beta release that fix this : I changed the location and the name of the templates in the system module, in such a way that all the templates, ACP or user side, all live in the same folder. I also adapted the code to reference the theme template.

During that work, I came to realise that there are still some parts of the system module ACP that are hard-coding HTML (and some ugly HTML constructions, at that). I'm currently trying to refactor the avatar section into clean code and a separate template. That shouldn't keep a new version from being published, because it will not introduce new functionalities or fix bugs, but it's a small step in cleaning up the system module.

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Re: A project I've been putting off - ICMS 1.2.x to 1.3.x

thanks for the update, I have updated the information on the github page : https://github.com/iForumModule/iforum/blob/master/README.md

One of these days I should test iForum thoroughly on PHP7 and release the 2.0 final



Re: A project I've been putting off - ICMS 1.2.x to 1.3.x

Ran some tests this morning - iForum 2.0 requires ImpressCMS 1.3+ and not 1.2+ as the readme states. I'll have to do this in stages

Steve Twitter: @skenow Facebook: Steve Kenow



Re: A project I've been putting off - ICMS 1.2.x to 1.3.x

I'm thinking of updating the imBuilding templates to make them compatible with 1.4. While doing that, adding a skeleton to support fine-grained permissions might be a worthwile improvement.



Re: A project I've been putting off - ICMS 1.2.x to 1.3.x

I've been reexamining my choice of having separate modules for news (time sensitive posts), articles (long term posts), and blogs (mostly point-of-view posts, that could be short- or long-term posts) and haven't done much in the way of documenting a path forward, especially for modules that don't have a current compliant version.

The forum migration should be workable - iForum has the permissions structure I'm looking to maintain and works in ImpressCMS 1.2+. We also know it works on 1.3.

News will probably end up being blog posts, and articles will probably end up being wiki pages. I haven't fully decided, yetl

 

Steve Twitter: @skenow Facebook: Steve Kenow



Re: A project I've been putting off - ICMS 1.2.x to 1.3.x

Hi @skenow , any news on this one? If the page on the wiki needs updating, feel free to do so based on your experience



Re: New admin theme - no change

I think I found the reason. When you look at the code in the admin sections, they all use hardcoded paths to the system module. Not all of the pages are in the icms_version.php file as templates.

For example, when I take the /htdocs/modules/system/admin/customtags/main.php file, and change the last line that says

$icmsAdminTpl->display(ICMS_MODULES_PATH . "/system/templates/admin/customtag/system_adm_customtag.html");

and change it to 

$icmsAdminTpl->display("db:/admin/customtag/system_adm_customtag.html");

I get a nice white section where the custom tag manager used to be. I think it is something related with the paths in the filename, but I'm still looking into that to make sure.



Re: Module testing for ImpressCMS 1.4/PHP7

I've been working on Protector and have it updated to work with PHP7 - installation works and it is activated if the permissions are correct on /plugins/preloads/.

Similarly, a new release of SimplyWiki is in the final stages of testing, and working in ImpressCMS 1.3+

Steve Twitter: @skenow Facebook: Steve Kenow



Re: New admin theme - no change

as a matter of fact, I have the base theme template working, so the admin control panel renders in the new system. It's the system module that I have issues with because at the moment I have this kind of Frankenstein combination of a mobile-first responsive shell, and a nineties-inspired table-based interior.



Re: New admin theme - no change

There are 2 theme selectors - 1 for the user side and 1 for the admin side. To skin the admin area, have a look at libraries/icms/view/theme/Factory.php and the method getAdminThemesList(). There is where the override is set for the admin area. The core looks for the overrides in either modules/system/themes/ or themes/<your theme>/theme_admin.html

Steve Twitter: @skenow Facebook: Steve Kenow



Content system module 1.2.2 : OK

I quickly tested the content system module on PHP7, and I needed to make a small fix, so that will result in 1.2.2 in the following hours. But the content module is ok.



