Tina MVC 1.x is a complete rewrite. Code is namespaced and organised more intuitively. The folder structure for your applications is better laid out, making it easier to organise your plugin. Documentation is now included with the plugin. Better support for your esoteric permalinks structures. Helpers have been rewritten and the form helper is now extensible.

Get it from SVN: http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/tina-mvc/branches/v1.0-dev/

Although this release looks bug free (yeah, right!) it is a beta release. It has not been used in production yet, so the usual warnings apply.

However, due to the way wp-cron works, anything that prevents WordPress opening a http connection to itself will cause wp-cron to fail. In my case I had a .htaccess password set on the development site to prevent crawlers from indexing it.

A quick test to see if WordPress will be able to access wp-cron.php is to use wget from the command line of your server:

If this fails you will at least have a clue as to why it failed. It would be great if WordPress could log the failure rather than remaining silent (even with WP_DEBUG enabled). This was discussed in http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11831.

Once the new version is published, automatic upgrades from the WordPress Plugin repository will fail. You will need to update manually.The decision to deprecate was not taken lightly. It does allow greater flexibility in developing the new version. The changes between versions are not significant and your existing Tina MVC applications can be ported with a little effort. If you need help porting your applications contact us. If there is enough demand we’ll write a migration guide, but until then we are happy to take questions here.

The new versions is a complete rewrite of the main plugin files and includes stability and speed improvements. This branch will require at least PHP v5.3.

The general layout of the Tina MVC plugin folder is reorganised and is more logical. Support functions have been rewritten and many dropped where a suitable WordPress function can be used instead.  The new forms helper will be much easier to extend for new field types and validation rules.

Finally the current branch will continue to get bug fixes – it has been used in a few projects at this stage.

Tina MVC version 0.4.9 is available from the WordPress plugin repository (see the Tina MVC for WordPress page). No news is, well, no news, but behind the scenes Tina MVC has been used in quite a few projects. The core code is now pretty mature and well tested.

Changes since 0.4.3 (when I last posted news)

• Lots of small bug fixes (and some bigger ones)
• New functions to help debugging code
• New functions to manage view data more effectively
• New functionality for WordPress Multisite – you can now have different app folders for each site
• Two new helpers: a Pagination Helper (for creating a sortable, paged table of results from SQL) and a HTML Table Helper
• Sample files to illustrate new functionality

The Tina MVC on-line documentation has also been updated.

Coming Soon

These are features that have been used commercially and will be ported back to the GPL version.

• Image manipulation libraries for resizing, watermarking, etc.
• Libraries for Paypal’s Express Checkout NVP API and for Google Checkout
• A shopping cart helper

A site to support my amateur recording hobby.

Following the end of the Left, Right & Centre residency at Frank Ryans Bar, I needed somewhere to put recordings that are not recorded there.

It is based on a free WordPress theme with customisations to support newer features like post thumbnails.

not working for you?

To force a shutdown:

And for a reboot:

Thanks to Nasser Heidari for the tip.

We did the website originally, but lately we have been recording the gigs using a rather nifty Zoom H1 recorder. With the permission of the musicians, the live recordings are available for free (under a Creative Commons license – free for any non-commercial use) in a new download area on the Frank Ryan’s web site.

Sometimes it just doesn’t feel like work – this was a real pleasure!

Tina MVC version 0.4.2 0.4.3 is available from the WordPress plugin repository (see the Tina MVC for WordPress page).

Main addition is the ‘GMAP_LOCATION’ field type in the forms helper class, but there is also a security fix.

Changes since 0.4:

• Enhancement: Added various MySQL date, time and datetime formatting functions
• Bug Fix: Password was not being verified properly on the user change email form
• Enhancement: Form helper gets a ‘GMAP_LOCATION’ field input type
• Enhancement: Form helper only loads reCaptcha libs if you define a reCaptcha field

Next from Tina MVC  non-GPL:

• Image manipulation libraries for resizing, watermarking, etc.
• Paypal libraries for the Express Checkout NVP API

If you are interested in these features now, then feel free to drop me a line.

Download Francis Crossen – DSE Presentation.zip.

If you have any questions or comments, use the form below and I will reply here.

Thanks for coming!

Francis.