Andy's PHP Knowledgebase

Version 0.93.8 (Development)

Changes from 0.93.7

• Fixed HTML Editor plugin for article editing

Changes from 0.93.6

• fixes for saving and submiting articles by authors

Changes from 0.93.5

• fixed pending article delete

Changes from 0.93.4

• improved messages to the install wizard
• included failover for page_title against article title.
• fixed admin user login

Changes from 0.93.3

• improvements to integer variable checking
• fix for first comment appearing as a question
• fix for article rating

Changes from 0.93.2

• Improved Install and Setup

Changes from 0.93.1

• improved installation
• fixed article comments

Changes from 0.92.9

• improved security for uploaded files
• improved installation scripts

Changes from 0.92.8

• improved index page
• minor tweaking of page elements
• improvements to login and logout
• fixed forgot_password.php
• fixed article submission
• improved html tag filtering for the html editor plugin
• implemented new Q & A
• removed questions table from the database

Changes from 0.92.7

fixed install status in the default configuration file

Changes from 0.92.6

• fixed sql file
• improved knowledgebase configuration and setup.

Changes from 0.92.5

• Improved Documentation
• Improved pending articles, comments and questions

Changes from 0.92.4

• fixed pending articles query
• improved pending article view for the Admin
• fixed user/admin authentication

Changes from 0.92.3

• fixed akb.sql file

Changes from 0.92.2

• introduced a new article viewer script v.php
• improved admin authentication
• added Admin login to author table
• removed PHP_AUTH authentication for Admin login
• removed knowledgebase admin password from akb.sql file
• added Admin user to akb.sql file
• moved html header and menus to 'html' directory for easy editing
• included article details when viewing an article
• improved pending, approval and Q&A
• re-implemented article tags, related articles, comments and article rating.

Changes from 0.92.1

• updated feedback and development email links in documentation.
• fixed admin authentication
• improved PDF plugin

Changes from 0.9

• fixed admin view all articles
• minor formatting and placement changes in template and index
• improved author article list

Changes from 0.89

• removed product field references
• updated project links to aphpkb.org
• improved article editing, saving and submission and admin article editing and approval
• improved PDF plugin

Changes from 0.88.9

• Simplified initial configuration
• improved error handling

Changes from 0.88.8

• Introduced PDF and RSS plugins
• fixed article approval

Changes from 0.88.7

• Replaced categories with article tags.

Changes from 0.88.6

• fixed a_setup.php script, now allows for initial access to setup form upon new installation
• corrected variable problems in a_categories.php
• improved production level selection in a_setup.php
• fixed typographical error in sql file

Changes from 0.88

• fixed default password issue in setup page
• introduced article attachments in the author's article list with the ability to view/delete attachments.

Changes from 0.87

• Improvements to the setup and configuration
• added html editor plugin for author editing

Changes from 0.86

• Improvements to setup and configuration
• fixed problems with akb.sql file
• improved filtering for html edited articles

Changes from 0.85

• Improvements to setup and configuration
• Introduced plugins, added HTML Editor Plugin

Changes from 0.84

• fixed intital setup

Changes from 0.83

• unified user/admin to a single interface
• fixed Q & A
• moved global.php to functions.php
• improved subcategory article listing
• fixed title display in statistics, questions and categories
• removed admin directory, prefixed/renamed admin scripts 'a_'

Changes from 0.82

• improved xss filtering for user inputs.
• improved flexibility for integrating with HTML editors
• fixed article information in side panel
• fixed related article listing in side panel
• improved category listing in category forms.

Changes from 0.81

• improvements to input filtering article submissions and article searching

Changes from 0.80

• fixed author registration

Changes from 0.79

• fix to the database
• fix to keyword searching for articles

Changes from 0.78

• improved article viewing
• fixed printer friendly article viewing
• fixed questions and answers

Changes from 0.77

• Major fix to author login and authentication
• Improvements to knowledgebase setup

Changes from 0.76

• fixed category listing
• improved article submission
• minor fixes to admin pages including view article, statistics and pending questions.

Changes from 0.75

• fixed article comments
• created header, menu and footer functions in global file.
• improved article information for article viewing in kbadmin.
• improved article rating form.
• improved related article search.

Changes from 0.74

• improved installation and configuration
• introduced product field, allowing greater accuracy with searching
• improved keyword searching
• introduced article attachments
• format fixes for item listings

Changes from 0.73

• Major changes to category functions (re-write)
• Improvements to Q&A, Article Submission, Comments and article rating
• Corrections to article viewing and comment order.

