YACS version 5.4.1: Social bookmarking, appcasting, open office, and many more
YACS now features a simple-to-use bookmarking bookmarklet, similar to the one of del.ico.us. This means that members of your community can share their findings easily.
Also, each section has now its own RSS feed for attached files. Use this feature to spread separately software packages, marketing presentations, and other kinds of files. Podcasting was for your audio files. Appcasting is for corporations. YACS supports both.
Aren't you using OpenOffice yet? Maybe you were lacking a good CMS that understand the various OpenOffice and StarOffice file extensions, and that list shared documents with nice icons. Well, YACS does exactly that.
YACS also supports gracefully GPS waypoints described in XML (aka, .gpx files). EasyGPS can handle such things with ease.
Also, each section has now its own RSS feed for attached files. Use this feature to spread separately software packages, marketing presentations, and other kinds of files. Podcasting was for your audio files. Appcasting is for corporations. YACS supports both.
Aren't you using OpenOffice yet? Maybe you were lacking a good CMS that understand the various OpenOffice and StarOffice file extensions, and that list shared documents with nice icons. Well, YACS does exactly that.
YACS also supports gracefully GPS waypoints described in XML (aka, .gpx files). EasyGPS can handle such things with ease.
136 files have been modified or added.
As usual, it is highly recommended to ask YACS to smoothly upgrade your server. For further information check How to achieve incremental upgrades of a YACS server?.
Here is a list of new or updated features coming with this release:
A global bookmarking bookmarklet is displayed at the Control Panel (control/index.php), at the main help page (help.php), and at user profiles (users/view.php). The back-end is a re-engineered form to post links (links/edit.php).
Each category also features a specialized 'Bookmark here' bookmarklet. See categories/view.php
The default behavior for categories is now to support any number of related web links. Use the new keyword 'no_links' in the option field to prevent this. See categories/edit.php
Links can now be moved to another category, to enable classification efforts. See links/edit.php and links/links.php
The Yahoo!-like layout used for categories has been enhanced to list article titles if there is not enough sub-categories. See categories/layout_categories_as_yahoo.php.
The RSS feed for files (files/feed.php) now supports a section id as a selective parameter. Each section page (sections/view.php) now features such a dedicated link.
The full-content feed is provided as validating XHTML instead of content-encoded data. The result is a nice reading experience under RSS Bandit. See services/rss_codec.php.
If anonymous comments are accepted, YACS authenticates people only by nick name through the Comment API. A very handy option within corporate networks. You should not activate this option on servers publicly accessible from the Internet, because of impersonation risks. See comments/post.php.
A bux that prevented the full support of Comment APi has been fixed (in articles/layout_articles_as_contents.php and in articles/layout_articles_as_feed.php).
YACS now supports known file extensions for Open Office and for Star Office documents. GPS waypoints described in XML (aka, GPX) are supported as well. See files/files.php.
YACS enables the pre-fetching of next pages as supported by Firefox. Speed, speed, and speed! Available for articles (articles/view.php) and images (images/view.php).
The selection of section for the home page is not based on REGEXP expressions anymore, but on MySQL indexed fields. Speed again! See sections/sections.php
Full content of navigation, extra and of gadget boxes is now display at the home page. Previously, YACS attempted to separate the introduction from the description fields. See articles/layout_articles_as_boxes.php.
Links have been added at the bottom of the main page to drive the surfer to older articles. See index.php,
The Jive-like layout has been enhanced, thanks to Mordread suggestions. See articles/layout_articles_as_jive.php.
The usage of the Control Panel has been made more explicit. A shortcut has been added to the index of skins. The description of the several configuration panels has been improved. See control/configure.php
A new parameter has been added to the main configuration panel, to explicitly allow for user remote authentication. See control/configure.php. the login page has been adapted accordingly (users/login.php).
The search engine has been improved. The minimum size for tokens (usually, 4 or 3 characters) is now read dynamically from MySQL configuration. See search.php.
In the text editor, a small link has ben added to the index of all available smileys.
The secret handle to access articles is not given to anonymous pollers anymore (overlays/poll.php), nor to article watchers through e-mail (articles/articles.php). This correction definitely fixes the impersonation issue reported by Timster when using polls.
To refine polls rendering, you can now target the style class
The usage of thumbnail images has been streamlined. If a new page icon is posted, and if no thumbnail has been defined for this article, the thumbnail version of the icon is set as the page thumbnail. See images/edit.php and articles/article.php.
YACS now properly parses url-encoded Unicode entities (ꯍ). See shared/utf8.php. Also, links to external search engines (Google, etc...) now supports Unicode tokens. See search.php.
