siwapp - Free online invoice system » 0.3 http://www.siwapp.org/blog Free online invoice system Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:57:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Siwapp 0.3 release almost out. Call for translations. http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2010/07/siwapp-0-3-call-for-translations/ http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2010/07/siwapp-0-3-call-for-translations/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:59:24 +0000 jzarate http://www.siwapp.org/blog/?p=98 Hey there all you lonely people! Looks like siwapp 0.3 is almost out of the oven. All tickets due to the 0.3 version are closed now, and I just spent 8 awful hours resyncing the language files. Nowadays, I can proudly say our existing message files are updated and synced at my very best (which is not very “very”, btw). So if you’re interested in helping out with the translation, please do comment this post, letting me know about your noble purpose, oh great warrior of the open source!. I’ll send you the translation file right away. PS: I’ll update this post as I receive translation updates. PSII: If your mother tongue is english, I would appreciate very much If you had a look at our “messages.en.xml” file (which we have only for reference purposes); I’m spanish and I’m not very proud of my english. Translations work in progress:

  • Swedish: Finished!!
  • Danish: almost Finished!!
  • Spanish: almost Finished
  • Catalan: almost Finished!!
  • Russian: almost Finished
  • Ukrainian: almost Finished
  • Bulgarian: started
  • German: started
  • Portuguese: almost Finished
  • French: Finished!!
  • Polish: started
]]> http://www.siwapp.org/blog/2010/07/siwapp-0-3-call-for-translations/feed/ 15 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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Today I would like to announce the use of Twig, a template system redesigned by Fabien Potencier and based on the original code by Armin Ronacher. It is a robust, fast and flexible system that will make very easy the task of creating templates for invoices and any printable item in the application.

Templates will be stored in the database so you will can edit them directly from the application. We will try to make all the process as easy and flexible as we can.

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I know that templates management was working in some cases, but the code is not mature enough to leave it in its current state. We will refine it for the 0.3.

However, if you want to keep it working as before, you can re-activate it by removing the first two lines of the function executeTemplates (function is in line 159, approximately) in the /apps/siwapp/modules/configuration/actions/actions.class.php file. I would not recommend it.

I have uploaded a .zip file with the “default” printing template packed as an external template. Only for the curious.

We are working on 0.3 internals. The main changes:

  • The entire data management layer is replaced with Doctrine in order to simplify the application.
  • A more flexible template management system.
  • More bugs :) .
  • More bug fixes.

One caveat: the data model can vary, and indeed it does. Therefore, I remember that we are in an alpha stage and that in future versions we may regret anything developed, throw it away and start again. No one throw rocks, please :) .

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