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What's new in each version of Interchange
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Interchange 4.9.9 released 2003-10-31.
Core
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* Remove long-deprecated %Safe hash. Use $CGI, $Carts, $Items, $Config,
$Scratch, and $Values instead of $Safe{cgi} etc.
* Fix locking of NFS sessions.
* Make [bounce ...] more reliable with respect to terminating output
and future parsing.
* Send Content-Size header with downloads.
* Add MD5 password support to UserDB.
To activate, use UserDB "md5" option, i.e.:
UserDB ui md5 1
* Make $Tag object be rebuilt every time a new page is done.
* Fix bug in [PREFIX-discount-subtotal] where quantity was greater
than one. We were overloading the discount_price() routine, which
was dumb, so a new discount_subtotal() routine takes over.
* Add iso_time and null_time options for updating UserDB time_field:
UserDB default null_time 1
UserDB default iso_time 1
* Add stubs for log_error and errstr routines in the database
modules.
* Fix for broken getppid() on Linux systems with threads enabled.
To implement, use
Variable MV_GETPPID_BROKEN 1
in interchange.cfg. It substitutes a syscall(64) for the getppid
call.
This should only be necessary on systems with threads enabled,
which is NOT recommended for IC.
* Allow overriding LENGTH_EXCEPTION_DEFAULT with individual LENGTH_EXCEPTION.
This just makes LENGTH_EXCEPTION accept values like:
Database transactions LENGTH_EXCEPTION_DEFAULT truncate_log
Database transactions LENGTH_EXCEPTION update_date=ignore
* Don't run set_defaults at all for a subcatalog, as they should be set
for the base catalog.
* Allow for SELECT statements in parentheses or other non-word characters.
* Enable [order] tag to specify a variant, not just a base product, when
options are in use, e.g.:
[order code="ABCD" variant="ABCD-XYZ"]Buy now
* Fix a problem where the following worked:
$Tag->price({ code => $sku });
but the following failed:
$Tag->price($sku);
The problem was highlighted by Paul Vinciguerra, in IRC.
* Add date-based counter capability to Vend::CounterFile.
-- In a database, you just add
Database tablename AUTO_NUMBER_DATE 1
To have real autonumbering, you still must define AUTO_NUMBER.
This of course does not work with AUTO_SEQUENCE.
You must make sure your key field type is at least 12 chars.
-- In a counter tag, you do:
[counter file=filename.ctr date=local]
or
$Tag->counter({ file => $fn, date => 'local'});
To define GMT as being used for the numbering, you do:
[counter file=filename.ctr date=gmt]
* Fix problems that GDBM and some other types would not honor HIDE_AUTO_FILES.
* Allow an ActionMap, Autoload, or profile to generate a completely
virtual page and avoid readin() of anything.
* Fix bug that prevented [loop-change foo] from working when the range of
conditions was only 0 and 1.
* Add no_set boolean option to [userdb], which prevents userdb row from
being set with values.
* Don't throw away UseModifier cart modifiers on every cart update.
They can still be updated via CGI mv_item_option if it's set.
* Remove insurance of trailing null fields being included in arrays.
Any traversing of the arrays should be keyed on code/sku anyway,
and that is the only one that needs to be fully populated.
Fix provided by Brian Rogers of Groxis -- caused problems for one
of his custom ordering routines.
* Allow return of page from readin (or readfile in locale mode) without
the locale language substitutions done. This allows proper edits of
pages.
* Allow set of status header even when not doing redirect.
* Fix double-setting of Content-Type header, use proper header
setting routine.
* Never set a cookie when mv_tmp_session in effect.
* Add DeliverImage directive that enables fast IC delivery of
images requested from it.
To enable, do in catalog.cfg:
DeliverImage Yes
If the file extension is present and the MimeType for that extension
begins with "image/", the path will be adjusted to add ImageDir
or ImageDirSecure, and a 302 issued.
This happens before database or session opens, and is quite fast.
Sets $Vend::tmp_session so no cookie is issued.
* Make frequently-used HTML::Entities encode_entities routine available
to embedded Perl.
* Allow timed_build to autocreate directory path when filename with path
component is specified. This makes it easier to do dynamic directories
based on CGI parameters etc. when there are thousands of timed build
files. E.g.:
[timed-build file="timed/@@MV_PAGE@@/[item-code]" minutes=86400] ...
* Avoid cluttering of global logs with
'Attempt to call perl from within Safe'.
* Fix prefork problem that might be biting someone, could cause missing
filters.
* Add ability to access and test the $opt hash for any search
loop.
[loop prefix=top list="a b c"]
[loop list="1 2 3" foo-opt="[top-code]"]
[if-loop-header-param foo_opt]
Foo is there! It is: [loop-header-param foo_opt]
[/if-loop-header-param]
[if-loop-header-param !foo_opt]
Foo is NOT there! It is: [loop-header-param foo_opt]
[/if-loop-header-param]
[if-loop-header-param foo_opt eq a]
Foo is equal to a.
[else]
Foo is NOT equal to a.
[/else]
[/if-loop-header-param]
[/loop]
[/loop]
* Add module-version intrinsic test:
* Enhance [PREFIX-alternate] to support
[PREFIX-alternate] Defaults to [value mv_item_alternate] or 2 (same)
[PREFIX-alternate N] Alternate every N items (same)
[PREFIX-alternate except_last] Every time except last in list
[PREFIX-alternate except_first] Every time except last in list
[PREFIX-alternate first_only] Only on the first item
[PREFIX-alternate last_only] Only on the last item
[PREFIX-alternate 0] Alias for first_only
[PREFIX-alternate -1] Alias for except_last
* Move handling of anchor option from tag_area to vendURL.
* Add new facility for storing address books in outboard address table,
instead of an in-record hash, and start framework for adding different
personalities to UserDB.
* Move UserDB's "logout" function to a subroutine so that it can be inherited.
* Add RedirectCache directive which allows redirected page requests to
be set to mv_tmp_session then written to the target from which it was
redirected. This allows a complete web site to be mirrored to static
HTML as it is requested, accompanied with the proper setting of
AcceptRedirect in Interchange and ErrorDocument in the Apache server.
To use:
* Set ErrorDocument 404 to the Interchange URL in Apache.
* Set "AcceptRedirect Yes" in interchange.cfg.
* Set "RedirectCache /var/www/html" in interchange.cfg (use
your document root in place of /var/www/html).
When a page http://yourdomain.tld/subdir/page.html is not found,
Interchange gets a redirect which causes it to set mv_tmp_session=1.
If Interchange doesn't find the page, then it returns "missing" and
no writing is done. If IC does find the page, it is written to
/var/www/html/subdir/page.html and the page will be found on next
access.
Exclude on HTTP server side can be done with permissions -- don't set
it writable by IC daemon if you don't want it written.
* Fix problem where defining blank GlobalSub would kill *all* globalsubs.
* Never issue a session ID on timed-build URL.
* Remove conditional for caching history on Pragma: no-cache -- this is
all wrong. The directive is to this page transaction of Interchange,
i.e. timed-build and such. It should not be used to prevent building
of history, partly because browsers may send it for their own reason.
* Prevent autovivification of $CGI::values{mv_username}, and make CookieLogin
slightly more efficient when already logged in.
* Allow custom increment and decrement routines with inc-routine and
dec-routine options. They can be an inline code reference:
[counter
file=testcount
inc-routine=`sub { shift(@_) + 2 }`
]
[counter
file=testcount
decrement=1
dec-routine=`sub { shift(@_) - 2 }`
]
or a Sub or GlobalSub:
catalog.cfg:
Sub three_steps_forward <.
* Implement Paul Vinciguerra's suggestion to not save mv_password in
the History hash.
You can also set up a different NoHistory set via
@Vend::Dispatch::NoHistory = qw/ foo bar mv_credit_card_number /;
Tables
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* Set up error reporting to be able to catch database errors
and display in session, catalog error.log, or global error.log
1. Logging levels are on a per-table basis, with
defaults that can be set with DatabaseDefault:
DatabaseDefault LOG_ERROR_CATALOG 1
DatabaseDefault LOG_ERROR_SESSION 1
DatabaseDefault LOG_ERROR_GLOBAL 0
DatabaseDefault DIE_ERROR 0
2. Log errors to the catalog error.log by default.
Database inventory LOG_ERROR_CATALOG 0|1*
3. Log errors to the session always if an admin, and
controlled by configuration if not.
Database inventory LOG_ERROR_SESSION 0|1*
This has the effect of giving a big red error message when such
an event as failing to create a record occured. In most cases,
you would be able to use the <-Back button and fix the error
and resubmit.
The error tag is "table foo", where foo is the table.
4. Die at the page level (500 error) only if that is explicit
request in config for that table:
Database inventory DIE_ERROR 0*|1
5. Log errors globally only on explicit request:
Database inventory LOG_ERROR_GLOBAL 0*|1
6. LENGTH_EXCEPTION errors go into warnings if they are handled
with truncate.
* default
* Fix numeric sorting in SQL statements if a field is NUMERIC.
* Allow limits from SQL statement to flow through even if ml="" is set
and let direct_sql.html admin page honor them.
* Fix table names so that we don't have the funky .txt problems
where a SQL query would not work on a DBM database unless
the file name base matched the table name.
* Attempt to regularize error messages so that they can be
more easily translated. Now should have about 50% less
variations.
* Prevent internal server error when $db->row($key) fetches no results
within DBI module.
* Fix bug in DBI module that caused arbitrary column to get set
to primary key instead of to the intended new value.
* Add internal Interchange locking routines and support for GDBM. (Should
work on others as well but is not tested.)
To set internal locking, just put in the config:
Database access IC_LOCKING 1
On GDBM, employs the GDBM_NOLOCK parameter.
It should prevent the errors in access.gdbm when multiple admins are
logged in. It might also serve to make userdb in GDBM somewhat usable.
Search
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* Add Altavista-style search operator with Text::Query (CPAN) module.
Calls Text::Query::*AdvancedString with op=aq, calls
Text::Query::*SimpleString with op=tq.
Examples:
[loop search="
se=hammer -framing
sf=description
fi=products
st=db
co=yes
rf=*
op=tq
"]
[loop-code] [loop-param description]
[/loop]
[loop search="
se=hammer NEAR framing
sf=description
fi=products
st=db
co=yes
rf=*
op=aq
"]
[loop-code] [loop-param description]
[/loop]
Honors mv_case (-case option), mv_all_chars (-regexp option),
mv_substring_match (-whole option) and mv_exact_match
(-litspace option).
* Add ability to map in custom search routines. In interchange.cfg:
CodeDef find_hammer SearchOp find_hammer
CodeDef find_hammer Routine <
[/loop]
The passed parameters are:
- The search object ($self)
- The index into coordinated search array ($i)
- The pattern to match
- The name of the op (find_hammer in this case)
Must return a sub which receives the data to match and returns
1 if it matches. DOES NOT HONOR mv_negate UNLESS you tell it to.
See Vend::Search::create_text_query for an example of how to
return a proper routine and look in search object for the
associated params.
