Seagull Framework with memcached sessions

Hello devs,

beginning of September we did a relatively big relaunch of our podcast
portal. Changes included switching from the DB based navigation to the
array driver, using Horde Routes instead of a self-written url driver
amongst many other things which all helped to improve performance.

Sessions were the one thing I was still unhappy with. Neither file

 

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Easily build an API for your application with the tools provided in Seagull

Those of you following Seagull System's Doris product might have noticed we released an API to the service last month.

As some of our techie users will have guessed, we’ve had an API (Application Programming Interface) for Doris working for some time now, that’s the reason you can use a range of clients (iPhone, Dashboard widget, Opera widget) to access and update your account data.

But starting today we’ve made the API publicly available, see for yourself by checking out the Doris API documentation.

 

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Interesting workaround for Horde_Routes Gotcha

Ed recently filed a bug with the guys over at Horde following an issue he was having configuring a route with 2 variables in one section, separated by an underscore, eg:

/some/example/:myVar_:anotherVar

Chuck Hagenbuch, the main man over at Horde, responded with a helpful workaround.

 

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Kindo Acquired by MyHeritage

 I didn't get a chance yet to blog about our last TechCrunching, but Kindo, the startup I co-founded in March 2007, today announced its sale to MyHeritage, the biggest player in the family tree space.

 

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Join the Seagull LinkedIn Group

I just setup a LinkedIn group for Seagull developers, this network tool has become very powerful and is beginning to be indispensable for technology professionals.

Please check it out and sign up if it suits you.  The group provides Seagull developers a chance to share their business contacts.

 

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CMS multi-language support ready

 We're happy to announce a great new feature available in the CMS module:

 

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Seagull CMS 1.5 released

Hot on the heals of 0.6.5 we have prepared an exciting new release of  
the CMS module:

http://trac.seagullproject.org/wiki/Modules/Cms

A lot of exciting new features have been built into the 1.5 release,  
here's  a quick overview:

 

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Seagull 0.6.5 Released

I'm happy to announce 0.6.5 was released yesterday, please update your  
existing installs, the code is available in the usual place:

http://seagullproject.org/download/

According to Trac this release contains 13 enhancements and fixes for  
26 defects, although there was a lot of internal cleanup and small  
features added that were not documented.

 

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New comment2 module released, using jquery

 

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Running Seagull with a user table from another project

Had this question come up in the forum, and in fact it's very easy to  
do, have many instances of Seagull running on user tables from other  
projects/software.  Makes migrating a project easier, plus a pleasant  
surprise for you boss to get detailed Seagull user handling from one  
of his old crappy projects ;-)

Here's one way of doing it:

 

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Auto text conversions with SGL_Emailer2, and new Email Queue module

With recent improvements in the SGL_Emailer2 lib your can now have your HTML emails automatically converted to text.  It's also much easier to define your email format, be it text, html or both.  For more info see

http://trac.seagullproject.org/wiki/Howto/SendingEmails#UsingimprovedfunctionalityavailableinSGL_Emailer2

We've also created the Email Queue module, with it you can control the rate at which you send large batches of emails by storing your data and sending it later.  By default a DB backend implmentation is included.  For more info see:

 

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SGL_Cache problem fixed

We had an interesting problem reported on the forum by rungss, where SGL_Cache objects were not returning singletons correctly.

Dmitri has just implemented the fix:

http://trac.seagullproject.org/changeset/3801

and the test that demonstrates the correct behaviour:

http://trac.seagullproject.org/browser/branches/0.6-bugfix/lib/SGL/tests/CacheTest.ndb.php?rev=3801

 

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Integrating Seagull with the leading Ajax frameworks

There's a new overview of integrating various Ajax frameworks with Seagull in the wiki.

Also there was a bug in the Ajax tutorial where our JavaScript loader was dying on Prototype's dynamic file loader querystrings.  This is now fixed and the source download updated. 

