GeekLog History/Changes:

September 20, 2002 (1.3.6)
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- Images in stories can now be resized automatically during upload, provided
  you have either ImageMagick or netpbm installed. See the image settings in
  config.php for details.
- If you create a static page with the title "Frontpage" then the content of
  this static page will be displayed above the first story on the front page
  of your site. If you additionally set the label of this static page to
  "nonews", then the static page will completeley replace the news on the front
  page of your site.
  You may want to wrap static pages in a block - set $_SP_CONF['in_block'] = 1;
  in /path/to/geeklog/plugins/staticpages/config.php
- A user assigned only to the Mail Admin group wasn't able to use the "Mail
  Users" function.
- The filter to disable Javascript onXXX events also changed certain links in
  HTML postings. This should be fixed now.
- The poll uses a POST instead of a GET request now to at least prevent
  primitive manipulation attempts ...
- Events on the same day were displayed in the order they were entered, not
  in the order they were scheduled (occured in day, week, and month view).
- The user function and admin blocks weren't using the proper templates when
  the theme was using the $_BLOCK_TEMPLATE trick, as outlined in
  <http://geeklog.sourceforge.net/article.php?story=20020429092841722>.
- When the first character of the content of a block is a '<' it is now
  assumed that the block contains HTML and nl2br() is not applied to the
  block content. This allows proper HTML usage and even the use of Javascript
  in blocks.
- Sanity checks have been added to the admin editors (including the editor
  for static pages) to prevent possible damage to the database in case of
  incomplete translations (language files) or invalid IDs.
- The delete button in the plugin editor, which was unused since the removal
  of the automated plugin install (in Geeklog 1.3.4), will now cause a function
  plugin_uninstall_<plugin name> to be called. This allows plugins to uninstall
  themselves (if possible).
- The author's name was missing from emailed stories. Also changed it so that
  the author's name is only included when $_CONF['contributedbyline'] == 1.
  The daily digest now also includes the author's name.
- Fixed the "1054: Unknown column 'deleted' in 'where clause'" SQL error that
  some people were getting when logging out.
- Submitted stories will now pick up the permissions from the topic they were
  posted under (instead of using default permissions).
- Added new features story.submit, link.submit, event.submit which, when
  assigned to a group, allow members of that group to post directly (skipping
  the submission queue) even when the submissione queue is active.
- Fixed issues with backslashes in block titles, as suggested by Neil Darlow.
- The page navigation is now wrapped in a <div class="pagenav"> so that it
  can be formatted by a theme using CSS.
  Because of this change, the template files admin/user/userslist.thtml and
  links/links.thtml had to be changed, because they wrapped the page navigation
  in a <p>.
- Submission of links and events by anonymous users failed when the link
  submission queues were switched off.
- Anonymous users were able to submit comments even when $_CONF['loginrequired']
  was set to 1.
- Fixed a search bug introduced in 1.3.6rc1 when searching by author.
- When updating from an earlier version, the install script will no longer try
  to rename the staticpage table when no prefix is used in the database.
- PLG_getUserOptions() will no longer return empty menu options.
- Updated Italian language file, provided by quess65
- Changed some wording in the German language file
- Fixed spelling errors in the English language file