Payment
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* CCVS payment module removed.
* Add support for Canadian PSiGate gateway. Thanks to Gary Benson for his
work and testing.
* Fix potential PreFork problems in AuthorizeNet module.
* Add a "x_ADC_Delim_Character" (set to \037, which is ASCII US)
to replace the default field separator (,). A comma isn't a
very useful default, as people tend to use them in their address.
Problem reported, and fix tested, by John Young in IRC.
Shipping
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* Don't cache zero UPS shipping cost.
* UPS no longer accepts UK as a country code for shipments to
Great Britain.
-- did an exception remap for UK --> GB
-- Added UPS_COUNTRY_REMAP code so that this type of thing
can be done elsewhere.
# Remap Monaco to France for UPS
Variable UPS_COUNTRY_REMAP MC=FR
* Add ability to build weight adjustments based on Simple options
settings. Requires a "weight" field in the options table.
* Add hide_error option to suppress error message when no shipping methods
are found.
* Allow comment lines in shipping.asc, with leading # mark.
UI
--
* Add missing user and password to SQL DUMP COMMAND in xfer_catalog
UserTag.
* Remove the Term modules from checks -- they have nothing to do with
IC operation and Term::ReadKey can cause core dumps.
* Remove extra from templates.
* Force name to text variable, so numerical-only names will not cause
crash when a string function is done.
* Minor improvements in backup setup.
-- Let backup tables be explicitly specified in
UI_BACKUP_TABLES.
-- If no UI_BACKUP_TABLES, honor first "backup" then
"!display_filter" in table metadata.
-- Display size of downloadable file.
-- Prevent spurious .html extension on download link.
* Add meta_editor support for MAXLENGTH and JavaScript checks.
* Made default metadata (for merge) match foundation.
* Fix inability to set and retain multiple user groups with fix
provided by Sonny Cook.
* Prevent display of meta database when relocated from meta editor.
* Write the selected PGP/GPG key to the Variable table setting.
* Missing session id added to form in various admin pages
(thanks to Paul Vinciguerra for the patch).
* Add check to disallow invalid option names.
* Old-style simple option updates were ineffective because the
"Commit Changes" button's mv_nextpage was set to "admin/item"
instead of @@MV_PAGE@@.
* Allow tracking number to be updated on ship.
Fix contributed by Sebastian Braun.
* Get rid of strange extra loop for billing information in customer_view
pages that just caused extra queries for [bill-data userdb ...] calls.
* Check whether userdb is LARGE instead of transactions on customer page.
* Ensure that secure mode is forced before we bounce to login.
* Fix the long-standing problem that sorts and groupings would not
work on query-by-example search returns.
* Fix problem with creating new option when no prior options exist.
Fix found by Reid Sutherland (reid-ic@thirddimension.net).
* Add ability to edit pages using Mozilla composer, or any HTML editor
that can publish with an HTTP put. Includes ability to upload images
with the files, create new files, and more.
* ONLY operates on the area between and
.
* Pulls the page title from the of the PUT page.
* If a new page is PUT, it is wrapped with the template used in
the nearest DirectoryIndex ("index" by default). If a new file
"trucks/chevy/mom.html" is created and does not exist, the following
files will be used as the template in this order if they exist:
trucks/chevy/index
trucks/index
index
* Update [if-mm ...] to have a "pagematch" and "filematch" function
that allows security checks based on the files and pages fields
in the access table. This allows certain users to have publish
permission only on certain image and page directories. For
instance, if the user "bubba" is only to edit files in the
"trucks" hierarchy, you would want in access:
username:bubba
files:images/trucks/
pages:trucks/
* Add action "admin_publish" that handles the PUT process. Requires
user be logged in as an admin, and requires
* Automatic RCS versioning if PUBLISH_DO_RCS variable is set. Can
stop publish if RCS error when PUBLISH_QUIT_ON_RCS_ERROR Variable
is set.
* Adding "ui_mozilla_edit=1" to the URL keeps ITL tags from being
interpolated within the BEGIN CONTENT/END CONTENT area. This
allows
* Automatically adjusts image paths in the uploaded file to be
relative to the directory the page is in. This allows individual
directories to use different sets of images and Mozilla won't
willy-nilly overwrite things in other directories.
* Can prevent any publishing to the pages root if PUBLISH_NO_PAGE_ROOT
is set.
* Allow component modification via Mozilla editor.
If you follow the "show tags" link (i.e. add ui_mozilla_edit=1 to
the param list), it will output the current component set
in meta headers:
For instance, component 5 above is exactly equivalent to:
[control-set]
[component]cross[/component]
[banner][L]Specials[/component]
[cols]2[/cols]
[size]2[/size]
[/control-set]
* Also turn on no_locale_parse in ui_mozilla_edit mode, so that
locale-based information won't be lost.
* Add ability to manipulate any [set setting]value[/set] (tmpn?, seti also)
via meta header edit on Mozilla.
Same procedure, just add a meta_header:
and that setting will be modified accordingly.
Does not remove settings, only sets the ones found in headers.
* Prevent linked forms et al from coming in from table metadata.
* Add [flex-select] tag, complete replacement for and enhancement to
the admin/flex_select.html page in the UI.
* Each colunn can have individual sort settings, and can individually
be specified to use alphabetic more lists when it is the sorting
column. (ui_more_alpha, ui_sort_option)
* Group "magnifying glass" can be turned off in metadata. (fs_no_group)
* Filters can be specified in metadata instead of just ui_data_fields.
(fs_display_filter)
* Links to other pages specifying the field value can be done
easily. For example, to add a per-sku link on the products
table to the item_options page, put in ui_data_fields
sku
sku-options
price
description
In the metadata for products::sku-options, do:
'extended.fs_link_page' => 'admin/item_options',
'extended.fs_link_parm' => 'item_id',
'extended.fs_link_anchor' => 'Edit Options',
That will produce:
Edit Options
Can be shorthand-set in ui_data_fields with:
sku
sku-admin/item_options:item_id:Edit Options
price
description
* Columns can be calculated values by putting embedded perl code in
fs_data_calc. The current row hash (with all values in the select colums)
is put in $Vend::Interpolate::item. You can set tables to be pre-opened
in fs_data_tables.
This code in products::prod_group::extended.fs_data_calc:
if($item->{prod_group} eq $prev) {
return "''";
}
else {
return $prev = $item->{prod_group};
}
will produce ditto marks if a prod_group is duplicated.
* An explicit "edit record" link can be enabled. (explicit_edit)
* The edit link on the key column can be disabled. (no_code_link)
* Checkboxes can be disabled. (no_checkbox)
* Check All/Uncheck All JavaScript links can be automatically inserted.
(check_uncheck_all)
* The lines can be numbered. (number_list)
* Header cell and data cell CSS is completely settable in metadata on a
per-column basis.
'extended.header_link_class' => 'Header row link CSS class',
'extended.header_cell_class' => 'Header cell CSS class',
'extended.header_cell_style' => 'Header cell CSS style',
'extended.data_cell_class' => 'Data cell CSS class',
'extended.data_cell_style' => 'Data cell CSS style',
While no metadata edit is provided for data_cell_width, data_cell_height,
data_cell_align, they would be honored if set.
The header rows and data rows can be set in the table metadata:
'extended.header_row_class' => 'Header row CSS class',
'extended.header_row_style' => 'Header row CSS style',
'extended.data_row_class_odd' => 'Data row CSS class, odd numbers',
'extended.data_row_class_even' => 'Data row CSS class, even numbers',
* No longer check for Term::Readline and Term::ReadKey.
* Explicitly set filters to avoid mangling of promotions
* Don't allow user to change order number through order status page.
* Ensure that you don't leave secure server through metaconfig link.
* Remove obsolete wizard pages.
Form
----
* Honor flag telling we already have data.
* Honor "db" passed parameter in lookup_query.
* Add display type "labels" that is like "options" except it displays the
labels instead of their codes.
* option_format widget now uses passed filter.
Menu
----
* Add cheesy auto_format page/URL detection facility to try and
tolerate user-built menus a bit better. In particular, this will
recognize a non http: anchored absolute URL and will tolerate
anchors in the page name.
Called with auto-format=1 as a param.
* Remove IE-specific bounding box code in flyout menus. Turns out that
caused absolute positioning problems when the page was scrolled, and
that the DOM standard code I developed for Mozilla works just fine
on MSIE 6.
Table Editor
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* Fix sequential edit.
* Modified passing of {table} parameter in display for table editor,
setting flag to prevent getting table data twice.
* Make lookup_query honor {db} parameter for selecting base table
for lookup
* Lookup should now work internally to the table if no {db} spec'd
* Mozilla screwed up their CSS size passing like MSIE, so
remove special things that made item editor/table editor automatically
look better on Mozilla (without setting *_height and *_width explicitly).
* Added MAXLENGTH to things you can set in meta_editor
* Added MAXLENGTH to parameters honored by [display ...]/Vend::Form,
without having to manipulate extra=" maxlength=22" stuff.
* Put hooks in for auto-JS checks in table editor / [display]
* Allow default opening of a particular tab by adding * to the end of the
tab label.
Overridden by explicit "start_at" option given in options/args.
* Further allow focus of editor to start at a particular field if
it is marked with a *.
ui_data_fields => q{
=General
foo
bar
=Specific*
buz
baz*
},
The "Specific" tab will be presented open when the record is edited.
The form focus will be at the "baz" field.
* Substitute placeholders in lookup_query (just like with prepend and append):
_UI_TABLE_
_UI_COLUMN_
_UI_KEY_
This allows foreign table lookup queries to be tailored for the record
currently being edited in the table editor.
* Allow hidden fields to come from all_opts again (was disrupting
surveys).
* Add new link_blank_auto setting for table linking. This has the
effect of:
-- Automatically using auto-numbering
-- setting the foreign key column to match the key of the
edited record (as you would have to do to return the row
once entered)
-- Making both those fields hidden and non-changeable.
* Make tabbed-display relative now that Mozilla supports this. Should make
setting html-width and table-width in metadata moot.
* Don't focus on meta links when tabbing through form.
* Allow cancel_text to be set when in database edit mode.
Foundation
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* Add missing table variable in db lookup for pref_group to metadata.
* Remove test data from inventory::stock_message metadata.
* Update Oracle configuration files for new options.
Supplied by Jason .
* Add HIDE_FIELD to products database definition, so products marked
inactive will not be found in search.
* Add --[L]select state[/L]-- blank option to shipping address form.
* Add support for all IC-recognized credit card types.
* Removed obsolete log_entry route and etc/log_entry file.
* Remove inadvertent filter for variants::weight from
metadata, resolving bug #534.
* Bring MV_DEFAULT_SEARCH_{TABLE,FILE} into catalog.cfg so it is easier
to hunt down. We can't unset it in catalog_before.cfg because it will
break just about every catalog out there.
* Add handling to mail receipt if applicable.
* Remove the "view_from" parameter undoubtedly messing up many product edits
and add ui_more_alpha definition to metadata.
Usertags
--------
* New Usertag [debug].
