Napata CMS 1.5.1.2013 is Out!

Napata CMS 1.5.1.2013 is now out. This release contains a number of bugfixes plus two majpr updates to the packages that ship with the script. The full changelog for this release is as follows:

1. Fix: Major security fix to a security hole detected in the previous 1.5.2013 release.
2. Change: Minute change to the admin static pages page.
3. Change: Updated MarkItUp editor to 1.1.14.
4. Change: Updated HTMLPurifier to 4.5.0.
5. Fix: Minute bugfix on the installer.
6. Change: WYMeditor global settings can now be altered from a single point, editor.php file.
7. Fix: Bug fix to the Purifier() function.

 N.B: All previous releases of Napata CMS should not be used on production sites. This is the recommended version of the script that should be used since it fixes a major security hole  found in the previous releases.

Where is the Latest Release on Google Code?

This release is not ( and never will be) available on Google Code due to the changes that Google wants to introduce to its download service. See this post for more information. Presumably, I might move to Github but that is best left for another day, aye. Sad! I'm out!

Napata Flat File CMS Release Candidate 1 on the Way

I'll be releasing the first release of the minimalist, text file only package of Napata CMS in the coming days. After a week of inspirational coding and running of tests on the script over the scraps of free time I can get, I am happy to say that the result is usable. Remember, this script will not be a detail-to-detail replica of the main, database-driven script (please read this post to get a grip on the design principles of the flat file CMS).

Download Sites for the Script

If you would like to download the script you can get it on both Sourceforge and Google Code. Here are the links to the project pages:

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/napataflatcms/
• http://code.google.com/p/napata-flat-file-cms/ 

Migrating to PDO and (may be) Create a Text-File Napata CMS

Moving over to PDO? Yup. This will be one of the main, in fact the main objective for the development of the upcoming release of Napata CMS. Ideally, hanging on the deprecated mysql_* functions is not favourable since the PHP developers discourage the use of the MySQL extension (notice the big red notice above this page. And read this post too.) So there it is. It will take me some time re-writing all the queries but at least I do know every bit of code in the application. Hopefully, by the end of the year, I will have released something, plus some release candidates, that fully depend on PDO for querying the database.

What about a Text File Version of the Script?

This is in the pre-alpha stage. Actually, my idea is that of a minimalist version of the script. Actually, I am thinking of it being radically different in it's functionality. It will not have every thing that the main, database-driven script has. It will be a simple, straight-forward script. Dead simple. In fact, I am thinking of it being sort of a Rendering Engine only (no editing interfaces, no relational features between articles, and so on and so on ....). So, well, back to hacking. Wish me some luck in this next effort.