Simple Invoices - Forum

I'm not the main dev, but my view is that you have a point there. We are currently thinking of a config module where you can apply settings. I think that a feature like this should be here with a message that tells you that there's a new version.


albert

thanks mrmeech and albert

i think adding the version number into the GUI is a good idea
- to start with - think we'll just add the version info into the system preferences page
- than maybe think about the check version stuff later

have added it to our todo list: http://code.google.com/p/simpleinvoices/wiki/todo

cheers

justin

HI Guys

I dont know if this is what you looking at but I added the following in the footer.tpl after the $lang_blog

| Version {$config->version->name == version.name

The version name is then displayed at the bottom of the page.

The footer should look like this.

{$LANG.thank_you_inv}{$LANG.simple_invoices} | {$LANG.forum} | {$LANG.blog} | Version {$config->version->name == version.name}

Regards
Yusuf

Yes, that's the easy solution. - More nice would be an upgrade notice.

albert

Hi Albert

Where would the new version name be found.

I can try and code that

Regards
Yusuf

As I'm not the main dev, that's up to Justin I guess. It's not realy hard to code, so I can add it to svn.

thanks

albert
- if you can add it to the footer as yusuf said would be great

cheers

justin

It "shouldn't" be too hard to add the notification update.

Although somewhere there would have to be a file that held the current version number for simple invoices. Maybe on the si website or something.

Your installation could then compare the two version numbers and display a message in the settings section if your installation was out of date.

I'm happy to write the code to do the check but where do you guys think the best place to host the current si version number is?

Most simple would be a check to the download area of SI. There could be a version.txt file stored. In this file the correct link for the download could be stored.

ie:

version.txt
version=2010.3
download=http://www.......

hey guys

we can place the file on the simpleinvoices.org website
- simpleinvoices.org/version.xml or whatever - thats fine
- just call the file whatever you want and i'll add it to the website

whoever does the code can determine the file type/content/location/etc

cheers

justin

So glad to see that my post kicked off a mini discussion and a remedy!! Awesome!!! :)

@justin, Matt doesn't mind doing it, I don't mind, it's a minor job. To prevent that more of us is going to build the same thing, can you dispatch?

hey albert

if you can do this would be great thanks

cheers

justin

It's work in progress. Version id is now presented in the footer after 'simple invoices'. The ID is stored in define.php as config.ini cannot be overwritten on upgrades. Check for new version is being built on now.

hi albert

i've made some changes, i've moved the version from the footer into your new version control section - refer image below
-- just didnt look that nice in the footer

and added new constant 'SI_VERSION', unless there is a need for SI_VERSION_TITLE and SI_VERSION_ID can we just use SI_VERSION


define("SI_VERSION_TITLE","2010.10.3");
define("SI_VERSION_ID","20101001");
define("SI_VERSION","2010.2 update 1");


thanks again!!

cheers

justin

Ok, I can live with that. The version title will be removed. I will keep the id as the numeric value is by far easier to detect if there's a new (higher) number them the alpha string 'update x'.

albert

Version control is implemented. The xml file containing release and version info needs to be installed somewhere on si.org and define.php needs to have a reference to this file.
To be able to use it you must have the curl apache module enabled.
Albert

thanks albert!!