* Add new makesize=NNxNN parameter to image Usertag which uses ImageMagick
mogrify command to build custom thumbnails on the fly.
Used mogrify executable because of constant difficulty building and
installing Image::Magick perl modules.
Example on the foundation demo:
[image src="items/os28004.gif" makesize=50x50]
This will create __IMAGE_DIR__/items/50x50/os28004.gif and return:
The size is still determined by Image::Size.
* New Usertag [capture-page] to interpolate pages and dump to disk,
usually called from Interchange jobs. Examples:
[capture-page page=index file=static/index.html umask=022]
[loop list="Levels,Rulers,Squares"]
[capture-page page="[loop-code]" file="static/cats/[loop-code].html"
scan="fi=products/st=db/co=yes/sf=category/se=[loop-code]"
auto_create_dir=1]
[/loop]
* Allow database text files in subsidiary directories of products
for [xfer-catalog] Usertag.
* Add form parameter to [history-scan] Usertag to avoid invalid
and error-prone constructs like [history-scan]&collapseall=1.
* Add "no-computer" option to [fortune] Usertag in order to make the
fortune more palatable to non-geek sites.
This is highly dependent on the fortune setup; this will work with
fortune on RHL 7.x and 8.x.
* Add [css VARNAME] tag that automatically generates a varname.css file
for use by .
* [history-scan] -- there should never be a leading / on page names sent
to $Tag->area(), and they are removed all the time now.
* Add src_only option to [image] tag to return just the image location
that normally goes in the src="..." attribute of the tag.
Filters
-------
* new alpha filter to keep only alphabetics A-Z and a-z
* new filter pgbool which munges any value into a valid PostgreSQL boolean
to be used in a quotable string environment, with a hybrid of
Perl/Interchange/PostgreSQL truth rules:
undef, '', F, f, false, 0 -> f
everything else -> t
* new filter pgbooln which is the same as pgbool, except assume that undefs
will pass through as NULLs to whatever does the query:
undef -> NULL
'', F, f, false, 0 -> f
everything else -> t
Jobs
----
* Set $CGI->{mv_tmp_session} to signal that a "robot" is in charge.
* filter option added for Job output
* Jobs are now listed and queued in $Global::RunDir/jobs instead
of $Global::RunDir/reconfig
* Add global Jobs configuration directive:
Jobs MaxLifetime 3600
Jobs MaxServers 3
After a job has been running for MaxLifetime seconds, it will be
removed by next housekeeping run. The default MaxLifetime is 10
minutes. This setting is only available if PIDcheck has been set.
MaxServers is the number of jobs allowed to be run simulatenously,
which should be significantly smaller than the value in the
MaxServers directive to avoid unaccessibility of Interchange for
users. The default for MaxServers is 1.
* Add job to automatically calculate topsellers.
SQL Parsing
-----------
* Add Vend::SQL_Parser module, eliminating need for SQL::Statement.
* Improved tolerance for re-routing queries with table-only option.
* Parses more SQL -- now can use IN and BETWEEN and translate those
to IC search specs.
* Handles complex parenthesized queries properly.
* Reads LIMIT N and translates to mv_matchlimit.
* Tests added to regression tests to check parser.
* Fix several deficiencies in SQL parsing.
-- Recognize IS [NOT] NULL and map to a search for the
empty string.
-- Allow verbatim passing of field names for GDBM types, allowing
"select Variable from variable where Variable = ''" which
would not work before.
-- Add VERBATIM_FIELDS definition to database types which need it.
-- Add support for "select sometable as foo, othertable bar where ..."
so that queries using it can be rerouted properly.
-- Always set mv_min_string = 0, so we don't have to do anything
special for "where column = ''" and such.
i18n
----
* Update Italian UI translation.
SOAP
----
* Fix tree option in soap_entity tag.
* Enable calling of catalog usertags in SOAP actions.
Debian
------
* Drop Build-Depends on libdb2-dev to allow builds on woody and sid,
apache-dev already has the proper dependency (Closes: #198136)
* Fix hang of build process caused by non-existant user interchange
(Closes: #202063, thanks to Adrian Bunk for his
bugreport and help to trace down the problem)
* Install manual pages in the correct location.
* Avoid lintian warning in interchange-ui package.
* Mark update_locales job as conffile.
* Fix bashisms in interchange-cat-foundation's config script.
* Don't throw an error if removal of the file
/usr/lib/interchange/auto/Interchange/.packlist fails
(Closes: #215003, thanks to Daniel Schepler
for the bug report)
* Add versioned dependency on debconf to interchange-cat-foundation
(Closes: #215633).
Miscellaneous
-------------
* Allow wildchar(*) in Swish search.
* Various minor cleanup, prevents warnings on startup.
* Call tracking functions only if Vend::Track object exists.
* Label first section of the POD documentations in the modules
as NAME, this is common, looks nicer in man and helps to
fix Debian Bug #203926.
* Add POD documentation to findtags.PL.
* Search for literal strings in bar_link, rather than treating them as
regexes. Fix from Paul Vinciguerra.
* Use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost for default INET host values to avoid
DNS lookup, as per bug #516.
* Remove abandoned "newcat" script from distribution.
* Convert nonstandard != to standard SQL <> (which also avoids a parse
error in the new Vend::SQL_Parser) within options stuff.
* Add option to RPM spec file for /usr/local/bin/perl to work around threaded
vendor perls.
Extensions
----------
* Quickbooks updates:
- Updated documentation.
- Installation fixes.
- Rewrite of the IIF generation query page:
- Can query by order number range, date range, or "since last generation"
- Allow specification of QuickBooks invoice number to be used
and incremented during IIF generation.
- Filters out deleted orders.
- IIF Generation changes:
- Use the country name instead of the country code.
- Some filter updates (the period is not as dangerous as it looks).
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interchange 4.9.8 released 2003-06-19.
Core
----
* Allow [PREFIX-more-list] ... [/PREFIX-more-list] for nested loops.
* Support sparsely-populated quantity pricing tables.
* Fix bug in field name ranges in CommonAdjust where q99..q101 was handled
as a Perl alphanumeric range q99, r00, r01, r02, etc. instead of
q99, q100, q101.
* Remove wrong default for DatabaseDefault, could cause error when a
DatabaseDefault value had not been previously set.
* Renamed Cron configuration directive to Jobs because that is a more
appropriate. Commandline options --job and --cron renamed as well
to --jobgroup and --runjobs.
* Have NonTaxableField check all ProductFiles tables for the field if
needed, instead of just the one in mv_ib or the first ProductFiles
table. This allows NonTaxableField to work with options when the base
product has a nontaxable field, but the options table has no nontaxable
field (as in Foundation). This should have no effect on people using
NonTaxableField the standard way.
* Add option to product_common and item_common that allows an empty
field to be returned. In effect this option means "give me the value
of this field from the first ProductFiles table that has the field
at all" instead of "give me the first non-empty value from a ProductFiles
table that has the field".
* Optimize item_common a bit by looking at each table only once.
* Allow systems with broken locks to not destroy the pidfile lock
by reading the file. Alleviates inability to use "interchange -stop".
Requires setting
Variable MV_BAD_LOCK 1
in interchange.cfg.
Thanks to Daniel Hutchinson for finding the problem!
* Add no_requery option to Vend::Table::DBI::query method to ensure that
SQL::Statement will not be called. Use it when you are sure your table is
in the database referenced....avoids errors on multiple key inserts that
might return undef.
* Fixed the row_count (0E0) problem in Vend::Table::DBI.
* Compile errors on ActionMap/FormAction are passed through now.
* Use fix base directory for global jobs.
* Let Vend::Util::unhexify mangle only representations of hex chars instead
of any three-letter-string starting with the percent sign.
* Add database filename in question to the fatal error in the
Vend::Table::Common::column_index method.
* Fix auto_create_dir option in Vend::Util:writefile which didn't work.
* Fix round_to_frac_digits() so it handles numbers that don't have a
pre-existing decimal point.
* Prevent internal server error if quantity pricing row cannot be found
for whatever reason.
* Add Australian BankCard to Vend::Order::guess_cc_type
(contributed by Howard Lowndes).
* Make aliased UserTag respect EndTag setting.
* Vend::Util::string_to_ref no longer looks at $Vend::Cfg->{ExtraSecure},
which really contradicts the documentation.
* Allow $Session->{mv_order_number} to be set anywhere.
* Allow multiple start points for a tree query.
* Prevent NOT NULL errors for data that is actually supposed to be defined
during a data update.
* Add container values for config files.
Something in the FOOBAR variable.
This is exactly equivalent to:
Variable FOOBAR <
Static __CATALOG_STATIC__
StaticLogged __LOGGED_STATIC__
This will set ParseVariables to Yes
* Directives of the same type cannot be nested (though I might do that
shortly). Directives of different types can be nested, so you can
do:
foo __BAR__
(Note that capitalization doesn't matter.)
* You can add triggers for directives by setting the ContainerSpecial
variable in package Vend::Config. This would allow:
Foobar yes
Foobar yes
Perhaps more importantly, it might allow:
Variable INITTED This catalog has an initted value already.
Note that this is not yet implemented!
* Update pgp_encrypt to accept multiple encryption keys. Keys should be
passed as a space or comma separated list.
* Change behavior of UserDB _check_acl routine so that undefined value
is returned if location is not present at all. This allows a check
both on the file location and the parent directory location without
affecting true/false status.
* Fix LENGTH_EXCEPTION_DEFAULT logging, which did not work and clean up
the code a bit in DBI module.
* Remove attempt to unimport Config (to save a small amount of memory)
because it causes Perl 5.6.0 to die.
* Allow setting of table type in MySQL (or others if HAS_TABLE_TYPE
is put in capabilities). This allows setting the table type to
something besides the default -- in particular allows InnoDB type
setting for userdb/transactions/orderline.
* Patch slight security hole where user password can be saved in session.
* Keep copy of CGI values at time of history save, not reference to them
(which can be changed in subsequent code).
* Make mv_return_fields available to iterate_array_list.
* Change processing of [PREFIX-line] to use that value instead of
rebuilding from scratch.
* Make multi-output play nice with download via [deliver ...].
File
----
* Add new Vend::File module with minimal functions, changed UserTags
to support it.
* Relocate following routines (and their subsidiaries) from Vend::Util:
canonpath
catdir
catfile
exists_filename
file_modification_time
file_name_is_absolute
get_filename
lockfile
path
readfile
readfile_db
set_lock_type
unlockfile
writefile
Added stubs so that package-based calls to those routines will not
break software.
* Added CatalogUser directive that allows setting in interchange.cfg
of allowed username that is used for access to absolute-path names.
CatalogUser foundation joe
CatalogUser reports jane
This sets the user for allowed_file() for further read/write checks
based on username.
* Created allowed_file() routine and replaced all current inline checks
for NoAbsolute with call to that routine. It behaves as:
NoAbsolute is No: all files are accessible, always
Allowed for read/write:
Path name is relative with no ..
