release : september 26th, 2008. svn 1100

Changelog since 1.0.x.

• many improvements in jForms :
  • new 1.1 version of the XML format (the 1.0 version is still usable)
  • new controls : <hidden>, <captcha>, <group>, <choice>, <htmleditor>…
  • dynamically add/remove or enable/disable controls
  • possibility to know the updated values
  • Integration of jQuery, Wymeditor (wysiwyg html editor)
• new jAcl2 API, simpler than jAcl
• support of SOAP

• replace the lib directory by the one in jelix 1.1beta1
• remove all the files in the temp/ directory
• update your code as specified hereafter :

• remove most of unuseful JELIX_LIB_* constants. Only JELIX_LIB_PATH, JELIX_LIB_CORE_PATH and JELIX_LIB_UTILS_PATH still exist.
• remove also JELIX_PLUGINS_PATH and JELIX_MODULE_PATH
• Rename the “plugins” section to “coordplugins” in your configuration files
• Because of misspelling methods and properties, there were methods and properties renamed:
  • template plugin formdatasfull renamed to formdatafull
  • template plugin formdatas renamed to formdata
  • jFormsBase::getDatas() renamed to getAllData()
  • jFormsDatasource::getDatas() renamed to getData()
  • jFormsDatasource::$datas renamed to $data
  • jFormsDataContainer::$datas renamed to $data
  • jResponseJson::$datas renamed to $data
  • jResponseRdf::$datas renamed to $data
  • jControllerDaoCrud::_checkDatas() renamed to _checkData()
• The jDateTime::durationTo does not accept a jDateTime object as parameter anymore, but a jDuration object.
• in your customized response objects, rename the _commonProcess method to doAfterActions
• jForms :
  • in the templates, the {form} and {formfull} plugins have their list of parameters updated
  • The name of the root tag of the jForms files is now uniform and is then called “form”. Rename the “forms” tags into “form”.
  • The javascript API of jForms has been slightly updated : if you use it (but it is rare), you have to update your scripts.
  • The API of the jFormBase object has been slightly updated at the level of methods setReadOnly()
  • The id of the generated html form tags has changed (#423) and also the the ids of the controls to avoid collisions and “guess” it more easily.
• The old syntax of the action selectors (with a “_” instead of a “:”) is no more supported. You have to change your old selectors. (for those who migrate from a < 1.0 version)

