Posts in category “Software Development”

PolarBlog CSS

After seeing the CSS changes on Kevin and Tara's Blog, I've started play with the CSS styling on right navigation.  Basically this gets rid of the dot before list items and compresses things a bit.  Although because of the way things are configured on my live blog it's not quite right.  The changes in the "Hitchhiker" release will actual be with less space between list items.  I really need to reconfigure this live blog to use just the left_nav.css.  Then you will be able to see it.  For those who may want institute this change in their blog, here is the section of the CSS that has changed:

/* PolarBlog Calendar /
#PbCalendar {
   position:absolute;
   top:135px;
   right:20px;
   width:170px;
   padding:10px;
   color:#f2efb7;
   background-color:#454545;
   border:2px solid #000000;
   line-height:15px;
   font-size: 12px; /
replaces font-weight:570; /
}

/
PolarBlog Calendar Lists */
#PbCalendar ul {
   margin-top: 2px;
}

#PbCalendar li {
   list-style-type: none;
   margin-left: -30px;
   padding-top: 1px;
   font-family:georgia, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}


Those last two section are new additions.  Breakfast is ready so I've got to go!

02/12/2005
I've fixed the CSS problem in my main stylesheet that was preventing this from displaying properly on my blog.  The link list on the right now displays as it will in the stylesheets that are distributed with PolarBlog.

Being that I'm pretty well CSS handicapped, if any of you out there would like to help and/or make further suggestions for change let me know.  Better yet, sit down and look over the CSS that comes with PolarBlog and clean it up as a real CSS wiz would!  :)

Topic Name Change

I've renamed the "PolarBlog Developement" topic to "Software Development" and changed the icon.  Why?  I've recently started work on project "Hydra", what will be MyClient V3.0.  More information on this project will be forthcoming, thus I need a place to put it.  And I really don't see the need to create yet another topic for something that will have few entries.  So I've decided to lump all of my software development under this one banner.  This means I also get the chance to replace the stupid "PB" icon I had been using with something that at least has some artistic merit!

And while I'm at it, I'm getting rid of the similarly lame "PL" icon for the PolarLava website icon!

PolarBlog V1.5.2 (Groundhog) Released

PolarBlog V1.5.2 (Groundhog) has been released.  This release primarily addresses a potentially major database corruption problem related to entry comments.  Additional fixes have also been implemented…

Enhancements

  • Added new MAIL_SUBJECT_COMMENT and MAIL_SUBJECT_REPLY language tags to better support non-english users needs.


Bug Fixes
  • Comment Deletion - A very serious bug exists in PolarBlog V1.5.0 & V1.5.1 whereby deleting a single comment will destroy all root level comments.  This in turn will cause an incorrect comment count to display, but no comments to be displayed.  This very serious problems was the result of array ID data being mishandled in the DB class.  This problem has been corrected by fixing the handling of nested arrays within the DB class when using SafeSQL.
  • Non-English versions were unable to delete users or topics since the V1.3.0 localization updates.  Anyone who is not using the standard polarblog.php file needs to merge these changes with their modified version.
  • Comments now respects USE_WORD_COUNT option added in V1.3.0.
  • The default COMMENT_DATE_FORMAT directive has been updated in config.php.dist.  This was required due to the localization changes implemented in V1.3.0.  This value is now also used to format the "Created" date when editing users.
  • The query problem with a SafeSQL error when attempting to add/edit users has been resolved.  The query is again running under SafeSQL.  As it turned out this was a misunderstanding on the usage of SafeSQL with data that conflicts with the parsing parameters.
  • The BASE_URL was missing from entry auto-links and has now been added.


Configuration Changes
  • None
See the PolarBlog Changes file for more information.  Please see the PolarBlog Upgrading documentation for information on upgrading your installation.

Being that today is Groundhog Day, this release is being named "Groundhog".  Who knows, maybe all releases will now have names!

PolarBlog V1.5.1 Released

PolarBlog V1.5.1 has been released.  This release contains…

Enhancements

  • None


Bug Fixes
  • Unable to add/edit users!  There is a bug in the SafeSQL query escaping class that causes it to trip up on the DATE_FORMAT in the query string.  This query has been converted back to a standard query until this issue can be resolved in SafeSQL.
  • The Entry Preview is not localized.  Several items with the preview window have now been localized.
  • Calendar displays too small in some browsers.  This has been corrected by forcing the width to 100%
  • The "Read more…" horizontal ellipsis entity has been converted from &8230; to ….  This was reported as not displaying in Konqueror on Linux in German.  This may or may not correct this problem.


Configuration Changes
  • None
See the PolarBlog Changes file for more information.  Please see the PolarBlog Upgrading documentation for information on upgrading your installation.

If you have not done so, please read the entries regarding your PolarLava Link and the PolarBlog User's Page.

PolarBlog V1.5.0 Released

PolarBlog V1.5.0 has been released.  This release contains…

Enhancements

  • SafeSQL - All queries have been rewritten to use SafeSQL in order to prevent SQL query injection problems.  There were not any known problems of this sort and this was strictly a precautionary change.
  • Entry & Comment Auto-Linking has been added.
  • Comment Email - Comment email notifications now indicate who posted the comment.
  • PolarBlog now supports Mozilla Live Bookmarks.  If you are using a modified and/or different index.php on your blog, you will need to edit it if you want to utilize this feature.
  • Link Anchors - Link anchors for comment/reply entry and viewing have been added.  These will now take you to the appropriate section on a page so you don't have to scroll down on long entries/replies.
  • Comment Double-Space - Added HTML non-breaking space entity replacement on comment double space when adding or editing.  This is the same functionality that is provided on entry add/edit.
  • Changed Entry Index to display topic before name.
    e.g. Topic: Entry Title


Bug Fixes
  • The Entry Preview has been updated to use I18N_DATE_FORMAT instead of the deprecated DATE_FORMAT.
  • The entry comment count has been fixed to exclude counting comments that have the display set to OFF.


Configuration Changes
  • None
See the PolarBlog Changes file for more information.  Please see the PolarBlog Upgrading documentation for information on upgrading your installation.

If you have not done so, please read the entries regarding your PolarLava Link and the PolarBlog User's Page.