Magazine 2.1.5 Released

The JXtended team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Magazine 2.1.5 Stable. This release features many improvements and bug fixes. One of the major improvements with this release is the overhaul we performed on content parameters. Compared to Magazine 2.1.4, this release has a greatly improved parameter system that allows administrators much better control over their site and implementors/developers much more flexibility when taking advantage of Magazine’s custom parameters and layout override features.

Important notice:

This release features an important change to the Magazine architecture that will allow for easier access to content parameters. Because of the system wide change, if your site uses layout overrides you may need to make a few small modifications to ensure the new version works correctly on your site. Essentially, all item parameters will be initialized automatically and will no longer require initialization by hand in layout overrides. The easiest way to check if your overrides need modification is to search for the string "JParameter" in the override files. The JParameter initializations are no longer necessary and will need to be removed.

Examples:

Before:

$media = new JParameter( $article->media );

After:

$media = $article->media;

Before:

$custom = new JParameter( $this->item->custom );

After:

$custom = $this->item->custom;

If you have any questions about these changes, please ask us. We realize this is not an easy change but we felt it was critical in order to achieve the greatest flexibility and address as many customer feature requests as possible. We will be happy to help you out so please don’t hesitate to ask for help in the Magazine support forum.

Upgrade Instructions:

Please see the detailed instructions on how to upgrade Magazine.

Changelog:

RC1

• New: Default defaults for Issues
• New: Categories support trash setting
• New: Unplishing or trashing categories will cascade to all children
• New: Meta Description and Keywords added to frontend articles view
• New: Sortable date column added in admin articles list
• New: Added parameter to Publciation to override the layout used for display
• New: Added parameter to Issue to override the layout used for display
• New: Added Publication filter to Articles View-Default Layout
• Bug fix: Cannot now unpublish or published a category when its parent is a lesser state
• Bug fix: Cannot now unpublish or trash categories where any children are checked out
• Bug fix: Cannot now remove a ROOT category
• Bug fix: Categories now do not that 'none' as an option for the parent (was causing confusion)
• Bug fix: Added logic to prevent deleting of root categories
• Bug fix: Error in display of body varible in Publciation View-Default Layout
• Bug fix: Joomla! error in Splash page edit form when XHMTML editor not installed.
• Bug fix: Fixed PHP notice in Section selector when creating a new Articles View in the menu
• Bug fix: Error in display of body varible in Publciation View-Default Layout
• Bug fix: Author Article module now hides (not displaying title) if no articles found
• Bug fix: saving publications would strip out XML in custom fields definition
• Bug fix: Fixed gallery non-display problem when image names began with 't'
• Bug fix: Undefined variable in Articles Landing Layout
• Bug fix: Undefined variables in Publications Section Layout
• Bug fix: Save to Copy was not working properly
• Bug fix: Could not unparent an article

RC2

• New: Added Quick Add for Authors
• New: Added pagination to Authors view
• Bug fix: Fixed ordering in Authors view
• Bug fix: Fixed Article Summary parameter not sticking in Section Default layout
• Bug fix: Snippets not working in splash edit form (also forced splash editor to none)
• Bug fix: Search plugin not working properly when search term in body
• Bug fix: Search plugin not working properly when article in category menu item

RC3

• New: Added Article Count column to Admin Issues List view
• New: Added Issue Year column to Admin Issues List view
• New: Added test and H4 display for publication subtitle in frontend Publications View
• New: Added icon display parameter to Publication edit form
• New: Added icon display parameter to Article edit form
• New: Added articles icon display parameter to Publication View (allows correct article icons to be displayed when going from list of issues to the issue itself)
• New: Added custom field display to frontend Article view if defined (including decorator support for emails and urls)
• New: Improved list display of Rated Articles module
• New: Improved list display of Related Articles module
• New: Improved list display of Publication Articles module
• Bug fix: Author alias was not automatically generated if empty
• Bug fix: Author alias in edit form was not automatically suggested due to js error
• Bug fix: Publication parameters would not save
• Bug fix: Bad media variable in frontend Publication View
• Bug fix: Bad author variable in Articles by an Author module
• Bug fix: Added clearfix to to list of author in frontend Authors View
• Bug fix: Rated articles module did not correctly support alternate title
• Bug fix: Related articles module did not correctly support alternate title
• Bug fix: Registered or higher latest issue would cause problems with some menu items
• Bug fix: Publish start and finish dates were not being honoured in articles

Stable

• Bug fix: Could not order issues or sections within the Publication view.
• Bug fix: Publication view sections layout did not generate proper URLs.
• Bug fix: Menu router failing to build/parse section routes correctly.
• Bug fix: Fixed call to non-object in publication view sections layout.