History before version 3

The history of phpFanList versions from version 3 onwards is available on the history page.

Version 2.3.1

Date: 2006-07-06

New Features:

Added Check site link when approving update.
Remembers last login username.
Remembers date of last time checked.

Bug Fixes:

Bug that slowed down phpFanList corrected.
Wrongly sorted memberlist when no sortorder was given.
Minor change to password check.

Version 2.3.0

Date: 2006-05-23

New Features:

Allow filtering in admin on URL.
Option to discard a update request, without denying it (so no mail is sent)

Changes:

Increased security of some g_includes and includes files.
Comments when joining and requesting an update can now be a lot longer.
Country list now has Serbia and Montenegro separated (new version of plugin as well)

Version 2.2.1

Date: 2006-01-10

New Features:

Added a readme.txt file to the installation package so you don't need to switch to the site constantly (suggestion from the forum).
Added a few .htaccess files to make phpFanList more secure.

Bug Fixes:

Fix for a serious security bug found on (05-01-2006) A temporary fix was available, but this is the definite one.

Version 2.2.0

Date: 2005-11-13

New Features:

Automatic latest version check.
Last 10 edited members can now easily be shown (frequent request from the users).

Changes:

When the admin changes user info, it no longer counts as a last update.
Last update date changed to comply with thefanlistings.org.
Some text on delete requests was dubious. It should be more clear now.
Autolowercase of e-mail addresses (Thx Iva)

Bug Fixes:

When manually adding users in admin, you can now select, show or hide e-mail.
In IE it was possible to get a blank page when entering the admin section. This due to a bug
in IE. A workarround is in this version.
Membernames with accent are now processed corretly.
A XHTML validation error in update.php fixed.
In admin settings list, "Membernames" changed to "Member's names".
Member names with a - in it, didn't get a correct capitalization.
Data entered is trimmed first to prevent input errors.
When require rules was set to no, you still got a rules box for cliques.

Version 2.1.1

Date: 2004-12-29

New Features:

Ability to apply filter to memberlist.
New script to reset admin password.

Changes:

Clear button is gone from join and update forms (reason: bad practice; only in full install)

Version 2.1.0

Date: 2004-09-26

New Features:

Customize your mails by simply editing a text file
Members can request to be deleted (Thx Inge for the suggestion)
The date is kept when the fanlisting started
Include an additional message in the update mail (Thx Inge for the suggestion)
A last update date is kept, when last a member was declined, deleted, altered, approved,... it does NOT change, when mass mailing or changing a setting
The memberlist columns now have classes assigned: listid, listname, listmail, listurl, listcustom, listcountry
You can now add a member from the admin section (Thx Inge for the suggestion)

Changes:

phpList name changed to phpFanList
Global constants changed names (ie. PHPLIST_MPENDING -> PHPFANLIST_MPENDING)
Only version 2.0.2 and up can be updated. Lower versions are still detected however.
PHPFANLIST_LASTUPDATE is now the date the fanlist was last updated, PHPFANLIST_LASTMEMADD is the date the last member was added.
Content type changed to UTF-8
Uppercasing the first letter is now the first of every word (Thx Iva)
To remove confusion, the word fanliting/clique is no longer added after the name, it is best to include it in the name now
The xml header was left out on non-admin pages, since some browsers were complaining when the page wasn't completely XHTML, due to user edits.

Bug Fixes:

When user was allowed to make the choice to show/hide his mail, the selection was accidently reversed when approving. (thx to Andrisima)
A redundant initcap call was removed
Error in the countrylist.inc.php file with "St. Kitts and Nevis" (thx to Inge)
The flags plugin had a typo in the Switzerland flag image (switserland.gif) (thx to Inge)

Version 2.0.7

Date: 2004-07-19

Changes:

The license under which phpList is distributed has been updated
'Show mail' options in admin have changed (thx Inge)

Bug Fixes:

Websites with a 2-part TLD like co.uk weren't valid (thx Inge)
Websites with digits weren't valid (thx Mariam)
Sort problem on memberlist by country fixed (thx Michele)
"Agains" typo on update form page (thx Katya)
Items inserted into the database with batch, didn't get a correct date.

