CMS Made Simple 1.3
June 7th, 2008 by Robert CampbellThanks to some fantastic effort by the development team, the translators, and testers, I’m pleased to announce CMS Made Simple 1.3
This was originally going to be just a marginal improvement to hold people over till CMS 2.0 comes out, but we just kinda got carried away.
There are new versions of the TinyMCE, ModuleManager, Search, MenuManager, News and FileManager modules, a massive improvement in translations, an automatic update notification mechanism, bugfixes, and lots of other tweaks to help you in your projects. For this reason, there will be no ‘diff’ packages.
Here’s a copy of the changelog for this version:
Version 1.3 “Cuba” — June 7, 2008
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- Massive updates to translations
- Includes TinyMCE 2.4.0b5
(this should be a release version by the time 1.3 comes out)
Note: The wysiwyg editor is not called TinyMCE-Adv or TinyMCE-Basic anymore,
- Includes FileManager 0.3.0b2
(this should be a release version by the time 1.3 comes out)
- Includes News 2.8
- Fixes for pretty urls
- Adds news_extra and custom field support to the fesubmit action
- Uses cms_html_entity_decode for php4 compatibility
- Removes the News content type once and for all
- Includes Search 1.5
- Adds the ability to change the search output on a per module basis
- Adds an ability to track search words
- Better templating for News
- More
- Includes MenuManager 1.5
- Pass all parameters to the menumanager template for easier customization
- Fixes for has_children
- Minor fixes
- Includes ModuleManager 1.1.6
- Now indicates that a module available in the repository is incompatible
with the current CMS version
- A nice big notice on the top of the display about xml vs zip modules
- Cleanup on uninstall
- Includes a new admin theme generously donated by Nuno Costa
- All plugins are now translatable
- The title and sitename plugins now support the assign param
- Adds two new plugins (redirect_page and redirect_url)
- Debug mode now tweaks the display_errors and error levels
in the admin section as well as in the frontend
- Listcontent is now cleaned-up and has better security checks
- Minor improvements to listmodules
- Admin templates are now override-able by creating a matching file in
module_custom/
- All language files are now override-able by creating a matching file in
module_custom/
- Adds a new PageLink content type to allow linking to an internal page
easily
- The {sitemap} plugin is deprecated, and replaced by {site_mapper} which
is just a simple wrapper around menumanager
- Fixes so that menumanager sets has_children properly
- Attempt to handle hosts that have disabled the readfile function
- Add cms_html_entity_decode which is php4 compatible as html_entity_decode may not be.
- Fix un-necessary queries in cms_selflink
- Fixes for bugs #2227, 2205, 2230, 2207
- Content type names are now translatable
- Replaced the ’select all’ link in Listcontent with a checkbox which is a bit more standardish
- Changed the comment at the bottom of output pages to have nothing that can be searched on














June 7th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Congratulations, and thanks! You might just want to remove the (this should be a release version by the time 1.3 comes out) for clarity’s sake…
June 7th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Wow, good news!! And thank you guys for that “fantastic effort”!
I will try it just now!
June 8th, 2008 at 3:08 am
D’oh, I just updated to 1.2.5.
Good job everyone!
Do you think having the admin area and main site separable (to allow for proxy ssl login in the admin area only) will be a feature anytime soon (before 2.0 hits anyway)?
The new html_entity is much welcome as I had huge problems with the old one under php4 which messed up German umlauts.
Thanks again for all that work!
Cerno
June 8th, 2008 at 10:06 am
The Module Manager no longer works after upgrading to 1.3. Any ideas?
June 8th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
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June 8th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Can I skip this version because there are no security fixes in this release?!
My site runs well so I will wait until the 2.0 version to upgrade.
June 8th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Beautiful work! The admin theme is great and upgrade was smooth on 3 sites so far!
June 9th, 2008 at 7:14 am
I have some problems with TinyMCE not showing up after a fresh installation (Safari and Firefox).
Anyway, thanks for your hard work! It’s great to see CMSMS improving with every upgrade.
June 9th, 2008 at 8:42 am
The demo ( http://opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=452 ) needs to be updated too. Good work guys and many thanks.
June 9th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Hi,
I am somewhat confused … didn’t you issue a “code freeze” for 1.x?
Will this now be the last 1.x? Or will 1.x get updated until 2.0 comes out?
Will there be a diff or do we have to install complete?
Cheers,
Alex
June 9th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I just updated. Anyone else having an issue with the “insert CMSMS link” button no longer displaying in the TinyMCE WYSIWYG?
June 9th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
very nice! i updated without any problems, thank you guys!
June 10th, 2008 at 3:36 am
Are there any plans for a DIFF release?
June 10th, 2008 at 5:21 am
Colin: You’re not the only one, mine has disappeared too!
June 10th, 2008 at 5:41 am
To fix the TinyMCE “insert CMSMS link” thing:
- Go to Extensions->TinyMCE WYSIWYG
- Advanced tab
- Click “Reset all settings to defaults”
At least, this worked for me, I hope it works for you Colin, and anyone else suffering from this!