August 28, 2002 (1.3.6rc1)
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- Problems with using the dollar sign in stories, comments, and their titles
  have been fixed.
- Fresh installations now have a "Are you secure?" block pre-installed
  that only the Admin can see and which does some (very simple) tests whether
  the site is secure or not.
- Fixed the page navigation in (admin's) user list.
- Using the preview in the admin story editor will now keep the topic icon
  and the time will not revert from pm to am any more.
- The links section now includes a list of the link categories at the top.
  The list of links is now also separated into pages (10 links per page by
  default, configurable in config.php).
  To get back the old (pre-1.3.6) style of the links section, just set both
  $_CONF['linkcols'] and $_CONF['linksperpage'] (in config.php) to 0.
  These changes are based on code provided by Tom Willett.
- Fixed the SQL syntax for some requests ("count(*) AS count" instead of
  "count(*) count") which seems to have caused problems with some (older)
  versions of MySQL.
- A proper error message is now displayed when attempting to use "Mail Users"
  but not filling out all the fields.
- Editing a portal block shouldn't make it disappear any more ...
- The somewhat random order of poll answers has been fixed.
- The site can be disabled by setting $_CONF['site_enabled'] = false; in
  config.php. $_CONF['site_disabled_msg'] can either contain a message to be
  displayed in that case or a URL (has to start with http:) to which all
  requests will be redirected.
- Fixed various access rights / privacy issues where users could see (but
  not access) information even when they shouldn't ...
  + Search returns only those stories, comments, links, and events to which the
    user has the proper access rights
  + What's New block counts stories and comments according to access rights
    now (this should also fix the problems some people had when New Comments
    were not displayed for anonymous users). New Links also take access rights
    into account.
  + Upcoming events are only visible to those with the proper rights.
  + Topics are not available for submissions without proper rights.
  + Topic selection in the user preferences also follows access rights.
  + "Last 10 comments" (and the new "Last 10 stories too, of course) in profile
    takes proper rights into account
- Story display and paged navigation weren't working properly when some stories
  were only accessible to certain users.
- Fixed a bug where users weren't able to use the site when their theme had
  been removed (until they cleared their cookies).
- New installations now have only two default accounts: The Admin account (as
  before) and a Moderator account that has access to the story, links, and
  events submission queues.
- The Older Stories block should work again.
- The submission queues for stories, links, events, and users can now be
  switched off separately (in config.php), i.e. items submitted by users will
  then be visible to everybody immediately.
- The database backup is more verbose now, especially when there are problems
  (changes provided by Blaine Lang).
- Fixed a bug where the admin's user photo overwrote a user's photo when the
  admin was editing the user's account information.
- Group editor:
  + Could not create new groups when using a non-english language file.
  + Once you've added one group to another (by checking off an option from
    the "Security Groups" list), there was no way to uncheck it again.
  + The message after saving/deleting a group said that the topic(!) had been
    saved/deleted ...
- Changes in search:
  + Should be faster now.
  + Search by date did not work (mostly because the date format recommended to
    be used in a search is really YYYY-MM-DD and not MM-DD-YYYY).
  + List of authors is now sorted by username.
  + Search results for links are now routed via portal.php, too, so that the
    links are counted when clicked.
  + When no results are returned for a search, then the search form will now
    be displayed below that message again.
- The static pages plugin uses the table prefix now (databases created with
  Geeklog 1.3.5 or older need to be upgraded).
- A user submission queue has been added. When activated in config.php
  ($_CONF['usersubmission'] = 1;), new users will not get their password
  emailed until they are approved by an admin.
  You can, however, let users from certain domains be approved automatically
  by adding their domain names to the comma-separated list of domains in
  $_CONF['allow_domains'].
- Fixed problems with quotes in poll question and answers.
- The default value for the number of stories per page for a new user is now
  taken from $_CONF['limitnews'] (was hard-coded to 10).
- The user profile has been extended to include
  + last 10 stories by that user
  + total number of stories and comments posted by that user
  + link to search for all postings by that user
- The title of an article is now displayed in the page title (again).
- New configuration option $_CONF['allow_user_language'] to allow / prevent
  to change the language. When set to 0, the option to switch the language
  is hidden from the user preferences.
- The message "You have successfully logged out" should not show up any more
  when you log out and log in again.
- The blocks stating that the search returned no results (e.g. for links) are
  now switched off by default but can be switched on again with the new
  configuration variable $_CONF['showemptysearchresults'].
- Fixed the list of authors in the search form (did not list all authors).
- Fixed search results for links and events: They always displayed only one
  result, even when there where more hits. Also, when searching for authors,
  no hits amongst the links and events will be returned (since they have
  no author).
- In the admin menu, the count of available submissions is now displayed
  according to the admin's access rights (e.g. don't count story submissions
  for someone who's only a link admin).
- Links in the What's New block are now counted when clicked (for the site
  statistics).
- Fixed a stray "(N/A)" that would show up in the admin menu for admins which
  were not static pages admins.
- You can now block anonymous users from accessing any part of a Geeklog site
  or you can block them from certain parts, e.g. block anonymous access to the
  calendar (via a new set of XXXloginrequired flags in config.php).
  Please note that $_CONF['loginrequired'] is now used to require login to all
  areas. To require login for submissions, use $_CONF['submitloginrequired'].
- New RDF/RSS parser, provided by Roger Webster. This should now properly
  import even those RDF feeds which Geeklog previously refused to display.
- Updated language files:
  + Italian, provided by quess65
  + Japanese, provided by Yusuke Sakata
  + Polish, provided by Robert Stadnik
- Various fixes for the consistent use of $_CONF['site_admin_url'] instead of
  $_CONF['site_url']/admin, provided by Gene Wood.
- The static pages plugin can now wrap static pages in a block
  (available as an option in staticpages.cfg)
- You can now use [code] ... [/code] in stories and comments (HTML formatted
  only) to mark portions of the text as containing code of any form (HTML, PHP,
  any other programming language). Geeklog will then reproduce this section
  verbatim, i.e. not interpreting any special characters in that section.
- Fixed type pulldown menu in search when more than one plugin was used.
- Signatures in comments are working again.
- The daily digest uses $_CONF['shortdate'] now
- New configuration variable $_CONF['emailstorieslength'] to specify the length
  of stories sent in the daily digest: 0 = only the title and a link to the
  story are included, 1 = entire introtext is included (default), any other
  number = cut off text after that amount of characters.
- The selection of the user theme is now hidden from the user's preferences
  when 'allow_user_themes' is turned off in config.php
- The links "Add To My Calendar" are now hidden when personal calendars are
  turned off in config.php
- Fixed a bug where the number of submissions was displayed in the sections
  block even when that was turned off.
- New variable $_CONF['adminhtml'] allows (Story)Admin to use a wider variety
  of HTML tags than the ordinary user.
- Fixed COM_exportRDF so that only articles that anonymous users have access to
  show up.
- Search: User drop down only shows users that have posted a comment or a story.
- Fixed bug with double quotes in title of story submission.
- The upcoming events block uses the list templates now.
- The story option block uses the list templates now.
- The (Event)Admin could not delete events (delete button was missing).
- The calendar class reverted to using the english day and month names as
  soon as you called setCalendarMatrix().
- Added {edit_link} in story templates in Classic theme.
- All admin editors have the save / cancel / delete buttons at the bottom now.
- The link to the plugin homepage did not work from the plugin editor.
- Added $_CONF['default_charset'] in config.php and $LANG_CHARSET in the
  language files to specify a character set to be used for the web pages (use
  {charset} in header.thtml) and email sent by Geeklog.
- Changes in the themes and the admin editors, moving lots of hard-coded
  english texts to the language files.
  This affects most of the files in the admin and calendar directories within
  the themes directories.
- The static pages plugin will now pick the language automatically, based on
  the user / default setting for the language. Currently, only English and
  German language files are included.
- New variables that can be used in footer.thtml: {execution_textandtime},
  {powered_by}.


