I am happy to report that my website
http://www.vedrine.net is now running a beta version of books .76
Direct access to english version here:
http://www.vedrine.n…in-newlang-eng.html
This is a TOTAL rewrite of the books module (yes it was a huge works, only permitted by the fact my students are now blocking my University for 2 weeks so I had a lot of spare time !!)
New features
- full hierachic tree of categories (any level of subcategories allowed). A migration script is provided to migrate your subcategories to categories with the correct parent id.
- use the Ratings module for book evaluation and
EZComments module for comments( a migration script for
EZComments and an improved Ratings module with migration menu are provided)
- totally pnAPI compliant (a great step for the books module but current users must be warned that this will change all their urls to books, unfortunately this was impossible to avoid so better do it now than latter)
- use pnRender templates for all displays
- use a lot of specifically designed pnRender plugins (navbar, display ratings, count
EZComments, newbookgraphic, popgraphic) some of them can even be used with other templated modules. I love pnRender plugins !!
- tableless design of all templates (you have asked for it, it is here ...)
- use
CSS stylesheet
- redesigned blocks (also templated)
- much cleaner admin panel (the old one was really awfull and confusing)
It is still a beta version and I already noticed some bugs and missing lang defines.
I want also verify that all pages outputs are
HTML compliant.
Also the new
documentation must be written.
I am very proud of this version because the books module code was derivated from an old version of the Web_Links module and now the son is ready for .8 even before it's ancestor :D
But I must also admit that I borrowed some code for the
NOC project that is now rewritting the Downloads and Web_Links modules !! This was very helpfull so I must thanks the developpers of these projects lindberg and petzi-juist.
Jean-Michel Védrine
Migration of the categories to global categories using the core Categories module will be done when .8 is out.
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