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CMS Made Simple 1.1rc2 Released!

May 22nd, 2007 by Ted Kulp

UPDATE: rc2 was released because of stupidity on my part. Menu Manager and Search would not install properly with rc1, and was fixed. Thanks!!!

Hey all,

New release candidate is up. The plan is to have this up roughly a week. If no major bugs are found, then we’ll release it as a full version. If any minor bugs come in, we’ll fix and continue with the schedule. We’re not planning another rc unless multiple major bugs show up, which we’re hoping doesn’t happen.

Please test away and report any bugs in the tracker or irc channel.

The changelog follows below…

Thanks!
Ted

- Numerous changes to attempt to minimize the potential for XSS attacks
- Cleanup SQL statements to prevent against SQL injection attacks
- Add the page alias to the link content type
- Add Apply/Submit/Cancel buttons to the top of the edittemplate form
- Upgrade to Smarty 2.6.18
- Upgrade to adodb_lite 1.42
- Add an apply button to UDT edit page
- Check usernames for invalid characters when creating/editing users
- Add sitename to admin title and header text
- Rationalization and fixes to the {menu} and {search} tags
- Adds the ability to have a separate syntax hilighter module for templates,stylesheets, and UDT’s
- Adds a date_format_string preference in the user preferences
- Modify the admin log to use the date format string user preference
- Show the last modified date in templates, stylesheets and content,
and use the date format string preference.
- Hide the encoding dropdown from the template page, if it is not already set
- Changes to the module api to prevent XSS vulnerabilities
- Call cms_htmlentities on each parameter in the form api that can be
output to html verbatim
- Add functionality for cleaning input parameters before they are
given to the module api. Also allows for optionally dropping parameters
that are unknown to the module.
- Add methods SetParameterType and RestrictUnknownParams to the module
api so that modules can inform the core as to which parameters to expect
on input,and how to clean them.
- Adds a RegisterModulePlugin method to the module api so that we can
use {modulename param=value…} instead of
{cms_module module=’modulename’ param=value …}
- Use root url for default content in links, fixes double url issues.
- Adds ajaxy code to the apply button when editing css, templates or
stylesheets so that the text area scroll bar doesn’t move.
- Add sender ip to the contact_form message
- Add a site preference to disable the safe_mode warning in the admin
- Add a site preference to restrict warnings about unknown parameters
- Now check for ‘Modify Any Page’ permission or ‘Modify Page Structure’
to allow people to activate or deactivate content.
- Fixes to the installer
- Upgrade Scriptaculous to 1.7.0
- Add some help on how to use CGB’s
- News enhancements
- Frontend Pagination for summary articles
- Admin article pagination, sorting, and filtering
- Use the date_format_string preference in the admin
- Display more information in the article list

21 Responses to “CMS Made Simple 1.1rc2 Released!”

  1. Peter Gasston Says:

    Great! Looking forward to this.

    First problem: Menu Manager and Search say the minimum required version is 1.1; I’ve changed this setting in each file, but might be worth mentioning…

  2. Russ Says:

    A brand new funky release, always a pleasure Ted, a few slips I’ve picked up so far…

    1. No TinyMCE in Modules? So I can’t test the editor problems I’ve raised bugs for, from the SVN version. Looking in SVN it appears to be the same version I have, in which case I guess the bugs still apply?

    2. In Admin , Extensions/Modules/…

    a. MenuManager Minimum CMSMS Version Required: 1.1
    b. Search Minimum CMSMS Version Required: 1.1

    Solution: function MinimumCMSVersion() ???

    Russ

  3. Benjamin Says:

    I just installed RC1 , the whole menu was gone, but i`m gonna try RC 2 now.

  4. Russ Says:

    Ted, the new default editor (TinyMCE) still seems to be missing. It currently has no editor? Even in rc2?
    This can’t be right can it. Someone else has logged a bug for this.