July 8, 2002 (1.3.5sr2)
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- New installation instructions (now back in docs/install.html).
  Please note that some of the other documentation may be out of date ...
- Display of stories in older stories block was off by one day.
- Number of guest users in Who's online block should now be reset properly.
- Added some scripts in admin/install to help with the installation:
  + info.php just does a phpinfo()
  + check.php will check the file and directory permissions
  + configinfo.php will display the contents of config.php
  Note: It is now even more important that you remove the install directory
  after the installation went through (or at least block read access to this
  directory).
- Disable all onXXX Javascript events in HTML postings (stories and comments).
- Fill in user name and email address when writing an email to a user (via
  the 'send email' form from the user profile).
- Make sure that the first comment to a story has the 'title' field filled in
  (previously, only comments to comments took over the title).
- Cut off the subject at the first linefeed when sending email to a user,
  thus preventing the injection of additional email headers.
- Added a test for register_globals=off in the install script (and display a
  warning if it is off). Also added a hint what the current path is and tries
  to guess the /path/to/geeklog.
- Fixed the "12pm bug": Posting a story between 12 and 1 pm would result in
  the story being posted with a date in 1969.
- Use mysql_connect() instead of mysql_pconnect() in MySQL class.
- The redirect after submitting a story always went to /index.php
- HTML tags are now stripped out of search queries.
- Removed the logging of all search queries to error.log.
- Fixed a wrong link from personal events in the upcoming events block.
- The "Home" link in the section block was not active on pages > 1. It was,
  however, always active on the home page when the Geeklog site was not
  located in the DocumentRoot.


June 10, 2002 (1.3.5sr1)
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- This release addresses security issues recently discovered by the people at
  olympos.org. These issues allow for the injection of malicious javascript
  code (which could be used to access the admin's cookie) and the injection
  of MySQL code which could be used to access and even damaged the database
  (under certain circumstances). Details will be available in a report on
  the Bugtraq list shortly after this release is out.
- The following bugs from the 1.3.5 release have also been fixed:
  + missing field 'emailfromadmin' in userprefs table (fresh installs only)
  + fixed a typo that prevented the page navigation from working
  + fixed batch user import
  + fixed logo size and path to search in XSilver theme
  + optimized size of image files in XSilver theme
  + fixed path to search in Clean theme


April 24, 2002 (1.3.5)
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- Change installation so that server configuration is manual, DB configuration is scripted
- Search page now properly generates the right link to search comments
- Comments to polls now show up in whats new block
- You can now specify the order the poll results show up in in config.php.  You can either sort by
  voteorder (highest number of votes -> lowest) or by the order they were saved in admin/poll.php
- You can now move /admin somewhere else in web tree.  This should help out folk where ISP's use /admin
  for their administration stuff.
- if you go to submit.php as an admin we will try to send you to the admin/ page for the type of thing you
  are trying to submit (e.g. story, link, event)
- fixed calendar.php so month view now shows events spanning multiple days on months other than the current
- admin/event.php now saves am/pm and allday properly
- PollAdmin group can now properly add a new poll.
- fixed SEC_getUserGroups() so that it always returns an array even if no groups are returned (e.g.
  empty array                                                                                            
- fixed moderation.php so post mode is saved properly from storysubmission to story table.
- killed 1064 bug in admin/event.php
- set error_reporting() so uninitialized variables don't show up (common in poorly configured PHP installs)
- gldefault blocks now actually use permissions assigned to them in admin/block.php
- Added all sorts of shit to english.php.  Translators will need to really take their time
  with this file.
- Added $_CONF['maximagesperarticle'] to config.php
- install.php was reworked a bit for upcoming release
- lib-common.php has changed.  can't even begin to note all the changes there
- admin/user.php has a very simple batch import utility.  You can now create multiple
  accounts by importing a tab-delimited file.  See that page for file format specs
- story.php was reworked a bit to be simplified and to correctly do paging (old
  paging feature had a bug where one article would never show up.                                                                            
- admin/user.php now allows for paging and searching.  Check it out, you'll see what I mean ;-)
- blocks can now be disabled in admin/block.php
- added support for images in articles
- complete overhauled upload.class.php for ease of use, better security, better logging
  and for use in putting images in articles.
- fixed bug in users.php that allows accounts with same email addresses yet different
  usernames to be created.
- New strings in english.php (and german.php):
  $LANG02: 15 (moved from calendar_event.php)
  $LANG04: 74, 75, 76 (moved from usersettings.php)
  $LANG08: 31, 32, 33, 34 (moved from lib-common.php)
  These strings need to be added to the other language files!
- Fixed user selection of emailed topics (usersettings.php) and removed the
  hard coded texts for the daily digest from lib-common.php (again).
- Slightly changed display of event block: The type of event is no longer
  underlined and the event date is displayed as 03-Apr etc.
- Added Russion Translation
- Fixed bug #531483 where $_CONF['commentsloginrequired'] was set to 'on' or
  'off' instead of '1' or '0'.
- Fixed bug #529621 and added the variable layout_url in COM_endBlock in
  lib-common.php
- (Sort of) fixed bug #530142: {geeklog_blocks} is now set to an empty string
  in lib-common.php
- Fixed bug #531018: {contributedby_use} had an 'r' too many in lib-common.php
- There have been lots of minor changes in the themes so that they now contain
  valid HTML. Nearly all those change fall into one of the following categories:
  + changed '&' in URLs to '&amp;'
  + added alt="" to <img> tags
  + changed the script tags to <script type="text/javascript">
  + changed the DOCTYPE to HTML 4.01 (there is a bug in the HTML 4.0
    specification which prevents the use of 'name' attributes in forms).
  + added '#' signs in front of colour values (mostly in the Classic theme)
  These kinds of changes have also been applied to index.php and lib-common.php
- During those changes for valid HTML, some typos were corrected:
  + Classic/header.thtml: added a missing <b> before {welcome_message}
  + Classic/storytext.thtml: added a missing 'n' in {end_contributedby_anchortag}
  + Yahoo/header.thml referred to a non-existent file "spec.gif"
  + Yahoo/footer.thml: there was an extra quote after align="right"
  + Digital_Monochrom/admin/plugins/editor.thml: file was missing - copied
    over from the Classic theme)
  + Digital_Monochrom/footer.thtml: added a missing ';' after &nbsp
- admin/install/install.php had two <body> tags but was missing the </head>

