Geek Article System 3.5 RC2

Woohoo.

This is the RC for the next release of the Geek Article System.
I have decided to take it out of private beta as results from the private beta are taking yonks to come back in. I have fixed all known issues so we should be cooking on gas (hohohahaha).

Special thanks to gltdn for help with beta testing

Install instructions:
Read the readme in the package. Should be straight forward stuff.
It is important to note that THIS IS FOR A CLEAN INSTALL. I will devise an upgrade script when the package is final.

New features:

• Crap loads.
• New Article header image functions (global gallery, forum gallery and uploadable images)
• New forumdisplay/threadbit look and feel
• Synopsis box
• Post as user
• Autolink into the Geek Autolink system
• Turn on/off synopsis/byline
• Auto synopsis (if synopsis is off or left blank, it uses first x amount of posts from article)
• Synopsis uses BB code
• etc...etc...etc

A word about the installer.
This has taken me ages to do. The installer does everything for you (including all file changes). It will make backup copies of all files changed, make the file changes, and leave them in a folder for you to copy over when you are done. This may not work with PHP in safe mode. If you are using PHP in safe mode, you may have to do the changes manually (which you have the option to do anyway).

Click the install button if you install. Otherwise you may miss very important updates.

Demo: http://www.thenailgeek.com/forumdisplay.php?f=17

Missing phrases after install? Just search for a GAS phrase name... edit it, then click save. This will rebuild your phrases.

nJoy

[Snow]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Should be able to revert with your backup files

The installer inst 100% done (finished the install and upgrade options but not the uninstall yet) guess I can post it here in the next 20 minutes or so - then I can finsih the uninstall and put my finishing touches on it (and the readme) while you are testing.

Check back soon

Excellent! Thanks

[The Geek]

Package updated to RC2

This should really be it. Here is what I have left on my TODO list:

Finish uninstaller
Create proper README
Add my 'witty' (if I do say so myself) touches to installer

If anyone could start verifying this latest package - I would appreciate it. ESPECIALLY if they have GAS 3.0x installed - I would like verification on the upgrade process.

Thanks!

[gldtn]

I installed it over the rc1 and got no problem, however there are some issues that I'm not sure if it's because of the old beta I have installed. So I'm in the process of installing it on a different board, a clean install and I just got this message while going thru Installing Settings ...

Here is the error:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /gas/install/inc_functions.php on line 91

Everything else seems 100% on the new board that I installed this mod.. I'll have to do a clean install on the main board cause it's some how keeping all the old issues in there.

[The Geek]

sounds like you dont have the latest inc_functions

Can you verify by opening your gas/install/inc_functions.php and serach for:
global $datastore,$version;

That was causing the error you mentioned.

[gldtn]

Originally Posted by The Geek

sounds like you dont have the latest inc_functions

Can you verify by opening your gas/install/inc_functions.php and serach for:
global $datastore,$version;

That was causing the error you mentioned.

Yes, it's there, shal I remove it? This came with the RC2 version..

[The Geek]

nope... should be there. ahhh.... I think I know...

That bit grabs any existing $gas_settings you have... you said this was on a fresh install?
I think I just need to put a test wrapper around it. You can ignore the error.

How is the rest?

[gldtn]

Originally Posted by The Geek

nope... should be there. ahhh.... I think I know...

That bit grabs any existing $gas_settings you have... you said this was on a fresh install?
I think I just need to put a test wrapper around it. You can ignore the error.

How is the rest?

[high]* gldtn ignores it!
[/high]

Yes, it's a fresh install. Everything else seems great, have'nt done any major checking, but the article images issues I was having is gone on the fresh install.. I'll wait for the uninstaller to see if I can verify that everything is good on my original board I was testing with. Any idea when the uninstaller is being released?

[The Geek]

How about now? (I added checking to prevent the error as well)

New package includes uninstall

[gldtn]

Trying it out.. I used the uninstaller and it did great...

but I got another forreach error once re-installing it;

This time on a different file.
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /admincp/gas3_install.php on line 593

[The Geek]

Squashed foreach error. Updated package.