alexking.org » PHP Tag Engine | alexking.org http://alexking.org Alex King's blog - software, photography, sports, etc. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:22:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 en PHP Tag Engine 1.0 http://alexking.org/blog/2007/01/28/php-tag-engine-10 http://alexking.org/blog/2007/01/28/php-tag-engine-10#comments Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:39:14 +0000 Alex http://alexking.org/blog/2007/01/28/php-tag-engine-10 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "PHP Tag Engine 1.0", url: "http://alexking.org/blog/2007/01/28/php-tag-engine-10" });]]> I’ve released version 1.0 of PHP Tag Engine (the version included in the new releases of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks™).

The PHP Tag Engine web site has been updated accordingly, as has the download on SourceForge.

I’ve also created a “stable” tag in the public SVN for developers that want to use that for their svn:externals.

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]]> http://alexking.org/blog/2007/01/28/php-tag-engine-10/feed Tasks Pro™ 1.7 and Tasks™ 2.7 http://alexking.org/blog/2007/01/16/tasks-pro-17-tasks-27 http://alexking.org/blog/2007/01/16/tasks-pro-17-tasks-27#comments Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:44:57 +0000 Alex http://alexking.org/blog/2007/01/16/tasks-pro-17-tasks-27 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Tasks Pro™ 1.7 and Tasks™ 2.7", url: "http://alexking.org/blog/2007/01/16/tasks-pro-17-tasks-27" });]]> Whoohoo! Tasks Pro™ 1.7 and Tasks™ 2.7 have now been officially released!

Tagging in Tasks Pro™

New features:

  • Tagging!
  • Per tag RSS feeds.
  • Per tag iCalendars.
  • Searching and browsing by tag.
  • Editing and appending tags to multiple tasks at once.
  • Globally edit tag names.
  • Globally delete tags.
  • Showing the “Closing Notes” form when the Mark Complete button is clicked is now a per-user option.
  • Ability to add time when marking a task complete (if you have “Closing Notes” enabled).
  • Icon to indicate recurring tasks.
  • Font size setting (per user) in preferences.
  • Task lists now show 200 items.
  • History screen now shows the last 100 modified tasks.
  • Attached files are now links in the RSS feeds.
  • Task URLs are included in the iCalendar item description since Google Calendar seems to ignore the URL field.
  • Latest version of PHP iCalendar and ADOdb.
  • Added ‘completed’ class to completed tasks for use in themes.
  • Faster page loads.
  • Added advanced configuration options (manual config file edit) for turning off checking for new versions and disabling gzip output (since this caused issues in very rare cases).
  • Discontinued support for MySQL 3.x.
  • Updated and expanded documentation.

These also include a few bug fixes and enhancements:

  • Accesskeys work in IE.
  • Date range searches work properly.
  • File uploads work properly in MS SQL Server.
  • E-mail subject prefix works properly.
  • Reduce server load when creating RSS feeds and iCalendars for a task and all sub-tasks.
  • Better compatibility for an alternative e-mail attachment formats (e-mail to task feature).
  • ‘Mark complete and attach sub-tasks to parent task’ works properly.
  • Support for file:\\ as an URL prefix (the proper file:// was already supported).
  • Opera mini is now propery detected as a mobile browser.
  • The e-mail to task feature now works properly with most quoted-printable e-mails.
  • Upgrade from Tasks Jr. works properly again
  • Additional changes to improve MS SQL and PostgreSQL compatibility.

With the addition of tagging, Tasks Pro™ and Tasks™ are more Getting Things Done (GTD) compliant than ever.

I also made an adjustment to the free trials so that the date the trial expires is shown in the trial itself. This had been a rarely requested addition, but the folks that did were rather upset that the trial had expired on them :scare: unexpectedly :/scare: . Sometimes severity trumps frequency. :)

These were a long time in development for seemingly few new features, but there was quite a bit that went into these releases besides the features and bug fixes. The new store and support options were added, PHP Tag Engine was created and released, and the content from the Tasks Pro™ web site (at taskspro.com) was finally integrated into the King Design web site (at kingdesign.net/tasks-pro/).

If you want to try the online demo or a free trial of Tasks Pro™, those are now hosted on kingdesign.net instead of taskspro.com. I believe I’ve set up all the necessary redirects.

As the Panic guys say: get your upgrade quick - there’s only a small window to get a major “dot” release before the inevitable “dot one” release. :)

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]]> http://alexking.org/blog/2007/01/16/tasks-pro-17-tasks-27/feed PHP Tag Engine SVN Access http://alexking.org/blog/2006/11/17/php-tag-engine-svn-access http://alexking.org/blog/2006/11/17/php-tag-engine-svn-access#comments Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:42:13 +0000 Alex http://alexking.org/blog/2006/11/17/php-tag-engine-svn-access SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "PHP Tag Engine SVN Access", url: "http://alexking.org/blog/2006/11/17/php-tag-engine-svn-access" });]]> Apparently anonymous SVN access to the PHP Tag Engine SVN repository was broken. This should now be properly available again.

