New features requests for Elxis next version

[pavel]

When adding a new content item, it is required to enter SEO title.  If SEO title is entered incorrectly, then all text of the article disappears (it requests to resend info or nothing loads at all), which is extremely annoying for end users who put an effort in typing the content item.  Same is true for eBlog as well. 

The SEO field should be validated automatically with JS.  As soon the focus leaves SEO Title field, it should be instantly validated and there should be some sign reassuring that the title entered is correct or a big red sign indicating an error. 

Here is what i mean:  http://www.livevalidation.com/

Many thanks.

[datahell]

This has been reported again, a javascript validator will be added to fix this issue. Thanks.

[datahell]

Component content (the most important elxis component) becomes object oriented. It is being re-coded in order not to spent server resources without a reason (due to previous -spaghetti- coding style). This also affects the way it loads cache.

Benchmark results on component content with cache disabled (February 16, 2009).
Component content on Elxis 2009.0 loads 14% faster than 2008.1
Component content on Elxis 2009.0 uses 21% less memory than 2008.1

[Farhad Sakhaei]

Very nice 

[datahell]

Notice that it will be uploaded in SVN later as it is still under heavy re-construction.

[datahell]

Added new feature: Redirect to user's browser language

When a visitor first visits your front-page during a session Elxis will automatically detect his browser language and re-direct him to a version of the site in this language (if exists). Notice that this redirect only happens when you visit the front-page (there is a reason for this - if you like I can explain).

Explanation of this feature by example.
Regardless which is your browser's language, you browser has a default locale which is your native language. For me for example is greek (el). Elxis detects your browser language when you are in front-page and if you are going to see a version of the front-page for an other language then it will automatically re-direct you to a version of the front-page suitable for your native language (if this language is published in Elxis).

So, let's say you searched google for elxis and you see a link to elxis-downloads.com. If you click it and you are greek you will be re-directed by Elxis to http://www.elxis-downloads.com/el/, if you are Italian to http://www.elxis-downloads.com/it/, etc. If you are from China, as elxis-downloads.com is not available in chinese you will not be redirected (you will see the front-page in the default language which, for elxis-downloads.com, is English).

This feature is available in Elxis 2009.0 DEV rev2288 or newer.

If you want to disable this feature open Elxis' index.php and comment (or delete) this line:
$elxis_language->toBrowserLang();

[Farhad Sakhaei]

Very nice,
John , Some browsers like firefox don't install locale language , it will be english by default , If we want to have locale language , we should add it manually ...
So this will be very better by implementing with ip2country , Google uses both these (ip2country and browser locale)

And what search engines will index for default page? default language or english site (If exist) ? 
Thank you

[datahell]

Detection of browser's language works fine with firefox 2 and 3.

We can not use ip2country for 2 reasons:
1. Not all servers resolves ip addresses to host names. Elxis is not for our own site. Provided solutions should work under any system.
2. If we make it work with an external provider this solution won't work for local/intranet sites, also we will need to communicate with external sites which will cause extreme loading time increase. We can not base an important Elxis functionality on data provided by an external source.

[Farhad Sakhaei]

Detection of browser's language works fine with firefox 2 and 3.

For Persian , Firefox doesn't detect it , If the implementation is like Elxis installation , It won't work under firefox (At least for Persian)
I should add Persian manually into the Firefox , Then Firefox detects my language ...
I know that all my OS locale settings are set true and for Persian

We can not use ip2country for 2 reasons:
1. Not all servers resolves ip addresses to host names. Elxis is not for our own site. Provided solutions should work under any system.
2. If we make it work with an external provider this solution won't work for local/intranet sites, also we will need to communicate with external sites which will cause extreme loading time increase. We can not base an important Elxis functionality on data provided by an external source.

We don't need to communicate with any third source ... We can have IP2country in Elxis ...
It can be use in many subsystems ...
There is a data for every IP to detect their country ... 
And finally users can enable it or not ...
We can decide to use both systems or one of them or none

[rentasite]

Another feature request:

I have posted this question in another Greek topic. So im asking here also

Will it be possible, to insert the Defender's filters in another way except than copy-paste?

[Farhad Sakhaei]

Just look here to see how we can have a light weight IP2country
http://www.phptutorial.info/iptocountry/the_script.html
 

[datahell]

I don't know what happens with Persian, it works fine for greek, german, french, and italian which I tested.
ip2country can not be used for performance reasons. It's database unzipped is 3.8mb and the functionality it provides is too un-important.

[ks-net]

How easy is to implement   completely scheduled(cron)  backups and restores of elxis installations..

including data and files?

[datahell]

I think I have written a shell script somewhere in this forum for demo site backup/restore. If you don't find it contact me.

[ks-net]

no .... i have my own way to take backups with cron damp and tar! daily-weekly-monthly(need shell access and knowledge)

i meant to implement....  include(improve)  in elxis backup system....


so security covers better external threats or by users accident...
I know users that forced to reinstall elxis and restore DB because their passwords braked by hackers and most of their php files rewritten with malicious code! 

they had a DB backup(maybe old)  but no file backup 

to make elxis security wider
1-flodblocker
2-defender
3-full backup(local or external) and restore system.. or at least i think that only scheduled(cron) data+files backup 
is easy(i think) to be done by calling through cron a backup.php every desired amount of time , plus the ability to remove old backups over a specific amount of time!

it was a suggestion !