Path name is absolute but in the catalog directory
Path name is absolute but in a TemplateDir
Allowed for read:
CatalogUser set to a valid username and file is readable by that user
CatalogUser set to a valid username and file is readable by a group
containing that user
Allowed for write:
CatalogUser set to a valid username and file is writable by that user
CatalogUser set to a valid username and file is writable by a group
containing that user
* Changed display_special_page so that special page entries with ../
will not break things.
* Created $Vend::File::errstr which is set to get the error message,
otherwise defaults to the standard one.
* Add both global- and catalog-level FileControl directive that allows
mapping subroutines (or named pre-existing subroutines) to a path.
Does a depth-first search starting with the file name.
* In either interchange.cfg (takes priority) or catalog.cfg put:
FileControl include/junk <{dealer} set
FileControl foo/bar ic_scratch:dealer
# Check for $Scratch->{dealer} NOT set
FileControl foo/bar ic_scratch_deny:dealer
# Check for $Session->{secure} set
FileControl foo/bar ic_session:secure
# Check for $Session->{secure} NOT set
FileControl foo/bar ic_session_deny:secure
These don't override the NoAbsolute checks.
* If no FileControl is not set, the checks are not done for performance
reasons.
Options
-------
* Major update to product options.
* Options are now modular in much the same way as Vend::Payment is.
You can add an unlimited number of option types simply by dropping
a module into Vend::Options.
* By default, the old 4.8 style options are in force, implemented
with Vend::Options::Old48.
If you add this to catalog.cfg (in etc/after.cfg in foundation):
OptionsEnable option_type
The "option_type" names a field in the products file which controls
the option type. This enables new-style options.
It can also be in a specific table and field, ala AutoModifier:
OptionsEnable table:field
Indeed, this is added to AutoModifer after catalog.cfg.
* There are two new-style options included:
Vend::Options::Matrix
Vend::Options::Simple
These are equivalent to the current matrix and simple options.
* Options behavior is controlled in catalog.cfg by a locale-style
multiple hash (ala UserDb or Route):
Options Matrix sort o_sort,o_group
Options Matrix variant_table my_variants
* To find and add a new option type, simply set something in
catalog.cfg:
Options MyOptions table my_options
That will cause a require of Vend::Options::MyOptions.
* The matrix products have been moved to the "variants" table.
* The options table contains options for both Matrix and Simple types,
but only fields for building those simple-type options (which are
used to generate variants for Matrix). The following fields
have been removed from options:
differential
mv_shipmode
o_enable
o_exclude
o_footer
o_header
o_include
o_master
o_matrix
o_modular
phantom
volume
weight
* The variants table is a subset of the fields in products.
* The admin page for each option style is defined in its
admin_page routine, usually an include from inclued/Options/OptionType.
* Size and color fields removed from products table, option_type added.
Menu
----
* Add category-specific image links and toggles for the tree menu.
To enable this for toggles, do:
[menu
menu-type=tree
...
specific-image-toggle=N
]
Where N is the level (1 == 0) to which you wish to do this.
The image for a non-toggled category comes from the tree database field
img_up, for a toggled category from img_dn.
You can set the base URL for the images with:
specific-image-base="__IMAGE_DIR__";
A trailing / is added if not already present.
If you wish to allow image anchors for links as well, put the image
name in the img_up field and add the parameter:
specific-image-link=1
If the image name is not present, the normal "name" field is used.
To enable all of this for the example product_tree component, you would
have a call of:
[menu tree-selector="[control tree_selector Products]"
link-class="[control link_class barlink]"
link-style="[control link_style]"
link-class-open="[control link_class_open]"
link-style-open="[control link_style_open font-size: larger;]"
link-class-closed="[control link_class_closed]"
link-style-closed="[control link_style_closed font-size: larger;]"
no-image="[control no_image]"
menu-type=tree
specific-image-toggle=1
specific-image-base="__IMAGE_DIR__/tree"
specific-image-link=1
reparse=0]
* Add ability to load tree-based menus where items inhabit more than
one category. To wit:
code sku prod_group category
1 os28003 Tools Brushes
2 os28003 Painting Supplies Brushes
The tree will allow search and find of these items in more than
one category.
* Add "items" check to menu to allow showing an entry only if items are
in the cart. Works for current cart ($Vend::Items) only.
* Optimization for tree-based menus, allow reliable build with
[timed-build]. Example:
[timed-build file=tmp/the_tree minutes=10 force=1]
[menu name=the_tree
menu-type=tree
js-prefix=the_tree_
timed=1
][/menu]
[/timed-build]
[menu open-script=1 js-prefix="the_tree_"/]
This allows the tree to retain its opened status without having to
build a different timed-build file for every combination.
Now tree and flyout menus should be easily usable in a catalog without
worrying about processor power.
* Add configurability for the open/collapse/explode variable. Before this,
you could only have one tree per page and have it keep the open status. Now:
[menu name=foo menu-type=tree js_prefix=foo open_variable=foo_open][/menu]
[menu name=bar menu-type=tree js_prefix=bar open_variable=bar_open][/menu]
will work for the appropriate menu. (The other will collapse.)
* Don't add .html extension if file already has extension.
Form
----
* Fix "double March" bug in date widget.
* Allow templated options in select, radio, checkbox, etc. Enabled
by passing option_template="ATTR Template".
Uses same attr_list methodology as in most IC secondary templating.
Active keys:
LABEL The normal label value
VALUE The normal value
PRICE The formatted price, converted for locale
PRICE_NOFORMAT The raw price data
ABSOLUTE The formatted price, absolute (no negative)
NEGATIVE Set true if price data is negative
The default is equivalent to (though it doesn't use formatting):
{LABEL} {PRICE?}({PRICE}){/PRICE?}
This example:
{LABEL}
{PRICE?}
{NEGATIVE?}(subtract {ABSOLUTE}){/NEGATIVE?}
{NEGATIVE:}(add {PRICE}){/NEGATIVE:}
{/PRICE?}
Would turn:
Ebony handle ($20.00)
Wood handle
Plastic handle ($-5.00)
into:
Ebony handle (add $20.00)
Wood handle
Plastic handle (subtract $5.00)
* Add widget "filetext" to allow direct upload of a file to a database
field. Useful for content/article bodies that you want to edit in a
file but that are inconvenient to clip-past into a textarea.
The "filetext" widget is an followed
by a textarea. It shows the contents of the field in the textarea
and you can edit it. If you want to replace it with a file upload,
you just Browse to the file and upload it; it negates what is in
the textarea. If no file is uploaded, the textarea pertains (I guess
that statement is redundant).
The type=filetext widget should always be used in combination with two
filters, "nullselect upload".
* Remove extra closing HTML tag '>' character from password widget.
* Allow table conglomerations of checkboxes and radio boxes with more
than 9 columns (i.e. radio_right_10). Thanks to Bill Carr for finding.
* Allow multiple semi-colon-separated queries to populate options via
lookup_query.
* Added a =None to the file list of the imagedir widget so one has
the opportunity to choose an 'empty' value if no input is required.
Editor
------
* Allow override of checking for incomplete forms.
* Get rid of excess space which causes "unparsed and temporary" page
controls to fail.
UI
--
* Fix dependency of page editor on certain [if ...] conditions in page code.
* Add "send help edit to ICDEVGROUP" function in the online help editor.
* Change name of "Bottom" menu (which was on top) to "Fixed".
* Check for SQL::Statement version (with hooks for testing any version,
lower or higher) at admin index load time, and provide warning that
things won't work properly.
* Allow multiple help window destinations.
* Remove preferred payment method from customer view and change primitive
used to display username.
* Fix "admin/bg.gif not found" error.
* Allow pass of nodelete and mv_auto_export options in URL.
* Add "Decrypt Credit Card" back in order view.
* Add mv_more_alpha and mv_more_decade options to flex_selector. Make
locale and country tables use them by default.
* Fix link_rows_blank setting in table editor for form linking.
* Restore capability to show only part of session.
* Solve annoying problem where you edit a view-specific field display
and have to re-enter custom view information that is already
present in a modified base meta display.
* Add check for existence of the extended/default columns
and display of merge errors to merge_meta page.
* Add Levies to the 'show only' list of the show_session page.
* Use sane default while merging metadata to avoid breakage of perl code
if no ui-version record exists.
* Allow the "Next order" button in the admin order_view to jump over a few
(20, by default) missing order numbers in the order sequence so that
deleted order numbers here and there don't throw the user back to the
order list view. Maximum number to skip settable by variable
UI_ORDER_VIEWNEXT_MAX_SKIP, now in Foundation "Admin control" section.
* Add option to replace all occurences to Search & Replace page.
* Make spreadsheet search not word-boundary dependent.
* Allow exclusion of fields for database imports.
* Fixed typo in file_navigator tag.
* Fix extra parameter passing in wizard.
* Display size, color and options on "Order view" page again.
* Fix Query-By-Example forms for LARGE tables.
* Remove hard-coded "Pending" status and put real info on "Order view" page.
* More metadata tools. New tag [meta-info table=foo col=bar key=label] returns
"label" metadata item. Can access any key in meta record including extended.
Has localize=1 flag to localize returned labels.
Small example of how to use this in pages/admin/customer.html -- allows
you to change "Company" to "Affilation" or "Organization" and have a hope
of having it show up everywhere.
* Continued preparation for translation.
* Fix HTML problem in order entry page found by
Nicholas Cook .
* Add "Download slice" functionality to table export page. Allows you to
select arbitrary columns to directly download.
* Add ability to download TAB-delimited results of an arbitrary SQL
query. You can do:
SELECT sku, count(code) as times_ordered, sum(quantity) as qty
FROM orderline
GROUP BY sku
and get downloaded to a file:
sku times_ordered total
0738417912 1 2
0972355901 1 1
0972355936 1 4
V4081300077 1 1
V4081300116 1 1
V4081300218 4 5
V4081300218cd 3 3
V4081300222cd 1 1
V4081300233 11 17
V4081300376 3 3
V4081300469 1 1
V4081300493 1 1
V4081300498 1 1
* Add shipmethod to display in order_view page, make some display
fields conditional.
* Fix bug in address display in customer_view page.
* Message for free shipping added to entry page.
Payment
-------
* Add support for Verisign's PFProAPI.pm Perl module, which implements
Payflow Pro gateway communication without needing any external binary,
and thus no forking or temporary files for communication. Use PFProAPI
automatically if it is found at IC startup time, but fall back to pfpro
or pfpro-file if not. Upgrades should be transparent.
* Add COMMENT1 and COMMENT2 to Verisign queries. These map to values
comment1 and comment2 by default in Payment.pm, but can be remapped.
Also put SHIPTOZIP in the varmap for simplicity, but same function.
* Minor data filtering modifications to BoA module.
* Map company and b_company for payment use.
* Authorize.Net:
- Send to Authorize.Net customer shipping address information and company
where available.
- Add Card Security Code (AKA CVV2, CVC2, CSC, CID) verification support
(uses Authorize.Net protocol version 3.1). (Chaim Klar ).
- Added the whole list of response codes (Chaim Klar ).
* Add new Verisign route parameter, "check_sub", which allows a Sub or
GlobalSub to be called after a successful charge for a check of some
sort.