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]]> http://alexking.org/blog/2006/11/17/php-tag-engine-svn-access/feed PHP Tag Engine “How To” http://alexking.org/blog/2006/10/11/php-tag-engine-how-to http://alexking.org/blog/2006/10/11/php-tag-engine-how-to#comments Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:12:05 +0000 Alex http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/10/11/php-tag-engine-how-to/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "PHP Tag Engine \"How To\"", url: "http://alexking.org/blog/2006/10/11/php-tag-engine-how-to" });]]> I’ve fleshed out the How To page for PHP Tag Engine. It’s still pretty sparse, but a lot better than what was there before. I think what is really needed is an example implementation so folks can see how easy it is to drop in - maybe for something nice and basic like an open source bookmark app (provided it is written in PHP).

Any nominations for simple but interesting/fun/useful open source PHP apps that could benefit from having tags added?

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]]> http://alexking.org/blog/2006/10/11/php-tag-engine-how-to/feed Tasks Pro™ 1.7 beta 4 and Tasks 2.7 beta 4 http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/08/tasks-pro-17-beta-4-and-tasks-27-beta-4 http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/08/tasks-pro-17-beta-4-and-tasks-27-beta-4#comments Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:40:12 +0000 Alex http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/08/08/tasks-pro-17-beta-4-and-tasks-27-beta-4/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Tasks Pro™ 1.7 beta 4 and Tasks 2.7 beta 4", url: "http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/08/tasks-pro-17-beta-4-and-tasks-27-beta-4" });]]> I’ve uploaded beta 4 of Tasks Pro™ 1.7 and Tasks 2.7. This release fixes a few bugs that were reported in the beta 3 releases including one in PHP Tag Engine that caused the install/upgrade to fail. Sorry about that. :)

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]]> http://alexking.org/blog/2006/08/08/tasks-pro-17-beta-4-and-tasks-27-beta-4/feed Announcing PHP Tag Engine http://alexking.org/blog/2006/07/28/php-tag-engine http://alexking.org/blog/2006/07/28/php-tag-engine#comments Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:27:43 +0000 Alex http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/07/28/php-tag-engine/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Announcing PHP Tag Engine", url: "http://alexking.org/blog/2006/07/28/php-tag-engine" });]]> PHP Tag Engine is a PHP library that makes it easy to add tagging to a PHP application.

PHP Tag Engine

Some of the features include:

  • Full AJAX front-end.
  • Easy integration into existing applications.
  • Built-in support for the Yahoo! Auto-Complete library.
  • Built-in cache to minimize database queries.
  • Fully documented in PHP Doc format.

This is, of course, what is powering the new tagging feature in Tasks Pro™ and Tasks.

I’ve started using more open source libraries in Tasks Pro™ and Tasks. This biggest one I’m using is the ADOdb library that allowed me to easily add support for PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server to my existing MySQL support, however I’m also using the excellent Feed Creator class as well as distributing a slightly modified version of PHP iCalendar as a viewer for the Tasks Pro™ and Tasks iCalendars. So when I was thinking about how best to implement tagging in Tasks Pro™ and Tasks, I saw an opportunity to contribute back to the community. OSCON seemed like a good time to officially release.

For those paying close attention, this is the project I started back in March.

I’ve set up a Trac site and SVN repository for the project at phptagengine.com. This is hosted on TextDrive, and many kudos go out to the great folks there that helped me get everything set up and working.

Trac is exactly what I wanted for this project: a wiki, web SVN interface and integrated bug tracking system. However, Trac is not the friendliest of tools to configure and the good folks at TextDrive were very helpful.

One of the interesting things (to me) about Trac is that there is no built-in user system. It can either use your system users, or it can authenticate against a MySQL database using mod_auth_mysql. We used the latter, authenticating against a WordPress install that I set up to allow people to register themselves.

Once registered, they can log in to Trac and be able to edit the wiki and create tickets. This isn’t quite as smooth as I’d like it to be, but I’m just glad it works at all at this point. ;) Many thanks to Matt for his advice on this subject.

The httpd.conf settings for making Trac authenticate against the WordPress user database (using mod_auth_mysql) are as follows:

<Location /login>
AuthName “PHP Tag Engine”
AuthType Basic
AuthMySQLHost localhost
AuthMySQLUser your-mysql-username
AuthMySQLPassword your-mysql-password
AuthMySQLDB your-mysql-database-name
AuthMySQLUserTable wp_users
AuthMySQLNameField user_login
AuthMySQLPasswordField user_pass
AuthMySQLMD5Passwords On
Require valid-user
</Location>

Hopefully this will be helpful to the next person who wants to allow folks to register themselves for a Trac installation.

Oh, and there is another OS tagging library for PHP called FreeTag. If it had launched (or I’d been able to find it) a little earlier, I’d probably have extended it instead of building my own. Unfortunately, by the time I found out about it PHP Tag Engine was almost feature complete.

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