Changes from 0.72

• Fixed Author Authentication
• small formatting fix in the admin interface
• fixed article rating

Changes from 0.71

• Style clean-up, fixes for IE and Firefox(Mac).
• Removed image upload, links and link utility
• added ISSUES file for known problems with aphpkb

Changes from 0.70

• fixed submit article links
• fixed article count in categories

Changes from 0.67

• Improved rating article
• Introduced Image uploading for authors
• Improved article summaries
• Improved article viewing for users and admin
• Fixed article editing for admin
• Fixed article rating so authors don't have the option of rating their own articles.

Changes from 0.66

• Fix to Q&A
• Improved article editing in kbadmin

Changes from 0.65

• introduced a related article list when viewing an article.
• improved admin view_article, providing greater details for the kb admin.
• improved article editing by authors

Changes from 0.64

• some text and formatting changes
• improved article submission

Changes from 0.63

• Article Search by Keyword query fixed
• Improved aphpkb setup
• Added Popularly rated list in main page

Changes from 0.62

• fixed akb database

Changes from 0.61

• Improved article rating
• Updated Documentation

Changes from 0.59

• Introduced author login/logout/change password and reset password
• Introduced author list/edit/delete articles
• re-wrote submit_article with support for author submission and author save for future submission.
• Improved view_all.php, pending_articles.php and edit_articles.php in kbadmin.
• Introduced view_authors.php and authordetails.php in kbadmin
• Improved Category and subcategory listings
• Improved Ask a Question

Changes from 0.58,0.57

• Improved security in abk.php, submit_question.php, submit_article.php and submit_comment.php

Changes from 0.56

• Improved Knowledgebase setup and configuration

Changes from 0.55

• new home URL for navigation links ( user & kbadmin )
• updated kbadmin header and footer
• Improved suggest category

Changes from 0.54

• New Printer Friendly View in the article view script.
• Footer file now updates version number from /docs/VERSION.
• Minor change in /docs/VERSION format.

Changes from 0.53

• Improvements to authorization scripts in the kbadmin
• code cleanup and removal of old scripts which are no longer used.

Changes from 0.52

• Improved Links Utility in kbadmin
• Date fix in article view
• Added limited rating in article view

Changes from 0.5 and 0.51

• Small improvements to install script
• Removed Users table for the Database, no longer used
• Added Links to the Database
• Added Links Utility to kbadmin
• Added version number on the template

Changes from 0.45

• minor code cleanup
• database connect script replaced with config file
• created install.php script to set up kb/db values
• cleaned up database for categories

Changes from 0.44

Changes from 0.43

Changes from 0.41 and 0.42

Changes from 0.39

• converted formatting from <table> to CSS
• Install Guide Re-write
• Limited Email Integration with Answered Questions
• Improved Path handling with all scripts
• Incorrect Search Link corrected

Changes from 0.38

• Improved Q&A functions
• Simplified Cateogory Listing
• Simplified Search Results
• Added pagination for listing and results

Changes from 0.371

• Added Q&A functions
• Simplified Article Submission
• Streamlined Installation Guide
• Added Statistics for KB Admin

Changes from 0.361

• Minor name change: Andy's PHP Knowledgebase
• Suggest a Category for users.
• Category Add, Approve, Delete and Edit for KB Admin
• Added the ability for users to add comments to an article
• Added Comments Approve, Edit and Delete for KB Admin
• Basic Editor for Article Submissions

Changes from 0.35

• changed articledata field from blob to largetext
• fixes to installation instructions
• cleaned up database connection file and auth file references
• added delete article to Pending and View_All.
• edit_article: renamed 'ClearAll' to 'Revert'
• edit_article: fixed defaut category type

Changes from 0.33

• removed frequently asked questions
• placed articledata into the database
• removed file, open/read/write functions
• added article count per category
• removed View All link from Main page
• renamed main and admin page links
• modified aphpkb project link
• created new project images logo.gif and aphpkb.jpg

Changes from 0.31

• added article view count
• added top 5 and last 5 articles on search page
• added category table to the db
• fixed db connection file issue
• added View All Articles in Admin
• added Edit on both Pending and View All Article pages
• Added Change Admin Password
• Fixed Slashes problem with Title and Articles
• Added Approved/Pending indicator for edit_article

changes from 0.3

• re-included connection details
• created new adminheader.html and adminfooter files
• removed imgs and includes from admin

changes from 0.21

• fixed admin authentication
• added stripslashes for article title
• added check for approval before displaying article to user
• fixed result formatting on admin page
• new default images

changes from 0.2
Minor document and script changes, included auth.php in package, included authentication script in install instructions.

Changes from 0.1

• added Frequently Asked Questions
• removed "Submit an Article" Emailer.
• added submit an Article allowing users to add articles
• changed query ORDER by Title for the search and ORDER by FileID for "showall"
• altered results table
• added admin directory allowing the administrator to check articles before approving them.
• added authentication to the admin user
• added users table for admin authentication
• added Category selection
• added approve.php script to enable articles.
• added article summary in search results.