Changelog/History for pase
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last update to this document: 20.09.2007
current pase-version as of this writing: 0.7b8c


	0.1	        started January 2004, never released
		field-setup works
		posting/editing text works
		
	0.2	        started February 2004, never released
		more features to the field-setup
		changed GUI
		added simple Layout-creator
	
	0.3	        started March 2004, never released
		more features to the Layout-creator
		added password-manager
		tested with 4000 entries - successfully
		minor changes to speed up the functions
	
	0.4	        started 9. May 2004, never released
		completely re-thought the whole system
		overhault every single function to work again (except for layout and
			passwords)
		added section-support
		added fileupload-support
		added these documentation-documents
		new GUI
		filemanagement (of posted aka uploaded files) is quite easy
		including from everywhere works (except if you want to make clickable
			links, look	for v0.5)
	
	0.5	        started June 2004, never released
		changed backup-style to make gzipped tarballs
		managing of backupfiles is easy
		uploading backupfiles is supported (no validity-check!)
		patched around
		layoutmanagement works and is quite good, but - in my opinion - it
			could be better
		re-implemented passwordmanagement, now lets you create multiple users
			and assign permissons per user
		warns you all the time if no admin-password got set
		changing of user-passwords is not possible - delete the old one and
			add it again with the new password
		GUI seems XHTML-compliant
		output is XHTML-compliant
		including from anywhere (local) works with 3 lines of code (or 2
			lines and a HTML_GET variable)
		Layouts can be written in pure HTML or PHP
		
	0.6	        started 02.07.04, released 9.12.04
		added a debug-script
		concatenated all admin-scripts into one big script
		added the file "version" (flat-file) to the root-directory of the
			pase-installation
		added checkbox, dropdown-list and php-variable as possible fieldtype
		commenting implemented
		delayed sorting-ability to 0.7
		various technical and cosmetic changes to the GUI
		added some JavaScript-Functions to use in the Layout
		fixed the annoying bug where on certain servers, Mozilla made problems
			with special chars
		added date and time as possible fieldtype (which gives you an unix-
			timestamp)
		added the possibility to output a list of all entries and select the
			one to Display (FAQ-Style)
		added the permalink-possibility (a GET or POST-variable named 'get_p_id'
			will do it)
		20.11.04	implemented some BBCode
		09.12.04	new backup-system (because of low availability of "tar"
		        	and "gzip" on servers); now uses base64-encoding and xml.
		        	Slow, but working everywhere.
		09.12.04	started dating the changes here in this file
	
	0.7	        started 09.12.04, (b1 released 05.02.05, b3 released 28.06.05)
		12.12.04    setting up fields in mysql now works
		20.12.04    posting in mysql-mode implemented
		23.12.04    extended debug-script (checks if pase and its sections are
		            healthy)
		30.12.04    working with files in mysql now works; added a script to
		            retrieve files from the database (/forms/files.php)
		08.01.05    added extended SAFE_MODE checking + warning if creating new
		            sections on a SAFE_MODE enabled server
		09.01.05    changed the write-routines to respect default-values and ignore
		            invisible fields on first input, but apply the default
		10.01.05    small changes in the 'Setup' - Tab and major changes in the
		            read-functions
		18.01.05    some changes to the layout-setup and handling (if upgrading
		            to 0.7,	layouts need to be re-built!) and the displaypic.php-
		            file
		28.01.05    extended the comments-handling (deleting-options)
		28.01.05    mysql-mode now supports full-featured commenting
		03.02.05    mysql-mode now supports backups
		04.02.05    you can now reposition the fields (move up or down)
		05.02.05    --- beta 1 released
		16.02.05    output-sorting works in mysql-mode
		16.02.05    Changes to the GUI > new 'options' -tab
		17.02.05    thinking of sorting and filtering in predefined 'sets'
		26.02.05    changes to the filehandling-routines
		27.02.05    sorting + filtering works (10 different sets) in flatfile-mode
		18.03.05    sorting + filtering works in mysql-mode
		30.03.05    sorting + filtering now is also comment/rating-enabled
		24.04.05    rewrote pic-popup-mechanism
		25.04.05    implemented smilies
		23.05.05    split admin-script
		23.05.05    admin interface redesigned
		24.05.05    Much extended user-management. Users are now system-wide and you
		            can assign admin-tasks and permissions on a per-section-base (if
		            upgrading from an older pase-version, you need to manually re-
		            create all users; I`m sorry for that)
		04.06.05    self-creating Members-Area implemented
		06.06.05    introduced groups. Users can now get assigned to groups and
		            inherit	their permissions
		20.06.05    introduced IIS-compatibility (auth not yet working)
		26.06.05    authorization now works with php running on an Microsoft IIS
		            (workaround for the missing HTTP-flexibility of the IIS: cookies)
		26.06.05    Mail-notifications on new posting introduced
		27.06.05    various fixes and tweaks
		29.06.05    --- beta 3 released
		01.07.05    various fixes and changes
		03.07.05    importing users from an external valid apachestyle-userfile
		            works (file gets checked for validity)
		03.07.05    using an external apachestyle-userfile works
		24.07.05    redesigned the fields-list
		18.11.05    various tweaks
		19.11.05    fixed a bug when re-enabling comments in mysql-mode
		23.11.05    fixed a file-download bug when using a database
		            fixed an XHTML parsing error when a string contained < or >
		23.12.05    --- beta 5 packed
		20.01.06    improved user-friendlyness before creating first section
		22.01.06    improvements if there are no fields defined
		15.02.06    bugfix in ID-mode and list-context on multiline-text
		            various improvements
		16.02.06    Forms (post.php, edit.php, comments.php) use their own CSS-
		            sheet which you can replace if you like
		03.03.06    Minor changes in the forms
		04.03.06    Small enhancements in the admin interface
		09.03.06    Added a favicon and tweaked multiple things
		            Activating 'edit by user' and storing the username implemented
		                (Memberchats won`t be backwards-compatible!!)
		15.03.06    stripping of escaped strings corrected
		            whole admin-interface uses UTF-8; specialchars-handling improved
		03.06.06    Fixed a bug with the HTML-Filter for flatfile-sections
		22.08.06    Fixed a BBCode bug
		03.11.06    Added phpThumb to easily generate thumbnails of images
		06.11.06    Tweaked the "edit by user" privilegies, preparing beta 8
		17.11.06    Deleting comments must now be confirmed (via JavaScript)
		17.11.06    Five new values are available concerning comments:
		            LATEST, LATEST.US, LATEST.EU, LATEST.STR, LATEST.TIME
		20.04.07    Various fixes
		29.08.07    Introducing "getXML.php". Works the same as include_me.php, but
		            returns an XML file. Use this for AJAX stuff.
		02.09.07    Various fixes
		16.09.07    Added THUMBPATH.width.height.fieldcode for layout-use
		19.09.07    Moved comments-options to the comments-tab