GARS GOLD release discussion

[The Geek]

Well, after 6 months and about 10,000 lines of code (thats not actually counting the countless rewrites!) - my baby is now ready to face the world.

GARS - is stamped as gold.

Not a whole heck of a lot has changed since the DNEG release (anything that is visible anyway). However you still need to follow the upgrade instructions in the readme as there is important information there.

Please also familiarise yourself with the on-line manual found here (http://www.thevbgeek.com/forumdisplay.php?f=46) as it will enable you to get a heck of a lot more out of GARS as well as answer many common questions.

You will notice that the Troubleshooting forum has gone on a diet. This is because I had a massive clear out of issue that either were resolved, very old, I thought were resolved, or I screwed up and accidentally deleted. The issues I left are either those that I am awaiting feedback on or KNOW need addressing (there is really only 1 issue outstanding but thats with a custom module).

I want to take a second to thank everyone for all their support over the past 6 months. GARS has exceeded my expectations in functionality AND popularity. Getting to this stage couldn't have happened without everyones involvement.

Anyway, please nJoy. I have :)

[Michelle]

First post here! :D
Congrats Geek!
Go to rest now, it must have been exhausting :)

[Hanif]

Well done, let me be the first to congratulate u!!!

AHH Michelle got there b4 me :-)

Well done man

Ta,

Hanif

[PaintSplasher]

Yeahaaaaaaaa!!

Good work, very good work thegeek !

[kall]

Woohoo! Nicely done man, all your hard work is muchly appreciated!

[silurius]

Good work!

[Rich]

This can be deleted. lol I just tried to do it via an article submission and it worked fine. Sorry bout that. lol

[Lizard King]

You waited a long time for this :)
But development never finish :P

[The Geek]

silirus - thanks for the heads up. Try doing a hard refresh on the page.

Rich - it uploads when you submit the article.

Lizard - isnt it true ;)

[KTBleeding]

OH!!!!!

I was here a few hours ago looking for an update.. and then I find this in my email!

Congrats Geek, I am thrilled!

[cclaerhout]

Another public message just to thank you for you work !

[The Geek]

Thanks everyone!

Also, a new user has just pointed out an odd bug that I just squashed. I never saw it because it would never show up on the admin account ;)

Anyhooo, I did just update the package however the only file that changed was geek/gars/includes/gars_class_core.php so if you just upgraded to gold... grab the 1.0b package and replace that file!

Thanks :)

[cclaerhout]

Whaouu there are many new phrases ! Excellent job :)

[kall]

1.0b? They are both named 1.0 .. ;)

[TCB]

I'm very happy for you, for me and for my MB members. I really enjoyed your enthusiasm, passion and humour. Amazing job. You're really one of the people that made vbulletin so much better.

[The Geek]

cclarehout - Should be totally phrased now :)
Kall - bad geek! Pretend it says 1.0b (hell pretend it says version 2.9 for now :) )
TCB - thanks man, thats a great compliment.

Night all. Im catching some zzz's

[cclaerhout]

Little question : what is GARS_with_selected phrase for ? Where can i find it ?

[KTBleeding]

bad geek! Pretend it says 1.0b (hell pretend it says version 2.9 for now :) )
The only problem with that is.. I'm not sure wich one is the updated version. :o

[cclaerhout]

It's the one at the bottom. When you download it, the name of the file displays correctly.

[KTBleeding]

Ah, so it does! Thanks!

[COBRAws]

this is great software, im very pleased spending money here with you man.

Congrats.

[cclaerhout]

I think there is a little mistake in english phrases :
<phrase name="GARS_lowercases"><![CDATA[Deleted (ex : <b>articles</b>)]]></phrase>

should be :
<phrase name="GARS_lowercases"><![CDATA[Lowercase Plural (ex : <b>articles</b>)]]></phrase>

[cclaerhout]

French translation almost done ; just have to read it again :D

Edit : about the <phrase name="GARS_with_selected"><![CDATA[With selected:]]></phrase>

->find it ;)

[Stachel]

I really enjoyed your enthusiasm, passion and humour. Amazing job. You're really one of the people that made vbulletin so much better.Seconded!

Stachel

[Neutral Singh]

Accept my heartfelt, Contratulations and Celebrations !! :)

[blackhat]

Congrats Geek, this is excellent :)

[tormodg]

Can I have Platinum? Gold is so vain... :)

Good work, Geek.

[The Geek]

cclaerhout - thanks!

And thank you again everyone :D

[Warrior]

Just wanted to say I upgraded to Gold on vB3.53 from RC2 and everything went great... but then again, of course it would - this is a great product!

[miner]

Yup thanks for the gold and will be upgrading now...

[synwave]

Well done mate!

[Mirzone]

Great to see! :) Will wait a few days to upgrade just to see if anything pops up out of the blue

[FRAiD]

Just so you know....

The reason why your gold announcement is not the first news item even though it's newer than your last news peice... this is because your gold announcement is not stickied.

If you sticky the announcement it will show up first. Heh I didn't even notice it when I came to your site a few hours ago.

Sticky the announcement :D

[The Geek]

Thanks for that :)

[Fleabag]

Hiya Sam! Great work, much appreciated! I shall install as soon as I switch servers... Which isn't going too well. :(

[Ghostsuit]

Cracking now to upgrade my sites :D.

[FRAiD]

Thanks for that :)

Your welcome

[LLIFE]

Installing now, I will let you know how it goes.

[LLIFE]

installed, 1st question:

Absolute path to images... some slashes are forward, some are backward... also do we need a trailing slash?

fyi, chmod 0777 is read/execute for all of the "IUSR_" users on the physically windows folder, you might want to include that in the instructions.

[The Geek]

SOunds like its on a window machine :)

Put the path in EXACTLY how it appears in the ()'s. Thanks for the FYI

[Unimatrix Prime]

I've been using the gold release for a few days and have yet to find any flaws ;)

While I should probably mention this in another thread (and while it's nothing major), integration with Mystic's Thread Prefix hack would be great ;)

[mikekey]

I AM VERY EXCITED AND READY TO TRY OUT THE GOLD EDITION OF THINGS!

How about that caps lock key heh.... :cool: