Coming this week - New version of Phil-A-Form for Joomla 1.0.11

Seems all I do recently is blog about upcoming things Still Baby has decided she wants to hold out on us until Christmas , she is due in two days time, but she (we think its a she!) is still not wanting to brave the cold winds and rain here in sunny Tewkesbury - Christmas Cracker anyone?

Phil-A-Form, Our most popular, and most mature component is about to get a spring (winter) clean! We will be releasing (unless baby decides to mess things up!) a new version of Phil-A-Form this week. We have already done most of the work that we wanted to get done, as well as bug fixing & fixing a single minor XSS flaw, we are happy to announce that we have worked on new features as well (Ok I know I said no more new features but I wanted to give some more life to our aging component

Phil-A-Form 1.6 (1.5 was skipped so as not to be confused with Joomla 1.5) will sport a new File Manager for files uploaded by the forms, as well as greater debugging for Email Sending issues.

We have also closed over 100 bug reports from the bug tracker (Most were duplicates!)

Before this version PAF gave the responsibility for the delivery of emails over to the Joomla built in mosMail functions which did not ever display any warning if an email was not sent.  We have now replicated this function within PAF so we no longer need to rely on mosMail and can generate very specific debug messages relating to the real reason emails are not sent.  This is our current number 1 bug reported which 99% of the time is not PAF’s fault but some other system (Like the mail server not allowing relaying) - so now in PAF 1.6 you will be told if an email was not sent correctly - and exactly the reason why not - good eh ?

So as soon as we have finalised the distribution package - we will release it - so please be patient (This post is written as I have had to mention this new version 7 times already today in email replies…)