• all little improvements from 1.0.1 to 1.0.5 version
• core:
  • added support of SOAP (#377)
  • improvements in error handler and exception handler (code refactor) (#467)
  • made little performance improvement during retrieving of the response object
  • new CRUD controller, jControllerDaoCrudDfk, for tables which have primary key based on 2 fields
  • new jResponseHtmlFragment, to send html fragment for ajax requests (#501)
  • new jResponseCmdLine, for CLI scripts, with a new coordinator jCmdlineCoordinator (#406)
  • first argument of jController::getResponse is now optional
  • jLocale: support multiline rendering in strings (#569)
  • Errors logs: messageLogFormat now supports %url% to log the url causing an error (#638)
  • Automatic detection of the time zone (#600)
  • new url engine basic_significant, based on the names of the modules/controllers/methods to generate the urls
• jControllerDaoCrud
  • new _preCreate and _preUpdate methods (#627)
• jResponseHtml :
  • you can now specify your own doctype, by overloading the new outputDoctype() method (#440)
  • renamed _commonProcess method to doAfterActions (however _commonProcess is still there for the compatibility)
  • new addLink method() (#657)
• jForms :
  • possibility to add your own builder (XUL, extjs or other) under the form of a plugin (#434). The template plugins for jForms are now more more independents from the output format (then from the builder)
  • possibility to specify the builder at the level of template plugins (#583)
  • New version 1.1 of xml format of jForms including :
    • New <hidden> control (#212)
    • New <captcha> control (#248)
    • New <group> control (#549)
    • new <choice> control (#564)
    • New <hmleditor> control (#215). Abilities to choose your own engine. Added wymeditor, a javascript script to do html wysiwyg editing.
    • support of type=“html” on <input> and <textarea>: then jforms checks the content to avoid security issues like XSS (#381)
    • new way to specify datasources : <datasource> element and new attributes
    • possibility to indicate a parameter for method of dao for datasource (#555)
    • new <emptyitem> element for the menulist, allowing to specify the label of the empty option when the choice is not mandatory (#584)
    • support of the minlength and maxlength attributes for <secret> (#556)
    • support of the “required” attribute for <checkbox> (#635)
  • new method jForms::clean() to destroy all oldest forms in sessions
  • new method jFormsBase::getModifiedControls() to know fields which have been modified (#351)
  • new method jFormsBase::prepareDaoFromControl() (similar to saveToDao but the saving is not done) (#497)
  • new methods for jFormsBase : isReadOnly(), getRootControls()
  • Possibility to add or remove controls dynamically thanks to new methods of jFormsBase : addControl(), removeControl().
  • New methods in jFormsControl : setForm(), setData(), setReadOnly(), setValueFromRequest(), setDataFromDao()
  • Possiblity to specify the presence of a fields in the generated form, thanks to jFormsBase::deactivate(), and jFormsBase::isActivated(), and also jFormsControl : deactivate(), isActivated() (#518)
  • added support of maxlength attribute on input tags (#460)
  • important reorganizations in jForm's code.
  • new template plugin ifctrl (#601)
  • new template plugin formdatafull text reponses (#649)
  • {formcontrol} template plugin : it is now possible to specify a list of controls that we don't want in the loop (#652)
  • linebreaks are replaced by a <br> when displaying the content of a text area (#646)
  • new htmllight builder (#688) : it generates classical HTML and javascript, and the html builder now uses jquery.
• jDao :
  • jDaoFactoryBase::countBy : possibility to use DISTINCT(#580)
  • new jDaoConditions::addItemGroup for groupby (#579)
• jelix-www
  • the javascript scripts are now “compressed” for better performance
  • updated tooltip.js to 1.1 version
  • added wymeditor to do wysiwyg html editing (#214)
  • added jQuery + some plugins (date_input)
• jAcl2: better acl API
  • new module jacl2_admin to manage rights with jAcl2, in a HTML user interface
• jAuth:
  • added a “persistence” parameter to the AuthLogin event, containing the timestamp of the end of validity of persistence
  • jauth~login:form now redirects to the action indicated in after_login, if the user is already identified (#650)
• jTpl:
  • new methods registerModifier and registerFunction (#138)
  • new method assignByRef (#137)
  • added support of multiline tags in templates (#55)
  • new plugin 'cycle' (#149)
  • minor enhancements in the compilator
  • enhancement of the image plugin
  • new plugin to integrate flash objects (#498, #585)
  • improvements on plugin meta_html (#553)
  • new plugin breadcrumb (#527)
  • new plugin link_to_remote (AJAX) (#30)
  • new modifer plugin number_format (#679)
  • for the compiled template plugins : new jTplCompiler::isInsideBlock() allowing to know if we are inside a block or not.
• other plugins
  • coord plugin : history (#507)
  • zendframework plugin for the coordinator allowing to directly use utility classes of ZF (#652)
• jelix:utils
  • new class jIniFileModifier
  • Added a class to do http request, jHttp, based on netHttp from clearbricks (#7)
  • new class jDuration, to use with jDateTime (#425)
  • Updated WikiRenderer (jWiki) to 3.1pre version
  • Added enhanced service handling (dependency injection) in jClasses (#523)
  • new jMessage class and jTpl plugin to manage messages in session and display them in templates (#644)
  • jMailer : possibility to use a template for the messages
  • jZone : replaced the getParam() method by param() (getParam is still here but deprecated) (#690)
• added support of virtual jdb profiles (#410)
• junittests module : possibility to run the tests in command line (#454)
• jelix php extensions (gold edition) : new option for php.ini to deactivate the extension in virtualhost (#386)

• all bugs fixed from 1.0.1 to 1.0.5 version
• jDateTime::durationTo method did a bad calculation of the duration, and now use the new class jDuration (#453)
• Change content-type of jResponseJSon to application/json according to rfc4627 (#552)
• jDaoFactoryBase::findBy no more ignores the limit argument when set to 0 (#665)

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