ChangeLog

News and RSS Aggregation

Current latest version: V2.4

Changes 2.2 ->2.4:

  • All known bugs fixed, display of images now working
  • upgrade instruction from v2.3:
    overwrite all files (don’t overwrite database.php) and add these new phrases to your language file:
    ‘year’, ‘month’, ‘day’, hour’, ‘minute’.

Changes 2.2 ->2.3:

  • All known bugs fixed

Changes 2.1 ->2.2:

  • All known bugs fixed

Changes 2.0 ->2.1:

  • Option added to show images that your sources deliver. Supports both, images sent as enclosure and embedded images.
  • Language support added for languages that are not supported by mySQL fulltext search (especially  some asian languages and others that do not use spaces as word delimiters)
  • Editor’s choice. Show articles marked as editor’s choice in a seperate box.
  • Admin frontpage editing system.
    When you are logged in as admin you can manage articles in frontpage view. Mark / unmark articles as editor’s choice / delete articles / delete article’s images / crawl now. Fully AJAX-powered.
  • Minor bug fixing / code optimizations

Changes 1.0 ->2.0:

Introduction:

Version 2 improves significantly the administration of your sources, feeds categories, topics to give you full control over your site data.

Full multilanguage support added. Adhanced flexibility for content filtering.

Scroller-Widgets were added that can be integrated into any site. Most of its features are administrable from the admin backend. (This feature is in a preliminary state and will be finished shortly)

In detail:

  • AJAX driven Widgets added (beta)
  • Improvement for character encoding problems: character encoding of RSS-feeds is detected automatically and always converted to UTF-8 (before beeing written to database)
  • Use of last version of Simplepie garantees compatibility with (nearly) all kinds of RSS flavours. Other engines can be integrated easily.
  • Multilanguage support at frontend and backend
  • Improved directory structure for skin development
  • Update Now Button at backend with verbose output
  • Option to show  hit counter per article (frontend)
  • Option to show recently added articles at frontend
  • Option to show recently added sources at frontend
  • Source specific hit counter and topic counter shown at backend
  • Feed specific hit counter shown at backend
  • Admin option to purge outdated topics from db
  • AJAX driven crawl timing, no cron jobs needed anymore, all administrable from admin backend
  • Crawl intervals definable on a per source basis.
  • Automatic daily db backup
  • Improvements in site security
  • SEO improvement: title of page being viewed is put into meta tag “decription”
  • Multiple warnings that filled up the Apache error log were corrected
  • Keyword filters for categories
  • Option to restrict categories to sources
  • Option to create RSS feeds on a feed/category specific basis
  • Option to show style selector, language selector and RSS feed creator at frontend
  • Option to show articles’ web page  in IFrame without leaving the site
  • Accordeon functionality for articles per source