Version 0.81

Just in time for Thanksgiving, here's another release of PeoplePods! Though this is a minor release of PeoplePods, it does bring some substantial new functionality for developers.

Thanks to Damien Bell, Gabe Hayes, Karl Fogel and James Harris for their contributions to this release!

New Features

A new messaging class has been added! The mutant child of private messaging and activity streams, Alerts allows you to trigger automated alerts that are sent to users. Alerts are displayed until a specific action has been taken, or the user dismisses the alert.

In order to manage all of these messaging tools, a new Command Center tool has been added to manage some of the built in alerts, activity stream posts and emails that are sent from within the core libraries.

The Person object has gained a 'stub' field that behaves just like the Content stub field. It also now has a 'fullname' field for those sites that require more detailed information about their users.

You can now attach comments directly to a Person object using the $Person->addComment() method. You can get a list of comments attached to a person using $Person->comments().

You can now attach files directly to a Group Object using the $Group->addFile() method. You can get a list of files attached to a group using $Group->files().

Finally, developers may now override some of the key functions in the core libraries to customize the behavior of PeoplePods. This new ability allows developers to do things like create custom permissions, change the way the caching system works, use a different templating system, use a different email system, and change the way permalinks are generated for all of the objects. For a full list of the functions that can be overwritten, and some instructions on how to override them, read this!

Bug Fixes

The $POD->sanitizeInput() function which is called to strip user input of malacious code has been updated to allow for tags related to video embeds, as well as to allow the PRE tag.

A thousand tiny fixes to a thousand sloppy associative array calls have been fixed, so your error_log should be DRASTICALLY calmer during normal operation.

A note about upgrading

If you upgrade from a previous version of PeoplePods, be sure to visit your Command Center after upgrading the files, as there a few database schema changes which need to be made! A message will be displayed at the top of your Command Center until the schema changes have been made.

Download

Version 0.81 of PeoplePods is available from PeoplePods.net.

The bleeding edge latest version of PeoplePods is always available from our subversion repository at on Google Code.

We're looking for new team members! If you'd like to help develop the PeoplePods default theme, or create a new one, please get in touch!

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