Updated Web Portal

I updated the web portal to Geeklog 1.3.9. New features include:

• Geeklog now uses PEAR::Mail to send all emails. This gives you the option to send emails via PHP’s built-in mail() function (as before), via sendmail or via SMTP.
• There is a new admin option called Content Syndication that lets you create and configure (RSS) feeds. In addition to the standard feed containing all the new stories, you can now create feeds per topic, for upcoming events, and for links.

  This feature is extensible in that plugins can provide additional feeds. It is also possible to provide feeds in formats other than RSS 0.91 by providing additional feed classes.

• Admins can change the block order easily from the list of blocks now.
• There is an alternative interface to adding users to groups (requires JavaScript).
• Users in the Group Admin group can now only assign other users to groups of which they themselves are a member.
• Image upload can now also use the GD library to scale images.
• Comments now use templates.
• To accomodate strict webhosts who don’t allow file uploads to the standard image directory, you can now set a new configuration variable, $_CONF['path_images'] to point to a directory outside of your webtree where article images and user profile pictures will be saved.
• Geeklog now supports URL rewriting for story URLs, i.e. you can have URLs like http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/20031229225326631 which are known to be picked up by Google.
• Plugins can add their own section to Geeklog’s What’s New block.
• All URL fields can now hold up to 255 characters (requires theme updates).

Also, be sure to check out the new resources add to the site. Feel free to add your own as well.