Re: New admin theme - no change

As a matter of fact, similar changes were done by @debianus in the preparations for the 2.0 branch. I'll have a look there to see if I can spot a change that should be backported to 1.4



New admin theme - no change

Hi,

I'm working on a new admin theme that should be clean and very light based on bulma (https://bulma.io). I was hoping to include it with ImpressCMS 1.4 as a responsive, modern alternative admin theme.

I have the admin section itself working more or less (always a few details that crop up from time to time) but I seem to hit a blank when I adapt the template files for the different pages in the system module. When I change the template files in the module itself, I get the results I want, but when I update the correct files in the theme (like I do with all other template files), nothing happens. Is the 1.4 system module not ready to be skinned by a theme?



Re: Working on ImpressCMS - micro-blog

I just returned from Laracon EU in Amsterdam after 2 days of inspirational talks and exchanges with members from the Laravel community. Several talks in the unconference caught my attention: How did they organize in Github to manage ideas, development and bugs, and another one was about how to take on a legacy program and move it over to Laravel.

Although one of my projects in the near future will be to work on a laravel-based instance of ImpressCMS, something more directly actionable came from the talk by fellow-countryman Dries Vints, who works at Laravel. In order to keep focused, they have an entry repository in Github where ideas are posted, and where discussion around those ideas is done. From time to time, they go over these ideas and decide to implement some of them.

That means that their base repository only contains tickets that are ready to be worked on, and the list isn't 'polluted' by wild discussions that go nowhere.

As a result, I created a new repository this morning for ideas (https://www.github.com/impresscms/ideas/issues), and I am currently transferring as many tickets that aren't yet fully worked out towards that repository.



Module testing for ImpressCMS 1.4/PHP7

Hi,

for ImpressCMS 1.4, the second alpha release should be feature complete, we're just waiting for the transformation of the protector module in order to start with beta releases. That means that it is possible in the meantime to begin testing the compatibility of existing modules with this new version of ImpressCMS and PHP.

Modules that I will be checking in the next few days :

  • tools
  • sprockets
  • news
  • billboard
  • iforum

Feel free to add test results of other modules to this thread.



Re: Improve your SEO knowledge with Woorank

This is good! I also have been learning the internet marketing basics so that can manage my website’s promotional work on my own. Since I have been learning these techniques, I am relying solely on business sms marketing method. Must admit that the results are epic with it!



Re: Improve your SEO knowledge with Woorank

The link in the first post isn't correct anymore. It's now updated to the correct one. There are many services like Woorank that offer insight in your site with actionable information to improve SEO, but they're Belgian so I thought I should mention some countrymen of mine.



Status of 1.4

In my previous post, I was too optimistic about what needed to be done in order to get ImpressCMS 1.4 finished for global consumption. Because we want to be compatible with as many PHP 7 versions as possible, some PHP libraries will need to be updated as well.

One of the libraries that has been particularly problematic every time we touched it, is Smarty. We're still using Smarty 2, but the implementation we inherited from previous ImpressCMS versions is very much intertwined with the core. Combine that with the fact that a problem in Smarty usually takes us to a totally blank screen, and you have a hard to debug library upgrade on your hands.

Combined with holiday and heatwave periods, pace has been slow for now. I expect this to continue a for another few weeks, but I will try to finalise some tasks every few days.



update 8 june 2019

I've had some interference by Life (tm) recently : either it was scorching hot, which didn't really tempt me to sit in front of a computer and sweat just because of the temperature, either we were having heat thunderstorms, and I was battling a leak in our roof. all of those aren't conductive to development sadly

That period seems to be over now (the leak is fixed, and the sun seems to be burning elsewhere), so now I can start finishing the 1.4 release.

ImpressCMS 1.4

As a matter of fact, the only thing that still needs to be done (and that is holding up that release of course) is the update procedure. The 1.4 release removes the banners functionality in the core, and replaces it with the banners module. That is a migration script that needs to be tested.

We're celebrating Pentecost tomorrow, and that means that we have a holiday on monday. Normally, I should have the 1.4.0 beta release out by monday evening to test the migration routine.

ImpressCMS 2

Not much progress on the composer integration until now. I really want to get this up and running, but composer is not easy to understand nor to debug.




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