News from Campware Website

Campsite lead developer Mugur Rus says that while there are some features still left to implement before the 3.0 release, the Beta 3 release has a lot of improvements. The changes since beta 2:

• Many bug fixes
• Finished rewriting the event managers
• Finished and fixed the URL classes
• Implemented the preview window and syntax error messages display

We're eager to get testing done on this release, so go and install your Beta 3 release today! Click here to go to our SourceForge page. Campsite 3.0 Beta 3 should run on any operating system that runs PHP and MySQL, including Linux, Windows, Macs and BSD variants. And if it doesn't, we need bug reports!

The current 'to-do' list for the 3.0 release includes:

• Write the template language converter
  
• Update the sample packages
• Implement the lists start index for lists limited in length
• Finish the missing "if" statements
• Implement the forms actions
• Finish the test cases
• Update the context class to allow plugins to add new attributes
• Write the manual

The Campsite 3.0 beta 3 package contains some sample templates together with the corresponding database which you can install by following the steps in the INSTALL file. (Newbie Windows users: Try opening the INSTALL file with Notepad or Wordpad).

Unlike the 2.2-2.7 versions, Campsite 3.0 does not support multiple instances anymore. This means that for each instance you want to run you have to install Campsite in a new virtual host.

The install process is much simpler and the dependencies are much fewer: we removed the C++ code so every dependency related to it vanished. No more compiling :)

The APC (Alternative PHP Cache) dependency was removed in the beta2 version for Windows testers.

We're looking forward to getting user feedback, so please get involved in the Campsite community. Check the Campsite support forum or join our mailing list for more info.