Category — Development

I know it has been a long time for any new updates to come out in relation to 68 KB and I wanted to make a quick post outlining what is going on and the future plans for the script.

The reason for the delay is we have other commercial software and released a new major version of it earlier in the year. Since that time we have been busy keeping up with demand which is a great thing.

After the July 4th holiday (We are in the USA) development will be picking back up again and we will be moving toward getting v1.0 released some time this year.

For 68 KB we are now changing the licensing and going with the New BSD license. This means it will be open source and available for free. Since we are now going open source we have moved the files over to Google Code so you can access the SVN repository and always see what is going on. Here is the link to our project page: http://code.google.com/p/68kb/

Although the SVN side of things will be moved to Google Code we do plan to keep our forums and knowledge base hosted here on 68kb.com.

I want to thank everyone that has downloaded 68KB and for using it.

CodeIgniter released version 1.6.0 a few days ago and one of the new features is a Database Forge class which helps in managing a database. I have been upgrading the core of 68KB and because of this new feature I upgraded the whole install and upgrade routines to take advantage.

Before I was manually inserting the queries and prefixing the tables by pulling out the prefix value from the database settings. Now I no longer have to do this and the install runs a whole lot smoother. For us probably the biggest advantage to this system is now when you install the knowledge base the database tables have the charset that you enter in the config file. This should make the whole system more multi-lingual and available to more people.

Also this should allow for support for multiple database types besides just MySQL. Although currently we are only going to officially support MySQL but who knows what the future holds since the Sun buy out.

I am still very excited about the 1.6 release of CodeIgniter and I am really glad we decided to develop our script on top of it.

Yesterday CodeIgniter released version 1.6.0. 68KB is developed on top of this framework and I wanted to assure all our users that we will be upgrading the script to use this release. This will be available in our next beta release.

From looking through the change log I do not see any issues that will make this a difficult transformation but I do see a lot of neat little features that will benefit both the development and you. I should be able to give more details on these once we get everything updated.

Over the past few days we have been very busy fixing bugs and getting 68KB ready for prime time use. This release is a maintenance release that fixes the following bugs that have been reported. To get the upgrade please visit our customer area.

Based off the beta testers feedback we have added these new features:

• Captcha for contact form
• New variable in config.php for attachment file types
• Attachments are now uploaded to uploads/articleid
• Added search log
• Created a cookie filter for article views. Now each user is only counted once.

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This is a quick announcement to let you know we finished a Kayako knowledge base import yesterday. I have been researching other knowledge base systems that also offer exporting so we can create modules for them as well. So if you have any you would like to recommend now is a great time. Just comment below and let us know the system you currently use.