<p>In the last few weeks, we have been working on establishing our own coding standards. It is now time to go public with it!</p>
<h1>General observations</h1>
<ul><li>All new code developed starting with 1.1 will be pure PHP 5 (discussion - <a title="http://community.impresscms.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1020" rel="nofollow" href="http://community.impresscms.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1020">PHP5 discussion in the forums</a>) </li>
<li>All PHP files will use complete open tags<br /></li>
<li>All files will include the ImpressCMS copyright notice, as shown in the <a title="File Header" href="http://wiki.impresscms.org/index.php?title=File_Header">File Header</a></li>
<li>All files, classes, class methods, class variables, functions and defines will be documented with DocBlocks </li>
<li>Assume all user input will be malicious - properly sanitize all form entries and $_GET, $_POST and $_COOKIE variables</li>
</ul><p>The basis of the ImpressCMS coding standards are the standards used by <a title="Zend Framework" href="http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/coding-standard.coding-style.html">Zend Framework</a>, which are also based on the <a title="PEAR coding standards" href="http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php">PEAR coding standards</a>. However, we differ in a few ways with Zend standards. Our standards are defined below.<br /><br />Those standards are to be enforced by any contributor to ImpressCMS. Since we are all human, we will make mistakes from time to time. Let's all help each other and correct our formating mistakes ;-).</p> more...
<p>A new year, and a new Packt Publishing Open Source Awards. Formerly known as the Open Source CMS Award, this 2010 edition has an enlarged number of categories. As of this year's edition, there are now also non-CMS categories that can compete.</p> more...
<p>The July Monthly Newsletter "ImpressCMS in July 2010" was just sent out to members that indicated they want to receive mail from the project. This month, we cover topics like</p>
<ul><li><a title="ImpressCMS 1.2.2 Security Release" href="http://community.impresscms.org/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=495"><span>the ImpressCMS 1.2.2 security release</span></a></li>
<li><a title="Webinar : Road to ImpressCMS 1.3" href="http://community.impresscms.org/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=499"><span>our first ImpressCMS 1.3 </span>web seminar</a></li>
<li><a title="ImpressCMS on the Microsoft Web App Gallery" href="http://community.impresscms.org/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=496">ImpressCMS featured on the Microsoft Web App gallery </a></li>
<li>several new module releases</li>
</ul><p>The content is also available from <a href="http://eepurl.com/Nth5">here</a> for those that haven't received it in their mailbox.</p>
<p><em>Edit: If you want to subscribe to the mailing list, you can do that here: <a href="http://eepurl.com/NQYV"></a><a href="http://eepurl.com/NQYV" rel="external">http://eepurl.com/NQYV</a></em></p> more...
<p>Development on ImpressCMS is proceeding very well.</p>
<p>Many changes are being done during this "cleanup and refactor" release to improve compliance with the PHP5 code standards.</p>
<p>Next to that, also cleanups and reorganisations are done to make the code simpler, faster and easier to maintain.</p>
<p>While every effort is done to make sure these changes are transparent to both users and developers, not every change can be.</p>
<p>To give you an idea what we have planned, please join us on this webinar:</p>
<h1 style="text-align:center;background-color:#99cc00;">14 August 2010, 5pm00 GMT</h1> more...
<p>Hereby the Final release of the article management module <em><strong>Impression 1.00</strong></em>. <br />Impression is a simple article module based on the module imLinks (WF-Links).<br />It's easy to use and has only a few basic features, see below.<br />I (McDonald) am using this module for more than 2 years now on my own website (with less features) and so far it has been working fine.</p> more...
<p>As you all know Instant Zero modules are now maintained by ImpressCMS following this <a href="http://community.impresscms.org/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=437">News story</a>.<br /><br />A lot has happened since then. I immediately started to look at all the different versions of the News module out there and found quite a few.<br /><br />There were 2 versions particularly standing out, apart from the Instant Zero version, of course!</p> more...
<p style="text-align:center;"><img title="ImpressCMS on Microsoft Web App Gallery" src="http://community.impresscms.org/uploads/img4c52cd3a7bdcc.jpg" alt="ImpressCMS on Microsoft Web App Gallery" /></p>
<p><strong>Great news!</strong> The ImpressCMS project is now also available on the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/ImpressCMS.aspx">Microsoft Web App Gallery</a>.</p>
<p>Getting ImpressCMS to work on your Windows web server has never been easier or more convenient, thanks to the Web Platform Installer. This utility takes care of the configuration and the required software for your Web app, making the setup of your web app as close as possible to a one-click process.</p>
<p>Being accepted by Microsoft in this list of web applications places us in the company of very well-known and respected open source projects like Dotnetnuke, Umbraco, Wordpress and Drupal.</p> more...
<h2>Security Release - please upgrade!<br /></h2>
<p>The ImpressCMS Team has just released ImpressCMS 1.2.2, which is a security release. This version patches a recently discovered vulnerability in an external library, TidyCSS. The file containing the vulnerability is not used by ImpressCMS, and can be safely removed.</p> more...
<p>There has been a recent <a title="Secunia Vulnerability Report - CSSTidy and ImpressCMS 1.2" rel="nofollow" href="http://secunia.com/advisories/40522">report of a potential vulnerability</a> in the CSSTidy library included with ImpressCMS 1.2.0 and 1.2.1 releases. The vulnerability exists in a file used as a implementation of the CSSTidy classes to demonstrates how the library functions.</p>
<p><strong>This file <span style="text-decoration:underline;">not</span> used by ImpressCMS and can be removed from your sites.</strong></p>
<p>In fact, it is recommended you remove the file. The file to remove is plugins/csstidy/css_optimiser.php. A patched version of ImpressCMS (version 1.2.2) will be released later today for new installations.</p> more...
