CMSMS | CMS Made Simple

Coming January 23, starting at 11:00 AM, the third Dutch-speaking CMSMS users workshop will be held. The location chosen is Amersfoort (again), which lies in the center of the Netherlands. The agenda will be quite diverse. For the full agenda (in Dutch), click here.

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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Today CMS Made Simple, our favorite award winning Open Source Content Management System reached an important milestone: we surpassed 750,000 downloads since the original release of CMS Made Simple 0.1 in July of 2004! Reflecting the growing favor for CMSMS in the web development community, these downloads demonstrate that people agree: CMS Made Simple is a great tool.

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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This is primarily a bugfix release again… trimming off of the issues that our users have encountered, particularly those related to those using pretty urls which append a / to all the urls (I still don’t know why people do this…. why not use .php or .html for extensions, I dunno).

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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Just a quick word on the outage on Friday night.

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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This is primarily a bug fix release… with a number of ‘relatively important’ fixes. It is recommended you upgrade your site(s) at your earliest convenience.

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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This release fixes a few rather important issues that have popped up since the 1.6 release. It is particularly applicable to those of us using some of the more advanced features of the content pages.

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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IMPORTANT
This release fixes a rather important security issue in the printing module as reported by a very helpful user. We recommend you upgrade to this version of CMSMS as soon as possible.

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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It’s that time of year again. In order to fund some of the developers travel to Geek Moot 2009, we’re going to require a bit of supplemental income. We’re looking to fund 2 developers coming over from North America as well as the remainder of the deposit for the event space.

As with the last 2 years, we’re going to open up for help from the community. The goal this year is kind of big, but I’m hopeful that we can pull it off.

We’re looking to raise $2,000 by August 10th. This will be for 2 plane tickets, some travel expenses and the remainder (about $600) going to the event space. Donators will be added to this post on a daily basis and moved over to the donations list on the main site. We will, of course, keep a running tally of donations and give a big congrats if and when the goal is reached.

Furthermore, the largest donation will get a free banner ad on our sites for 2 months. This is, of course, if they have something to advertise. If not, then we’ll try and come up with something else to show our thanks.

I think we can pull this off. Prove me right, folks!

Thanks!
Ted

Update:
Thanks to everyone. We turned it into a month of donations and it was a huge success! I’ll contact Mirren soon and see everyone who’s coming to Geek Moot in a few weeks.

To make a donation, click the Paypal link:

To signup for Geek Moot 2009, visit geekmoot.com.

July 31
Tyler Boespflug – $50

Aug 1
Jordan Hlebarov – $5
Finn Lovenkrands – $200
Sandro Barbieri – $100

Aug 2
Sanjay Cherubala – $50
Maine Webworks – $50

Aug 3
Gareth Jones – $30

Aug 4
Marcus Hill – $20
Mirren – $350

Aug 5
Johnny Eshak – $100

Aug 6
Reinhard Mohr – $50

Aug 8
Shareworld – $30

Aug 9
Franck Lafay – $100

Aug 11
lonejacobsen.dk – $50

Aug 12
JeremyBass – $50
duketown.eu – $50
smilingcharleys.com – $15
AU Computers P/L – $200

Aug 13
Alessandro Grassi – $10
Pyramedia – $50
Andrew Rowbottom – $10
Webaholic – $50
Mana Ties – $50

Aug 14
Prism Open Source – $50
Das howtodo-it-Team – $10

Aug 16
Leeroy Lugg – $100

Aug 17
Viebig – $20
Karl Goldstraw – $10

Aug 18
Timothy Mahoney – $25
helminikon.no – $140

Aug 19
Renzo Ticineto – $40
tao.dk – $200

Aug 25
Piotras Cimmperman – $200

Aug 29
terapeutweb.com – $50
Katahdin Designs Limited – $30

Aug 30
Victor Ursu – $20

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This is a bugfix only release… infact, only a small handful of bugs have been fixed since 1.6.1. Here are the details:

- Fix a problem with the unique module hash not always starting with a letter
which fixes form validation problems.
- TinyMCE
– #3762 – file extension ignored in internal links
- News
– #3782 Fix IE8 toggle in add/edit news (Use Expiration Date:)
– Fixed a minor template problem in News.

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The latest and greatest release of your favorite content management system… CMSMS version 1.6.1 “Canala” is ready to roll. This is a bugfix only release.

Again, the members of the development team have donated many hours to testing, fixing, and re-testing the package, to make sure that what we fix, is infact fixed, and everybody should give a big thanks to them.

We’ve fixed the known outstanding php4 issues (thank god we won’t have to worry about php4 when 1.7 comes out), and a few issues with permissions, and email addresses, etc.

Important: we have fixed a longstanding problem with having multiple module calls within the default. content area. The fix to this was essentially to dramatically change the ‘module id’ mechanism from a simple count, to a unique hash for each module call. Therefore any of you that are doing styling, or funky smarty tricks relying on specific module id’s like m6_ or m7_ will have upgrade problems. There was no way around it.

Hopefully this will be the last release in the 1.6 series, and we can move forward with development on CMSMS 1.7, which will be a php5 only release.

Note: Just to remind everybody out there… as of this release, we can only support CMSMS 1.6, and 1.6.1… therefore please refrain from asking questions or reporting bugs until you’ve successfully upgraded.

Here’s a more detailed list of what’s changed:

- Fixes of several bugs:
– #3138 A bug of counting modules in page
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Note: This bugfix WILL break any sites that use incorrectly hacked templates with
hardcoded module id’s like m6 and m7, etc.
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– #3582 (CMS 1.6) Fatal Error in contentoperations.inc.php
– #3589 Missing “Forgot Password?” on default template
– #3591 Default group “Editor” has no permission to edit a page
– #3601 Creating new user fails, doesn’t accept “-” in email address
– #3606 Cannot remove additional editors from page
– #3608 Edit icon of pages is shown even if no permissions to edit that page
– #3612 {content} passes params to Module -> results in errormessage
– #3626 Fixes issue with php 4.x in multicontent
– #3636 Global Settings -> Advanced Setup -> Basic Properties
– #3768 Email validation when add user
– #3680 Big problem with group permissions
– Fixes issue with php 5.0.5 in content operations
– More minor bug fixes.
– Fixes to default content on new installs

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