RunCMS 1.6 Halloween released

The RunCMS 1.6 Halloween is a new release version of RunCMS

We get more speed & abilities, also as look'n'feel

New Features
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[+] Add new classes based for on ObjectHandlers from XOOPS2 - not need to get the same object many times from DB

[+] SITEMAP can be inserted by EVERY module by not-core team developers

[+] Add TEMPLATE support in core kernel and rewrite most of the official modules for use it

[+] add new mod_rewriting url's in XoopsModule level - any developer can use it in their own module

[+] additional features in MySQL class - such as on/off the file caching, debug log and error report

[+] Add snoopy library (http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/)

[+] Many additional methods in CORE KERNEL classes

[+] More flexibility - you can use you own Message modules by defining RC_PM_MODULE & RC_PM_LINK in you own theme (see runcms/include/common.php for example)

[+] Added prototype.js library for AJAX and sites with big Javascript code

[+] Add birthday support for user

[+] Added phpDocumentor labels in RunCMS files for auto generating of documentation.

[!] FOR RUNCMS DEVELOPERS:
PLEASE, USE PHPDOCUMENTOR FORMAT OF COMMENTS FOR ALL PHP CODE YOU WRITTEN!
LET'S STOP THIS UNDOCUMENTED HORROR IN RUNCMS MODULES SOURCE CODE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!

More SPEED
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[+] improved CACHING of many parts of RunCMS saves more SQL queries - It is gave RunCMS more speed

[+] block caching also can gave more speed for RunCMS and remove many not needed DB queries

[+] rewirting user online/offline mechnism

[+] Added GREAT optimization of XoopsTree which removes many numbers of SQL on sites with big number of categories

Nice Looking
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[+] Add new Helloween theme by MetallOFON (Hello from Russia)

[+] you can create your own design for admin area
* by using your_theme/style/admin.css & your_theme/style/admin_menu.css. By default - files from style/*.css are used.
* your_theme/menu/admin.css & your_theme/menu/default.css can be moved to your_theme/style/admin.css as another theme's CSS

[+] Use your own pointers - RC_IMG_POINTER can be defined in your_theme/theme.php

[+] 2 different CSS files for LTR & RTL languages (see runcms/style/style_*.css)


And MANY, MANY another features and bugfixes - for more detailed changelog please take a look on /manual/changes.txt


This version was created by EsseBe, Michael_XIII, Shurik2K5, AlexLeonov, bagu, PHP_FAN and many others


Special thanks to
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* Irbis
* [Morph]
and all another users, who helps core team members for test and debug RunCMS code

* also as MetallOFON for new nice theme.


P.S. "AAAAA... It's Halloweeeeeen" (c)


Download RunCMS 1.6 Halloween (build 20071030)>>

Note that this archive contains a upgrade pack from RunCMS 1.5 also - so MANY files was changed so this variant should be better.