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ActuaLite – News management module
1. Description
News management interface in a database. Project developed follow-up to a demand, one of the conditions to respect is to keep the project simple (to develop, to maintain and to use). The database stores news (a title, a date, a text, a summary, links, associated categories and pictures), categories (a name, associated pictures) and associations between both.
With ActuaLite, you can manage the whole, i.e. add, modify and delete news and categories, add and delete pictures, associate categories to news, associate pictures to news and categories. News may be hidden, a toolkit provides functions to integrate news in a site, an RSS feed can be generated.
In the beginning, ActuaLite used an SQLite database (hence the name), but since version 2.2 it is possible to use other database types.
2. Documentation
An installation and configuration manual is available. The interface is simple, so there’s no manual on how to use it.
3. Versions
Current version is 2.3. Click on underligned version numbers to download archives. Other versions are not available.
| No. | Date | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 2.3 changes |
June 12th 2006 | Added a database backup feature. One new parameter for the RSS feed, and improved feed generation. Slight reorganization in the bottom of the main page. Fixed bugs in the Toolkit. Added the English localization. |
| 2.2 | December 20th 2005 | Use the PEAR::DB package for the database management, it is now possible to use other database types than SQLite. However, recommended types are SQLite and MySQL. Minor improvements and various bug fixes in the toolkit and several interface pages. Reorganized project page. Installation and user manual now available in HTML format. |
| 2.1 | May 18th 2005 | Improved toolkit (better returned results and new search function), URLs in news’ texts and summaries can be transformed into links, search form and quick links on the main page, preview before associating pictures to news or categories, limited news display feature on the main page, slight reorganization in files structure, complete preferences reorganization in the configuration file, bugs fixed since version 2.0, completely reworked handling of the RSS feed version 1.0, documentation beginned. |
| 2.0 | December 22nd 2004 | Minor bugs fixed, miscellaneous improvements. Added the picture upload while creating a piece of news or a category. Complete HTML and CSS validation. Tested with different OSes, Apaches, PHPs and browsers. A toolkit is provided for integration in a web site. |
| 2.0β | December 10th 2004 | Changed the way ActuaLite works: the base only stores news for one user. Added categories management, news-like. Added the news-categories associations management. Added the pictures management, for news and categories. Minor bugs fixed. |
| 1.3 | February 15th 2004 | Changed the tables and forms widgets width. RSS feed now ISO-8859-1 encoded, was UTF-8. |
| 1.2 | December 22nd 2003 | Minor changes. |
| 1.1 | July 24th 2003 | Changed the internal dates format for sorting, strings in SQLite queries are now escaped with the dedicated sqlite_escape_string() function (problems under Linux). |
| 1.0 | July 23rd 2003 | First release. |
4. License & copyright
ActuaLite is Copyright © 2003-2006 MAJe / TenZenXen.
This software is released under the terms of the GNU GPL license.
5. Limitations
- The interface is valid HTML/CSS but HTML code in news may invalidate pages.
- The interface is only available in French and English, any other translation is welcome.
Last modified: August 14 2006.
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