Version 4.4 Public Beta

[Brian]

UPDATED JANUARY 6, 2004

There is a public beta of Version 4.4 available to download. Hopefully it will address the time-zone issues some have been experiencing.

Please post your experience with this version and if it helped to solve any problems you may have been experiencing.

The changes in Version 4.4 so far are:

-- Moved all of the configuration variables to the new escalConfig.php file.
-- Improved the mySQL database installation script.
-- Added a database connection verification process to the escalAE.php file.
-- Added a database connection verification process to the main escal.php file.
-- Improved support in all timezones for day-marking purposes.
-- Resolved an issue where command-line variables caused errors with mySQL or flat-file database use.
-- Cleaned up some code in the escal.php file.
-- Corrected a line in the escalAE.php file where it would not allow you modify the year of prior year's events.
-- Changed the pop-up windows to use the month names from the configuration file (escalConfig.php).

[neoro]

Got the date problem fixed, thanks ... :)
Keep it up..

suggestion :: will there be a version where users can enter recuring dates ?

[Brian]

Originally posted by neoro@Jan 4 2004, 10:15 PM
will there be a version where users can enter recuring dates ?
This is planned for Version 5. B)

[ve9gra]

I'm loving the new centralized config file!

I hadn't looked all that much at 4.3 but had a bit of time and played around with 4.4... and there's one thing i'd like to suggest...

I changed line 423 of escalAE.php from
for ($year = $currentYear; $year <= ($currentYear+$maxYears-1); $year++) {tofor ($year = $dates[0]; $year <= ($currentYear+$maxYears-1); $year++) {

I realized that since we're in the new year, if I wanted to edit past events they would show "year" instead of the actual year. So by changing it to my code it makes the list start from the year of the event until the maxYears-1 (current year + 1 as the default).

The rest is bang on..... Lovin' it!!

View my test site at http://ns2.chaotic-concepts.org/

[Brian]

Originally posted by ve9gra@Jan 5 2004, 07:49 PM
I'm loving the new centralized config file!

I hadn't looked all that much at 4.3 but had a bit of time and played around with 4.4... and there's one thing i'd like to suggest...

I changed line 423 of escalAE.php from
for ($year = $currentYear; $year <= ($currentYear+$maxYears-1); $year++) {tofor ($year = $dates[0]; $year <= ($currentYear+$maxYears-1); $year++) {

I realized that since we're in the new year, if I wanted to edit past events they would show "year" instead of the actual year. So by changing it to my code it makes the list start from the year of the event until the maxYears-1 (current year + 1 as the default).

The rest is bang on..... Lovin' it!!

View my test site at http://ns2.chaotic-concepts.org/
Great find. I'll add make that change to the script.