March 7, 2002
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- Fixed broken older stories block (lib-common.php)
- Fixed problems with saving rights to a group in admin/group.php (admin/group.php)
- Fixed bug in admin/user that would reset user's settings when admin made a change (admin/user.php)
- Fixed bug in index.php.  There were two FOR loops, one nested inside the other both interating
  on the variable $i.  This caused problems only for users who went into display preferences and
  selected only the topics they wanted to get articles for (index.php)
- Fixed bug in story admin that would prevent the date edit from prepopulating right when admin hit
  the preview button (admin/story.php)
- Modified admin/plugin.php to reflect change in how plugins are installed.  Because of platform 
  dependance issues, all plugins will have a simple but manual installation process.  This should
  work across all platforms. (admin/plugin.php, layout/Yahoo/admin/plugins/pluginlist.thtml,
  layout/Classic/admin/plugins/pluginlist.thtml, layout/Digital_Monochrome/admin/plugins/pluginlist.thtml)
- Alter the database to force all stories to show on the frontpage by default.  This will make the
  moderation of articles work as expected.  Before if you approved an article it would show up only
  in the topic and not on the frontpage (mysql_tableanddata.sql, table.sql, mysql_1.3.3_to_1.3.4.sql)

March 1, 2002
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- Admins can now manually edit the publish date of an article.  This include the ability
  to set the date for a time in the future.  In that case the article is completely 
  ignored by COM_exportRDF, stats.php, search.php and the email digest
- Rudimentary support for database backups (one per day at most).  There is no restore
  capability at this time.
- Modified the display preference so we store the blocks a user doesn't want to see instead
  of the ones they do want to see.  This will allow any new block to show up by default as
  expected.
- Removed hardcoded english from COM_emailUserTopics
- Fixed minor security bug with whats new block. It would display items the user didn't have access too (however, if they click them they would correctly get the access denied message)
- Topic administration page now default the group to 'Topic Admin' properly
- Topic administration now save anonymous permissions properly

February 22, 2002
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- Removed some outdated themes (hence the 1.3.2-1 version number)

February 22, 2002
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- Added Canadian French, German and Polish translations
- Fixed bug that kept front page with multiple polls from working right
- Added missing help field to block table
- Added block to usersettings where user can pick topics to receive articles for in an
  email digest
- Fixed bug with the contact link in the header of some themes
- Fixed bug that caused the admin block to disappear
- Fixed bug that caused save of story as admin to go to http://someurl/draft_flag
- Fixed bad relative paths in calendar
- block type now defaults properly when showing prepopulated data

January 11, 2001
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- Two security fixes, one major one.  This release addes a users MD5 password to a cookie that is checked when using the permanent cookie.  Prior to this you could change the permanent cookie to any user and get their access rights.  Second security fix addresses an orphaned group_assignments record that, one new Geeklog installations, would give the very first user to register with the site access to the GroupAdmin and UserAdmin groups
- In admin/block.php you can now specify the URL to a help file.  This is usefully in providing site help to your users
- Many bugfixes to the calendar in both the UI and the administration
- Added who's online block
- Fixed bug that was keeping users registration date from being saved.
- Fixed bugs in usersettings.php that keep user options from saving
- Added two database indexes that really speed things up
- Coded some performance-related enhancements
- Fixed bug that kept user-defined themes from working
- Fixed bug in links.php that caused the first link category to report over and over
- Started updating some of the documents

November XX, 2001
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- Added user-defined themes via PHPLib's template class library
- Update the Geeklog security model from numeric Security Levels to a *nix-like model that
  can be used by plugins
- Added support for plugins. Plugins can be downloaded from http://geeklog.sourceforge.net and uploaded and installed remotely or manually
- Updated most places where dates are used to use the user-defined format in their display preferences
- Updated session management to use a long-term cookie that is fully configurable. If desired, users can specify how long their long-term cookie will persist for.
- Update blocks so that admins can specify the side and order a block shows up on.
- Seperated common.php into the following libraries: lib-database.php, lib-common.php, lib-sessions.php lib-security.php
- Started moving Geeklog to use PHP's OO features with the addition of a timer class, a calendar class, a MySQL database class.
- Fixed bug with output of Geeklog RDF file that allowed story drafts to be included.
- Updated most of the codebase to use the Geeklog Coding Standard (a subset of the PEAR standard).

August 21, 2001
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- Updated configuration documentation
- Added the ability for article author's username to be hidden (via 'contributedbyline' option in config.php)
- Fixed a bug with the Google-like paging feature where it would only work if the GeekLog site was in the root dir
- Fixed a bug which caused slashes to appear before apostrophes in the older stuff block and in the search results
- Fixed overlapping/bad HTML in index.php and common.php
- Fixed the bug in the sections block that showed submission cue numbers to non-logged in people
- Added workaround for problem where users (after following link in e-mail after registration) would still see the login page after logging in
- Created phrase IDs for previously hard-coded English in common.php and story.php
- Fixed a bug which caused draft stories to be counted as new stories in the What's New block
- Fixed a bug with the upcoming events block where it would only work if the GeekLog site was in the root dir
- Stroked the cat

August 17, 2001
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- Released 1.3b
- Added in support for plugins and has been test for *nix and *should* work for windows
- A few bug fixes

August 3, 2001
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- Released 1.2.2 
- Added the ability for admins to save drafts of stories
- Fixed a bug with in calendar_event.php when adding event to user calendar
- Fixed a bug with the search bar in header.php

