[news] Jelix News, december 04th, 2012

[Laurent Jouanneau]

Jelix 1.5 is on the right way. A beta should be released during this month.

Two big new features have been done:

1) Claudio Bernades (aka obs) has been worked on the builder of
jForms. Now, there is not any more a big class which generates the
HTML: the code has been splitted into plugins. So now, you can provide
your own plugins for some controls to generate the HTML you need! You
indicate the plugins within the {form} tag in the template, or in the
configuration.

2) Guillaume Dugas has been improved jDao: It is possible to import
the definition of a DAO into an other DAO. This is not inheriting,
just import.

An exemple: jauthdb provides a dao for the users table, and this dao
defines many methods. If you want to provide your dao, you had to
duplicate all of these methods and main properties. Now it is possible
to indicate "<dao import='jauthdb~jelixuser'>" in your dao, and your
dao will have all methods, properties and datasource defined in the
dao jelixuser. You can of course redefine some of this elements, and
add other properties and methods.

Guillaume also added the possibility to indicate a PHP class for the
record of a dao (new attribute "extends" on the record element). The
generated class will inherit from it. So you can add methods to do
some calculations for instance, on the record object.

We had of course other contributions!

- Brice Tence fixed a complex bug on the cache system of a zone (bug
1197). He had an option on the debugbar to display it at the left or
right by default. He also fixed a bug in the autoloader.
- Philippe Villiers continues to upgrade jQuery, jQuery UI, TCPDF...
- Khena fixed a bug in the ldap plugin for the authentication
- Steven (aka catsoup) is back with a bug fix in the installapp command
- Charles fixed a bug in jCoordinator
- Kimaidou fixed a migration script in jacl2db for sqlite
- Yves Tan improved the createform and createdao commands: if a SQL
field has a comment, this comment can be used as label in the
generated form.

I made also improvements:
- jAcl2db: modification of the default value of resources in the
rights table. This is not any more "null", but "-".
- Possibility to deactivate an event listener
- Most of unit tests have been migrated from Simpletest to PHPUnit
- jConfigCompiler is now extensible : we can have plugins that will
check and process some configuration parameters
- jPref has been moved to its own module
- The library FakeServerConf (https://github.com/jelix/FakeServerConf)
has been added. It allows to do test in a same environment as we have
during an HTTP request
- new plugin for jKVDb, using the dba API (http://php.net/dba)

Contributions have been made on other related projects:
- Brice has improved in GitiWiki, the software we use to display the
documentation on http://docs.jelix.org. And he begin to integrate a
search engine.
- Brice, Khena and Guillaume made some few improvements in the documentation

In the last two months, 9 developers have been contributed on the
project! thanks to them!

Don't hesitate to test the nightly and to report bugs!

Laurent