    Russ

  5. draak Says:

    Just wanted to say great work guys, but please don’t forget supporting SAFE_MODE.

    it is the only decent way to prevent future php hacks.

    i got lots of friends in hosting business and those without SAFE_MODE ON were all hacked long time ago.

    having a content management system that doesn’t fully support this mode is NOT a way to go.

  6. mike howarth Says:

    Why does a site which calls itself “CMS made simple” have such a complicated opening page with not the slightest hint at how to set up the “simple site” from scratch anywhere?
    advice please
    Kind regards

  7. Roberto Says:

    Thanks all for your work! Another great release!

    mike howarth Says: “how to set up the “simple site” from scratch anywhere?”
    Did you try under documentation?? ;-)
    Here there is a user, designer and developer section…
    In User you’ll find the Getting Started chapter

  8. Madaha Says:

    The cms_modules_seach_index table in MYSQL database containing each single word in conent as an indepent record. It makes the database too big. Hope the seach module can be improved in new release.

  9. mark starkey Says:

    I have to say CMSMade simple just gets better and better. some html knowledge is always a good thing. As a designer i think you really can’t make it any simpler for people to build a content managed system. The user interface that is presented in the admin area is intuitive enough for most users.

    i do believe that some templates could be made available if people are willing to submit them. I guess its time that is the issue.

    many thanks for a great product.

  10. SmotW Says:

    Looks promising but a few off putting errors on default install:

    - Warning: WARNING: Search is not properly cleaning input params. in …\cmsmadesimple-1.1rc2\lib\classes\class.module.inc.php on line 1500

    - Numerous Javascript alerts (document contains no data) generated by Apache when navigating links in the front end

    Testing on XAMPP (PHP Version 5.0.5, MySQL 5.0.15, Apache/2.0.55 (Win32))

  11. BF Says:

    Edit Content - Preview - Lots of Smarty Errors on Top of Pagee on W2k - PHP 5.2 - Apache…
    Reorder Pages - wrong starting posisitions of Current Pages

    Great Tool - Greetz Uli

    Worked with Typo3, Mambo, Joomla etc. - CMSMS is the best!!!
    Looking forward to see Smarty TPLs in Admin Section soon ;-)

  12. Mika Ruohomäki Says:

    Hey!

    This CMS Made Simple 1.1rc2 Released is work good and nothing prolems is not installs…

    this my webpage http://www.pemari-turku.net

  13. Karlos Says:

    hey guys,
    Warning: WARNING: Search is not properly cleaning input params. in /var/www-warensicht/warensicht/lib/classes/class.module.inc.php on line 1500

    comes after a new installation of cmsms rc2 ?!

  14. Ted Says:

    @Karlos: This is intentional for the rc period to flesh out any modules that aren’t following some of the new rules. The message will be removed in the final release.

  15. Jim Says:

    Dear Ted & Team,

    Waiting for 1.1 full release to start a non-profit project.
    Originally you posted “About A Week” for RC2.
    Any Idea when the full might be ready?

    Jim
    Great Bear Web Design

  16. Ted Says:

    @Jim: We have to do a quick rc3 to flesh out a few remaining issues. That will most likely be tonight. That will be out in the wild for a short period… maybe 3 or 4 days. Then we’ll do 1.1. Sorry for the delay.

  17. Matthew Lieder Says:

    Any updates on rc3? Still not out yet… :(

  18. Andy Says:

    Hi,

    No pressure but any news on a final release of 1.1? (or where I can download rc3?)

    Thanks.

  19. Ted Says:

    Sorry, we keep getting delayed. After I included TinyMCE, I realized that the download was just HUGE. So we want back to the drawing board to create 2 tinymce versions so that we can keep the download to a decent size.

  20. hiutopor Says:

    Hi all!

    Very interesting information! Thanks!

    G’night

  21. Jason Says:

    Hello, is it possible to edit the title “CMS made simple” with my own title? thank-you

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