Web Wiz Forums Development Blog
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Printed Date: 29 March 2026 at 7:22pm
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 12.08 - https://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Web Wiz Forums Development Blog
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: Web Wiz Forums Development Blog
Date Posted: 21 December 2007 at 12:22pm
This Topic is the development blog for Web Wiz Forums version 10, where you will find posts and screen shots of development work to the next version of Web Wiz Forums.
This was to be version 9.5, but as database changes have been made we need to stick to our policy of only changing the database schema for major version upgrades.
The main reason for the database changes is for a new Settings and Configuration Engine. This new engine will allow for us to include extra features and and configuration settings between minor releases without having to make changes to the database schema. This should also make life easier for Mod Builders being able to add new configuration settings without database schema changes.
The main focus of version 10 will be to the Admin Control Panel using the new Settings and Configuration Engine will allow us to add many new configuration options allowing Forum Admin's more options to setup their forums how they want them.
Version 10 will include a new HTTP XML API, which will allow developers to interact with Web Wiz Forums from; other websites, programming technologies such as PHP, ASP.NET, etc. and even desktop applications.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 07 January 2008 at 3:08pm
Progress of version 10 is continuing quite well, with many new configuration options available from the Admin Control Panel, making setup and customisation much simpler.
However, the decisions has been made to work on new features, including blogging, this unfortunately means more development time, putting back the release date of version 10.
However, in the meantime version 9.07 has been released today, which includes the new HTTP XML API which many of you have been waiting for.
To use the new HTTP XML API download and install version 9.07 and point your browser at the HttpAPI.asp file. This will then list all the methods and actions available in the API and includes some test forms so you can see for yourself how each available methods works.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 January 2008 at 6:24pm
Development of version 10 is progressing quite well, and we are now testing out some of the new features on this forum.
Presently most of the new features are behind the scenes with improvements in both security, performance, and configurable options. With over 50 new configuration options so far added to the Admin Control Panel, below are just a few:-
- Page Encoding
- Enabling Detailed Error Messages
- Enabling advanced paging support for SQL Server 2005/2008 for improved performance
- Enabling the storing of session data in the database
- Cookie settings. Cookie Name, Domain, and Path settings
- Disable full registration form
- Number of failed logins before CAPTCHA is displayed
- Disable quick reply form
- Reverse Post Order
- Set minimum password and username lengths
- Disabling the editing of member profiles by moderators
- Disable Active Users and Number of users viewing forums
- More settings for Private Messages, and how to handle full PM boxes
- Configuration options for RSS Feeds
- Improved upload settings and support for uploads upto 2Gig
Version 10 will also have blogging built in with those groups with permission to, can create their own blogs.
There will also be a rating system for both Topics and Blogs.
The present ladder system working on post count will be replaced with multiple ladder systems working on a points system, allow the admin to configure how many points members get for things like New Topics, Replies, Blog Entries, etc.
Hopefully as development progresses we will be able to give you more details of the new added features.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 January 2008 at 6:26pm
One change that you can see if the frontend, which isn't much, is that on the forum index page at the bottom in the Active Users section it now displays the Most Ever Users Online.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 6:20pm
The next alpha version of version 10 has now been uploaded to this site to test out some of the new features.
This includes many cosmetic changes such as option 'Today' date shown in bold, new unread Posts can also be shown in bold, and the Last Post section on the forums index page has been changed to make it easier to read Topic Subjects.
As well as these cosmetic changes the latest alpha build also includes a new Topic Rating system, allowing registered members to rate topics on a scale on 1 to 4. Each member is limited to one rating vote per topic, and Topics can also be listed in rating order.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 08 April 2008 at 12:52pm
Things have been very busy recently here at Web Wiz, so I'm sorry to say that this blog has not been updated as often as it should.
Development over the last 3 weeks has been concentrated on developing an new updated version of the Web Wiz CAPTCHA image software used in Web Wiz Forums to prevent brute force hacking, remote submission, spam bots' etc. after several reports that the present Web Wiz CAPTCHA version 3 is allowing some spam bots to slip through occasionally.
Web Wiz CAPTCHA version 4 is a complete re-write from the ground up and is almost complete and should be ready by the end of this week. We will also be releasing a new Web Wiz Forums version 9 which will incorporate this.
