Geeklog

August 16, two weeks ago already, marked the end of the coding period for this year's incarnation of the Google Summer of Code. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank our students, Stan, Vlad, Adeka and Tim, for their hard work and dedication. It's been a long, productive summer and the team will be working hard to finish and polish up the new features. Look for them in one of the upcoming releases.

Socnet project

Randy adds: I am pleased to announce that the student who was chosen to create the Geeklog Social Networking plugin (Socnet), Stan Palatnik, has successfully passed the Google Summer of Code requirements and is well on the way to a first Alpha version for general testing by the Geeklog community. Stan put in a summer full of patching Geeklog core, testing core, and Socnet plugin development. Not all of those tasks are easy and not all are terribly exciting. However Stan persevered and has developed a framework for social networking and securing of content as was described on the GSoC project wiki page.

Now, there are some loose Socnet ends to tie up, and Stan is trying his best to complete those tasks before he heads off to University in September. I would like to congratulate Stan on his achievement and I would ask that the Geeklog community also give a big thanks to not only Stan, but all of the participating GSoC students this year.

Calendar plugin

Vinny adds: Out of a large field of submissions to create a new calendar plugin for Geeklog, Vlad Voicu's GSoC proposal was chosen. He has worked diligently all Summer, and has a lot to show for that effort. In the next few weeks an alpha release of the new Calendar plugin will be available here on geeklog.net. The biggest features that have been repeatedly requested for the Geeklog calendar that Vlad implemented in his design are recurring events and multiple calendars. Personally, I'm looking forward to using the new calendar. Congratulations and thanks to Vlad on his great work!

Cross-site publication project

Dirk adds: The goals of GSoC are to introduce students to open source, to find new members for the open source community, and to get the organizations involved in GSoC some useful new features for their software. With social networking, calendar, and configuration improvements covering some of the often requested new features, there was room again this year for a more experimental project. Tim Patrick already submitted a very interesting proposal last year that he came back to this year in expanded form. The Cross-site publication and alert system is a bit hard to describe - maybe "Atom feeds on steroids with some P2P thrown in for good measure" will give you an idea. It turned out to be a very ambitious project but Tim managed to get the basic functionality up and running. What's missing now is a bit of polish in the user interface. It may take a little longer to get this into a Geeklog release, but it does have a solid - and working - foundation and I'm looking forward to being able to send stuff back and forth between sites.

Once again, congrats to our students - good work! ...

This is an OAuth hack for Geeklog using APIs provided by Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Geeklog's user account is created by login with OAuth.

See README.txt for further details.

Demo site | Download OAuth for Geeklog - Login via Twitter etc. ...

One of the lesser known features of Geeklog is the ability to look up IP addresses, e.g. of comment posters, with a single click. Provided you have this feature configured to use a Whois lookup, e.g. Tom Willet's Nettools plugin.

Recently, the Whois function stopped working properly, due to changes in the underlying Whois services. The Nettools plugin 2.1 provides a fixed version of that service.

Please note that the Whois lookup is using code of the PHPWhois open source project. The fixes have been taken from the PHPWhois CVS, since there is no updated PHPWhois release yet. I will provide another update of the Nettools plugin once such an update is out. In the meantime, this new version should help getting accurate Whois information again.

This version of the Nettools plugin requires Geeklog 1.6.0 or later. Older versions are no longer supported.

Upgrading instructions: If you are upgrading from an earlier version of the plugin, please follow these steps (also listed in the included Readme.txt):

1. disable the plugin
2. remove all 3 plugin directories entirely
3. upload the new version, either manually or through Geeklog's plugin upload
4. if are uploading it manually, note that the new version does not include an "admin" directory any more
5. re-enable the plugin
6. you should see an update note, so update the plugin

These steps are necessary since a lot of files were changed, added, or removed to ensure you have a clean update.

The plugin's source code can also be found in a Mercurial repository here. ...

Need some new features with your paypal plugin. Try the last release 1.1.4 and get:

• Random product block
• Products downloads are recorded and admin can access to a downloads list
• Number of product's columns to display can be set in the config
• Products can now be active or not 
• Products can be hidden in the catalog
• Products hits are available for admin

Demo site | Download paypal plugin 1.1.4 ...

The latest release of Media Gallery WKZ plugin for geeklog is now available for download.

From this version I extend the functionality of glFusion version in earnest.

New features:

• Imported some of the version 1.6.10 of glFusion
• JQuery JavaScript library support
• New template (theme) were added
• New frame template were added by new method
• Support square (150x150) cropped thumbnails
• Added the mode go to the next image, when you click the image
• Improved PHP block function phpblock_mg_randommedia
• Added settings to config.php
• Several bug fixes and optimizations

Enjoy :) ...

Need to sell products. Paypal plugin version 1.1 is out and bring a cart to your geeklog site.

The PayPal plugin allows you to have an online product list and accept payment via PayPal. Products can be downloadable as program or pdf files, or can be physic as books, CD, DVD...

This plugin require PHP 5.2 or greater. I also recommend using the jquery plugin to support lightbox feature in your shop.

Download Paypal plugin | See demo site

Security

By default the paypal plugin will grant administrative rights to the plugin to the Root Group. Shopping (purchasing) privileges will be granted to the ?Logged-In Users? group. Viewing privileges will be granted to the ?All Useres? group. By adding users or groups as members of the ?Paypal Admin? or ?Paypal Users? or ?Paypal Viewers? group you can control who has administrative, shopping, and viewing privileges.

Paypal plugin what's new

• Added public folder setting
• Purchase history for users is now available
• Paypal errors are now log
• Added dynamic images for the link checkout with paypal
• Added css files to style the shop and the cart
• Added jquery feature for ajax
• An ajax Cart is now include
• A block with a cart view is also available
• Images uploader
• Support jquery lightbox (need jquery plugin)
• Online config

You can add your shop (products display page) in a static php page.

Upgrade

For upgrading to version 1.1 do not make an automatic upgrade by uploading the archive via the admin panel, it won't work. Please make a manual (ftp) upload of the files. ...