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ok… i hope i haven’t messed too much with the code and everything is still working.
Changes:
- Ascraeus now uses constants for the phpbb root path and the php extension. This ensures more security for external applications and modifications (no more overwriting of root path and extension possible through insecure mods and register globals enabled) as well as no more globalizing needed.
- A second change implemented here is an additional short-hand-notation for append_sid(). It is allowed to omit the root path and extension now (for example calling append_sid(‘memberlist’)) – in this case the root path and extension get added automatically. The hook is called after these are added.

merge some changes/fixes
henry: is your viewonline fix/change missing? ;)

Some neat stuff, the new DBAL function has the potential of removing somewhere in the ballpark of 40% of all the DBAL code. It combines a few very common idioms into one statement, allowing us to implicitly use prepared statements. Short term advantages are the ability to remove the gross code that attempts to work around DB2, Oracle and Firebird. Long term advantages include removing the burden of sanitizing data (at least on input) from our end and placing it on shoulders of the backend PHP driver.

Also included is a new posting API I am working on. It is not a real API in so much as it is a backend that a “nice” API could use. User submitted functions are welcome :) It represents a massive simplification in post and topic accounting and a generalization of concepts like “soft deletion” as it works across both topics and posts (yes, this has preliminary support for soft deletions). The only “interesting” problem left is global topics, this has yet to be solved.

Enough talk, time for sleep.

P.S.
Sorry if I broke stuff, was not done on purpose :)

not sure what the implications of this quick fix are, especially when upgrading from earlier versions we either have to use a different timezone depending on the server or fix timestamps on update, though shouldn’t they be gmt already?

Ch-ch-ch-changes
- Made us more DB independent by making many queries capability based instead of DB specific
- Finished PHP5ifying of the acm_file class, now with some (hopefully) enhancements to its performance
- Sped up viewforum considerably (also goes towards mcp_forum)

I really hope I didn’t explode CVS…

cross-ci to the head

very tiny adjustements…

some bugs fixed

add support for gzip compression to style.php as well as adding a much higher expire date – though could be much more effective (but also error prone) due to the session id.

it has been decided amongst the team that using glob() is bad practice, after determining the overall usage among projects as well as the security history of the function.

more failsafe “glob()” method.

- Send stylesheet in style.php even without a valid session id [Bug #11531]
- request_var should strictly return the requested number of dimensions
- corrected a character mapping in the search indexing character list, people might want to reindex after this change if they use fulltext_native

also recache if theme_data is empty.

#10497

Better this way.

typo

#9879

- overhaul of imagesets
imagesets are now “intelligently” multilingual, one may use imagesets inside of CSS files now (as well as properties like the width and height of an imageset’s image)
all previous styles should change their imageset.cfg to be like prosilver and subsilver2 (notice how there is now an imageset.cfg in the /en folder, there should be one for each language)

- forgot a few places :P

- support re-caching of theme data if stylesheet.css changed and load_tplcompile enabled
- mcp fixes
- fixed some usability issues

- fix a stupid bug in style.php
- and we’d also like the post encoding :D

ok, this one is rather large… the most important change:
re-introduce append_sid: old style continues to work, not a performance hog as it was in 2.0.x -> structure is different

apart from this, code cleanage, bug fixing, etc.

- added a theme editor
- some adjustments in acp_styles.php
- fixed storing themes in db (needs revisiting)

- file_get_contents instead of imploding file()s or fread()ing till the maximum filesize
- language and style properly use compression
- language now prompts user for methods
- functions_compress does not need to eval() to get a hex date, instead calls pack()
- A writing method is defined at the end of tar operations only if data has been sent to the archive
- BBCode parser does not have to eval(), it instead uses the regex to loop around the matches

Hopefully nothing broke :-)

- ok, get away with the secondary style approach (styles can be mixed together easily with the acp)
- introduce a more generic approach of defining some additional variables through cfg files as well as the name, copyright and version fields
- please note that at the moment this is in flux. I added it now for Tom because he needs the theme parameters.

theme_name field missing from the query getting the database style content

- some bugfixes

- Documentation related changes
- added resend activation email dialog
- fixed issue in session code
- log failed/successful admin re-authentication/login
- fixed simple forum dropdown box (used in mcp and posting)

Updates mainly for removal of extension + header comment … moved some aspects of ucp around, further work to be done on these areas … not commiting search for time being

Update for acm parameter change

It’s going to be one of those days …