PHP-Fusion

Valuable member retired

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:03:01 +0100

In our latest Management Team meeting we have come to the conclusion that will have to move along without one of our most valuable leaders that everyone knows as PMM.

We have great plans ahead for PHP-Fusion and that means a lot of action in all departments. Life just comes as it is... so I guess lack of time, probably also lack of a perfect health made PMM rethink his plans because he let us know he won't be able to keep up with all our action so for now we wish him all the best, we thank him for all the contributions and hopefully things will change for the better sometime in the future.

PMM, take care of yourself and thank you for all the great stuff! ;)

Serious Violation

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:49:57 +0100

It was recently discovered by a local Turkish member serhat5858 and Soulsmasher that many of his themes were being released by another member as their original work. Upon investigation, the copied theme code was almost exactly the same, in some instances identical, except that the original acknowledgements and copyright information was missing.

This will not stand! There is zero tolerance for this kind of violation. As a result of this discovery, the member concerned was sent a warning, the reply to which was extremely dismissive. He has now been permanently banned from all PHP-Fusion sites, including the NSS sites, and his submissions have been removed. Not to mention his name in the Open Source community as a whole is now worthless.

To do this to a person who freely gives so much help and support to anyone who asks is beneath contempt. So, to anyone who's thinking of trying to do the same to make themselves seem a better coder than they actually are, be warned! You will eventually get caught and exposed! It is theft, nothing less. We've been quite courteous and polite in matters like this for a number of years, but we hereby inform you that if you get caught in behaving in such a way, we will take swift actions as soon as we spot it from this day and after.

Please note, that AGPL does cover Themes, Infusions etc as well as the whole of PHP-Fusion, if you as a 3rd party developer breaks the license, you have forfeited the whole license as such.

The only requirement the Open Source community asks of anyone wanting to use their code is that you leave any copyright info intact, that's it! Without this one hard and fast rule, the quality of the code gets diluted and lost leaving talented people with no incentive to continue.

We understand the overwhelming majority of members would never do this and many thanks to those who have reported such people to us over the years.

New Serbian NSS

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:48:47 +0100

We are pleased to announce the creation of a new National Support Site for Serbia now up and running at: http://www.yu-fusion.org/. This site is run by Goran Vrbask known here as vRBa.

As always, we're delighted when a new country joins the PHP-Fusion universe as it greatly enhances developers and users abilities to work with and get support for PF while in their own language.

We trust users from the region will find it a great resource and give it the support it deserves. Everyone here wishes the site all the best and great success.

[Update] Code of Conduct

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:22:06 +0100

The PHP-Fusion Management Team decided to make a small addition to the PHP-Fusion Code of Conduct. It's about paragraph #3.2, relfecting our position on Products based on PHP-Fusion. This is something we had in mind for some while because there are already a few projects based on PHP-Fusion that (their authors) claim to be better in some ways. Considering writing a CMS like PHP-Fusion is not even nearly a day's job to take care of all features, requirements and security aspects, it is normal that using PHP-Fusion as a foundation requires a fair share of respect and a healthy attitude regarding its creators when advertising the new product.

PHP-Fusion is still a work in progress, just like virtually all other active software products so it's never completed and never satisfactory for everyone. This is why people start their own projects or build upon others, to reach the point where they have everything they need just as they need it. It's just a matter of being practical. With all due respect for developers who can take coding in their own hands and make something better for themselves and other users with similar needs, we introduced paragraph #3.2 in our Code of Conduct to remind them where they started from and that they should pay more respect to their foundation.

Having these said, please look into the details.

The PHP-Fusion Management Team also urges the National Support Site leaders to update their translations of the Code of Conduct to reflect the latest addition to our set of rules. Thank you.

The PHP-Fusion v7 manual is now online

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:40:12 +0100

Stop the presses! Read all about PHP-Fusion v7!

Finally, the PHP-Fusion 7 handbook is available. It's worth mentioning it took this much because the first version was made in Danish, by Jan Moelgaard, then the manual got through some more painful and time consuming tasks: it's been translated, adapted to English, having all screenshots created all over again. Then the PHP-Fusion Crew stepped in to check whatever might be inaccurate just before it got published. Hats off to Jan Moelgaard, who did a great job with the book!