August 1, 2001
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- Released 1.2.1
- a few minor bug fixes
- Added google-like paging feature
- fixed all references to newsgeeks to point to geeklog.org
- when you login when on users.php you are routed to index.php when successfully logged in
  instead of back to users.php

July 19, 2001
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- Released 1.2 stable.  
- Added personalized calendars
- Fixed a number of bugs from 1.2b
- Fixed MySQL 3.23 incompatibility issues
- Added alt_header.php which is the same as header.php minus the left hand side

May 29, 2001
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- Released 1.2b.  Changes are below:
-Fixed security error in usersettings.php with PGP key
-Now allows posts that don't go to front page
-Added new calendar
-Whether the count of stories and submissions shows up in the Sections block is driven in config.php
-Add ability to sort topics in Section block by number or alpha (specified in config.php)
-Renamed header.inc and footer.inc to have the php extension to avoid letting nosy people see the code
-Added field called limitnews to topics table.  This is the same as limitnews in the config.php but applys to only that topic (i.e. you can control the number of stories that show up in each topic
-changed userindex.maxstories to default to null.  This is so that the order of precedence for the number for articles that show up will be 1) userindex.maxstories 2) topic.limitnews 3) $CONF["limitnews"]
-added config variable called $CONF["minnews"] which specifies the minimum number of stories per page regardless of topic (i.e. it overrides topics.limitnews)
-an anonymous user can now email a story to a friend and they can enter some text to accompany the message
-fixed bug that allowed users to post comments to non-existent articles through article.php
-added the Get Geeklog Articles in Your Mailbox feature.  This is dependent on cron and a shelled php script.  This can be turned off in the config file
-session management has been improved
-moved "appears on homepage" setting on poll administraction screen to the top of the form to
keep from having to scroll down all the way.
-Added messages to various user actions (i.e. notification that submission was sent, confirmation that user data was saved, etc)
-Added Upcoming events block
-Fixed MySQL 3.23 incompatibilities
-added account creation date to user table along with other useful information (aim, yim, etc)
-added email gl users/admins feature
-fixed checkhtml function so that strings to gain extra spaces
-added file custom_code.php.  This is where admins should put all custom code (not addon code).  GL admins should never touch common.php moving forward
-added version checking system to let admins check for current version
-added $CONF["OS"] for use by Geeklog Addons (Use PHP OS variable).  It represents the operating system that Geeklog is running on and is useful for producing useful error messages should a user be trying to use an addon that is OS specific
 

September 24, 2000
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- Tar'ed it up and shipped 1.1 out the door!

September 24, 2000
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- Date in moderation now shows the correct
  submission date.
- Maxstories now counts a feature as a story.
- Saving user information now returns you the
  the edit screen.

September 18, 2000
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- Fixed comment post mode preview bug.
- If a block is empty, it will not be displayed.
- Fixed a user creation error.
- Fixed the submission scripts to add and remove 
  slashes in all the right places.

September 13, 2000
-----------------

- Added a limit check to index.php to ensure stories
  are displayed.
- If block order is between 1 and 9 it is a default
  block.  Anything greater than 9 will not be displayed
  without the user configuring thier settings for it.
- Added bolding to the display preferences screen for
  default blocks.

September 12, 2000
-----------------

- If a user sets maxstories to less than 5, max stories
  will be 5.
- If a story id and poll id are the smae they will 
  share comments and the poll will be displayed on the
  stories article page.
- Poll results box is now linked to comments.
- Added stripslashes to the links description.
- Made HTML the default posting format.
- Updated the user authentication to address a login bug.
- Added a 404 script.
- Updated the admin user editor to create all the new
  user tables when creating a user.
- Updated the What's Releated function to better parse
  for links.
- Updated comment functions to update the comment counter
  more often.
- Finished the addition of a "smart" style sheet!  It will
  now format the font size according to the users browser
  an platform.

September 9, 2000
-----------------

- Updated some missing to language in english.php.  
  Thanks to Hidekazu SHIOZAWA.
- Updated the stats script.
- Added post modes, the user can now select plain
  text or HTML.
- Added user preferences for date format.

September 8, 2000
-----------------

- Fixed a few more issues surronding the 
  $CONF["site_url"] placement. Thanks to Hidekazu SHIOZAWA.
- Added sig to user accounts.
- Added a system hit counter
- Fixed a poll comment bug.
- Comments can now be enabled on a per story basis.
- Comments can now be enabled on a per poll basis.
 
September 7, 2000
-----------------

- Fixed the // uri issue.
- Fixed a few issues surronding the $CONF["site_url"]
  placement in links.
- Began work on new user customization system!
	- Index Configuration
	- Comment Configuration
	- Story Configuation
	- User Configuration
- Fixed the link submission script so it now
  actually works.

September 6, 2000
-----------------

- Updated the email story to a friend to use the
  db widgets. 
- Fixed the "More by author" search links from the
  article page.
- Fixed the article editor to be able to delete
  submissions.
- Fixed translation issues by adding two more
  strings to english.php.  Added $LANG01[61] and
  $LANG01[62].
- Fixed a formating error on the links page.
- Fixed the admin user editor to allow blanking
  on non-essential fields.
- Removed moderation option from config.  If you 
  want an unmoderated site there are better
  applications out there like UBB and FreeLinks.
- Updated the user profile page to put all
  descriptors at the top of the cell for the
  about and PGP key boxes.
- Updated INSTALL.HTML

September 5, 2000
-----------------

- Olderstuff() will now parse special charactors.
- Fixed the admin story editor to properly parse
  the special charactors in the text for editing.
- Fixed article() to stripslashes from the title.

