Still in development but soon to be released. Developed now in the branches/1.1.x directory.

This page is listing updates and enhancements added since the 1.0 version, and that will be available in the future 1.1 version.

Changelog updated until : SVN-1240

• 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>, <date>, <datetime>…
  • dynamically add/remove or enable/disable controls
  • static association between some controls
  • method listing modified values/controls
  • Integration of jQuery, Wymeditor (wysiwyg html editor)
  • Automatic protection against CSRF attacks
  • Builders migrated into jForms plugins
• new jAcl2 API, simpler than jAcl
• new response htmlfragment useful for AJAX calls
• support of SOAP
• jTpl template engine enhancements :
  • support on-the-fly declaration of modifiers and functions
  • syntax : multilines instruction, on-the-fly echoing of {=expression}
  • new plugins : cycle, flash, breadcrumb, link_to_remote, number_format, const, image, jmessage, ifctrl..
• new utilities class: jIniFileModifier, jHttp, jDuration, jMessage, jImageModifier…
• virtual profiles in jDb
• jelix-scripts enhanced

Read the instructions in the manual.

• all little improvements in the 1.0.x branch
• 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)
  • a CLI script can now be dedicated to the default action, so we don't have to indicate the action as arguments of the script
  • 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. This is the default engine now.
  • init.php use now spl autoload instead of __autoload so other libs could define their own autoload.
• jControllerDaoCrud
  • new _preCreate and _preUpdate methods (#627)
  • new _getForm and _createForm methods so we can redefine them to personnalize the form before its use.
• 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.
    • New <date> and <datetime> controls (#196). The html builder displays a datepicker for them.
    • 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): criteria and criteriafrom
    • 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() and initModifiedControlsList to track fields which have been modified (#351,#700)
  • new method jFormsBase::prepareDaoFromControl() (similar to saveToDao but the saving is not done) (#497)
  • new method jFormsBase::addControlBefore() (#728)
  • 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 responses (#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.
  • support of external urls (http and https) for the urls to submit a form (#710)
• jDao :
  • jDaoFactoryBase::countBy : possibility to use DISTINCT(#580)
  • new jDaoConditions::addItemGroup for groupby (#579)
  • During an update, field which have updatepattern and selectpattern are updated in the reocrd object. (#770)
• jDb:
  • removed support of old PDO version for PHP 5.0 and constants JPDO*
  • jDbConnection::query() and jDbResultset::setFetchMode() have now the same API as PDO::query() and PDOStatement::setFetchMode()
  • added support of FETCH_INTO
  • added support of virtual jdb profiles (#410)
• 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 + jQuery UI + 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
  • new method jAuth::getDriverParam() to retrieve easily a parameter of the configuration of a jauth driver.
  • the user in session is now updated when the call of jAuth::updateUser is called for the current user (#461)
• 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.
  • new plugin to display PHP constants(only in trusted modules)
  • new syntax to display results of PHP expressions : {=$truc…}
• other plugins
  • coord plugin : history (#507)
  • zendframework plugin for the coordinator allowing to directly use utility classes of ZF (#652)
• jelix:utils
  • new classes jIniFileModifier and jIniMultiFilesModifier
  • new class jHttp, based on netHttp from clearbricks (#7)
  • new class jDuration, to use with jDateTime (#425)
  • 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)
  • new class jImageModifier to ease modification and caching of images. code issued from image template plugin (#604)
• junittests module : possibility to run the tests in command line (#454)
• module auth
  • jauth~login:form now redirects to the action indicated in after_login, if the user is already identified (#650)
  • enhanced redirection to a referring page (origin of the request to auth module) (#658)
  • created a new response htmlauth for better customization
• new modifier for jDiff (Diff) (#720)
• new script jelix_check_server.php checking jelix compatibility against a server (#409).
• jelix php extensions (gold edition) : new option for php.ini to deactivate the extension in virtualhost (#386)
• Jelix-Scripts :
  • createapp : application documentroot can be indicated optionnally (it still defaults to your_app/www) (#163)
  • createapp : application.init.php now includes jelix/init.php, so it is not needed anymore in entry points. It is easier then to move lib/ or www/ folders.
  • new constants can be edited in scripts.conf.php (author, copyright, license…) to fill automatically heading comments of php files, module.xml, plugin.xml and project.xml.
  • new command createentrypoint : create an entry point with your type of choice.
  • createform: now it adds controls for primary keys if there are not autoincremented, and the CRUD controller displays it or not (depending of the context)
• new specs for module.xml, plugin.xml et project.xml.
• Jelix-www: jQuery and jQuery UI added.
• TCPDF update, version 4.3.006
• PHPMailer update, version 2.3 (jMailer and PHPMailer now clearly separated)
• WikiRenderer update, version 3.1pre65

• all bug fixed in the 1.0.x branch
• 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)

• renamed jBinding to jClassBindind. This class is still experimental.
• removed jClasses::getBinding() method (the bind() method should be used instead). This method is still experimental.
• in the config file, renamed the [Bindings] section to [classbindings].
• a CLI script can now be dedicated to the default action, so we don't have to indicate the action as arguments of the script (#777)
• Jelix scripts:
  • added verification on the module name in createapp and createmodule.
  • createdao: fixed a bug on the support of the table parameter, and little improvements on the dao template
  • it was impossible to create a module when basePath is set to a virtual path (#783)
• jMailer: the Tpl() method return a jTpl object so we can assign any variables on the template
• jforms_jquery.js: the jquery shortcut '$' is not used anymore, since it may conflit with other libs (#788)
• jForms:
  • minor fixes in JS datepicker
  • allow <date> and datetime as child controls. (#789)
  • fixed menulist for hour selection in date and datetime controls. (#790)
  • modified internal API of jForms javascript object, in order to facilitate unit tests
  • fixed javascript error during the validation of radio buttons. (#781)
  • getModifiedControls didn't work for checkbox. (#772)
• createapp -wwwpath somepath doesn't work under windows (#776)
• updated clearbricks to its svn-204 version, and include lib.files.php for ticket #776
• init.php use now spl autoload instead of __autoload so other libs could define their own autoload.

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