Next release of DaDaBIK

Posted by Eugenio on 18 Dec 2004

Hi all,
DaDaBIK 3.1 rc1 will be available in the first months of 2005.
I thought to release a new version during this week but I then realized that the authentication class we are using is too difficult to integrate in DaDaBIK maintaining our code style.
I've decide to rewrite that part of code.

DaDaBIK 3.1 rc.1 will:
- store user data in a database (encrypted passwords)
- manage the users table (e.g. insert, modify and delete users) with DaDaBIK itself
- have the possibility to use a pre-existent customized users table (useful if you want to share DaDaBIK users with other applications)

I'm going to take a vacation, I'll leave for Australia on Monday, so I wish all DaDaBIK users a merry Christmas and a happy new year :)

Bye,

DaDaBIK and italian open source contest

Posted by Eugenio on 7 Dec 2004

Hi all,
the new release of DaDaBIK (3.1 rc 1) should be available in the next week.

In the meantime, if you appreciate and enjoy DaDaBIK, I ask you a favour: take a minute to vote for it in the italian open source contest (www.opensourcecontest.it). DaDaBIK is one of the 10 selected projects in the business category and now needs your vote :)

The site is only in italian, but voting is very easy:
1) you have to register (email, first name and text in the picture should be enough)
2) and then to vote DaDaBIK for the category "Business (Database, Office, System Integration)" using the code you will receive by e-mail after registration

Thank you :-)

Bye,

DaDaBIK 3.1 beta released

Posted by Eugenio on 19 Jul 2004

Hi all,
DaDaBIK 3.1 beta is available.
The main improvements:

• A new select query engine, that fixes the problems related to multiple references to a linked table and the multiple use of the same field name. This should also increase DaDaBIK speed.
  
  
• A basic authorization model: it is now possible to allow a user to delete only his own records, modify only his own records, view only his own records. For the authentication the class simpleLogin (http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/1492.html) has been (probably temporary) used, but it is possible to easily customize the authentication.
  
  
• A new field type is available: rich_editor; it is a rich text editor (htmlArea 2.03 by interactivetools.com http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/) that allows to easily insert/modify HTML content
  

Next release of DaDaBIK

Posted by Eugenio on 12 Jun 2004

Hi all,
I'm working on the next release (3.1 beta) of DaDaBIK and probably it will be released on July.

The release will contain:

- a rewritten engine that perform the select query using join and aliases (this fixes the problems related to multiple references to a linked table and the multiple use of the same field name)

- the ability to handle HTML content: a new field type rich_editor which uses htmlarea (http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea) as rich text editor and a new content type: "html"

- a basic authentication model, that for the moment allows a user to change and delete only his own records.

I'm proud to announce that two people have joined the DaDaBIK project:

Debbie Sontag (debsweb at shaw.ca), who manages the support forum and has started to write some additional documentation and

Marcello Vitali (si13259 at iperbole.bologna.it) who has implemented the rich text editor in DaDaBIK and is working on the authentication feature.


Stay tuned :)

Bye,

Eugenio.

DaDaBIK 3.0 released

Posted by Eugenio on 25 May 2004

Hi all,
DaDaBIK 3.0 final release is available.
This version fix several bugs discovered during the beta test, including some "[08] Error: during query execution" errors which appeared under particular conditions. It has been added also a new configuration parameter used to control the width of the results table columns.

I'm already working to the future 3.1 version, in which I will partially rewrite the engine that produce the SELECT statement, in order to fix the problems related to the multiple reference to a linked table and the multiple use of the same field name.
For further details see the changelog page.

I have also decided, starting from this version, to always release an upgrade procedure that allows to upgrade to a new DaDaBIK release without loosing the previous configuration settings.

Another way to support DaDaBIK, besides donations, is now available; I've put on this site some sponsored links to DWeb, a very interesting software product that allows the deploying of a PHP/MySQL application on CD/DVD. If you buy DWeb from these links I earn some money for every sale.