Shipping
--------
* Allow redirection of shipping modes.
Basically, you can do:
upsg_or_free UPS Ground [subtotal noformat=1] 0 99.99 >>upsg
upsg_or_free UPS Ground price 100 99999 0 { free => 'Free!' }
upsg UPS Ground weight 0 150 u Ground
The first mode redirects to the second one if the order total is
less that $100; if it is more, it gives free shipping.
Add [shipping widget="Vend::Form widget" mode="mode1 mode2"] to
automatically build widget with Vend::Form. Works just like
[shipping label=1 ...] but produces a complete widget.
* Support Canadian and 2003 US UPS Zone files.
* Add mv_ship_residential with automatic lookup of residential charge in
properly formatted rate tables.
Requires residential => 1 option in shipping definition.
* Add EAS surcharge via different means than EAS capability. Allows lookup
of exception zip codes in surcharge_table => 'tablename' option.
surcharge_field => 'fieldname' defaults to "surcharge".
* Allow aggregation of weights over a number of pounds.
If aggregate => 1, that is 150 pounds. Breaks it up into 150-pound
packages and then a final package at the remainder.
If aggregate > 10, breaks it up into that many pound packages.
* Break out shipping stuff from Vend::Interpolate. Add stubs so
custom code doesn't break.
* Add ability to put custom shipping modules in, called with
"cost" field of "s Module".
* Improve [ups-query ...] to aggregate shipments and cache prior
lookups.
* Document [ups-query].
* Add some tweezy scripts that help make US Postal zone charts and
tables. Use at your own risk.
Levies
------
* Fix bugs preventing the usage of the customer defined routine and
calling it with the wrong parameters.
* New Levy add_to key allows consolidation of levies under one
heading.
Levies salestax foo
Levy salestax description "Sales Tax (%s)"
Levy salestax keep_if_zero 1
Levy salestax type salestax
Levy salestax sort 002
Levy salestax label_value state
Levy foo keep_if_zero 0
Levy foo add_to salestax
Levy foo type shipping
Levy foo mode PERD
This will calculate the foo levy, but add its cost to the salestax
levy for display purposes.
* Remove sprintf() function and replace with round_to_frac_digits,
prevent worries about rounding errors.
* Allow label_value for all levy types, means you can do
something like:
Levy shipping description Shipping (%s)
Levy shipping keep_if_zero 0
Levy shipping type shipping
Levy shipping mode_from_values mv_shipmode
Levy shipping label_value zip
which will display
Shipping (45056)
i18n
----
* Add alias [L] => [loc] in order to resolve [L] tags in variables
independent of the configuration.
* Localize script now groks new menu database files.
* Add Italian UI translation from Marco Mescoli .
Foundation
----------
* Support for SQLite added.
* Make metadata correspond to current UI version.
* Fix orderline import deficiency in etc/log_entry found by Karen Gold
(KarenG@LOADUP.com).
* Change [discount-price] to [item-discount-price] to make it compatible
with editor components.
* Preparation of pages for translation.
* Typo in state database fixed (Bugzilla #499).
* Modified include_form code on General Tab of item_edit page
in such a way that item images and thumb images with
extensions other that .gif can be displayed as well.
Replaced by:
[image src="[var IMAGE_DIR]/items/[cgi item_id]" extra="border=0 id=item_img"]
* Remove straggling Red Hat/IC logo and URLs, update foundation logos to match
Interchange 4.8's latest.
* Added ALT attribute to Home links.
* All of the order profiles had common information. Made a
Variable called COMMON_ORDER_PROFILE to hold that info
to remove duplication.
* Add proper autonumber initialization to affiliate database so
it will generate affiliate codes that are valid. Thanks to
Kevin Old for reporting.
* Use LENGTH_EXCEPTION_DEFAULT for Postgres userdb, transactions,
orderline tables in foundation.
* Remove unused ship address pages and unused large gift certificate image.
* Use the common placeholder for the email address in survey database.
* Set more reasonable default types for each SQL DB.
* Use mv_form_profile instead of mv_order_profile on account page in
order to check user's input.
Debian
------
* Default traffic setting is low now.
* Allow selection of traffic setting with debconf and interchangeconfig.
* Specify unix and inet modes explicitly if user selects both.
* Check if /etc/init.d/interchange and /usr/sbin/interchangeconfig are
executable in interchange-ui maintainer scripts.
* UPGRADE and README.cvs added to interchange.docs
* avoid installation error by checking installation state before
invoking interchange --add/--remove from interchange-cat-foundation
postinst script (thanks to Doug Alcorn for reporting
the problem)
* remove configuration files handled by interchangeconfig on purge
* protect against scripts ending up in /usr/lib/interchange
* get_url UserTag forces dependency on libwww-perl
UserTags
--------
* history-scan - Added new option called 'pageonly' that causes history-scan
to return only the name of the previous page rather than a full "area" link.
Can be used to set mv_successpage for a form.
* Removed some code that caused table-organize to write the td.x attributes
twice.
* find - New usertag in spirit of the Unix command with the same name.
* Add [button wait-text="-- Please Wait --" text="Place Order" ...] so
button has indication of press beyond normal browser indication.
Allow direct setting of id, class, and style HTML characteristics without
having to shoehorn them in extra=" style='...'" etc.
* Fix typo in auto-wizard UserTag so it works with ITL conditionals.
* weight - New usertag to set and determine shipping weight easily.
Filters
-------
* Add "upload" filter. Checks to see if the submitted variable
is a file upload, if it is it reads the file and places it in
$CGI->{$varname}. Otherwise uses the value of the variable.
* Add "line" filter which rips off the first line of a longer text.
* Change "date_change" field in order to handle MySQL DATE resp.
DATETIME fields.
Jobs
----
* update_locales job added.
* Remove bogus session created by logging function.
SOAP
----
* Ensure that SOAP server adds a blank line between HTTP header
and HTTP body.
* Log errors in soap tag to catalog log file instead of the global one.
* SOAP_Action introduced, which is intended to used as a
way to provide webservices from an Interchange catalog.
* Allow tracing in SOAP calls in order to get a handle on SOAP request
resp. response.
* Error handling revised.
* Add SOAP_Control configuration directive and soap_gate access
check routine to control requests to the SOAP server.
* Change to the catalog directory so that log messages end up
in the correct file etc.
Shadow Database
---------------
* Add stub for sort_each method.
* column_exists method calls now method of underlying class instead of a
lookup in the database structure which didn't work properly
* each_nokey is now properly replacing the shadowed fields.
* Moved configuration code to the module itself.
* Add name method.
* Map autonumber method to Vend::Table::Common.
* Introduce mv_shadowpass scratch variable which instructs
the Shadow database code to return the original database record.
* Add stub for inc_field method.
* Add stub for delete_record method.
* Non-select queries are passed to underlying database immediately.
* Fix queries with list type.
* Fix errmsg calls.
Static Page Generation
----------------------
* Remove this feature completely from Interchange:
-- remove configuration directives ClearCache (not in use),
StaticIndex, StaticSessionDefault, StaticTrack (introduced in 4.9.x)
-- deprecate configuration directives NoCache, Static, StaticAll,
StaticDBM, StaticDepth, StaticFly, StaticLogged, StaticPage,
StaticPath, StaticPattern, StaticSuffix
-- remove UI tag regenerate
-- remove InvalidateCache attribute from distributed usertags
-- remove build flag from [tag] usertag
-- remove UI pages (regen and regenerate)
-- remove support from foundation and test catalog
-- remove path_adjust Pragma which is only useful in conjunction with
StaticPath configuration directive
-- remove Vend::Interpolate::cache_html, Vend::Interpolate::resolve_static,
Vend::Interpolate::static_url and Vend::Session::tie_static_dbm routines
-- remove variables $Vend::AccumulatingLinks, @Vend::Links,
%Vend::LinkFound, $Vend::ForceBuild, $Vend::CachePage.
Miscellaneous
-------------
* Fix a bug that prevented the cgi-bin link program from being associated
with the chosen owner and group. The patch was created and tested by Carl
Bailey.
Extensions
----------
* Quickbooks updates:
- Documentation built from updated Interchange + Quickbooks HOWTO.
- Major change to IIF generation routine:
- IIF files are generated on-demand via the Admin UI
- In-route method still available
- New "Generate new IIF files" and "download IIF files"
- New "qb_safe" filter, to cater to Quickbooks sensative side.
- New default values (like defaulting to cash receipt instead of invoice)
- Payment and Shipping methods are recorded in corresponding Quickbooks fields.
- Allow customization of the transaction account (new default is "Checking")
- Optionally set the transaction class (e.g., to track online sales in a
separate class from walk-in sales, and report on them differently).
- Optional Item Prefixes (e.g. if all items are accounting in Quickbooks under
a given category.
- Optionally get the tax agency from the "state" table, falling back to the
configured default tax agency.
- Bug fixes
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interchange 4.9.7 released only via nightly builds.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interchange 4.9.6 released 2003-01-08.
Core
----
* Perl version 5.6.0 or newer is now a requirement to run Interchange.
* Add new global directive TrustProxy, which allows the administrator to
designate certain IP addresses or hostnames as trusted proxies, whose
claims (via the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR environment variable) about the
original requesting host will be believed.
When using a front-end proxy for Interchange, all requests appear to come
from that proxy, say 127.0.0.1 if on the same machine, which is effectively
the same as running WideOpen because sessions can be easily hijacked. This
offers a way to bring back a little discernment about what host we're
really dealing with.
Usage is identical to the RobotIP directive's, for example:
TrustProxy 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.*
I'm not sure why anyone would want to do this, but it could also be used
with external HTTP proxies in general (which hopefully aren't lying), with
a simple 'TrustProxy *'.
* Fix whitespace transform and tolerate leading whitespace on HTTP
header lines.
* Avoid persistent storage to make [summary] safe in prefork mode.
* Allow a database to spring into existence without a .txt file. TO
do this, you define the field names in the NAME paramter.
Database will_be_there will_be_there.txt __SQLDSN__
Database will_be_there NAME code field1 field2
Database will_be_there CREATE_EMPTY_TXT 1
All it does is create the .txt file (or whatever the name is) from
the value of NAME array. It does take delimiters into account.
You must be just a bit careful, since if you then remove the .txt
file it will of course recreate the table. Of course you should
take that into account when setting this non-default parameter.
This will allow some one-file configurations to be added to the
system.
* Allow autonumber for the linked-table behavior of update_data. Before,
you couldn't autonumber because the determination of whether the data
would be set was whether the key value is present. This allows
you to set mv_data_qual=fieldname and have a non-empty value in
that field determine whether to insert or not.
* Minor cleanup in Data.pm, including ensuring $obj->{DELIMITER}
and $obj->{delimiter} match.
* Avoid infinite loops in catalog configuration caused by includes.
* Compile warnings in catalog usertags now show up in the logs instead
of "UserTag 'ugly_hack' code is not a subroutine reference".