 

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Integrating Seagull with YAML CSS framework

There's a brief overview here:

http://trac.seagullproject.org/wiki/Integration/YAML_CSS  

 

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cms 1.4 released

A new version of the CMS module was released recently, check out the project page for more info:

http://trac.seagullproject.org/wiki/Modules/Cms

 

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cms 1.3 released

We've just released version 1.3 of the cms module, this addresses many  
user interface issues with the last release and comes with a great new  
feature, content versioning!  We've also enforced utf-8 usage  
throughout the module, so make sure you're using at least MySQL 4.1,  
and preferably PHP >= 5.2.4 (in other projects we've found 5.2.3 to be  
quite buggy).

The project page has been updated, please review:

 

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Extending the permissions functionality in Seagull

Here's some ideas for making permission handling more efficient .  This is especially important on sites with many users, ie > 5k.

 

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Seagull 0.6.3 Remote File Disclosure Vulnerability - Please Upgrade

 

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Seagull 0.6.3 Released

 

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Startups powered by Seagull: Podcast.de

 

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Forum back online!

We had a few problems with the forum since I changed the base URI last week.  I setup http://seagullproject.org/ as the canonical URI with Apache redirects but neglected to update the corresponding FUD forum config, which meant it was impossible to create new topics.  This is now fixed :-)

 

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Improved CSS and Javascript handling for Seagull 0.6.3

I know this email is very long. But if you're interested about new
features related to CSS/JavaScript handling, please, read till the end.

Hi All!

Finally, we merged default2 stuff with bugfix.

== PART I: CSS/JavaScript optimizer

 

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Documentation added for SGL_Cache

If anyone was unclear how to use SGL_Cache, I've created some documentation for the class:

http://trac.seagullproject.org/wiki/Howto/Caching

In the latest svn bugfix code support for output and function caching were added.

 

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Documentation on Debug Ideas Updated

Check out Trac for an explanation of

• the new debug sessions
• some Ajax debugging tips
• updates on allowing notices in blocks of code
  

 

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Improving Performance in 0.6.3

Did some performance testing last week, just tweaking a few settings in the Config screen and installing eaccelerator got results of almost 80 requests/second from the latest 0.6.3 code in the bugfix branch. More details results here:

http://trac.seagullproject.org/wiki/Howto/OptimisingPerformance/Example

Installing eaccelerator is a simple as

 

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Delete unused language files

Thanks to Werner for this tip:

Sometimes you want to delete some stuff before uploading your current Seagull project to your webserver.

Here is a little one-liner to delete all unused language files except german and english ones:

 

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Seagull devs enjoy themselves in Riga, Latvia

Oops, haven't forgot to post this just stacked out these last few weeks.  Reminded by Henry Juan on facebook, we have some good photos of the event:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=38650&l=d7367&id=644250117  

A big hats off to Dmitri Lakachauskis who organised the whole event, thanks dude!  We rented a flat in central Riga, huge place and only a stone's throw from all the bars, parks and restos.

 

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Improvements in customising blocks in 0.6.3

I just made a few changes that make it a lot easier to customise the block layouts in your Seagull apps.  Details listed here http://trac.seagullproject.org/wiki/Howto/Blocks#Creatingcustomblockpositions .

 

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OSS Camp in New Delhi, September 8-9, 2007

I've been contacted by the organisers of the upcoming OSS Camp event in India, looks set to be quite interesting with the focus for the PHP section clearly set on frameworks, my favourite subject ;-)

There is already a talk planned by Rakesh Kumar comparing the major PHP framework players, I'm glad to see Seagull in the list. If any Seagull devs can easily get to New Delhi in the first week of September and would like to present something I encourage you to contact the organisers .

Here's the official release for OSS Camp:

 

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How to enable Maintenance mode

Thanks to Julien for this great new feature:

http://trac.seagullproject.org/wiki/Howto/EnableMaintenanceMode

Either svn up or wait for for the next release of the stable branch, 0.6.3. 

 

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Persistent logins implemented

Dmitri and I implemented persistent logins in the bugfix branch, svn up to get latest code, this will go in the next 0.6.3 public release. We also added some maintainability features:

• ability to delete all persistent logins from db (in my account section)
  
• ability to remove expired persistent logins for admins (in user section)

The code is completely BC inasmuch as if you don't enable the config option (under 'cookie' in the Config screen), your existing sites will run as before with latest code. The feature does, however, require a new table to work, so if you enable it, please create the user_cookie table, the definition is in modules/user/data/schema.my.sql.

