To start off a new year, E-Blah 10.3.3 has been released.  This is a much larger release than the previous small releases have been and include several new features.

Better Security
Along with bug fixes comes better security and Administrator Access Lists.  Administrator Access Lists allows administrators to assign certain administrator options to member groups, like a low level Administrator.

Latest Forum Activity
The latest forum activity can now be shown on the board index.  This will greatly increase the search for new threads on your forum.

More Time Variables
The E time setting was added to the time settings, which will allow for a superscripted ordinal suffix.  Along with this, guest time settings is now based on the member time settings that has been in the Member Center for a few months.

Advanced Post Editor
A new, experimental feature has been added which provides a WYSIWYG post editor for your forum.  Through the use of TinyMCE your members will now be able to post messages using this new editor.  It is disabled by default, and when enabled your members have the option to turn the option off.

Download E-Blah 10.3.3

Hey hey...

Installed it... on install I got the following message:

# Content-type: text/html There was an error with part of the E-Blah system core (incorrect directory specified and/or incomplete file upload, perhaps?). Bad file descriptorContent-type: text/html There was an error with part of the E-Blah system core (incorrect directory specified and/or incomplete file upload, perhaps?). Bad file descriptorContent-type: text/html There was an error with part of the E-Blah system core (incorrect directory specified and/or incomplete file upload, perhaps?). Inappropriate ioctl for deviceContent-type: text/html There was an error with part of the E-Blah system core (incorrect directory specified and/or incomplete file upload, perhaps?). Bad file descriptorRebuilt member list ...
# Closed setup file ...

Aside from that, upgrade seems to have worked.  TinyMCE is a cool feature, but not sure if I'll be using it... having the html button makes me a bit uneasy.

I had the same problem on doing the upgrade.

Things were kind of wonky until I also rebuilt the boards, then everyone worked as expected.

One problem I've found: you can click "Toggle Advanced Editor" to make it go away, but any text that's entered in the old editor is lost when "Post" is clicked. You end up with a page that says "Message field was left blank".  Anyone else seeing this?

Thanks!

It isn't doing that for me, goathunter.  What browser are you on?

I'm about to reupload the package with the fix for the Setup issue.

I see it with both IE7 and Firefox 2.something.  It's also with two different forums, so I either made the same mistake on both, or there's a real problem somewhere. ;)  I'll try to see if I can figure it out.

Two more observations: when I click "Post", I see the text disappear from the edit box as the page is being submitted....  And if I type some text in the advanced editor, then Toggle, the text is retained and submitted when I click "Post."  It's only when the text box is empty and I click "Toggle", then add text, that the text disappears.

Thanks.

Installed , but few of my old features gone . but its looks nice . thanks for the latest forum activity features .and few extras.. ;D

I've still got a persistent user that I simply cannot delete.  I've tried EVERYTHING.  Manually editing the List2.txt, using the admin function, downloading the entire installation and doing a manual search and replace...

Still no luck.

If you have deleted them from List2.txt did you also delete the corresponding number from List.txt?

FCKeditor seems to be a lot smoother than TinyMCE when I tested them with Wordpress.  :)

Happy new year to Eblah team and site visitors

Quoted from pakodi

FCKeditor seems to be a lot smoother than TinyMCE when I tested them with Wordpress.  :)

Happy new year to Eblah team and site visitors

The main problem with that is they do not have a BBCode plugin.  If they do and I simply overlooked it, I can look into it.  I like TinyMCE, but it does have it's flaws.   :P

I did some minor adjustments to the Advanced editor that may make it work a lot better.  If you wish to use the editor, download the entire E-Blah package and do another upgrade.  Do not worry about running Setup.pl. Please remember, however, that there are still major bugs with this and it's still experimental.

Nice job with the new release. You never fail to please everyone Justin. :)

Are you going to enable the advanced editor on here?

No, because the codebox and all doesn't work.

Justin, great work! Thanks for the nice forum update!
Please, check some moments:
1) "Code\Calendar.pl", line 746: hardcoded path "/blahdocs/images/thread.gif" (must be "$images/thread.gif");
2) "Code\MessageDisplay.pl", line 621: hardcoded path "/blahdocs/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js" (must be "$bdocsdir/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js").
3) "Code\Post.pl", line 1407: hardcoded path "/blahdocs/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js" (must be "$bdocsdir/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js").
4) "Code\BoardIndex.pl", lines 18 and 19: hardcoded text "<strong>Topic</strong>" (must be included in language file).

Vzx, thanks for finding those.  Those should have been fixed before release, but I somehow forgot to add those (the last two).  Thanks for finding them.  :)

Quoted from Martin

If you have deleted them from List2.txt did you also delete the corresponding number from List.txt?

I did that.  But as soon as Member List is rebuilt, the username keeps popping back in there.  I'm going nuts and have tried EVERYTHING I can think of.

Quoted from Justin

Advanced Post Editor
A new, experimental feature has been added which provides a WYSIWYG post editor for your forum.  Through the use of TinyMCE your members will now be able to post messages using this new editor.  It is disabled by default, and when enabled your members have the option to turn the option off.

Since this new feature has been implemented into Eblah forums, maybe the developers will also consider creating a CMS using the eblah features, the forum has many of the features of an advanced CMS System, there are just few more things to be added: news section, archive, etc. I would really enjoy this. I am installing now the new version to check out the latest features.

Thanks again to all who are involved in this great project.