Other than that, it seems to be working fine for me. So good so far anyway
Nice job folks!
June 10th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Great update, did several sites and no problems at all.
June 10th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Module manager problem here seems to be that the MM is busting my 16Mb php memory limit. Clearly something is going on - 16Mb is an awful lot of memory
To confirm if you are seeing the same thing look at the HTML source after clicking on the module manager. The Error should be at the bottom
Still, nice work to all ye folks!
June 10th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
@slagar: Thanks for your advice, that saved me a some minutes searching.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
> The Module Manager no longer works after upgrading to 1.3. Any ideas?
I was able to fix this by increasing my memory limit to about 32MB.
Greetings.
June 11th, 2008 at 5:34 am
I got a blank admin section (login page is fine, try to login… blank) after upgrading from 1.2.5. to 1.3 on 2 websites running on IIS/php5/mysql 4.1.19. Other sites (on the same server) updated fine. Restored the backup (admin panel ok) and updated again (/install/upgrade.php), but the same problems occured. Checked the config.php, nothing changed, and all files in the adminarea are the same as on another installation that is fine.. What could be the problem?
June 11th, 2008 at 6:17 am
hmm. .. no diff . . ? :[
June 11th, 2008 at 9:32 am
well.. great.. but the image manager in tinymce doesn’t allow anymore to upload an image! that’s bad!!!
June 12th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Can someone briefly guide me through the best way of upgrading?
Fresh install then transfer/re-enter all site content across? Or can i just overwrite all the files with my content being stored in the db remaining safe?
Thanks.
June 12th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
hmm sorry for above post, just read hough the forums now.
June 13th, 2008 at 9:32 am
@Morloi Says
> the image manager in tinymce doesn’t allow anymore to upload an image! that’s bad!!!
YES
exist a solution to this ???
this is a very seriou problem !!!!!
June 13th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
The Module Manager no longer works after upgrading to 1.3. Any ideas?
I was able to fix this by increasing my memory limit to about 32MB.
Greetings
Unfortunately, I need a more practical solution. Most hosts don’t allow this kind of changes.
June 14th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Hi
Could you tell me when do you release next release and fix current version bugs completely ?
June 14th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
I don’t think it’s limitted to version 1.3
I have 1.2.2 and it gives me the same error. There must have been a change to the support end of the module…. requiring more memory.
I hope they fix it soon.
June 14th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
I don’t think the problem with the Module Manager is limitted to version 1.3
I have 1.2.2 and it gives me the same error. There must have been a change to the support end of the module…. requiring more memory.
I hope they fix it soon.
June 14th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
can I enable upload image on tinymce ? this option is desappear
June 15th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Got 2 sites running the same CMSMS 1.2.5 version and the same content. Sites hosted by different 2 hosting providers (each update on main site has manually been copied to the backup site)
Upgrading to 1.3 first tested on backup site => everything OK
Upgrading to 1.3 on main site went wrong: FrondEndUsers capabilities were gone.
Managed to roll back from backup.
If relevant:
Hosting data main site:
phpMyAdmin - 2.10.0.2
MySQL client version: 4.1.20
Hosting data backup site:
phpMyAdmin - 2.11.4
MySQL client version: 5.0.22
June 16th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Does anyone know of a way to turn off the version checking on the home page and module manager? I am running on an intranet with serious firewall restrictions that prevent the program from reaching the internet. Every time I attempt to access either of these pages, it takes 1-2 minutes to load them. I assume this is because the app is waiting until the request times out.
Seems like this would make a good preference option.
June 17th, 2008 at 1:54 am
>> the image manager in tinymce doesn’t allow anymore to upload an image! that’s bad!!!
>YES
>exist a solution to this ???
>this is a very seriou problem !!!!!
Also the link manager doesn’t allow anymore to link a file inside the uploads directory
June 18th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Just upgraded 2 sites to v1.3 and it very smoothly! Keep up the good work!
Thanks for all your effort.
June 18th, 2008 at 8:53 am
My first experience with 1.3 is a blank page instead of the final version of “/install/index.php”. I entered the login data for the CMS database, clicked okay, and obtained this nasty blank page. Never had this problem with earlier versions…
June 19th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
and I noticed that few, if anybody, posting here that are experiencing any problems with CMS 1.3 has posted any information that would actually help diagnose the problem.
June 20th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I get a blank page instead of the install screen with the 1.3 version, the same problem as Matthias. I installed a 1.2.5 version last week without any problem.
June 20th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
great work guys.
will try this soon
June 21st, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I just finished review it here: http://cmstester.com/cmsmadesimple-1-3-review/
June 28th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
I had the same problem as Gert-Jan (logging in to admin pages gives White Screen of Death once logged in). Tried all the solutions I could find online; no errors reported even with the config. Tried installing 1.2.5 instead - worked first time. I’ll stick with 1.2.5 for now, then.