September 4, 2000
-----------------

- Fixed a logout bug effecting Netscape users.
- Fixed a change password bug effecting Netscape
  users.
- Fixed references to speck.gif, spec.gif was
  referenced incorrectly.
- Fixed the story submission to correctly 
  record the user instead of Anonymous.
- Added multiple previews when submitting a
  story.
- Update to english.php
- Updated the blockparser to use str_replace()
  instead of strtr().  The use of strtr() was
  causing issues on some platforms using 
  earlier versions of PHP4.
- Added a sample httpd.conf Apache configuration
  file to the distribution.
- Updated INSTALL.HTML
- Updated README

September 1, 2000
-----------------

- Fixed a bug in the database upgrade scripts.

RELEASE!!!  1.0!!! - August 29, 2000
------------------------------------

- Tar'ed it up and shipped 1.0 out the door!

August 29, 2000
---------------

- Fixed a bug in the command and control center
  which didn't allow the display to be completely
  updated after a batch moderation.

August 28, 2000
---------------

- Completed the command and control center
  functionality.
- Completed new search engine.
- Fixed language display bug in story submission
  form.

August 27, 2000
---------------

- Fixed a login bug that occoured under FreeBSD.

August 26, 2000
---------------

- Fixed a bug that allowed anyone logged in to
  delete a comment.

August 22, 2000
---------------

- Fixed a nasty delete everything bug with the
  link editor.
- Continued with search engine update.

August 21, 2000
---------------

- Fixed a bug with the link counter.
- Reworked the olderstuff block.
- Updated the search engine.
- Fixed the speed limit warnings so they show the
  number of seconds since the last post.
- Updated the index page to show date of last
  comment.

August 20, 2000
---------------

- Cleaned out now defuct class settings.
- Comments can now be set to force login to post.
- Block list is now sorted by type
- Email forms updated.
- Fixed the no from info bug in the password email.
- Fixed the topic editor background bug.
- Postions of the olderstuff and poll blocks is now
  configurable.
- Olderstuff block can now be turned off.
- Olderstuff block now shows 2x the news limit.
- Updated the install instructions.

August 19, 2000
---------------

- Modified the polls, you can now set then maximum
  number of possible answers in config.php.
- Fixed edit link bug.
- Updared english.php for the new admin files.
- Modified the cookies to have a configurable
  expiration time for users and admins.  This can
  be set in config.php.

August 18, 2000
---------------

- Reworked the default interface.
- Fixed numerous bugs.

August 14, 2000
---------------

- Began moving portions of the HTML in to blocks
- Updated the english.php file.

August 13, 2000
---------------

- Updated how polls are shown.
- Updated the poll adminstration interface, this was
  the last old piece of code to be re-worked.

August 12, 2000
---------------

- Completed new submission forms.
- Completed added base path to all references.
- Completed scripts for user account creation.
- Completed comment intergration with user
  accounts.
- Added comment posting speed limit.


August 11, 2000
---------------

- Completed new story editor and managment 
  functions.
- Completed database widgets.
- Began work on reworking the poll editor
  and managment.
- Removed the following functions that have
  become obsolete:
	- countx
	- topicsel
	- getTopic
	- saveuser
	- rot13
- Removed the following array used to set
  premissions in older versions
	- $ADMIN
- Began work on intergrating comments with
  user accounts.

August 7, 2000
--------------

- More work on user accounts and database
  widgets.
- Minor cosmetic fixes.
- Began re-working the administration forms.

August 7, 2000
--------------

- More work on new submission engine and 
  database widgets.
- Implemented submission speed limit.

August 6, 2000
--------------

- Added command and contol center to admin and
  moderate submissions.
- Added ability for users to submit links.
- Added ability for users to submit events.
- Began intergrating user accounts.
- Began intergration of a help system.

August 5, 2000
--------------

- Created new database function templates.  Began
  updating all the scripts to use these new
  database calls.

BETA RELEASE!!!  0.5!!! - August 3, 2000
----------------------------------------

- Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.5 BETA out the door!

August 2, 2000
--------------

- Getting ready for 0.5 release!!
- Parent links no longer show up on top level
  comments.
- Story moderation now show the "new story" button
  even if no stories exist.
- Story contribution preview now displays the date
  correctly.
- Comment preview now displays the date correctly.
- Made the log path configurable.
- Fixed false "no stories" error in index.php.
- Fixed the topic highlighting in showtopics.  
- Fixed comments so that the posting and delete
  work properly again.
- Events (calander) now properly parses special
  charactors.
- Links now properly parses special charactors.
- Mail to a friend should work better now.

July 30, 2000
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- Moved all date functions to using strftime and
  locale settings for display of dates and times
  in local languages and formats.  These are also
  configurable in the config.php file.

July 27, 2000
-------------

- Finished move admin strings to english.php.

July 26, 2000
-------------

- Added the featured article functionality.
- Fixed a special charactors problem in the 
  comments, you can now use special charactors.
- Made some changes to the email story function
  to provide a statement on this isn't spam!
- Added parent function to comments.

July 25, 2000
-------------

- Began moving strings from the admin files in to 
  english.php
- Finished up printable story and email story
  functions.
- More minor bug fixes to the comment engine.

July 24, 2000
-------------

- Fixed encoding bugs in comments.  Slashes are now
  being stripped properly.
- Fixed the comment control bar, the title and
  number of comments are now showing up correctly.
- Fixed the url encoding in the reply links.  The 
  title of a reply now copies over in to the form.
- Bought more vodka!  The vodka shortage is over!
- Adjusted the comment spacing.
- Began to add the printable story and email story
  functions.

July 23, 2000
-------------

- Added comment count to olderstuff block.
- Reworked the polls for better display
- Worked more on the comment engine, all comment
  modes (none, flat, threaded, nested) work at
  one level or another.  This is really shaping up
  well and we have unchained the monkies from
  their typewriters...  But no novel yet...
- Out of vodka and can't buy any more since it is
  illegal to sell alcohol on Sundays in Georgia.