Version 2.0.6

Date: 2004-05-12

New Features:

Admin can override default showing of e-mail addresses
An addional message can be specified when approving an application (like a thank you note or an answer to a suggestion or complaint)
On the members page, when grouped by country, list can be sorted on the amount of members
Install and update can handle beta versions
Admin detect beta version
Convert for "&" to "and" in country list
Country list updated, 2 countries added
Support for the upcoming countryflag plugin

Changes:

Version 1.1.2. is the only pre 2.x version still supported by the update
After changing/removing a member, you are redirected to the memberlist instead of admin startpage.
Rules can be disabled for cliques
Update now asks for new name, new website, ... since the fields were used to fill in the old ones
All countries with a "&" in them are changed to "and". There were some problems when displaying (if you have members with an & in their country, use the andconvert.php)
Members.php file still exists, the actual list is in global includes directory
Updated the website-pattern a bit

Bug Fixes:

Member page now uses footer too
E-mail addresses with a - in the beginning are now valid too
Show mail is default yes, unless user decides
Admin modify bug fixed (problem lay with register_globals)
Quotes (" and ') are now displayed correctly in mass mail and not as \" and \'
A few typos corrected here and there
URLs with parameters were not detected as valid

Version 2.0.5

Date: 2004-02-24

Changes:

"Website required" now default no
22.5 KB of the admin.php is now admin.inc.php, and in the g_includes dir

Bug Fixes:

Sorting on a sorted-by-country page fixed
Sorting on memberlist in admin section fixed
alt="" attribute replaced by title in approved link

Version 2.0.4

Date: 2004-02-19

Bug Fixes:

Join didn't show rules field
Admin said "member with e-mail address exists", when modifying it.
Rules always stated: "not required"
Upgrade mis-detects versions 2.0.1, 2.0.2. and 2.0.3.

Version 2.0.3

Date: 2004-02-17

New Features:

Added an index.php in all directories to increase security

Changes:

Show address default yes, if Show Member E-mail is yes
Some extra checks here and there to increase stability
A bit of code optimalization
Rewrite of checking site URL on http:// and ending /

Bug Fixes:

Batch didn't work, it is fixed right now.
When mailing the admin on join and update, it always stated fanlisting, also for cliques

Version 2.0.2

Date: 2004-02-11

New Features:

Double e-mail addresses can be allowed
Global includes (saving up to 29KB from the 2nd fanlisting on)

Changes:

Password is no longer masked on admin settings page
Countrylist is in a separate include file (saving up to 11.1 KB)
Spam protection notice added to updates and join form
Clear button was added to updates and join form

Bug Fixes:

Added headers 1 on join and update pages
When a URL contained a directory it was not accepted by join form
Admin didn't check on double e-mail addesses

Version 2.0.1

Date: 2004-02-10

Changes:

Update and Join form don't show after updating and joining respectively
Country is listed below the URL now, instead of below the name
In memberlist, sorting is now above number of members
The maximum number of members is now 9999 instead of 999

Bug Fixes:

Country is now shown in Admin when country is asked for in a clique
Country was in some cases shown incorrectly in the memberlist in case of a clique
Updating a member with an ID higher than 127 is now possible
Updating from version 1.1.0. went wrong, now it works

Version 2.0.0

Date: 2004-02-06

New Features:

Smart convert from PHPFanBase 2.x !!
Sort on favorite field
All settings in DB (except for DB settings ;) )
Favorite field in member-listing if applicable
Use of head and foot .inc.php files (all pages use same head and footer)
E-mail spam protection
Simple checking on valid e-mail and websites addresses
Auto-adding of http:// and ending / to websites in admin section
Auto inicapping names in admin section
Auto inicapping can be disabled
Show/Hide favorite
Added settings in Admin
Detection of first run
Warning on default password
Number of memberinfo update requests
Personalised Welcome message in Admin Section
Automated memberinfo updating from Admin section
Secure updating, if both e-mail changed -> sent to both so member is notified if someone changes info
Number of members last added

Changes:

PHP Code update
HTML update
Improved Install
Smaller memberlist code
Rename main.php to phplist_stat.php
URL processing made better
Smaller include file
Comments are no longer stored when applicants are approved
Some minor estetical changes to batch
'Northern Ireland' and 'Isle of Man' added to the country list

Bug Fixes:

Fixed some minor visual typos
Showmail setting was not imported in batch

Version 1.1.2

Date: 2003-11-18

New Features:

If you enter a wrong password, you get an error message, instead of nothing at the admin login.

Bug Fixes:

Mail addresses with a - in it were seen as invalid
Space between "approved" and sitename on main.php
Space between * and text-field for rules
Install showed same setting for mail approve as mail on join
Few minor typos