* Add new database configuration option PREFER_NULL. It accepts a list of
field names which should be set to NULL instead of an empty string
whenever possible:
Database people PREFER_NULL age height
Probably most useful with numeric or date fields that are nullable, to
prevent import errors when trying to store '' into a numeric field. Also
for character fields that you'd rather have contain a NULL than '' to
comply with a CHECK or foreign key constraint.
UserTags
--------
* Obsolete usertags dbinfo, e, if-key-exists, if_sql, reconfig_wait,
rotate_file, with and write_page removed.
Filters
-------
* Allow % in filter arguments. This could conceivably be a problem for
someone who had a filter ".%s" or something.
Content Management
------------------
* Get restrict_allow settings right -- the default was not allowing the "var"
to be expanded in the image preview path. Should probably look at this
concept on a per-field basis, and set the default to "".
Payment
-------
* Patch to display errors from payment modules in credit card header
on checkout page.
Foundation
----------
* Multi-language support, configured by the LOCALES and DEFAULTLOCALE
variables.
* Updated region templates.
* New PayflowPro control variables MV_PAYMENT_PARTNER and MV_PAYMENT_VENDOR.
* Payment routes use now generic MV_PAYMENT_* variables.
* Test order page added.
Shadow Database
---------------
* lookup_table option added
* foreign method implemented
* test_record calls underlying database now
Installation
------------
* Debian packages support the selection of the GnuPG home directory
during installation now.
mod_interchange
---------------
* Fixed a weird bug where empty HTTP variables were being passed
under certain circumstances.
* Fixed a bug reported by Jeff Dafoe. The request information
enabled Interchange to show the correct page but prevented it
from storing the request in the session's history. The problem
only showed itself when Interchange's [history-scan] tag was used.
As almost no page history was saved, [history-scan] sent the user
to the default page (usually index) most of the time.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interchange 4.9.5 released 2002-12-13 (minor bugfix release).
Foundation
----------
* Add component files for new selectable results-list done by Ton.
* Make proper patches to history-scan and barlink() to work with Randy
Moore's category_vert_toggle component.
* Minor updates to category_vert_toggle component for HTML cleanup and
performance improvement.
Core
----
* Fixed problem with PreFork and mod_perl modes where Interchange children
kept order profile state between runs.
* Make sure STDERR is selected in mod_perl mode in case some other mod_perl
code uses select.
* Change default for MaxServers in "rpc" profile to zero. This is probably
best for the vast majority of servers running in PreFork mode.
* Tolerate missing configdb database, issue warning only.
* Tolerate people forgetting and putting , on the end of a parameter
when using line2options. A comma should never be the last character, I
would think, but you can choose to not use the filter if by some
bizarre chance it is needed.
* A number of refinements and fixes to Menu module.
- Passing timed=1 to [menu ...] tag prevents putting session ID and
count in URL, allowing timed-build to work well.
- first_line and last_line transforms allow you to specify a field
to set to trigger the first line or the last line of the menu.
This allows the current IC menu structures to work well with
menus separated by space.
- logical_page feature allows a tab "up" indication in another
menu, based on the page of the entry. This allows multi-level
tabs to have an "up" indication on different menus.
- expand_values_form allows setting of ITL tag values even
on multiple form values. Honors [cgi ..], [value ..], and [var ..].
- Fix ordering of open parameter for trees -- it was broken by the new
Vend::Util::vendUrl routine.
* Simplify field_settor subroutines with prepared query and placeholders.
Prevents infamous DBD::Pg::do errors.
* Form module -- add intrinsic "file" type, and allow setting of a
widget class directly without using "extra".
* Other minor bugfixes too insignificant to mention.
UserTags
--------
* min-rows option added to table-organize tag. Allows building small
result sets in one column (or however many columns needed to reach
min-rows).
* Reworked [tree ...] tag to use DBI placeholders if supported.
While this doesn't seem to save too much CPU on a machine that
has the database and IC on the same machine, it should relieve
some network bandwidth on distributed setups.
Installation
------------
* Various debian build patches.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interchange 4.9.4 released 2002-12-02.
* Fix problem with PreFork and mod_perl modes where Interchange children
kept order profile state between runs.
* Tolerate people forgetting and putting , on the end of a parameter
when using line2options.
Core
----
* The interchange script is now only used for configuration and
options. All code that previously resided there (notably the
dispatch(), respond(), update_data(), and do_order() routines)
has been relocated. Code that calls ::update_data, etc. should
NOT break, because we still use the modules in the script.
This caused the addition of Vend::Dispatch to hold many of
the routines.
* Added new [deliver ....] tag that allows you to deliver some content
without worrying about [tag op=header] and page spacing issues. Adds
new global variable $Vend::Sent which is authoritative notification
that all content is sent and that all further parsing of ITL
should stop.
* Add mv_source parameter which sets an affiliate program source
and can be carried around in URLs when $Scratch->{mv_add_source}
is set. This solves the problem of AOL caching the page with
the source embedded, then forwarding the next request sans source.
From a suggestion by Dan .
* Add new [menu ...] tag which can build simple, tree, and flyout
menus from a menu specification. See the UI.
* Add robot tolerance facility, where mv_tmp_session is set when either
a RobotUA, RobotIP or RobotHost wildcard matches.
In interchange.cfg:
RobotUA Inktomi, Scooter, Site*Sucker
RobotIP 209.135.65, 64.172.5.*
RobotHost *.googlebot.com
After that, it is all automatic. mv_tmp_session gets set to one, the
Scratch values mv_no_session_id and mv_no_count are set to one, and
normal pages don't get IDs put out by area.
What this will do for the user:
1. Allow those UAs to follow a URL.
2. Prevent useless session files from cluttering disk
3. Prevent session writes from inhibiting disk performance.
* Added a (global) HostnameLookups directive to specify whether Interchange
should perform a DNS lookup to resolve the remote user's hostname from
their IP address. The default is 'No'. Hostnames are required for
facilities such as the RobotHost check to work. If the web server is
configured to perform hostname resolution then this directive should remain
set to 'No'.
* Add the oft-requested DirectoryIndex feature.
* Add new content management features. This allows Interchange to:
-- Accept Apache error redirects, i.e. handle 404 errors
-- Initially process page, process page after variables, and
process page before image substitution with configurable subroutines
-- Take puts for DAV-style publishing
* New "AcceptRedirect" directive. If "Yes", will look for REDIRECT_URL,
REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING, etc. and use those to provide the request.
This allows:
ErrorDocument 404 /cgi-bin/foundation
At that point, a request for /index.html that is not found will
be equivalent to /cgi-bin/foundation/index.html and will be
indistinguishable from the real page by the client.
* New Pragmas init_page, pre_page, post_page, which specify
Sub/GlobalSub routines to run at various points in page build.
init_page Run before Variable substitution
pre_page Run after Variable substitution, before interpolation
post_page Run before Image substitution
* Allow PUT operations. Add
[value-extended test=isput] Check for a PUT
[value-extended put_contents=1] Return PUT string
[value-extended put_ref=1] Return ref to PUT string (scalar)
Some more DAV-type features can be done, I think, but they are not yet
scoped.
* Remove min_string test from Search.pm, where it never really was used
or called due to mv_min_string default being 0.
* Place mv_min_string check back in Glimpse where it was intended in the first
place.
* Convert Mac line endings to Unix (as well as DOS).
* Finally discovered what is going on with GPG and errors.
-- If PGP fails due to a system problem, like out of memory or
bad file permissions, it fails with a status that will cause
a real error which is in the lower 8 bits.
-- If PGP fails due to an internal problem like "key not found",
or no secret key ring, it will fail with system status set to
zero but the upper level status indicating its problem.
So a failed key will turn up as "File not found" in the
upper order bits, while a key *ring* not found will fail
with the same error in the lower status bits.
This patch is temporary, and at least tells you what $! is. I will
examine GPG's error messages and provide some simple ones like "key
not on keyring" and catch them to provide a better error.
* Add general multiple-table update feature to Vend::Data::update_data.
* Allow authoritative table name for constructed queries. Usage:
my $db = database_exists_ref($table);
my $tname = $db->name();
my $query = "select * from $tname";
$db->query($query);
This should allow REAL_NAME many more places.
* New mv_cleanup operates like mv_click and mv_check, but operates
after a form processing action is done.
* Added debug type to [log].
* [userdb function=logout clear=1] will now restore the appropriate
ScratchDefault and ValuesDefault values instead of simply
deleting the scratches and values under its control.
* Added check for no_increment so that mv_order_number can be set in
a route.
* Fix bug where bad [nitems compare=...] could cause server error. Now
just silently causes bad compare.
* Allow alternate values spaces with $CGI->{mv_values_space}. This allows
fill-in wizards, surveys, and such to not pollute the user's normal
values.
Use with caution -- if someone is in the practice of using $Values
to set catalog behavior (usually a poor idea) then it can cause
anomalies.
* Clean up a few references to $Vend::Session->{values} which should
never be done anymore -- we had handled almost all of this previously.
It should always reference $::Values.
Installation
------------
* "you are now ready to run makecat" is no longer displayed on upgrades.
* Prevent test from failing on upgrades.
Payment
-------
* Patch from Mark Johnson to Vend::Payment::Signio module whose explanation
we quote:
If you send a garbage ORIGID, as IC does by default, it will attempt to
use that as the key for the transaction, without falling back on the data
you sent with it. Thus, it must explicitly not be used unless you have a
valid one which you want to use. This was why no credits were succeeding;
even though we were sending explicit new data, it ignored it and cried
with the ever useful error "Not signed up for this tender type".
* Added a Vend::Payment::TestPayment module to allow developers to test
their site's interaction with the Interchange Payment system, without
actually being connected to a real Payment Services Provider.
* Change AuthorizeNet.pm to more easily enable settlement of orders
done via AUTH_ONLY.
* Prevent automatic try at credit card encryption if no EncryptKey
is present.
Filters
-------
* Add new filter, "next_sequential". Allows selection of a next-sequential
value based on a field (and qualified by a field).
[filter op="next_sequential.survey_q.sort"][cgi sort][/filter]
will:
1. Return the existing value if present.
2. If existing value is blank, return max + 1 in the sort field,
i.e. equivalent to:
SELECT sort FROM survey_q
ORDER BY sort DESC
LIMIT 1
If another argument of a field name is passed, i.e.
filter => 'next_sequential.survey_q.sort.sel',
then you get:
SELECT sort FROM survey_q
WHERE sel = '[cgi sel]'
ORDER BY sort DESC
LIMIT 1
This allows a next-sequential numbering for things that need it.
Developed to support general-purpose survey UI for Ton's excellent
product rating system.
* Fix bugs in option_format filter. It would turn commas into new options;
and alternate delimiters had no hope of working.
* Add options2line and line2options filters, allowing you to specify
options in a textarea without comma separators and instead with one
option per line.
Profiles
--------
* Add "future" profile comparator so that you can do:
appointment_date=future 1 day "Sorry, we need some lead time."
That allows you to check that a date value (ala the date widget) is
in the future.
* Added "luhn" profile check for "LUHN-10"-encoded numbers.
* Enhance unique profile check to allow specification of a foreign key
for uniqueness check.
