Version 0.1.1 of the Banner Plugin for glFusion is now available. This version fixes a few issues, including a fatal error that would occur under PHP 4. The checking for topic limits was also re-worked so that banners, categories, and campaigns may be restricted to specific topics.

• Added topic limits to Banners and Campaigns
• Fixed the plugin crashing under PHP 4
• Campaign IDs with spaces caused problems in Campaign::getBanners()
• Impressions and Max Impressions were not saved when the banner form was saved
• Added click tracking to HTML ads
• Added a "target" option for each ad
• Banners weren't displayed in stories
• Centerblock wasn't working, should work properly now.

The Custom Profile plugin has been updated to version 1.0.1. This plugin allows the site administrator to create custom user data fields, such as address, phone number, membership ID, all without editing templates or code. This release contains minor fixes for issues reported in 1.0.0.

It seems that some users of the PayPal plugin version 0.4.0 are having trouble adding new products to the database. This issue cannot be duplicated in development or testing environments, so there's no firm fix yet. However, version 0.4.1 of the plugin includes a global "debug" option which will cause a variety of messages to be logged to the site's error.log file where they can be viewed with the log viewer. Hopefully this will help troubleshoot the issue. Version 0.4.1 is available now for download at www.glfusion.org.

The PayPal plugin for glFusion has been updated to version 0.4.0.  This version brings several changes, most notably the ability to automatically create encrypted PayPal buttons and the ability for other plugins to provide products or services for sale.

This release is available in the download area at the glFusion web site.  Be sure to back up your database before installing or updating this plugin- there have been a lot of changes to the schema.

Documentation can be found in the wiki.

An issue has been discovered with unescaped strings being sent to the search function in several plugins.  Aside from simply being a bad practice, this caused SQL errors when suspect string were submitted in the search form.

The affected plugins are:

• Classified Ads
• Daily Quotes
• Geo Locator

Updated versions have been uploaded to glFusion.org

Version 1.0.0 of the Custom Profile plugin for glFusion has been released and is available for download here.  This version makes use of the new template variables available in glFusion 1.1.7 to allow the site administrator to create custom user profiles without any template or code changes!.

The fields may be text, checkbox, radio buttons or dates; may optionally appear on the registration form; and may be editable by the user (or only by administrators).

Banner Ads for glFusion 0.0.2 has been released at www.glfusion.org.  This allows the administrator to display rotating banner ads in header, footer or side blocks.  Banners may be uploaded images, remotely hosted images, or HTML/Javascript, such as Google Adsense.

Documentation for this plugin can be found here.

The initial release of the Custom Profile plugin for glFusion is now available in the download area.  This plugin helps simplify the management of custom profile fields which previously required significant changes to PHP code and templates.  Some initial code and template changes are still required, but after they are made the administrator can add, modify or remove custom fields with no further code or template changes.

Refer to the documentation (work in progress) for more details.

Note that this is an initial test release and may not work correctly in your site.  This plugin has been tested with glFusion versions 1.1.4, 1.1.5 and 1.1.6.  It will not work correctly with earlier versions.

Classified Ads version 0.4.1 has been release for glFusion.

Most noticeable among the changes:

• Support for comments
• Advanced Editor support
• Admin-created ad types, rather than the fixed "For Sale" and "Wanted" types in previous versions.

Check the INSTALL document for installation details.

The Classifieds plugin can be downloaded from the glFusion website (http://www.glfusion.org).

The initial version of a Locator plugin for glFusion 1.1.0+ has been released. This plugin allows the creation of a "store locator"-type of system where site visitors can look up the store or other point of interest nearest to them.

The Locator works with Google Maps to determine geographic coordinates from the provided address, and to present a small map along with each location's detail. The plugin can be downloaded from the glFusion website.

Update:  A configuration issue has been found and a new file has been uploaded to the glFusion web site.  The fix is a simple change to the plugin configuration:

Change "output=csv" to "output=xml" in the Google URL value.  The problem is an incorrect default value that gets set during installation.