July 22, 2000
-------------

- Changed password functions to use md5, crypt()
  is becoming to unreliable.  Running the dat

<editor problems, change log for 0.4.1.2 - 0.4.1.1 lost> 

BETA RELEASE!!!  0.4.1!!! - July 19, 2000
-----------------------------------------

- Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.4.1 BETA out the door!

July 19, 2000
-------------

- RDF fetch bug fixed.  The rdfimport routine was
  not correctly identifying if the file open didn't
  work correctly.
- Poll Dispaly bug fixed.  Poll wouldn't display if
  there wern't at least two user defined blocks.
- Added word count to the read more display.
- Move all strings for public side functions to 
  a resource bundle called english.php.  Geeklog can
  now be translated.  If you do translate Geeklog
  please send me your resource file!  Great thanks 
  goes to Mischa Polivanov for his work on this
  project!
- When moderating a story, it now returns you to 
  the submissions que when your done.

BETA RELEASE!!!  0.4.0!!! - July 8, 2000
----------------------------------------

- Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.4.0 BETA out the door!

July 8, 2000
------------

- Update the poll to restrict votes by IP.  This
  function only creates a table of IP addresses
  pollids and timestamps, votes are NOT tracked!
  Addresses are deleted after an admin specified 
  peroid of time set with the config.php variable
  $CONF["polladdresstime"].
- Added $CONF["pollcookietime"] to config.php to
  allow you to set the amount of time the poll
  cookies will exist for the user.
- Changed poll to only show a % in the smaller
  index window.  Graphs are now only on the full
  view of the results.
- Added SQL query interface for admins.  This was
  added for those that don't have shell access or
  shell access isn't alaways avaiable for 
  troubleshooting.  Be VERY careful with this!
- Fixed a really nasty bug with the RDF import
  HTTP calls!  This was causing the server to 
  lock up under certian circumstances.
- Update showblocks() to now order polls and
  olderstuff as well.  Here's the new method:
    - show blockoder = 0 to 1
    - show the polls
    - show blockorder = 2
    - show olderstuff
    - show remaining blocks
- Reworked the calendar layout a bit.
- Added two new doc files dbschema.html and
  dbschema.png to document the database.

July 5, 2000
------------

- New admin menu as well as more admin checks
  in editing of stories and blocks.  In stories
  only the owner or someone with a seclev of 200
  or higher can edit a story.  Blocks seclev's
  are now being enforced.
- More stats stuff
- Access logging is now working!  It reports on
  admin access and illegal operations in
  /logs/access.log
- Found some more bugs released to stricter PHP
  syntax guidelines in blocks.php and users.php.
  They've been fixed!
- Added the beginings for threaded comments, but
  it is NOT working yet.
- Refined different aspects of the database, this
  is going to be the bigest DB update script yet!
- Calendar has been rewored as events, since I can
  see Security Geeks using this functionality for
  things other than a calendar.  Hmm, what is he 
  thinking?
- Adding CSS references where needed when I find
  them.

July 4, 2000
------------

- Added additional security checks for admins
  as well as adding additional admin tracking.
- REMOVAL: function isAdmin() is being removed.
- Created a new story format and parser.  The
  story text is now broken in to two blocks, an
  introtext block and bodytext block.  Introtext
  is all that is displayed on the index page.
  Both introtext and bodytext are displayed on
  an article page.  There are many other neat
  things that have changed to go along with this,
  too many to mention!  An example is "read more"
  is only displayed when there is data in bodytext.
- Added comment and poll stats to the stats page.

BETA RELEASE!!!  0.3.0!!! - July 3, 2000
----------------------------------------

- Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.3.0 BETA out the door!

July 3, 2000
------------

- Fixed poll division by zero error. (xix)
- Added the calander.  This also involved adding
  lines to config.php and style.css.
- Added next a previous links to the stories list.
  Security Geeks has almost 2000 stories now.  We
  needed a better way to view this information
  without killing the SQL server!
- Fixed a parsing bug on the contrib form. (richpav)
- Fixed a bug in which votes were not being saved
  if the first answer has 0 votes in the poll
  editor. (richpav)

July 2, 2000
------------

- Fixed a rouge <xmp> tag in contrib.php.
- Added a new function to check email addresses.
- Fixed a problem with the checking of <a href=>
  tags. (frank)
- Moved more of the layout to CSS.  Giving some 
  though to creating a CSS editor for the site.
- Added additional error checking on submissions.
- Evaluated the security of the file layout, file
  premissions, cookies and made some minor changes
- Added the RDF import capibilty to the blocks.  
  Woo-hoo!  Half way there to 0.3.0!
- Fixed a bunch of function calls that are now
  considered errors in PHP 4.0.1pl2 (richpav)

BETA RELEASE!!!  0.2.1!!! - July 1, 2000
----------------------------------------

- Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.2.1 BETA out the door!
  The bugs fixed here are pretty signifant.  This 
  has none of the 0.3.0 features.

July 1, 2000
------------

- Cleaned up the all of the PHP scripts and added 
  missing ;'s. (macole)
- Fixed some table layouts for comment and story 
  submissions.

June 30, 2000
-------------

- Fixed an bug in the story submit functions.  It
  seems addslashes was droped when putting in the
  content checking.  It's back now!
- Added a line to display the allowable HTML in the
  story editor and submission form.

BETA RELEASE!!!  0.2.0!!! - June 29, 2000
-----------------------------------------

- Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.2.0 BETA out the door!

