Welcome to the July 2009 issue of WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter (see here previous versions)
As always, as the first thing in each newsletter we wanted to express our gratitude to all of you who have donated money to XOOPS Foundation! We truly appreciate your trust and support!
And we finally have some tangible designs for the new XOOPS Website Theme, and meaningful discussions.
The work is also going on the next release of XOOPS: 2.3.4. Trabis and Wishcraft have been very hard at work, and we should expect the first Beta release sometime next week.
Highlights of the last month:
XOOPS Innovation Award - for people who create something very unique and innovative for XOOPS. This time the award goes to Ruoyu SUN (insraq) from China for his innovative work on XOOPS China Website.
XOOPSer of the Month Award: is given to XOOPS members who show extraordinary dedication to XOOPS, and go the extra mile for XOOPS. This month, we would like to recognize Michael Albertsen(culex) for his support on our Forums.
Welcome to X-Invites 1.16. This module is for mass email inviting it allows for your website client to enter their username and password for various of email services and social networks like yahoo, hotmail, rambler, mail.com, fastmail, facebook, twitter and many others and will download a list of the email clients on that service.
It will then allow for an email to be sent inviting the person on that email to sign up to your website.
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a way for a program running in one kind of operating system (such as Windows 2000) to communicate with a progam in the same or another kind of an operating system (such as Linux) by using the World Wide Web's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)and its Extensible Markup Language (XML) as the mechanisms for information exchange. Since Web protocols are installed and available for use by all major operating system platforms, HTTP and XML provide an already at-hand solution to the problem of how programs running under different operating systems in a network can communicate with each other. SOAP specifies exactly how to encode an HTTP header and an XML file so that a program in one computer can call a program in another computer and pass it information. It also specifies how the called program can return a response.
What Can It Do for Me?
You can link with any soap-compliant system with complete w3c standard wsdl these will be completed in version 4.0 they are more just the abstract data layers of wsdl, they still need a dynamic mime type and other system written into them which the constructs are in place. You can transfer data between any sort tunnel through most of not all firewalls and poll your xoops platform from with another xoops or CMS or even things like .NET, Delphi and many other programming languages.
X-SOAP is the quick way for cloud computing, you can link your xoops platform with any other computer network with this module, plug-in have complete WSDL compilation code and allow for easy and dynamic deployment.
Whats New in this release?
The PHP SOAP has now been fixed, this will work with the native PHP SOAP as well as use nusoap if the PHP Extension is not installed.
