Midgard Components Framework 2.1.1 released

MidCOM is the default Content Management interface in Midgard CMS, and provides developers a production-proven architecture for building new web applications. With the MidCOM framework PHP applications have powerful localization, configuration, templating and data abstraction features.

This is the first of a few relase candiadates for the upcoming 2.0.0 release. No more new features will be allowed into this branch and it is now open for translation updates (see a separate, upcoming annoucement for this).

Noteworthy changes since the 2.0 release branch:

• Core
• The toolbar interface system now supports optional additional options to the generated links through MIDCOM_TOOLBAR_OPTIONS.
• Introduced midgard.* component tree for use with the new Site wizard.
• The generate_url_name function does now use the translit package if available.
• AIS
• Fixed the sorting gui.
• Removed various reset buttons for consistency with the Datamanager.
• Datamanager
• Schemas now get automatically translated using the components and the core l10n databases.
• The Datamanger generated forms now use WAI standards to renderthe form. During this change, the widget codebase has been cleaned up. No existing functionality has been touched here, just the way they are implemented. The CSS sheets in use have also been rewritten.
• The reset button has been removed, as it made more trouble than it was worth.
• The mailtemplate type now uses the site's default encoding as its own default, instead of an hardcoded UTF-8.
• I18N Framework
• Added a string available check to the l10n class the lets you verify if a string is actually available in either the selected or the fallback language. Used by the datamanager schema translation code.
• The l10n language databases are now stored as readable text files instead of serialize dumps, for better CVS interactions.
• NAP
• Enhanced the NAP toolbar permission checks to match the original midcom-template code more closely. At the moment, special handling for n.n.personnel topics has been added (users can edit only their personal details).
• There have also been numerous improvements to various components, see the individual Changelogs for them.
  

 

MidCOM 2.1.1 can be downloaded from: http://www.midgard-project.org/projects/midcom/download/2.1.html

More information from the Midgard Components Framework: http://www.midgard-project.org/projects/midcom/

MidCOM is part of Midgard CMS. Midgard CMS is a reliable Open Source Content Management system built on the Midgard Framework for Unix operating systems. It provides users with lots of benefits including scalability, internationalization and rapid deployment. Features include web-based authoring WYSIWYG interfaces and powerful replication system.

More information about Midgard: http://www.midgard-project.org/

Torben Nehmer, MidCOM lead developer