I set up a WebDAV repository for the source files and a zipped snapshot of pmapper2. It allows to download single files or complete directories that are updated and have bug fixes, etc. You can access it under Windows as
\\www.pmapper.net\dl\ or map it under "My Network places" using the wizard "Add a network place". Unix systems should be able to directly mount it or use Konqueror via webdav://www.pmapper.net/dl. The access to the DAV repository is possible without password and is read-only. The version 2 is still undergoing some structural modifications so be careful with mixing existing applications based on older versions with the new versions. The main place for customization should be anyway the files custom.php, custom.js, js_custom.php, the map.phtml,the locale files and the CSS. If you modify the rest of the application then it will probably not be very easy to adapt an application to new versions. One major change is in the multilingual functionality. I found it too complicated to keep multilungual information in the map file, separating by "|" and locale files. That has completely been removed. Instead all language-related settings should be done in the language_xx.php files. They are renamed to language_en.php, language_de.php, and so forth. If you are using only 1 language then you are not touched very much by the changes. The best solution for me is to completely drop the file-based solution and store all language settings in a SQLite database. The function was already existing and I will supply a modified version (pre-defined languages are EN, DE, IT, FR, SE). I use this at work and its easier to maintain. SQLite support is included in PHP 5 anyway and requires just an additional module under PHP 4. Saluti, Armin
