New Version: Forum 1.8 (Finally) !

Submitted by Derick Ng on 4 March 2010 - 1:23pm

This version has been in the works for almost 2 months, and it was highly important because 1.7 was broken for a good 99% of users (It had PHP 5.3 code). That problem has now been corrected and in addition a ton of new features were added. All topics, forums and forum categories now have sluggable titles for pretty URLs. For a full list of changes, read below and view the commit history.
Please visit the following URL on instructions how to upgrade the forum!Upgrade the forum plugin to 1.8Cupcake Forum Plugin v1.8http://github.com/milesj/forum

  • Rewrote the installation process from the ground up
  • Added tons more support for using an external users table
  • Added a system to patch an old installation, create admin users and upgrade to newer versions
  • Added slugs to topics, forums, forum categories to allow for pretty URLs
  • Added the sluggable behavior to support slugs
  • Added a shell called slugify to process data with empty slugs
  • Added new HTML to certain pages for better CSS styling
  • Fixed a bug in post deletion
  • Fixed the topic review to sort in DESC
  • Fixed a problem where it was using PHP 5.3 constants, now supports 5.2
  • BBCode quote tags now support a date attribute