[midgard-user] midHoo 2.0.1 released

[Philipp Rotmann, Linksystem Muenchen]

     Hi folks,

midHoo 2.0.1 is just released and brings a number of smaller
bugfixes and enhancements (mostly by David Guerizec, thanks!). 

The news in detail:

/midHoo/Config-dist
 - Added MIDHOO_EDITOR_MAILSUBJECT for customized mail subjects
 - Changed definition of MIDHOO_ROOT in order to get rid of a
   static topic id
 - Removed MIDHOO_AUTHOR_ID, as "guest" should be the author of
   new records anyway and his ID can be fetched via
   $midgard->user

/midHoo/LinkInfo
 - midhooLinkInfo(): Changed auth process in order to make
   MIDHOO_AUTHOR_ID obsolete -- now we're using
   MIDHOO_GUEST_USER's ID from $midgard->user.
 - midhooLinkInfo(): Added use of MIDHOO_EDITOR_MAILSUBJECT
   and template parsing

Example host -- changed hostname to LOCALHOST, port to 0.

Example root page -- fixed display of single links at the end of
   the result list.

Example submission page -- minimal fixes in content.

Example topic tree -- two new example midHoo link records ;-)


Installation instructions can be found in the package, which can
itself be found at

  http://home.link-m.de/phr/midhoo-2.0.1.tar.bz2


midHoo is a simple class library for realizing Midgard-based
link directories (thus the name, as in "Midgard's mini-Yahoo" or
so ;-)) and was originally created by Emile Heyns. This release
is a complete rewrite of the core functionality as Code Snippets
and includes a sample application using the midHoo library code.
The project was -- besides the goal to be actually useful --
designed to serve as an example to Midgard development and
packaging in order to help developers new to Midgard's
architecture and concepts to build portable and maintainable
applications. midHoo is already running on at least two
production sites.

Features:
 - Links can be structured in Categories with short
   descriptions. The code should allow an infinite number of
   levels depth, but tested is only one.
 - Link records can be created unapproved; upon creation an
   email is sent to notify the editor(s) of the new link to
   approve. These emails can by customized by simple templating
   mechanism.
 - Every link record includes the elements Title, URL, Short 
   Description, Category, Keywords and Email Address and allows
   additional information to be passed to the email template.
 - Links can be selected by Category and/or a full-text search
   of all relevant fields.
 - The midHoo classes itself are totally language-independent;
   they just return well-documented error codes for specific
   cases. The example application's interface is in English and
   not internationalized.

The midHoo2 code was developed and is owned by Linksystem
Muenchen GmbH and myself. Development was made possible through
the support of our customer Muenchener Nord-Rundschau Verlag
GmbH, Munich, Germany. The code is released under LGPL.

Please inform me directly (via e-mail) when you find bugs or
have suggestions for improvement. In fact, better send patches
in the latter case ;-) Especially, please do not try to use the
Midgard bugtracker, as midhoo2 is no "official" product of
Midgard Project Ry.

     Regards,
     phr
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