PolarBlog V1.1 Beta

After nearly 9 months of work, I've finally got a working commenting system implemented for PolarBlog.  So as of right now, this blog is now running the new PolarBlog V1.1 as a Beta test.  Click "Comment (X)" to add a comment.  This should allow you to post a comment on any post that has comments enabled.  When you do this it sends an email to the blog owner (me in this case).  If someone replies to your comment, an email will be sent to you letting you know about it.  Comments should appear for entries when the "Permalink" is selected and are indented a few pixels from the entry.  Replies to comments or other replies will also be indented for each message.  Thus it displays as a nested/threaded comment structure.

There are also numerous bug fixes and some other minor enhancements that are in this release.  I don't expect any major bugs at this point, but I still need to rework the installer/updater script as well as update the documentation.  Thus it's probably still at least a couple of weeks off before this will be released publicly.

Comments

  1. Kevin said:

    Alan,

    You should get an email notification that I've replied to this comment.  If you get it can you forward/reply to me.  There seems to be some problems with the email notification and I don't know what is happening.  If I comment on one of my posts I get the email, but when you and Joseph posted and provided and email I never got a notice.  Just trying to debug this problem.

    Thanks,

    -klp

  2. Alan said:

    It looks like I got the email notification. I forwarded it back to you via email a couple minutes ago.

    -Alan

  3. Kevin said:

    Okay, I got your email reply as well as auto-email from this reply.  But the auto-reply email'a are going straight to the trash for some reason!  Will be looking into this further.

  4. Kevin said:

    analytik,

    I don't have an environment where I can test PHP5.  Please post a message to the PolarBlog mailing list with your problems.  I've looked at your site and it appears that there are one or two errors that are occurring.  It looks far worse because it's in the calendar generation so one of the errors is repeated many times.  Actually the error I see seems more MySQL related, not PHP.

    If you are comfortable in doing so, you can open the PolarBlog_class.php file and search for COUNT() count and replace it with COUNT() AS count to see if that helps.

    -klp

  5. Kevin said:

    I can't say for sure when I18N will be added, but it is in the plans.  That will be a fairly major undertaking as I will need to scour the code and replace all the hard-coded English that is there now.  That's after I work out how to implement a language file system.  That shouldn't be too awful as I've done these sort of things in the past.

    Right now I'm looking at adding "Pinger" support next and possibly a preview post option that has been requested.  But neither of those will be happening until I get the this V1.1 cleaned up and released.  So maybe we'll slot I18N as the third thing on the list.

  6. myang said:

    Great Job! And, Thank You! I am wondering when you will add international language support. I can't wait to see that day

  7. Joseph Zitt said:

    This is promising! I eagerly look forward to the public release.

  8. Alan said:

    Yay!

    That is all I've got to say about that.

  9. analytik said:

    Wow! Cool! I'm really looking forward this new version. Comments add life to the site, make you feel like someone is interested in you... Bugfixes are welcome, too. Especially the doesn't-work-with-php5 bug annoys me. :)