Wigbi 1.1.3 is out

In Wigbi 1.1.2, I added a new .htaccess file that did not contain the magic quotes line, since that line made Wigbi crash if the PHP installation did not support magic quotes. However, I managed to remove the line in the incorrect file, which made all Wigbi AJAX pipeline operations fail. Great scott!

I have added a hotfix (love the name) which is available as Wigib 1.1.3 at github and wigbi.com – get it if you managed to download the crappy 1.1.2 version.

And while I am at it, I can as well talk a bit what will be included in the upcoming Wigbi 1.2. You see,  the Wigbi AJAX pipeline is really convenient, but can expose the system to bad stuff, since any class method can be executed as long as Wigbi is aware of the class. I will therefore add a new configuration file parameter In Wigbi 1.2.0. It is named ajaxClasses and is a comma-separated list with the names of all the classes that can be used with the Wigbi AJAX pipeline. Every data plugin can be used without adding its class name here, as well as Wigbi, but all other classes must be added here before you can go AJAX on them.

Finally, after today’s demo, I have decided to develop another start package called Wigbi CMS, which will feature a (basic) CMS framework. It will be released with Wigbi 1.3.0…which will be out…uhm, soon.

Hotfix fuck up!

The Wigbi 1.1.2 release contains two .htaccess files in the Wibi folder – one with magic quotes disabling and one without. However, I managed to make the wrong one default, so if you download Wigbi 1.1.2, no AJAX operations will work, if you have magic quotes applied.

Either replace the .htaccess file in the Wigbi folder with the NO_MAGIC_QUOTES.htaccess file, or download Wigbi 1.1.3.

Bad Daniel begs for forgiveness!

Wigbi 1.1.1 (.htaccess hotfix) is out

So, yesterday evening, I finished putting together Wigbi 1.1.0, which is a better wrap-up than the 1.0.3 release…and today, I decided to release a quick hotfix – Wigbi 1.1.1.

Wigbi 1.1.1 takes care of an .htaccess rewrite bug that caused the MVC engine to ignore any defined query strings. Two big thumbs up to Fredrik Bonander who helped me out with the regexp bug handling!

Wigbi 1.1.1 comes with an already configured MVC template set that features a basic, but fully functional MVC routing .htaccess file, a controller handler that receives all registered routes in the .htaccess file, as well as a default Home controller, a target Index view as well as a simple master page.

This setup will probably help you get started a lot quicker than if you were to start off from a clean slate. I also uploaded a new video tutorial that demonstrates how to download Wigbi and get it up and running. If you decide to give Wigbi a try, let me know what you think.

Download Wigbi and watch the video tutorial here.

 

.htaccess error using WampServer

I have just tried out Wigbi on a Windows 7 machine that uses WampServer for PHP, Apache and mySQL.

When doing so, I noticed a few minor flaws, like mySQL warnings being displayed on the page if no database connection data is specified. I will fix this asap. However, a far more serious problem is that the .htaccess file in the ~/wigbi folder seems to be invalid. No files within this folder can be loaded, which means that css/js file bundling does not work at all. Neither will any AJAX-based calls that go through the Wigbi AJAX pipeline.

If anyone knows knows what seems to cause this problem, please let me know.

.htaccess demo changes

I have changed the links of the .htaccess root file of the Wigbi Demos.

Previously, the file definied the links relative to the server root (/wigbi_demos/…) but not they are relative to the application root folder.

This means that you do not have to adjust this file when you download the new version of the Wigbi Demos.