Just posted the latest of our Alpha builds on
joomlacode.org/gf/project/fireboard/frs/
This build contains various SQL and other fixes.
Major rework: Forum permissions check re-written. Saves SQL calls and should work all over the board including search.
New little feature: You can embed eBay items just like videos inside a user post.
We have also added an initial version of a Dev Team Credits page. This will be updated for the final release.
To see a high level list of all changes implemented look here:
joomlacode.org/gf/project/fireboard/scms...ment%2F&view=log
You can find the install packages in the 'UnderDevelopment' folder.
While we don't do documentation on the nightly builds here a few tips to get you going:
This latest build does a full install or upgrade of virtually any prior FireBoard release, without manual intervention. No need to run SQL scripts of any sort.
IF you want to preserve the configuration information of a prior install (1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4) you must first install and run the fbconverter component. See here:
www.bestofjoomla.com/component/op...38/catid,6/id,53567/
(Not required for test sites upgrading from the prior nightly build)
Once you have run the converter make sure you backup, backup, backup and once again
THESE ALPHA BUILDS ARE NOT FOR PRODUCTION SITES!
Once you have a good backup, backup, backup simply uninstall the current version of FireBoard on your test server.
The rest is identical for both install and upgrade.
Install the latest com_fireboard package through the joomla component installer. During the install the installer will recognize whether this is a fresh install or and upgrade and will perform the required tasks including all SQL upgrades to the database.
We have added a lot more error checking to the database portion of FireBoard to quickly know about failing queries that would have been skipped over in most prior releases and nobody knew about it. So if you get an error message from a database call, we consider that helpful at this point in time, as it tells us what went wrong rather than hiding it from you and us. Just make sure you get us the detailed information of the error message.
There are a few known issues: The hits counters are not displayed correctly for some threads and there are some selection fields missing in the backend. We know they why for both but have not had a chance to fix them.
Overall we have put several hundred hours into 1.0.5 so far. It is not perfect but is already getting much better and more stable than any prior release.
Thanks a lot in your help testing these pre-builds! Please make sure you share all the versions of products/packages you are using when reporting a problem. Most issues are related to specific versions and are virtually impossible to find without that.
