Midgard Weekly Summary

Happenings this week
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* midgard-core 1.8.2.2 hotfix released. [The hotfix][8] resolves some
issues on [multilingual Midgard  sites][7]

* New features in personnel component. [Arttu Manninen][9] has added
nice [Ajax-based reorganization and editing][10] features to the
[personnel display component][11] of MidCOM. Grab the [latest version
from PEAR][12]!

* Midgard gets geotagging. [Midgard's geo capabilities][18] have now
been amended by [supporting the Flickr-style machine tags][17]. This
enables people submitting content to Midgard via email or for example
Flickr integration to position and tag their content easily. The
geotags will also show up in [GeoRSS output][19].

* Midgard configuration with PHP. [Piotr Pokora][4] has [added PHP
bindings][5] to managing [Midgard's unified configuration][6]. The
bindings will be the basis for the [new Midgard installer][13] and
enable easy creation of Midgard databases with multiple providers like
MySQL, Postgres and SQLite

* Exceptions in Midgard. [Midgard's development version][15] has
finally deprecated PHP4 support, enabling us to utilize features like
[exceptions][14]. Next it will be interesting to start using [PHP 5.2
datetimes][16] everywhere instead of the current mixture of UNIX
timestamps and datetime text fields

About Midgard
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Midgard CMS is an Open Source Content Management System built on top
of the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) platform. It provides a
reliable, powerful and internationalized set of tools for building web
sites and networked applications.

Midgard utilizes PHP as the web scripting language and provides
integration interfaces on Java and C layers. Midgard's unique
architecture enables it to provide services like single sign-on and
replication. With these capabilities and the integrated full-text
search system, Midgard is an excellent match for information-rich web
sites and intranets.

Places to see Midgard in Action:

* <http://www.midgard-project.org/>
* <http://www.bangbonsomer.com/>
* <http://downloads.maemo.org/>
* <http://www.cmswatch.com/>
* <http://www.vti.fi/en/>
* <http://www.itsevaltiaat.fi/>
* <http://protoblogr.net/>

About MWS
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[Midgard Weekly Summaries][1] is a newsletter for keeping up with the
happenings in the Midgard community.

The new MWS editions are edited collaboratively to make the editing
burden easier. To suggest stories here bookmark them with [del.icio.us
tag "midgardweeklysummary"][2]. Screenshots may also be suggested by
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[1]: http://www.midgard-project.org/updates/mws/
[2]: http://del.icio.us/tag/midgardweeklysummary
[3]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/midgardweeklysummary
[4]: http://www.nemein.com/people/piotras/
[5]: http://www.nemein.com/people/piotras/view/1172610438.html
[6]: http://www.midgard-project.org/documentation/unified-conf...
[7]: http://www.midgard-project.org/documentation/building-mul...
[8]: http://www.midgard-project.org/updates/view/1172671993.html
[9]: arttu
[10]: http://www.kaktus.cc/weblog/new-features-in--personnel--c...
[11]: http://www.midgard-project.org/documentation/reference-co...
[12]:
http://pear.midcom-project.org/index.php?package=net_neme...
[13]: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard-in-2007--the-year-of-th...
[14]: http://www.nemein.com/people/piotras/view/1172609810.html
[15]: http://www.midgard-project.org/development/roadmap/1-9/
[16]: http://www.php.net/UPDATE_5_2.txt
[17]: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard_and_geotagging_via_emai...
[18]: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/the-midgard-position.html
[19]: http://www.georss.org/blog/?p=44