Elxis 4.5 development

[datahell]

I started improvents on component user. Users central, profile, and members list will be re-designed. Also 2 new features will be added, Bookmarks and Personal messages (therei is already core support for this since Elxis 4.4). For these changes a new Elxis version will be released, Elxis 4.5.

Bookmarks, reminders and notes
Users can add pages to bookmarks, add notes and categorize them (important, personal, attention, appointment, etc). They can also add reminders. When the remind date is reached Elxis will send you a notification email alert. Bookmarks already implemented! I attach a screenshot. Bookmarks are private and only logged-in users are allowed to access them from the Users Central page. You can add a bookmark from any page by displaying a link to this page (elxis URI):
user:members/editbookmark (inner.php, lightbox or popup window)

For the rest improvements/additions I will notify you in the future. I also added the Awesome font in Elxis core. You can include it in any page (Elxis 4.5+) like this:
$eDoc->addFontAwesome();

If you have any requests for Elxis 4.5 please reply below.

[jesusto]

Hi,

Good news.

It also would be great to be able to bookmark hotels from IORS hotels.

Thank you

[datahell]

You can add bookmark from any page and there is also a special category for hotels (bookmarks are categorized). You can see a mobile preview in my Twitter page.

[Amigamerlin]

Hello Datahell, since you are building new ELXIS version maybe you can add some other feature that can be useful:

1) Can be a good thing having the availability to can put image in menu items .
2) Change the way to show users ip address. Currently is really unreadable for human.
3) For CKEditor adding by default Plug-in for background management.

That's all  .

[datahell]

1. Putting images in menu items is too old-fashioned. You can do it with CSS if you like or you can build a custom menu module doing so. Don't forget that menus are modules.
2. Elxis uses IPv6 addresses and converts IPv4 IPs to IPV6 format. I don't know if IPV6 addresses are human friendly or not but you have to live with them because soon IPv4 will be history. I might do something for IPv4 ips (display them in that form in this case), we will see. I will notify you later.
3. We focus on the complete removal of inline css and javascript. Putting a background image anywhere is easy with css. You don't need an editor plugin for that.

Change background to all articles:
.elx_article_page { background:url(something.png) 0 0 no-repeat; }

Change background image only to article with ID 45:
#elx_article_page_45 { background-color:yellow; }

Change article subtitle background only to article with ID 45:
#elx_article_page_45 .elx_content_subtitle { background-color:red; }

[Amigamerlin]

1. Putting images in menu items is too old-fashioned. You can do it with CSS if you like or you can build a custom menu module doing so. Don't forget that menus are modules.
2. Elxis uses IPv6 addresses and converts IPv4 IPs to IPV6 format. I don't know if IPV6 addresses are human friendly or not but you have to live with them because soon IPv4 will be history. I might do something for IPv4 ips (display them in that form in this case), we will see. I will notify you later.
3. We focus on the complete removal of inline css and javascript. Putting a background image anywhere is easy with css. You don't need an editor plugin for that.

Change background to all articles:
.elx_article_page { background:url(something.png) 0 0 no-repeat; }

Change background image only to article with ID 45:
#elx_article_page_45 { background-color:yellow; }

Change article subtitle background only to article with ID 45:
#elx_article_page_45 .elx_content_subtitle { background-color:red; }

Agree on all.
Sorry Datahell , about background I was not precise... I'm referring to Table background.
You helped me to install a CKE plug-in fot that. Since I've seen hat can be easy configured to add it by default I thought that can't be a big problem for you adding it in the next release by defualt.
Let me know.
Thank you.

[datahell]

The work on component User finished. Elxis 4.5 has a brand new component User with new features such as personal messages, bookmarks and reminders. The layout re-designed and become much friendlier to mobile devices. I attach here the English language files if anyone wants to translate it. The new language strings start from line 245 (//Elxis 4.5). Translate the rest strings and when ready send it back to me.

I also attach a preview of the new members list page. Everything in component user is new!

[Amigamerlin]

Italian translation sent  . Ciao

[fbookin]

Hi Russian translation sent.

[seadhna]

Hi datahell,
would it be possible to include translation/multilingual functionality for the title of downloads? i.e. the download plugin - the title of the file does not offer multilingual options. Thanks!

[datahell]

This is about a third party plugin and has nothing to do with Elxis 4.5.

[jorgenunes]

Hi

When sending messages

It is possible not to allow communication between users?
Example:
Administrator communicates with all useres
Users only send messages to administrator

Thanks

[datahell]

It can be done with a small modification. I will write what to do later as I am out of office now.

[datahell]

I will write below how to do it. Users will be able to send messages only to administrators, administrators to all. However some direct links will not be removed (needs further work) but they will not be functional.

Open this file: components/com_user/models/user.model.php
Change line 761 from this:
$sql = "SELECT ".$this->db->quoteId('uid').", ".$this->db->quoteId('firstname').", .....
to this:
$sql = "SELECT ".$this->db->quoteId('uid').", ".$this->db->quoteId('gid').", ".$this->db->quoteId('firstname').", ....

Delete line 771:
return $rows;

and replace it with this:
if (!$rows) { return array(); }
$mygid = eFactory::getElxis()->user()->gid;
if ($mygid == 1) { return $rows; }
$newrows = array();
foreach ($rows as $uid => $row) {
   if ($row->gid == 1) { $newrows[$uid] = $row; }
}
return $newrows;

Test it, it should work ok.

[jorgenunes]

Hi

Is working very well thank you.

Best Regards