What's new?
Well, you know... it's all about the core and the new features in PHP-Fusion. Written on top of its v6 base, the book now covers all the new core's particularities, including:
- multi-site
- new infusions system
- theme engine updates
- user administration restructuring
- forum ranks
- other stuff

Along with these you will find - we hope - everything you need to know in order to install and administrate your PHP-Fusion v7 website. Have fun reading!

The Official PHP-Fusion 7 Manual [6.26MB]

PHP-Fusion 7.00.07

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:04:37 +0100

It is with great pleasure that I announce the immediate availability of PHP-Fusion 7.00.07! This release is a bugfix release, which fixes the following issues:

- preg_match error in maincore.php
- version number update
- year 2010 hard-coded

As usual, there is a full release package and an update package containing only the changed files. This time, a combo update is also provided for those who had not updated to 7.00.06 yet due to the preg_match error. The combo update contains the files from the 7.00.06 and 7.00.07 update packages.

I hope you will like this release as much as any other. I will soon post an update on the development of PHP-Fusion 7.01. Thank you once more for your continued support to PHP-Fusion!

Server outage

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:26:19 +0100

Hi all! First of all my best wishes for 2010 to everyone!

This morning (January 6th, 0730 GMT) all PHP-Fusion web sites suffered from a very unfortunate outage at our hosting provider. According to NetworkRedux, the server hardware became unresponsive, and a reboot was initiated. Everything appears to be resolved and running smoothly now. No data has been lost.

I would like to offer my apologies for any inconvenience caused. Thank you for your continued support to PHP-Fusion!

Update: some issues with the kernel of the host of our server were discovered and NetworkRedux was forced to patch them immediately due to the instability of the kernel. This has resulted in two more outages last night (January 6h, 2330 GMT), for which once more I would like to offer my apologies.

Personal message from Digitanium

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:59:38 +0100

Season's Greetings! I'm sure you've noticed that I've not been around much for some time. Having worked on PHP-Fusion for almost a whole decade naturally my passion and energy levels have dwindled somewhat. I decided to take an extended break in which I could pursue other projects and interests. In my absence the team have done remarkable job in keeping PHP-Fusion alive and well and brilliantly supported, for this I am eternally grateful (Thanks guys!). I'd name everyone but it'd take up too much room! Haha.

2010 promises to be another big year, I know the dev team are busy completing v7.01 (not sure of it's release schedule). Early plans are under way with regards to v8 although I can't provide any details yet, I will be heavily involved that's for sure!

I would like to thank each and every one of PHP-Fusion's users, you make our efforts so very much worth while, we appreciate your support in ways words cannot describe! I would also like to say a special thanks to those of you who have paid for licenses and copyright removal.

Have a wonderful new year!

Nick

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:54:41 +0100

On behalf of the PHP-Fusion Crew and myself I would like wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

2010 will be an exciting year for PHP-Fusion, as we will be releasing v7.01 next year as well as more details on PHP-Fusion 8. As I have said in my previous post, we cannot reveal much yet, but I am confident it will be well-received.

Thank you, once again, for your support in 2009 and we would love to still have your support in 2010! Happy holidays!

Quick development update

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:16:37 +0100

Hello all! I wanted to post a quick update on the development of PHP-Fusion so you all know what we're working on behind the scenes. We are currently busy finishing up 7.00.07, which fixes a minor and a major issue in 7.00.06 (both non-security), and we are working hard on 7.01. We cannot say exactly when 7.01 will be released, but we are making good progress and are almost ready to enter the testing phase.

Besides that, we are starting to look ahead into the future and focus more and more on PHP-Fusion 8. Currently we're solely in the planning phase and have not done anything code-wise yet. I expect we will be making solid plans the coming two months before we start taking feature requests, etc. But you'll hear more about that later.

For now, this is it. Thank you for your continued support to PHP-Fusion and we will keep you posted!