Foundation
----------
* Add several different color schemes instead of only the Foundation Red.
"blueyellow" is the new default.
* Change logos and such to reflect ICDEVGROUP instead of Red Hat.
* Add product_tree and product_flyout components to work with new
menu editor.
* Change checkout display to work easier for DHTML browsers, old
browsers should see much the same thing.
* Change order profiles and etc/log_transaction to do a more reliable
job of order checking. If your database has transactions (i.e. Postgres),
a failure in the log_transaction can cause a failure of the order.
* Added auth_code and tracking_number to transactions table to support
charge settlement and shipping_tracking in the UI.
* category_vert_toggle component reworked by Randy Moore.
* new category_vertical_tree component by Rene Hertell.
UserTags
--------
* Fixed problem in [button] tag to make sure that the current button being
pressed is the only one whose mv_click_map_* variable gets set.
This works around the problem of a user clicking one button, using the
browser's Back button, then clicking on a different button, and both
mv_clicks execute instead of just the most recent one.
* [history-scan ...] now escapes form parameters properly.
* Extended stripping of line endings by [import-fields] to
help people who import using files generated on non-Unix
operating systems.
* Add [jsq] [/jsq] .. and [jsqn] [/jsqn] tags that build properly
JavaScript strings (jsq with variable substitution, jsqn without).
* Add [tabbed-display] tag that shows DHTML tabbed panels.
[tabbed-display OPTIONS]
[tabbed-panel The title of one]
The contents of one
[/tabbed-panel]
[tabbed-panel The titel of two]
The contents of two
[/tabbed-panel]
[/tabbed-display]
It is pretty much that simple. It is documented, and an example is
on the pages/admin/genconfig.html page.
* [table-editor ...] tag updated extensively. Added tabbed displays,
full templating of the display, user-includeable forms, almost all
features supported with metadata.
* Many minor changes in metadata and preferences. Changed default
in some tables to tabbed display.
* [update-order-status] tag added for shipping products. Also does
charge settlement if needed.
* [xml-generator] removed.
UI
----
* Extensive update to look and feel of the admin UI. The HTML design was
done by David and Hamish, core members from Zeald, Ltd. in New Zealand.
There are no more BGCOLOR references, and only a couple of
tags. All has been switched to CSS.
* Remove icmenu database. That work now done by lib/UI/pages/include/menus/*.
* Major update to [table-editor ...] which so much of the UI is based
around.
-- Tabbed displays
-- Insert spreadsheet linked via foreign key
-- Insert custom form widgets for form processing use,
a "recompute transaction" included for an example
-- Control over styles and classes for table columns
-- Completely templateable
* Add the suggested feature from Dan Browning -- a great idea --
a spreadsheet of a linked table within the table editor.
Adds the options:
link_table Table to link in
link_key Key field to link to
link_fields Columns to display
link_sort How to order the linked rows
(probably should add link_query here)
link_view The view for spreasheet meta
link_label How to label the thing (default
is something like "Settings in
link_table linked by link_key"
link_before Where to plop the thing, input
a column name in the main table to
put it before
link_extra Class, style, or other data for
the table cells in the spreadsheet
To make it even better, multiple link tables are allowed,
so you could do:
[table-editor
link-table.0=options
link-table.1=pricing
link-key.0=sku
link-key.1=price_group
]
To test, try this little test-snippet in a default foundation
from the latest CVS.
[table-editor
table=products
item_id="os28004"
link-table=options
link-key=sku
link-fields="sku price description"
link-sort="price desc"
link-before="weight"
]
* Complete rework of content editor. Improvements too many to name.
- "Edit page", "Edit menu", even "edit component" links are inserted when
you are logged in as admin.
- Complete cleanup of page/template/component parsing code, now perhaps
someone besides Mike could understand it. 8-)
- File navigator only now used for pages, not for templates/components,
retains context.
- Hooks are there for doing an entire edit session then pushing new content all
at once. Theoreticially, you could create an entire new site, browse it
and test it without the public seeing it, and then push one button to
publish it all. I say theoretically because I haven't done it yet, but
it should be there soon.
- Preview now holds true for browsing catalog.
- Now can create and edit pages that have no template wrapper.
- Add page to clone (push) sets of components to like sets of pages, i.e.
edit one to get the components like you want them and then select the
pages that that setup should be copied to.
- Closed all Bugzillas relating to it.
-- New pages not creating properly
-- Unable to edit in subdirectories
-- Templates not written properly
- TODO:
-- Allow alternate DSN for staging database tables.
-- Document this puppy, finally.
-- Change templates so that left-side/right-side components interchange,
and so that most class=content components can go vertical.
-- Vet the new [menu][/menu] component so that left-hand side
menu can be directory/location sensitive.
-- Build in the "use the index.html page in the current directory
as the template" functionality.
* Improve spreadsheet.
-- Any meta widget can be used.
-- No possiblity of data crossover with embedded nulls.
-- Remove need for "Change display" with improved meta edit (will
add temporary view selector soon).
-- Better display (I think).
-- Better consistency of display for data and new record, etc.
-- Fields can use meta, go to textarea, have text field all selectable
from spreadsheet meta control.
* Add cheesy mail list manager, a common thing to ask. Supported by unsubscribe
function and a batch download mode for large mailings....probably should
create some online help.
* Ability to employ database entries in filters supported by profile
"process_filter" now.
* Major update to order status update program. Now can batch ship by
checking boxes, sequence ship, settle transactions previously done
via auth_only with realtime payment gateway, and more.
* Many, many, minor bug fixes and improvements.
Swish Search
------------
* Added module to search indexes with Swish.
* To use, you must add to interchange.cfg:
Require module Vend::Swish
AddDirective Swish hash
Variable swish Vend::Swish
* The search is called with st=swish (same as mv_searchtype=swish).
* The fields to return are configurable, and default to;
rf=code score title url mod_date filesize
fn=code score title url mod_date filesize
These correspond to:
code swishreccount
score swishrank
url swishdocpath
title swishtitle
filesize swishdocsize
mod_date swishlastmodified
mod_interchange
---------------
* Implemented a proper (automatic) URILevels mechanism and removed
the URILevels configuration directive. This also fixes a bug,
reported by Philip Hempel in the interchange-users mail list,
where [PT] redirects were not being handled correctly.
Forum
-----
* Add "forum" feature to foundation. Allows commenting on products and
also as a byproduct arbitrary blog-style forums.
This is a complete forum display:
[forum top=THREAD_ID /]
You can get more complex than that. There is an illustration of the
templated version in the pages/forum/display.html page.
Disabled by default for DBM and Oracle. No database def is
supplied for Oracle.
With Postgres and MySQL, the forum is displayed in the flypage
automatically by default. The thread doesn't exist until the
first comment is made, at which time we create a top-level thread
named for the SKU.
An email notification goes out with new comments if that is
enabled.
There is some scoring logic for display, but no way to assign
scores yet (except by editing the database directly).
The reply and submit pages use include files from include/forum.
Arbitrary forums need to be enabled by setting the artid equal
to the code. If the artid is 0, as is the default on a random
submit, no display will be done. (The enabling is done automatically
for products by passing the product=1 parameter in the URL and
finding the product in the database.)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interchange 4.9.3 released only as nightly builds.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interchange 4.9.2 released 2002-08-12.
Core
----
* New ability to run Interchange entirely inside Apache and mod_perl.
See POD documentation inside scripts/ic_mod_perl.PL for details.
* Add new Jobs and Cron facility:
- While we don't keep the time, and a scheduler will have to set the
execution time, it allows ITL to be run without the hassles of having
to deal with HTTP.
- Use $Vend::Cfg->{Cron} for setup.
- Emails either to command line address or $Vend::Cfg->{Cron}{email}
(only if the cron job supplies output). Uses the $Vend::Cfg->{Cron}
variables subject, from, reply_to and extra_headers.
- Logs to $Vend::Cfg->{Cron}{log}
(only if the cron job supplies output).
- Can add session dump when $Vend::Cfg->{Cron}{add_session}.
- Base directory set by $Vend::Cfg->{Cron}{base_directory}, defaults
to etc/cron. If $Vend::Cfg->{Cron}{use_global} is set,
the same directory in $Global::ConfDir is scanned too.
- The macros $Vend::Cfg->{initialize} and $Vend::Cfg->{autoload} are
executed once resp. before each job.
* Add First and Last links to more-list, with ability to customize via
[first-anchor] and [last-anchor] containers.
* Bye bye Wizard. Suggest anyone who wants it resurrect it and
make it work properly...
* Add new menu editor and menu system. It is based around Vend::Menu
and the new tag [menu ...], which builds various types of DHTMl and
standard HTML menus based on browser type.
The menu editor can edit simple menus or tree-based menus.
All UI menus use this. A simple menu component (i.e. a link list)
and a tree-based list are provided for Foundation.
* New support for database-native sequences for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle:
- To do a minimal sequenced table, all you need to do is:
Database sequenced sequenced.txt __DBIDSN__
Database sequenced AUTO_SEQUENCE sequenced_seq
- The parameter passed to AUTO_SEQUENCE (in the above, "sequenced") will
be used as the sequence name for Postgres and Oracle (and presumably
others that emulate them).
For MySQL, the same technique that Stefan introduced is used, with an
AUTO_INCREMENT field. The value in AUTO_SEQUENCE is just a non-false
value. The behavior depends on the definition of
$capability->{LAST_SEQUENCE_FUNCTION}.
If MySQL is the DB in use,
$key = $s->autonumber();
returns nothing and the key will be later found with
$key = $s->last_sequence_value($key);
and returned in $db->set_slice, etc. ($db->set_row also uses this, but
the key value is never returned. You can get it with
$db->last_sequence_value if you need it.)
If PostgreSQL/Oracle is used, the key is returned with
$key = $s->autonumber();
and is just parroted back with
$key = $s->last_sequence_value($key);
If the table is being created, the sequence will be created as well. If
it exists, it will not be dropped. If the "code" or key field is not
set with a COLUMN_DEF, the field type to be used will be found in
$capability->{SEQUENCE_KEY}.
Capablility entries used:
SEQUENCE_CREATE Query to create a sequence on table creation.
SEQUENCE_QUERY Query to get next value in sequence.
SEQUENCE_KEY Type definition for key field when AUTO_SEQUENCE
table is created.
SEQUENCE_VALUE_FUNCTION Query to get current value of sequence.
SEQUENCE_LAST_FUNCTION Query to get key when MySQL behavior is wanted.
- Can automatically drop existing sequence if:
Database sometable AUTO_SEQUENCE_DROP 1
* Add BASE_CAPABILITY configuration parameter to allow testing of a new
SQL database type with settings based on one of the known types. If
behavior is different in particulars, that capability can be modified
in the config file.
* In Vend::Config, fix incompatibility in Perl 5.005-style regex that
causes rejection of certain Locale settings.
* Remove unnecessary CGI variable mappings at end of Vend::Config.
* Fix call to [item-tag object name].
* Add Filter alias e = encode_entites.
