Question2Answer 1.9 development updates

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I'm going to use this question to post various updates on Q2A development as it occurs. A few important things to note about v1.9:

• The minimum PHP requirement will be version 5.4. Market share for <=5.3 has dropped below 20%, and those versions have not been officially supported by PHP for over 4 years. If you are still using PHP 5.3 I suggest looking to upgrade as soon as possible.
• The old includes from qa-include/ (directly, not including subfolders) will be deleted. Since v1.7 they were moved to the subfolders (app/, db/ etc) and stubs added for backwards compatibility. Any plugins still using those should update to use the newer includes, for example change
  require_once QA_INCLUDE_DIR . 'qa-app-posts.php';
  to
  require_once QA_INCLUDE_DIR . 'app/posts.php';
• Namespaces are being used in the core code. I wrote a little about this in the docs here but the main gist is that it's much easier to use certain classes - you just use them, no need to include PHP files first.

I will add answers with updates every so often.

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Like removing accent in url , if you can this changing for tags , username and category will be better @Scott

Thanks a lot for all your works

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May we know if there are still progress for 1.9?

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@MathUser I am still working on Q2A when I can, unfortunately that is not very often.

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That's good to know, at least we will be waiting for the release when it's ready.

Answer 1

January 2019 update

Most of the recent updates have been reorganising/refactoring the code rather than new user-facing features. We've added a new "Controller" system similar to other frameworks like Laravel or CodeIgniter, where URLs like 'user/{str}' for the user profile are mapped to a function like \Q2A\Controllers\User\UserProfile::profile(). This adds a bit more flexibility to URLs and allows for new features like changing the user profile URL structure.

I've also added new database classes, DbConnection and DbResult which use PDO (built-in PHP database library). This has built-in "parameterised queries" which is a simpler system than current queries. There's also a "Service" system so using the database is quite easy and you can chain some commands:

$postList = qa_service('database')->query('SELECT * FROM ^posts WHERE id=?', array($id))->fetchAllAssoc();

Thanks to pupi1985 who helped with a few key parts of the above like adding support for WHERE...IN queries. And Spudley who has contributed a few other refactorings for emails and the recalc system.

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When will this release be published?

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I am missing you. Please come back  

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Plz update next version quickly