siwapp - Free online invoice system » Important http://www.siwapp.org/blog Free online invoice system Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:27:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Siwapp 0.4.1 : new year’s gift http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/12/siwapp-0-4-1-new-years-gift/ http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/12/siwapp-0-4-1-new-years-gift/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:27:31 +0000 jzarate http://www.siwapp.org/blog/?p=236 It’s been a few months since siwapp 0.4 came to light.

Keeping an eye on the users group has allowed us to quickly catch on some bugs. Fresh update for you to enjoy:

  • Estimates needing to be saved three times bug corrected
  • The default fonts are lighter than previous, also a wiki section on that topic updated.
  • some minor template glitchs corrected
  • error when deleting invoices corrected
  • error 500 when deleting customer fixed
  • added hungarian translation
  • customer name in cyrillic error corrected.

 

That’s pretty much it!! You the “usual suspects” know the drill. If you’re new, we’ve got a drill for you too…

 

So, go on, get your stuff and head for new year’s eve celebration afterwards. I wish you a lot of using the app for the next year,  ;-)

 

Happy new year to everyone, btw.

]]> http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/12/siwapp-0-4-1-new-years-gift/feed/ 12 Small issue upgrading PHP to 5.3 http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/10/small-issue-upgrading-php-to-5-3/ http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/10/small-issue-upgrading-php-to-5-3/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:21:29 +0000 Carlos Escribano http://www.siwapp.org/blog/?p=220 Although we are still in beta version, as we said over and over again, there are people who have installed Siwapp on their own server. If you’re one of those people, intrepid adventurer, and you have decided to try luck with the latest version of PHP (5.3), you can suddenly get a 500 error when trying to access the application.

It is not my intention to enter into boring technical details, but think it is necessary a brief explanation. When you log into the application, it performs some checks for recurring invoices. These verifications are associated with other checks in the customers table that should have no effect in normal conditions.

Each customer is associated with an internal name that is generated from its own name. The programming associated with that task has not changed, but behaves differently in PHP5.2 and PHP 5.3: before accented vowels were removed, now they are replaced by non-accented vowels. Therefore, a customer whose name is “Fundación ABC” (“ABC Foundation”), in PHP 5.2 had an internal name such as “fundacinabc” but in PHP 5.3, the generated internal name is “fundacionabc”. As the internal name is used to decide if we create a new customer object, it is possible that a customer created in the old environment appear as nonexistent in the new environment, and the application will try to create it again as a new customer, producing the error.

Well, at the end it has not been such a short explanation.

Solution

If your customers do not have names with accented vowels or non US characters you probably will have no problem. If you get that error you can do one of these things:

  1. If you installed from a package downloaded from the web or you installed through subversion and you are in a tag (RELEASE_0_3_…), apply this patch.
  2. If you use subversion and you are in /trunk just update.
  3. Wait to 0.4 version.

In UNIX system you can apply the patch (assuming you copied and uncompressed it to the root of your install) doing:

cd /path/to/siwapp
patch -p0 -i rebuildSlugsTask.diff

It will patch a file and create another one.

In windows you can try reading this and this first. However, an expert in Windows can leave a more precise instructions in the comments.

Execute the task

The patch added a task that must be executed in command line:

php symfony siwapp:rebuild-slugs

It will rebuild the internal names for all your customers and report the number of customers modified.

Thats all!

]]> http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/10/small-issue-upgrading-php-to-5-3/feed/ 4 Siwapp 0.4 almost out. Call for translations!!! http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/10/siwapp-0-4-almost-out-call-for-translations/ http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/10/siwapp-0-4-almost-out-call-for-translations/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:36:47 +0000 jzarate http://www.siwapp.org/blog/?p=212 Well, we’re finally there.

Siwapp 0.4 is around the corner. The software is ready for being published, but before we release it, we need to make our traditional “call for translators”. And ask for your gentle help in translating this app.

So, If you’re listening, please throw us a comment!!

]]> http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/10/siwapp-0-4-almost-out-call-for-translations/feed/ 27 dompdf and rowspan, our buggy buddies http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/dompdf-and-rowspan-our-buggy-buddies/ http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/dompdf-and-rowspan-our-buggy-buddies/#comments Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:42:50 +0000 jzarate http://www.siwapp.org/blog/?p=190 watch it!

when rendering an html template to build a pdf, if a table cell with the “rowspan” attribute is break because a page change, the pdf engine will throw a nice “frame not found in cellmap” exception, as describe here

We’ve already changed our default template to make sure it doesn’t include any rowspanned cell (yes, it used to). When you build your own invoice template, please take this into account.

]]> http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/dompdf-and-rowspan-our-buggy-buddies/feed/ 3 Two updates in a row: siwapp 0.3.4 http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/two-updates-in-a-row-siwapp-0-3-4/ http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/two-updates-in-a-row-siwapp-0-3-4/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:09:23 +0000 jzarate http://www.siwapp.org/blog/?p=177 In spain, we have a saying that is “my dwarfs are growing”, meaning a circus owner complaining when everything start going inexplicably wrong with his circus , even the dwarfs are growing!!

Looks like we’re putting ourselves in kind of a similar situation here. On the previous version the messaging system was broke because of some stupid small bug.

Anyway, that has given me a good chance to think about some design decisions that we may have to reconsider.

Almost forget: the packages here (tar.gz) and here (zip). Upgrading here

]]> http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/two-updates-in-a-row-siwapp-0-3-4/feed/ 3 Emergency Release: 0.3.3 is out. http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/emergency-release-0-3-3-is-out/ http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/emergency-release-0-3-3-is-out/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:03:57 +0000 jzarate http://www.siwapp.org/blog/?p=172 Regarding a blocker bug we found in the previous version , related to not being able to use the “payments” button (yeah, that’s quite a basic feature. Siwapp is just a “digital brick” without it), here is a new update (zip or tar.gz) which that bug corrected.

Also upgrade packages here

Please accept our apologies. And thank you, mcourcy , brauilio and guyfi for letting us know.

]]> http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2011/02/emergency-release-0-3-3-is-out/feed/ 7 New system requirements for 0.3 release http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2009/12/new-system-requirements-for-0-3-release/ http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2009/12/new-system-requirements-for-0-3-release/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:12:27 +0000 Carlos Escribano http://www.siwapp.org/blog/?p=88 As we have said many times, we like things simple both for the user as for the rest of developers. To simplify programming and improve the performance of siwapp, we added the use of triggers in the database. What does this mean? It means that when a figure changes, the database automatically updates the total bill calculations.

The problem is that in MySQL 5.0, although the user has full permissions on her database, she can not create or run triggers on its database. The triggers execute permission is global to the system and no database administrator would agree to grant it.

Therefore, the minimum version of MySQL where this functionality is feasible is MySQL 5.1.6. For technical information you can consult the MySQL documentation.

Please remember to check again the specifications of your web hosting to make sure you install siwapp correctly.

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