June 29, 2000
-------------

- Bugs Found Score: Women:28 Men:13 
- Security hole regarding user cookies.  The
  user cookie contined the site key, this 33%
  is part of the information needed to forge
  a admin site key.  This has been fixed.
- Also fixed a problem in the user cookie where
  some of Jason's (the other Jason) info for
  his site was coded in there.
- Added the ability to specify your own salt 
  value for the encryptor.
- Added filters that are admin configurable to
  strip out unwanted HTML tags and key words.
  These options are configurable in the 
  config.php file.
- Blocks are now topic aware.
- Change sid to char(20) in the database tables
  stories and comments.  This was in order to 
  create compatibilty between stories, comments
  and polls.
- Poll comments!
- Added a blockorder field to the blocks table. You 
  can now modify the display order of blocks.
- Fixed a bug in the link generation in stats.php.
- Changed the description field in the links
  tables from varchar(255) to text to allow for
  longer descriptions.
- Preview now uses article() function.  Shows a 
  true preview!
- Fixed a bug in comment.php that still may the 
  user type in a user name email even if if the
  anonymous option was chosen.  It never actually
  saved the info, just asked for it.  Now it no
  longer asks. :-)

June 28, 2000
-------------

- Correct setting of a user cookie in comment.php,
  contrib.php and profile.php.  The cookie was not 
  being set to remember a users infomation if they 
  selected to do so.
- Fixed the CSS layout for the comment bar, this 
  wasn't working properly under Netscape.
- Fixed an error in the change password function.  It
  was displaying a error even when the change was 
  successful.
- Made total votes a caculated field in the poll
  editor, this is also a easy way to reset the count
  in the case of SQL errors.
- Fixed topic sorting bug, topics sort themselves now.
  This also involved a change to the config.php file
  in which $CONF["topicssort"] was changed to
  $CONF["topicsort"].
- Added feature to track which admin moderated a 
  story and posted it to the site.

BETA RELEASE!!!  0.1.0!!! - June 27, 2000
-----------------------------------------

- Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.1.0 BETA out the door!

June 27, 2000
-------------

- Added the ability to delete comments.  NOTE: I do
  not plan on the abilty to edit comments.  Just
  a personal thing, thats all.

June 26, 2000
-------------

- Created search engine that searched stories,
  comments and links.
- Update comments and how they are displayed.
- Created new form for submitting comments.
- Enhansed a bunch of the forms.
- Removed some obsolete stuff, cleaned things up a bit.
- Added some additional error checking to submits.  Also
  moved all error checking to the server side.  I was 
  testing the use of JavaScript but too many people 
  like to turn it off!  I know I do! :-)

June 25, 2000
-------------

- Squashed 23 bugs with the help of my wife!  Now if
  only Frank would get his bug reports in! 
- Created interface for editing, creating and deleting
  links.
- Cleaned PHP procedures out of inc files.
- Updated and tested SQL statements to refelct DB 
  changes.
- DB changes frozen for release and the beta testers 
  rejoiced!

June 24, 2000
-------------

- Created interface for editing, creating and deleting
  users.
- Figgin problem with polls deleting themselves seems
  to be fixed now.
- Created interface for editing, creating and deleting
  topics.
- Created interface for editing, creating and deleting
  blocks.
- Created interface for moderation, editing and posting
  of stories by admin.  This worked out well!

June 23, 2000
-------------

- Finished up additions to the datebase, need to change
  the forms now so the site can use the new fields.
  Some of the new feilds are for future use as well.
- Added descriptions to the Links page.
- Fixed the search page so its now formated correctly.
- Finished up the pollbooth functions (edit and delete).
- Optimized some of the HTML in the scripts, further 
  optimization later!

June 21, 2000
-------------

- Created a new layout format using all external CSS
  calls.  Let the client do the work!
- Finished moving configuration to config.php
- Weeded out some functions in common.php.  Move
  functions that are only used by one script to that
  script.  Combined other similar functions in to one
  function.  Smaller...  Faster... More Stable!
- Only 6 more items on the to do list for 0.1.0.0

June 20, 2000
-------------

- Created admin functions for the pollbooth.  Seems the 
  other authors on the site don't like hand entering SQL!
  I don't like them having shell accounts!  -grin-
- Update the Header feild in the Stories block to be a 
  little bigger.  This should let wordy authors emblish
  their titles more!
- Created a more robust errorlog routine.  Now has the
  options of output to a log, the screen or both!

June 19, 2000
-------------

- Created a pollbooth for voting.  All user functions are
  in pollbooth.php.  There are no admin functions yet as I
  just love hand entering SQL!

June 18, 2000
-------------

- Optimizations made to the SQL connections and calls.  Too
  much done here to talk about, but part of it was moving 
  the site configuration to a flat file.  These changes
  should decrease the usage of the SQL server a great deal.
  This took up most of my day.
- Variable usage optimizations.  Made many, many chnages in
  the way variables were being used.  This should result in
  cleaner, faster code that _may_ use a little less memory?
  Hey, if I can save 2k per hit, thats a big deal! :-)
- Updated all code and tested to ensure php4 compatibility.
  So from now on only php4 will be run on the Geeks web
  servers.  So I changed all the extentions and links from
  .php3 to .php to mark this moment.
- Restructured the directory layout so I can implement some
  new security settings on the files.  Hmmm, I bet you 
  wondering "what is this mad-man thinking?"

June 17, 2000
-------------

- Initial announcement, running this new code on the Geeks
  web servers.
- Special thanks to Jason Hines and phpWebLog! His work 
  inspired much of my efforts!  Unfortunatly phpWebLog is 
  taking a different direction that the Geeks sites needed.
  However, all the code I am writing here will be published
  in the hopes that Jason and others may find these functions
  useful.  If you looking for a weblog software that is cool,
  configurable and supported by someone I would recommend you
  check out http://phpweblog.org and party on dudes!