Help and secondary windows are now handled separately from external links. This makes the navigation more natural than previously.
The logging class now also forward message through syslog, enabling extended management capabilities for farms of YACS servers. See agents/logger.php
The error script (error.php) stops early on missing FAVICON.ICO
Newsletter processing bug has been fixed. See letters/new.php.
When coming from search engines, YACS now correclty highlights tokens in target pages. See shared/global.php.
YACS is more smarter than it was to process mail and web addresses, and to avoid tokens scrambling. See codes/codes.php
As usual, it is highly recommended to ask YACS to smoothly upgrade your server. For further information check How to achieve incremental upgrades of a YACS server?.
Here is a list of new or updated features coming with this release:
A global bookmarking bookmarklet is displayed at the Control Panel (control/index.php), at the main help page (help.php), and at user profiles (users/view.php). The back-end is a re-engineered form to post links (links/edit.php). Each category also features a specialized 'Bookmark here' bookmarklet. See categories/view.php The default behavior for categories is now to support any number of related web links. Use the new keyword 'no_links' in the option field to prevent this. See categories/edit.php Links can now be moved to another category, to enable classification efforts. See links/edit.php and links/links.php The Yahoo!-like layout used for categories has been enhanced to list article titles if there is not enough sub-categories. See categories/layout_categories_as_yahoo.php. The RSS feed for files (files/feed.php) now supports a section id as a selective parameter. Each section page (sections/view.php) now features such a dedicated link. The full-content feed is provided as validating XHTML instead of content-encoded data. The result is a nice reading experience under RSS Bandit. See services/rss_codec.php. If anonymous comments are accepted, YACS authenticates people only by nick name through the Comment API. A very handy option within corporate networks. You should not activate this option on servers publicly accessible from the Internet, because of impersonation risks. See comments/post.php. A bux that prevented the full support of Comment APi has been fixed (in articles/layout_articles_as_contents.php and in articles/layout_articles_as_feed.php). YACS now supports known file extensions for Open Office and for Star Office documents. GPS waypoints described in XML (aka, GPX) are supported as well. See files/files.php. YACS enables the pre-fetching of next pages as supported by Firefox. Speed, speed, and speed! Available for articles (articles/view.php) and images (images/view.php). The selection of section for the home page is not based on REGEXP expressions anymore, but on MySQL indexed fields. Speed again! See sections/sections.php Full content of navigation, extra and of gadget boxes is now display at the home page. Previously, YACS attempted to separate the introduction from the description fields. See articles/layout_articles_as_boxes.php. Links have been added at the bottom of the main page to drive the surfer to older articles. See index.php, The Jive-like layout has been enhanced, thanks to Mordread suggestions. See articles/layout_articles_as_jive.php. The usage of the Control Panel has been made more explicit. A shortcut has been added to the index of skins. The description of the several configuration panels has been improved. See control/configure.php A new parameter has been added to the main configuration panel, to explicitly allow for user remote authentication. See control/configure.php. the login page has been adapted accordingly (users/login.php). The search engine has been improved. The minimum size for tokens (usually, 4 or 3 characters) is now read dynamically from MySQL configuration. See search.php. In the text editor, a small link has ben added to the index of all available smileys. The secret handle to access articles is not given to anonymous pollers anymore (overlays/poll.php), nor to article watchers through e-mail (articles/articles.php). This correction definitely fixes the impersonation issue reported by Timster when using polls. To refine polls rendering, you can now target the style class .poll in your CSS file instead of tweaking some PHP script. See overlays/poll.php. The usage of thumbnail images has been streamlined. If a new page icon is posted, and if no thumbnail has been defined for this article, the thumbnail version of the icon is set as the page thumbnail. See images/edit.php and articles/article.php. YACS now properly parses url-encoded Unicode entities (ꯍ). See shared/utf8.php. Also, links to external search engines (Google, etc...) now supports Unicode tokens. See search.php. Help and secondary windows are now handled separately from external links. This makes the navigation more natural than previously. The logging class now also forward message through syslog, enabling extended management capabilities for farms of YACS servers. See agents/logger.php The error script (error.php) stops early on missing FAVICON.ICO Newsletter processing bug has been fixed. See letters/new.php. When coming from search engines, YACS now correclty highlights tokens in target pages. See shared/global.php. YACS is more smarter than it was to process mail and web addresses, and to avoid tokens scrambling. See codes/codes.phpComments
Eoin on May 24 2005Nice work!
A question: Can you explain how YACS supports GPS waypoints. Can you map them? Can you query the data somehow?
Sounds very interesting!!
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Posted by Bernard on Apr. 29 2005, commented by Eoin on Apr. 29 2005, (popular)
