(OLD 5.7 Discussion FORUM)

File Manager needs a revamp

Wasn't sure where to put this so decided to add it on the 5.7 Discussion forum. I have been using Concrete5 for nearly 5 years or so now, and I wouldn't call myself an expert by any means but I do know my way around it well enough to put together a ni…

99% of phpdoc comments are a complete waste of time

It seems the move to 5.7 is including more phpdoc comments. Yet so much work on comments is a waste of time and even harmful. I am not against comments. I like well commented code. I like to think that my own code is well commented compared to most. I …

image editor

Any chance of the new image editor (for ver 5.7)being able to be implemented into ver 5.6.1? The one at the moment is woefully inadequate. Thanks

ADODB Legacy compatibility

Andrew said in the recent 5.7 video that he wrote a compatibility layer so that Doctrine DBAL would work with the ADODB function calls. I looked through the 5.7-wip code (in the new git repo) but I cannot find this code at all. I've been working with t…

Error Messages on editing

Hello, I wonder if anybody is experiencing problems when trying to edit the site? We have recently added the e-commerce add-on and things are quite slow at the moment. The website seems to load for a very long time and today we have been having problem…

Package dependencies

We've had so many problems in the past with package dependencies. on_start methods called from two packages, one registers a permission key, the other uses it before it's registered and so on. Here's a more detailed example https://github.com/mkly/Data/is…

5.7 Add-On Developers Guide, Part 1

I just posted a how-to detailing how I got a simple free add-on (from jordanlev, thanks!) ready for 5.7: http://andrewembler.com/posts/concrete5-5-7-add-on-development-part-1/ It's also cross-posted here for posterity: http://www.concrete5.org/do…

error reporting

Any chance we can get rid of this in 5.7? Seems like the perfect moment to clean this up. I'm monitoring all logs files on my server except for concrete5 projects, would love to get a clean solution there. [code] /** * ------------------------------…

concrete5 5.7 Developer Snapshot Alpha '14 (Major Updates)

Hey everyone! I wanted to let everyone know that Alpha 3 is now available from github. http://github.com/concrete5/concrete5-5.7.0/ We have set up this version in its own repository! We're going to be moving all 5.7 development into this repository…

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