For more information and see a small demo that has been put online please see the Forum Topic below:-
forum_posts.asp?TID=25566&FID=22&PR=3 - Web Wiz CAPTCHA version 4 Alpha
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 30 April 2008 at 12:06pm
We will be launching Web Wiz Forums version 9.50 tomorrow.
This new release will include Web Wiz CAPTCHA version 4 as well as some security updates, bug fixes, and some new features that were to be in version 10 but will now be released earlier in version 9.50.
The biggest change will be to the Free Express Edition which hopefully should make quite a few of those using the Express Edition very happy.
Further details will be available tomorrow when Web Wiz Forums version 9.50 will be released.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 15 August 2008 at 7:53pm
Web Wiz Forums version 9.51 will be released next week once testing is complete.
This new version as well as fixing a few bugs, will improve paging performance to allow Web Wiz Forums to easily handle many millions of posts (SQL Server 2005/2008 and mySQL versions). Some new features will also be introduced that were to wait for version 10 to be released.
Some of the highlights of version 9.51 are:-
- Improved server side paging for SQL Server 2005/2008 and mySQL
- Dynamic meta tags
- Admin/Moderator email notification of moderated posts that are waiting approval
- Fixed bugs coursed by the latest release of the myODBC 3.51 Driver in mySQL version
- Support for myOBDC 5.1 in mySQL version
- Improved OS and browser detection for active users list
- New Log Files - Web Wiz Forums can now be configured to save actions in log files,. This will include Date/Time, IP address, and member who took the action. Actions that can be logged are:-
- New Member Registration
- Moderator and Admin actions (if a Topic is deleted you will now know who did it)
- New Posts and Topics
- Deleted Posts and Topics
- Edited Posts and Topics
- Deleted Polls
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 29 August 2008 at 8:23am
A database optimisation tool has been released which reorganises some of the indexes in the Web Wiz Forums 9.x database to improve performance.
The tool is for Web Wiz Forums 9.x SQL Server and mySQL databases and can dramatically improve performance on busy forums.
To download the tool click on the link below:-
http://www.webwiz.net/download/download.asp?DL=wwfex1 - Web Wiz Forums 9.x Database Optimisation Tool
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 29 August 2008 at 11:54am
Web Wiz Forums version
9.51 has now been released.
Improvements and new features include:-
- Improved performance for SQL Server 2005/2008 and mySQL Databases
- Dynamically created SEO friendly Meta Tags for Title, Description, and Keywords
- New Editor Tool for Inserting YouTube and Adobe Flash Movies with Preview Window
- New Configurable Logging Tools to record Moderator and Member Actions and Error Messages
- Image and File uploading increased maximum size to 30MB
- myODBC 5.1 Driver support for mySQL database versions
- DoS Protection from SQL Injection Viruses
- Admin and Moderator Email Notification of Topic/Posts awaiting approval
- Improvements to the Member File Manager for Image and File Uploading
- Increased the Number of Private Messages a Member can receive to 10,000
More information on Web Wiz Forums is available at http://www.webwizforums.com/ - www.webwizforums.com
The following page lists changes to this latest release; http://www.webwiz.net/webwizforums/kb/release_notes.asp - http://www.webwiz.net/webwizforums/kb/release_notes.asp
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 03 September 2008 at 2:37pm
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Have added WYSIWYG RTE Editor support to Web Wiz Forums for Apple Safari and Google Chrome web browsers.
This is currently being tested in these forums before it is released as 9.52 leter this month.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 18 March 2009 at 4:41pm
It's been awhile since posting anything in here as just seem to be lacking time. Anyway allot of changes and new versions of Web Wiz Forums 9.5x have been released since the last post including improvements to the upload system to correct some common issues.
A new release of Web Wiz Forums 9.56 will be released tomorrow. Allot of work in this new release has been spent on SEO features including adding in support for ISAPI_Rewrite 3 which will rewrite URL's in a Search Engine Friendly way as .html pages that include the forum name or topic subject as the name of the HTML page. The ISAPI Rewrite .htaccess file will be available as a separate download to prevent errors from system that are not compatible.
Anther new feature will be a 'Share Topic' drop down at the top of topic pages this will include links to common bookmark and social networking sites.
There will be a number of other new features, but you will just have to wait till tomorrows release to see what they are.
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