Massimiliano Tiraboschi aka TiMax & MAXdev team
Heres a little bit of what you will find inside:
Following is a brief list of the new features:
- Totally rewritten online documentation
- Help tooltips within administration pages to help the administrator
- Tooltips can be enabled/disabled for advanced
administrators
- Improved Multilanguage system
- Multilanguage options can be enabled/disabled
- New style, cool and light
- New logos, new icons and new layout.
- Introduction of Adodb Lite class, lighter than adodb and requires less resources
- Files that need to be written to are concentrated in specific directories
- Additional functions for themes are automatically recognized
- LDAP/Active Directory
MDAdvice
- New important function. In the admin panel, the administrator can readily view news coming from MaxDev support sites, including notices of security updates and new version releases.
Tinymax Module
Tinymax handles the new editor that replaces RTE. It has a powerful administration section that gives you control over:
- Tynymce editor, fast, clean and easy to use
- Image uploading handler, easier and powerful, it gives you the possibility to manipulate images while uploading
- File uploading handler
- Automatic insert of links to News, Downloads and whatever, depending on installed modules
- XHTML 1.0 valid output, with automatic invalid tag cleaning
- Multibrowser support: IE7, IE6, IE5.5, SP2, Seamonkey, Firefox 1.5x, Firefox 2.0, Safari, Opera (partially), on Windows, Linux e MacOS
- Multilanguage
- 3 automatic configuration levels
Add Article module
- Improved module
- Simplified layout
- Multilanguage functions and options activated only on multilanguage sites
- New online
manual
MDMenus Module
- Improved module
- Access-key handling
- Revised multilanguage support
- Automatic insert links to News, Topics, Modules, URLs, CMpro, htmlp
- New online manual
Topics Module
- Improved module
- Revised multilanguage support
- New online manual
Permissions Module
- Improved module
- Revised multilanguage support
- New online manual
Errore Module
- Written from scratch
- Users can be automatically redirected to a:
- specific news
- specific topic
- specific module
- specific URL
- a customized page that can be created within the administration panel using the editor
- A redirection timeout can be configured
- Revised multilanguage support
- New online manual
Modules Module
- Improved module
- Revised multilanguage support
- New online manual
- Improved
layout
Submit News Module
- Revised multilanguage support
- New online manual
- Improved layout
News Administration Module
- Revised multilanguage support
- New online manual
- Improved layout
Preferences Module
- Improved module
- Revised multilanguage support
- New online manual
-
Improved layout
- New features
Blocks Module
- Improved module
- Revised multilanguage support
- New online manual
- Improved layout
Autorender Module
This is one of the most important new features that will be introduced by MDLite. Autorender is the technical, graphical and functional evolution of the well-known AutoTheme. Autorender has been developed by MAXdev's staff and makes use of the popular Smarty templating system. The graphical layout has been totally revised, and new features have been added, including an online manual and cache handling.
Autorender is an HTML themes handler for Content Management Systems (CMS): MDLite. It allows the developer to completely separate HTML from php code, so that it is easier than ever to design new web templates without using php code. This means that you can use your favorite editor. Moreover, Autorender gives you the freedom to customize every single area of your website, including block display, custom templates, custom user pages, administration pages and custom modules. AutoBlocks offers you the choice to place blocks in
every page and every position. All Autorender settings can be easily modified within its administration panel.
Autorender supports AutoTheme commands; therefore, it supports all AutoTheme's themes. It can use functions specific to the theme, and it supports Smarty tags. With MDLite's built-in support for
Smarty, new theme development will become easier and more flexible than ever.
Smarty tags can be placed inside both page and block templates.
With
Autorender, you are not forced to use templates for every module and/or block.
You can simply customize those areas of your site which you consider of vital
importance, and ingore the others. You can even combine Autorender power,
through its Smarty tags, with AutoTheme easiness to create even more complex
themes, for those pages that require a more structured and complex
design.
Users Administration Module
This is the most
significant change brought by MDLite. The previous User, New User, Lost
Password, Your Account, and Groups modules have been all replaced by a unique
module, called MDUsers, which contains all their features and introduces some
new features.
A brief list:
- Online manual
- Complete
multilanguage support
- New user creation
- Group assignment "on the
fly" while creating a new user and/or editing an existing user (you can assign a
user to a group at the same time you create the user)
- User search within
every profile's field, even with conditional parameters
- New Dynamic fields
handling
- Groups management
- Users can be moved/copied from one group
to another
- Administrator can define the conditions of use directly from
the administration panel or use multilanguage defines
- Registrations can be
enabled/disabled
- A confirmation email can be enabled to verify the email
used for registering
- New subscription moderation
- Minimum or complete
registration profile
- Users can be allowed to choose their own password
- Graphic security code can be enabled/disabled for the subscription process
- Minimum password length can be set
- Minimum age can be set
- A
default user's group can be set
- Theme changing can be enabled/disabled for
users
- Home Page customization can be enabled/disabled
- Account
deletion can be enabled/disabled for users
- Secure email checking
-
Fields are validated with javascript
- You can configure the number of days
after which unapproved user registration requests are deleted
- You can
setup a password expiration
- Inactive users expiration, inactive users will
be deleted after a fixed number of days
- Password encryption by MD5 or
SHA1
- Administration notification of new subscriptions
- Administration
notification of user cancellations
- You can configure a default redirect
for each user group to a default page, News or article
- Panel layout
configuration
