by Eric Barnes
Beta 5 of 68 knowledge base is now released and available from our customer area.
As much as I hate to do this for this release we made some directory changes. Before this release the includes folder was setup as includes/application. Now this application folder has been renamed to sources and moved outside the includes folder. With this change all core CodeIgniter files are kept together which will make it easier to upgrade in the future.
Beside that change this is basically a bug fix release with the core files upgraded to CodeIgniter 1.6.1. We recommend replacing all the files.
You can see a full list of bug fixes from our issue tracker.
Upgrading
To upgrade you should follow the instructions here:
http://68kb.com/knowledge-base/article/upgrading-instructions
Also keep in the mind the directory changes outlined above.
Notes:
If you find any bugs please report them in our bug tracker.
If you need any support please visit our user forums or Ticket System.
The login for both the forums and issue tracker is the same as you use in our customer area.
As always I wanted to personally thank all the beta testers for your help.
by Eric Barnes
Beta 4 of 68 knowledge base is now released and available from our customer area. This is basically a bug fix release with the core files upgraded to CodeIgniter 1.6.0. Because of the core upgrade almost all files have been edited in some way. We recommend replacing all the files.
You can see a full list of bug fixes from our issue tracker.
One new feature added is the ability to convert special characters in the url title. So now á=a é=e.
Upgrading
To upgrade you should follow the instructions here:
http://68kb.com/knowledge-base/article/upgrading-instructions
Also the includes/application/config/database.php.new has some changes that you will need to add to your database.php file.
Notes:
If you find any bugs please report them in our bug tracker.
If you need any support please visit our user forums or Ticket System.
The login for both the forums and issue tracker is the same as you use in our customer area.
As always I wanted to personally thank all the beta testers for your help.
by Eric Barnes
This is a quick announcement to let everyone know that we now have a ticket system setup and ready for use. We decided to go with osticket just because it was easy to customize and supported most of the features we wanted.
Another nice feature is the ability to require users to visit our website to reply to tickets. On some of our other sites we used ticket systems where users get the response by email and can reply back without visiting the website. In theory this is a good idea, however we ran into loads of issues where people just wouldn’t receive our replies and think that either we don’t respond or we just don’t care.
This ticket system works like this. First you submit a ticket, and you instantly receive an auto response with the ticket id and a link to login. Then once it is replied to you are emailed again telling you that their is a reply and a link to login and view it.
I hope you find this system useful and if you want to get in contact with us why not give it a try. 
by Eric Barnes
Our January Newsletter competition has been officially over for a few days now and today we are announcing the winner.
We want to send our congratulations to Lee from Made By Fresh. We hope Lee finds our script useful and not just a cookie cutter solution.
by Eric Barnes
Beta 3 is now released and available from our customer area. This is just a bug fix release with a few small features added. Most notable is the ability to use a javascript tree menu in the templates.
Also in this release all the modules have been striped out and will no longer be apart of the core. We have some secret plans for a new module download system but more will come later on that.
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