Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 16:04:09 +0200 (EET) From: Henri Bergius
Henri.Bergius@iki.fi
Greetings!
This week is a bit quieter on announcements as everybody has
been working on the existing projects. However, we should have some
new test releases available soon, and many promising new features
have been discussed on the mailing lists.
Current versions:
Stable: 1.2.5 (Mad King)
Devel.: 1.2.6 beta 1
Midgard 1.2.6 beta 2 schedule
Alexander Bokovoy has announced that the second beta of Midgard
1.2.6 should be released quite soon, probably already on Friday
this week.
The release will first be available from Alexander’s Web site,
but we will try to add it to the CVS repository and the Midgard Web
site soon afterwards.
At this point the beta is almost finished, but the import
utility and Admin site will still need some work.
->
http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=94949258425357&w=2
Midgard RPMs for Mandrake
Thanks to Ronan-Yann Lorin, we now have RPM packages of Midgard
1.2.6 beta 1 and Midgard 1.2.5 for Linux-Mandrake.
The packages are available as both source and binary RPMs, and
should work with Linux-Mandrake versions 6.1 and 7.0.
At this point the files can be downloaded from Ronan-Yann’s FTP
site, but we look forward to making them also available on the main
Midgard site.
Enabling user self-registration
Many sites want to enable their visitors to register and create
user accounts for themselves. The permission system in the Midgard
1.x series makes this a bit difficult, as all create operations
need to be made by authenticated users.
The new access control system in Midgard 2 will make the process
easier, but before that it requires a bit of working around.
There was recently a thread on the mailing list about this, and
people interested in deploying a user self-registration system on
their sites will probably be interested it. Similar techniques can
also be applied to other create operations, like article comments
and bulletin boards.
The discussion (and some code examples) can be found from the
mailing list archives.
->
http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?t=94943912600001&w=2&r=1
About Midgard
Midgard is a freely-available Web application development and
publishing platform based on the popular PHP scripting language. It
is an Open Source development project, giving you the freedom to
create your solutions in an open environment. Midgard is the tool
for creating, modifying and maintaining dynamic database-enabled
web services.
-> http://www.midgard-project.org
About MWS
The Midgard Weekly Summary is a newsletter for the Midgard user
and developer community.
The MWS is currently being distributed in following mediums:
-The Midgard Project’s Web site
-> http://www.midgard-project.org
-Linux Weekly News
-> http://www.lwn.net
-Linux Today
-> https://www.linuxtoday.com
-Linux Developer’s Network
-> http://linuxdev.net
-Open Source Writers Group
-> http://www.oswg.org
-Midgard mailing list
If you would like to release it elsewhere, please contact Henri
Bergius
(Henri.Bergius@iki.fi).
Previous issues of Midgard Weekly Summary can be found archived
at the Midgard web site. -> http://www.midgard-project.org/topic/169.html
/Bergie
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