Extensions
----------
* Various Quickbooks updates:
- Fixed: When an auto-created user orders from the same company as an
existing Quickbooks customer, it overwrites the customer.
- Save the auto-created user id (e.g. U00001) and use it in the Customer
Name as a unique identifier, just as logged-in users.
- New variables for easy customization of export features via Admin UI,
documented via item-specific meta referenced in the documentation.
- Fixed: "INTL" showing up without country (now matches US or USA).
- Put the company name on a separate line in Ship-to and Bill-to
addresses. Now utilizing all 5 lines.
- Item name updates:
- Length filter now customizable via QB_ITEM_LENGTH
- Default is 30 (backwards compatible)
- Item name taken from 'title' first, if any, then 'description' second.
- Optionally cause Quickbooks invoice number to be blank, to keep
Quickbook's invoice number progression unmodified.
- Accompanying documentation.
Utilities/EG
-------------
* eg/te -- jon's great tabbed file editor.
Add some new options:
-f to handle files without field names on first line of file.
-n to number rows in comments.
-s for starting value support (really only vi).
te -s os28004
Jumps to first occurrence of "os28004" in . Option -i ignores case
in the search.
Allow setting of persistent options in environment variable TE_OPTIONS.
Handle -i and -s with mixed-case search term (lowercase it first).
Don't escape " in search term, as it doesn't seem special.
Payment
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* Support for TrustCommerce added. Written, tested, and donated by
Dan Helfman of TrustCommerce . Thanks, Dan!
* Support for the Mainstreet Credit Verification Engine (MCVE) added.
Written, tested, and donated by Tom Friedel .
Thanks, Tom!
* Support for ECHO added. Written, tested, and donated by
Michael Lehmkuhl . Ported from globalsub to
Vend::Payment by Dan Browning . Thanks Michael!
UI
--
* [import_fields]: Performance enhancement: use set_slice() to update all
fields in a record at once when importing files.
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Interchange 4.9.1 released 2002-07-22
Core
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* The great tag breakout!
- Almost all tags are now UserTag definitions. The exceptions are:
and bounce goto if label or unless
- New TagDir directive (default is VENDROOT/code) sets the
directory (or directories) which are searched for code definitions
set by UserTag and CodeDef.
- New TagGroup directive establishes groups of ITL tags which can
be included.
TagGroup :crufty "banner default ecml html_table onfly sql"
The default groups include :core, which contains all of the
ITL tags defined in 4.8/early 4.9. The groups are defined
in $Vend::Cfg::StdTags and can be undefined if desired
with "TagGroup :group".
- New TagInclude directive allows inclusion of tags (or groups
of tags). If a tag is defined as a core tag (with a .coretag
or .tag or .ct extension) and is not included, it will not
be compiled and placed in the tag map. This is for all catalogs,
so if *any* catalog uses a tag it must be included.
Examples:
# Include the base tags
TagInclude :core
# Not the commerce tags
TagInclude !:commerce
# But make sure item-list is included even though
# it is in :commerce
TagInclude item-list
## Double negatives are honored
TagGroup :foo "bar !baz buz"
## With the group above, the below is equivalent
## to TagInclude !bar baz !buz
TagInclude !:foo
- New CodeDef directive allows the setting of filters, order checks,
FormAction, ActionMap, ItemAction, and LocaleChange.
## filters
CodeDef mixedcase Filter
CodeDef mixedcase Routine <$ANCHOR$[/link-template]
* Add utility functions Vend::Data::product_row and product_row_hash,
which do the same thing as product_field, but return the whole row
instead of just one field.
UI
--
* Major changes to the content editing scheme.
- Requires a CSS/Javascript 1.3 compliant browser. Tested on
Mozilla 0.9.8, MSIE 5.51, Opera 6.0tp2. All work pretty well;
Mozilla is a bit slow, Opera doesn't have CSS widths down.
- Page editor has a quasi-visual layout that should be much more
intuitive. Support for a "PAGE_PICTURE" file in the templates
allows visual links to the editor page.
- Components, templates, and pages are now all editable.
Template and component editors need to be brought up to speed
with the page editor, but work fairly well.
- Added new lib/UI/ContentEditor.pm module which implements
this stuff in conjunction with lib/UI/pages/include/*_editor.
A bit of a JavaScript dependency nightmare on the generated
attribute editors, but I may get this more canned as time goes on.
- Let's get this on record -- this content editiing WILL NOT
UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EVER WORK ON NETSCAPE 4. Do not ask,
though I know the people who monitor this stuff won't.
* Added Mike's cool new "auto_wizard" which builds a wizard from a
file like in the example. It will be the method to provide scripted
content addition.
* More table-editor updates -- added notable option, and
all_opts option which allows building the options in
Perl and then doing:
[table-editor all-opts=`\%opts`]
* Look for major updates on the table editor to make it
completely templateable.
* Fix problem with $Tag->display() called with null table, affecting
"wizard" mode.
* Add a "admin/test_code.html" page for testing short snippets
of ITL without having to create a test page.
* Make the table populator JavaScript honor the db tables the
particular admin user is supposed to see.
* [import-fields replace=1] -- added option to replace items in the database
* Add su facility for catalog superuser to switch users to another
user id, using new UI_Tag su as follows:
[su username=miltonbear]
1. Stringifies current session after checking that su user is valid
2. Writes a random string to "$Global::ConfDir/tmp/$Session->{id}"
3. Issues a cookie hashing the above two
4. Inits a new session, putting in the login info
5. Writes $Session->{su} with session string
[su exit=1]
1. Reads random string from "$Global::ConfDir/tmp/$Session->{id}"
2. Hashes that with session and verifies with cookie
3. Safe evals session string
4. Retrieves session username/admin info
[su create_user=1 username=bobby password=howdy verify=howdy]
Allows combined creation of new user and switching to that user.
Any options you would pass to userdb tag can be given to su usertag,
to tweak account creation. If user already exists, it's silently switched to.
MMsu profile is called on admin/customer.html to run the switch.
When you "log out", you are reverting to the previous user, and you
can go no further back. So if you go from superuser->adminuser, then
adminuser->regular user, there is no way back to superuser without
logging in again.
* Continuing work on meta_display and Vend::Form.
- Relocated date and option widgets
- Prepared for breaking out image widgets to code/Widget
- Fixed various bugs in widgets
- Code simplification in Primitive.pm
- Fix widget.coretag to not call UI::Primitive routine
- Redo option_format filtering
* Display server hostname on the information page (genconfig).
* Unused usertags component, set-alias and set-click removed.
Payment
-------
* Support for Wells Fargo added
Accounting
----------
* Vend::Accounting module added, along with example module for SQL_Ledger.
This is the basis for a start of a defined accounting system interface.
Some intended functions:
NOTE: AS = Accounting Software, i.e. SQL-Ledger, IC = Interchange
1. Assign customer number
2. Change customer information based on input, limit to fields customer
should have control over
3. Add sales transaction (IC)
4. Feed back sales transaction from AS side for account status
5. Enter payments (IC --> AS), with credit-cards used to pay invoices
6. Reconcile AS account status with IC, i.e. ship status
7. Cancel order (IC)
8. Ship portion or all of order (IC)
9. Mark order complete
Input on other functions needed is appreciated.
PROPOSED:
* Set of modules selectable by route handle:
Vend::Account::SQL_Ledger (exists)
Vend::Account::QuickBooks (proposed)
Vend::Account::Compiere (proposed)
Vend::Account::[fill-in-the-blank]
* Use a usertag [account] (a la [charge]) to interface functions.
* Use a profile primitive, "&account=label function" ala "&charge="
to do some accounting functions in profiles, notably getting an
order number or customer number
* Allow either COMMIT or no-COMMIT operation, with tradeoffs
* Define accounting system parameters via Route, and build
in accounting functions into Route so that they can be
a predicate for order success.
* Define two transitional state tables for handshaking:
orderstatus -- status of orders, i.e.
pending,transmitted,received,shipped,complete
accountstatus -- record of payments and orders for account statement
Foundation demo
---------------
* use [if variable MV_DEMO_MODE] instead of the more cumbersome
[if type=explicit compare="__MV_DEMO_MODE__"].
* add global INTERCHANGE_URL and INTERCHANGE_EMAIL variables to be used
for the Interchange developer website & email contact points, instead
of hard-coded stuff
* standardize on the short form "Interchange" for the application name.
* update a few URLs, etc.
* Remove history-scan tag from catalog.cfg; it is now in code/UserTag.
* Remove no_html_parse pragma, for which code has already been deleted.
* Moved payment routes to the top of the Route stack. Technically they
should not be below the default route, and though it works in the
standard foundation setup, it caused lots of failures when people
tried to customize their order routing.
* (Oracle) Add missing Database xxx UPPERCASE 1 settings. Thanks to
Jonathan Lee for reporting.
* Get rid of weird tax rate popup notice when updating account
info, which is especially strange when you've never had anything
in your cart ...
* Change catalog.cfg to highlight etc/after.cfg.
UserTags
--------
* [fedex-query] -- Stop dying if there's a problem with FedEx express
lookups, which kept even ground rate lookups from being done during
the first request when the Business::Fedex object is first created.
Instead, just log the error but continue on with possible ground lookup.
(This situation resulted in the oddity of the shipping rate displaying
as $0.00 on the checkout page, but still getting added into the total cost
and displaying in the shipping rate pulldown select box just fine.)
* interchange.cfg: Remove now-redundant include of usertag/*.tag.
* [db-columns] -- Add ability to get back an array instead of a joined string
to $Tag->list_databases,$Tag->list_keys,$Tag->db_columns,
* [email] -- Add enhancement made by Jurgen Botz to use send_mail program
so that Net::SMTP can send the email tag. Thanks Jurgen!
* [history_scan] -- Count option added, which guarantees that the
returned link is at least count # of clicks back in the page history.
* [image] -- descriptionsfields and exists_only options added.
Build
-----
* Removed stale POD documentation from main interchange repository; for
some time now, docs source has been in SDF format in docs repository
and available in separate docs package.
* Keep test from giving warning about not being able to stat
"code" directory.
* Big changes to RPM specfile:
- Allow non-root RPM builds.
- Don't add interch user on build machine.
- Don't automatically start Interchange after installing RPM.
- Remove unneeded .empty files used in CVS to avoid pruning
important but empty directories.
- Make admin UI images owned by root.
- Don't allow Interchange RPMs to own /usr/share/man/man[18] system
directories.
- Start using RPM dependencies for Perl CPAN modules. Users who
install directly from CPAN will have to use --nodeps.
- Start daemon in UNIX mode only by default.
- Build foundation-demo RPM with MV_DEMO_MODE set.
- On uninstall, remove autogenerated /usr/lib/interchange/etc/varnames
- Start using Red Hat standard /sbin/service instead of directly
running /etc/rc.d/init.d/interchange.
- Add standard 'reload' function as alias for restart.
- Quell /sbin/service stop errors.
- Let user see if we turn off old IC server before install/upgrade.
- Make packages architecture-dependent, to save lots of hassles.
- Stop checking for /home/httpd, but use a define for webdir
that can easily be changed if needed.
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