EFiction 3.x.x

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New Features

New or Improved in 2.0

• Works with register globals off
• Challenge system
• Top Tens lists
• Blocks system
• Admin options more integrated into the site
• Ability for members to choose password at registration (turned on/off in admin panel)
• Ability to set certain ratings for members only and/or require age consent statement
• Age consent statement in user profile (turned on/off in admin panel)
• RSS feeds
• TinyMCE integrated with option in admin panel to turn it on/off
• Header and footer in separate .tpl files
• Favorite author/story alerts (turned on/off in admin panel)
• Series (groups of stories) Series can also include other groups of series (sub-series) with unlimited levels
• Ability to upload one story to multiple categories
• Site-wide characters
• Ability to add multiple characters to a category at one time
• Characters with apostrophes in their names work correctly
• Ability to set minimum and maximum word counts for story chapters
• Improved advance search page including searching by word count
• Ability to remove Featured Story status from Admin panel as well as retire a Featured Story. You can also now do this when editing a story.
• Ability for admins to edit and delete news comments from news archive page.
• Time format in settings. Removed separate news date format.
• Added pagination in news.php
• Ability to set your own classifications in addition to warnings and genres (i.e. Spoilers, Episode Related, Pairings, Language, Story Length, Story Type, etc)
• Ability to add custom pages from the admin panel.
• You can now customize the up and down arrows used throughout the script in the same way the other graphics (stars, etc) can be customized. The variables are $up and $down
• Added pagination to individual series page.
• Story counts
• Moved the javascript into header.php so no more problems with the formselect.js not regenerating. The info will

get pulled each time the page loads.

• Added Table of Contents link to the storyblock and viewstory page for stories.
• Changed admin links for featured stories in story block to let you either remove or retire the feature.
• Co-authors
• Chapter end notes.
• Story notes
• The validation function in the admin panel now uses storyblock.php for a more consistent look of story information across the site.
• When previewing a story in the the add/edit story functions, the script now uses storyblock.php for a more consistent look for story information across the site.
• The default yes and no letters (subject and text) when validating stories can now be customized using {variables} for:

{sitename} - the name of the site; {adminname} - the penname of the admin sending the letter (text of letter only) {rules} - a link to the submission rules (text of letter only) {storytitle} - the title of the story {chaptertitle} - the title of the chapter within the story

• You can now add custom admin panels.
• The main admin page will now tell you how many stories are in the validation queue. So does the info block.
• Session and cookie variables will now use a sitekey so that multiple sites on the same domain won't have problems with crossed login info.
• News comments are now saved under uid instead of penname so that changes in penname will carry over to comment info.
• TinyMCE can now be toggled on/off on the page.
• Members can now turn tinyMCE and story indexes on/off for themselves (TinyMCE can only be turned on if the site has it turned on)
• Members can choose the default story sort for themselves.
• Challenges have been made into an optional module you can install and uninstall as you choose
• Admins can now decide whether or not to allow anonymous challenges
• The number of responses to a challenge is now listed in the information for the challenge.
• Maintenance mode.
• Action log.
• Stories updated within the time frame of your "recent days" setting will now also be marked as "New!" (you can also define your own text or assign a graphic using $new in variables.php)