The smarter, easier, more simple way to create and update articles on your website.

Released: October 3, 2007
- Recommended update for sites using MySQL 5

CHANGES
- Set default MySQL engine type to (faster) MyISAM engine. Previous versions used the server's default, which was usually (but not always) MyISAM.

BUG FIXES
- Added code to disable new error messages generated by MySQL 5 'strict mode'
- Fixed an obscure issue where changing category filename would generate a "file exists" error when a publish rule used only the category num

Released: July 2, 2007

Released: June 11, 2007

Released: April 17, 2007

Minor Update
- Template editor (admin function) no longer disables PHP/ASP code blocks
- Template editor no longer lists zip files in template directory

Released: March 14, 2007

Minor Update
Templates: fixed articleLists/categoryIndex.html to correctly pass the category.num to the next/previous links

Released: March 13, 2007

- convertToUnicode.cgi: fixed mysql bug that could sometimes prevent tables from being renamed properly in final step
- Templates: Updated publish templates with seperate footer file as include to make editing footer easier
- Templates: Updated publish template headers with <link rel="alternate"...> to the RSS feed
- Publishing: Fixed bug where a static index.html in publish dir would get erased when a new category was added

Released: March 7, 2007

IMPORTANT: Make sure you have Perl 5.8
IMPORTANT: Run /utils/convertDataToUnicode.cgi if you have existing non-english content or characters

NEW FEATURES
- Articles: Multi-category articles, Articles can now be added to unlimited categories
- Field Editor: Added "Field Separators" to Field Editor as separate field type
- Publishing Rules: New "External Script" rule for running other programs after publishing
- Admin Menu: Added Template Editor
- Publishing: Improved Publishing Speed
- Templates: New modifier defaultValue() added. Displays value if placeholder is undefined, blank or zero.
- New default template set (old set available in "classic.zip")
- Unicode Support: Non-english and other special characters are stored and displayed correctly. If you use non-english characters, you need to update your publish templates to support UTF-8 characters - add the following tag to your publish templates under the title tag:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">

MISC IMPROVEMENTS
- Publishing Rules: Added additional error checking for invalid placeholder, filename and category settings
- Publishing Rules: Other miscellaneous enhancements
- Templates: Default templates/stylesheet updated accomodate multi-cats
- Import: Checkboxes fields are now imported from v1.41 as numeric "integer" fields so they sort correctly.
- Import: Improved conversion of v1.41 next/previous links.
- Publishing: Added customPatches.pl reload delay option for servers with low "server CPU usage thresholds" - Errors: Improved error messages when a directory isn't writable
- Added new menu placeholders $category.listItemStart$ and $category.listItemEnd$ for creating menus as unordered html lists, for example:

<!-- template insert : <ul>$categoryList$</ul> -->
<!-- templatecell : categoryRow -->
$category.listItemStart$$category.name$$category.listItemEnd$
<!-- /templatecell : categoryRow -->

BUG FIXES
- General: Added workaround for bug in Microsoft IIS/5.0 that sometimes prevents cookies from being set (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q176113/)
- Admin Menu: Fixed the "Upload Directory" browse button in Server Settings (button was controlling the Publish Directory field).
- Database Moves: Improved data migration errors, database writes now enabled after reporting an error
- Field Editor: Fixed bug where date field would display an error when no date field options were enabled
- Field Editor: Fixed beta 2 bug - IE Javascript error "Couldn't find element: undefined"
- Field Editor: Fixed bug where changing "Stored As" type would erase field contents with file databases (not mysql)
- Search: Unlinked categories now display in search engine category list as intended (check "hide from search" in category editor to hide them)
- wysiwyg: html code examples and entities now re-load correctly in the interface (eg: '&lt;')
- wysiwyg: unneeded "<br>" or "<p>" tags are now removed when a blank field is submitted.
- wysiwyg: Added workaround for "duplicating content" bug that sometimes occured in IE
- wysiwyg: Fixed Mozilla/Firefox javascript console bug 'Javascript component does not have a method named: "shouldProcess"...'
- search: All search fields now support quoted multi word phrases "like this"
- Other miscellaneous bug fixes

Released: November 3, 2006

NEW FEATURES
- Publish Rules: added "Copy Rule" button to make it easier to add new rules based on existing ones
- Publish Rules: global article lists can now be limited to specified categories only
- Publish Rules: global category menus can now be limited to specified categories only
- Publishing: Added "Cancel Publishing" link to defer publishing when making lots of edits
- Publishing: Improved file collision error messages when adding/editing Articles and Categories.
- Templates: Added new templateIf operator "isMultipleOf" and "isNotMultipleOf" to make multi column layouts easier
- Templates: Added new features "Convert SSIs to PHP includes" and "Convert PHP includes to SSIs"
- Templates: Added new placeholder modifier :fileAttribute() to access specific image attributes (backward compatability with v1.41)
- Templates: Added new article list placeholder $articleList.currentResultNumber$
- Search: Made new placeholders $keyword$ and $keywordSearchFields$ available from search.cgi (and added to searchResults.html template)
- Support: added support for running optional customPatches.pl file (allows support staff to more easily work around mis-configured or non-standard servers and make custom changes to software)
- Upload Options: Made default image alignment available to be modified with customPatches.pl
- WYSIWYG Editor: added "Paste From Word" button to default WYSIWYG toolbar

MISC.
- Publishing: Changed timeout counter to 60 seconds from 30 and added 30 second option to "Max Process Time" in Admin Menu
- General: Improved directory detection code, resolves "filepath './config.ini' must be an absolute path" error
- Search: Specifying keywordSearchFields with underscores now works. fixes: "couldn't find field 'art\_field1'" error
- Templates: Removed double slash ("//") from css, javascript, image, etc links (caused 404 on some servers)
- Templates: re-organized admin menu template files for easier editing (split some up into multiple files and renamed or moved others)
- Many general improvements and fixes to Admin, Search, and Upgrade programs

Released: October 26, 2006
Maintenance Release

New Features
- added support for UNC network filepaths and webhosts that use them (e.g. \\SERVER_NAME/path/)
- added auto login support so you can login and jump to a page with one link. eg: admin.cgi?loginUsername=USERNAME&loginPassword=PASSWORD&action=loginSubmit

Fixes
Many general bug fixes and improvements, including:
- Upgrade Script: Improved importing from Article Manager 1.41
- General: Fixed "Unable to initialize ReadForm Module! (Check settings)" error caused when uploads/incoming directory couldn't be created
- Publishing: "One-Level Category Menus" now publish as they did in version 1 (extra categories no longer showing) - Publishing: Added menu format options from version 1.
- Publishing: Resolved issue where non-admin users would get error on second page of publishing
- Publishing: Improved handling of multiple publish rules with the same placeholder name and different categories
- Default templates: Added keyword placeholder to search "next page" links to subsequent pages display search results and not every article
- Interface templates: Updated admin style-sheet to fix IE7 text alignment issue where everything was centered

Released: October 19, 2006
New Main Features:
- New Intuitive User Interface
- mySQL database support
- Image thumbnailing and resizing
- Improved Template System
- Enhanced Image/Media Management - unlimited uploads per article
- Unlimited Article and Category Fields
- Syndicate your content with RSS
- Email My Password (retrieve lost passwords easily)
- Localize date, time, and number settings
- Bulk Article and File Deletion
- My Placeholders (create your own global placeholders)
- Ability to import Article Manager 1.41 data, uploads and templates
- and much more...