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Jelix 1.5.7

Chapter: New features

^ Introduction

Migrating from a previous version »

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Main improvements provided by the version 1.5 are:

• PHP 5.3 and higher is required. No more support for PHP 5.2.
• jResponseHtml now generates an HTML5 header. A new class jResponseHtml4 have the same behavior of the previous jResponseHtml version
• jForms:
  • New control: button.
  • HTML builder is now extensible. You can provide your own plugins to generate HTML code for controls.
• jDao:
  • a DAO xml file can import the definition of an other DAO file
  • you can provide your own record class that will be used as a base class for generated record dao class. New “extends” attribute on the “record” element that indicates the class to use
  • properties can have comments
• new hashing system in jAuth, to have a better secured password storage. (backported into Jelix 1.2.10/1.3.4/1.4.1).
• jDb: the sqlite3 driver is now stable and no more experimental
• jKVDb: new plugin for the dba API
• [locales#property-files|new directory layout for jLocale], to provide easily the support for a new language (Jelix 1.5.1).
• new modules:
  • jsoap: All about Soap has been moved into a new module jSoap. It contains also all classes from the jWSDL module which is deleted. Soap entry points should be changed.
  • jtcpdf: The TCPDF library, its fonts and the response object jResponseTcpdf have been included in a new module, available in a separated archive.
  • jacl2: All resources of jAcl2 (classes, properties file...) have been moved to a new module jacl2
  • jpref: all jPref classes have been moved to a new module jpref

And Also:

• Added a HEADTOP variable for error template, and added the possibility to add content at the top of the html header, in the html response
• It is now possible to declare the class map for jSoapClient, into an other file than profiles.ini.php.
• jEvent: possibility to disable listener of some modules
• Debugbar:
  • new configuration option, defaultPosition, allowing to set the debug bar at the left of the web page by default
  • display the sum of SQL queries times at the top of the SQL infos in the debugbar (Brice Tencé)
  • its configuration is easier. Loggers are automatically configured when the debugbar is enabled
• jAcl2Db: new method getResByRightByGroup() in the dao jacl2rights
• jZone: meta tpl plugins were not executed in a zone that cached content (bug #1197)
• jConfigCompiler is now extensible with plugins, so components can precalculate config parameters that will be stored in the configuration cache
• jelix-scripts
  • createdao: import fields comments from the database (Yves Tan)
  • createform: can use dao comments to generate form's labels (Yves Tan)
• jLocale: adds the possibility to have dash in a property name
• The FakeServerConf lib for tests has been added
• Moved locales of jacl2db from the jelix module to the jacl2db module
• Moved locales of jacldb from the jelix module to the jacldb module

Removed components:

• The XUL support has been moved to an independant module, in the jelix-contrib repository
• The RDF support has been moved to an independant module, in the jelix-contrib repository
• The "latex to PDF" support has been moved to an independant module, in the jelix-contrib repository
• The jWSDL module has been renamed to jsoap
• The magicquotes plugin has been removed, since it is useless with PHP 5.3
• Removed deprecated methods:
  • jAcl2Db::getProfile()
  • jAclDb::getProfile() et jAclDb::getProfil()
  • jControllerDaoCrud::_checkDatas()
  • jCoordinator::initDefaultResponseOfRequest(), jCoordinator::isModuleEnabled, jCoordinator::getModulePath
  • jDb::getTools(), jDb::getProfile(), jDb::createVirtualProfile(), jDb::clearProfiles()
  • jDbConnection::encloseFieldName()
  • jFormsBase::resetModifiedControlsList()
  • jKvDb::getProfile()
  • jZone::getParam()
• Removed the support of deprecated variables $gJCoord and $gJConfig, and removed jApp::initLegacy().
• jContext class has been replaced by methods into jApp.

Main contributors of Jelix 1.5: Claudio Bernardes (jForms), Olivier Demah (Bug fix), Guillaume Dugas (jDao), Vincent Morel (jAcl2Db), Yves Tan (jelix-scripts, jDao), Brice Tencé (debugbar and bug fix on jZone), Philippe Villiers (jQuery upgrade).