 

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Setting the theme on a per-module basis

A very simple addition that makes this possible:

Setting the theme on a per-module basis

See the changeset .

 

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Planet Seagull launched

hi guys

we tried to get a planet seagull (aggregation of all seagull-related  
blogs) setup but experienced some delays.

the good news is i've setup an equivalent using the jaiku service,  
been running it for the last week and it seems pretty good:

http://seagull.jaiku.com/

 

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Seagull Developers Event in Riga, Latvia - July 2007

Hi guys

We're organising the annual Seagull developers event, this year it's in Riga, Latvia during weekend of 21-22 in July, more info here:

http://trac.seagullproject.org/wiki/RFC/SglDay2007

All are welcome and we'd love to see you out there.  Many of the core devs will be present and it will be an opportunity to

 * learn more about the framework

 

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CMS 1.1 released

Last week we released the next major version of the CMS module, 1.1:

overview:
http://trac.seagullproject.org/wiki/Modules/Cms

API:
http://trac.seagullproject.org/wiki/Modules/Cms/Api

direct download:

 

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Seagull 0.6.2 Released

Okay ... it took a bit of time to get this release out, 4 months to be exact which broke our monthly release cycle that has been maintained for several years now. What's up you ask? Have been very busy working on a startup venture with some clever guys, more info to come.

The main focus of 0.6.2 has been managing module resources so that they are completely independent from the core framework and are easy to install. To that end, everything a module might need can now be bundled in a single archive which can be unzipped in the modules directory, and Seagull will take care of everything else during the install process. Modules can now additionally contain any template or data resources, which include HTML, CSS, js and a range of data files. With the possibility of adding additional include paths, and config or setup files on a per-module basis, it's much easier to incorporate advanced features into your projects without touching the core.

Having said that, now the the 0.6 branch is quite stable and feature complete we'll be moving back to trunk and developing new features that have been in the pipeline for several months. The main focus will be on further decoupling the core framework (everything in seagull/lib/SGL) from the bundled modules, and in future releases all non-core features will be installable on-demand only. The result will be a much smaller, more manageable core, therefore more frequent releases, and better choice in terms of extra components for framework users.

 

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Amfphp Integration with Seagull

I guess this is a sign I've been too slow to blog about recent improvements in Seagull 0.6.2 (which should be released tomorrow morning) - the Amfphp guy has blogged this before me! From his core design goals of Amfphp homepage:

• Can be embedded into a framework (see CakeAmfphp, Seagull)

The integration was done by Thomas back in January, and is described in detail here.

 

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Seagull global reach and project status

Hi All

Many thanks to Steve Stremciuc, know as Steve Music to his friends,
who did this interesting Google maps piece recently:

http://www.seagullproject.org/googlemaps/map/

There's a dot for each Seagull dev who's registered at the
seagullproject.org site. In version 2 apparently we can expect the

 

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CMS 1.0 Community Edition Released

As promised, the initial version of the community edition of the CMS module is now available for download, see the wiki page for full details:

http://trac.seagullproject.org/wiki/Modules/Cms

Pay careful attention to the requirements before sending in bug reports:

http://trac.seagullproject.org/wiki/Modules/Cms#Requirements

It's somewhat last minute And there are still a few rough edges, but this will give you an idea of our intentions to deliver a competitive CMS product for PHP users.

 

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Seagull 0.6.1 Released

Version 0.6.1 of the Seagull framework was released last week, download it here. There's been a gap of 4 months since the last release due to the main devs being busy with contracts, nevertheless quite a few important fixes and improvements have been added to the project.

Our bounty program is now in full swing and certainly had something to do with some longstanding bugs finally being squashed. Many thanks to RV Global Soft Co.,Ltd who made a significant sponsorship. Please note that there's over $500 worth of unclaimed bounties to date ;-)

I also wanted to thank Dmitri Lakachauskis who did most of the hard work

 

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