PHP 5.3 Compatibility Statement
For the record: None of our applications are designed for, tested on, or validated to work with PHP 5.3.x at all.
PHP 5.3 depreciates certain functions that I know we use, as well as introducing new features which I know conflict at the moment with our code.
As soon as I get a chance I will refactor those parts of the code effected and re-release new versions.
Out products are designed for PHP 5.2.x (5.2.4 and above) which, in our experience, is the version most webhosts have installed as its the only major version of PHP that ships with the mainstream linux distributions (redhat/centos).
Update (7th Jan 2010):I have now succeeded in getting bfForms and bfFramework to function correctly on PHP 5.3.x, there were significant changes that had to be made – this was made a lot easier as the codebase is Unit tested. I’ll release a copy soon, as soon as its been to our testers and passed their approval. I’ll make a further announcement when this has been released.
Blue Flame Forms – New Version Released
I am pleased to announce a new version of bfForms has just been released. This new version has a new feature that allows you to subscribe form submitters email addresses to your MailChimp Mailing lists, seamlessly and without any programming knowledge (there is even an unsubscribe option!)
Existing users can download upgrade for FREE!, new users can get the special offer of £9.99!
A Christmas Message From Phil Taylor
Merry Christmas!
Sorry if you dont celebrate Christmas 
Well
2009 has brought a lot of changes this side of the monitor, and I’m hoping and praying
for a much better 2010 both in business and personally, I hope you all have a great
festive time – I know many of you are already enjoying the snow (USA and UK!) If you
get hacked over Christmas – I’ll be here! – so just contact me through our website and
the go back to your party!
Special reduced Download Price On EVERYTHING
From now until the end of the year
you can now purchase ANY of our Joomla Extensions for only
GBP£ 9.99 each!
- thats a whopping (approx) 60% saving on each
purchase! There are no special coupon codes, or anything silly like that – just go to
our website and click the regular download buttons to get this very special price
http://www.phil-taylor.com/
Other Joomla Extension Offers
Steve from alledia has blogged about other offers
around the Joomlasphere – please visit his blog post for the links: http://www.alledia.com/blog/open-questions/joomla-holiday-coupons-for-2009/
Module Nimbus 1.1.0 for Joomla! Tags
One of the joys for me working with Open Source products is that others can see, adapt, improve and learn from my code in the same way I have from others.
Today I see someone has released a nice Tag Cloud replacement module for Joomla Tags.
Take a look at the full details here:
How to make form fields hide and show WITH NO CODING
Alternative Titles: Introducing ixEdit ! / jQuery to the rescue / Amazing new tool brings loads of new features with no coding needed!
Tonight i finally got to record a video to explain my excitement with this new product “ixEdit”.
I’m not a good blogger, I’m especially not good at video blogs – but this has to be seen to be understood and the power to be shown.
I’m about to show you how you can achieve some amazing form effects with NO CODING knowledge at all ! I hope you catch the fire….
Watch the video for the full story:
ixEdit website: http://www.ixedit.com/
(Sorry for the quality – this is my first video post! and not very good after I uploaded to youtube – the original 290Mb file was good quality!
New version of Joomla Gears Support – Turbo!
I’m pleased to announce a new version of our fantastic plugin for Joomla 1.5 that SPEEDS UP your administrator console experience dramatically! – Dont take our word for it, simply see the reviews here!
This new version adds support for Joomla 1.5.15 – remember to uninstall the old plugin, install this new version, and then click Update gears! – and remember ITS FREE!!!!!
New version of bfForms now available
Hey there, I have just released a maintenance release of bfForms for Joomla 1.5.x – our premier forms extension for Joomla.
This is not a really remarkable update, but does fix some smaller bugs and issues that keep rearing their ugly head – so I squashed them!
Enjoy! and look forward to a new release of Google Gears tonight Speed up your admin console for free with this great product!
Three.co.uk – mobile broadband – email sending issue
Just a note to all three.co.uk users using a mobile broadband dongle and having issues sending emails by SMTP…
The trick is to use THREE’s own SMTP server – but not just the normal one, the one specific to mobile broadband.
So if like me, you had issues sending emails through three, just change your outgoing smtp server to
smtp-mbb.three.co.uk
no authentication required – it just works
Hope this helps some one, as Googling took me ages
Turbo – Google Gears For Joomla 1.5 – Broken
Hi there…
I’m receiving reports that the latest release of Joomla! version 1.5.15, has an issue with the current release of GoogleGears, our free product that DRAMATICALLY speeds up your Joomla Administrator Console…
So at the moment its broken, right now I’m on a train to London with my Daughter, so cannot investigate or fix this until early next week
Thanks for your patience.
ARGH – Main Hard drive corrupt – lost almost everything
Opps…
Today I tried to upgrade my Ubuntu version to the latest, fearing I would be left behind with the new version about to be released. I still dont know what happened but my main data hard drive became corrupt and unrecoverable – only a lost+found folder!!!
So my last full backup was on the 30th June (I know I know, just had more on my mind with moving house, separation etc…)
I have lost all my new PHP code, all my Financial Accounts data (Over twelve months inputting done on monday – all lost!), all my invoices SINCE JUNE! and ALL MY EMAILS SINCE Monday (As I had a backup of my emails on my laptop as I was travelling!)
So please forgive me if I dont email you a reply – I have no idea who or what emails I have lost from my mailbox.
If you dont have a backup – MAKE ONE TODAY!
ironically I dreamed last night about my laptop being stolen and losing all that data – so I backed up the laptop this morning, but not the desktop 