What's New in 1.x

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• With the exception of the installer and a few admin pages, and the online docs, most templates are now fully XHTML (transitional) compliant.
• "Tiered" location management has been added. This means that for each country, you may associated multiple states, and for each state multiple counties, and for each county multiple cities, and for each city multiple zip codes. This permits users to specify particular geographic locales for searching. An admin tool for managing these tiers has been added, too.
• The Global Settings admin page has been re-grouped and expanded.
• By default, profiles are now embedded within the template, rather than appearing as popup windows. This can be changed in the global settings.
• User profiles have been modified to use the state/county/city/zip list.
• In the site configuration settings, you can define a logo image file to be shown at the head of the template, in place of the current picture and site name. Blanking out this field will show the site name in place of the logo.
• User albums have been implemented. The user may specify the pictures that are viewable by the public, or reserved for private viewing only. If more than one picture is in the public album, the system will randomly select a picture to show in the profile window.
• At the time of installation, the system asks for the admin password, so that users won't forget to change it in the admin panel. By default, this is set to "pass", as it was in the osDate beta.
• The sample_data.sql file is now divided into two parts: system data and sample data. System.sql contains system management-related data, and sample_data.sql contains sample profiles, and other sample data.
• The feedback link is now manageable from the configuration settings. You can define if a feedback link is to be shown only for logged-in users, or visible to all users.
• Instant messenger is now an option with membership. If a user's membership setting does not allow IM usage, the IM panel is not displayed at all.
• More language files added, and updated with new values. These were taken directly from the osDate Code Depot.
• Expanded Site Statistics, and added User Statistics.
• In the language file, a new array called $lang['extsearchhead'] is defined to keep all headings, which are viewable in the Profile view page. Whenever a profile question is added, it should be appropriately mentioned in the language file using this array definition.
• Upgrade option improved in the installer. The system should be fully upgradeable from the osDate beta.
• Separated the phpBB table definitions from the tables.sql file.
• Introduced image watermarking when displaying profile images. This watermarking is done on the fly when the picture is displayed, using PHP's GD library.
• Payment modules upgraded. The osCommerce payment classes are now being used. A new transactions table has been added to record all successful transactions.
• Events calendar added, with admin interface.
• "Results per Page" combo box added to several admin pages.
• Import tool added for aeDating and DatingPro. This feature is still considered "alpha" and doesn't work well. I recommend that you hold off on performing such an import until the 1.1 release of osDate.
• Online documentation has been updated and expanded. More will be added as osDate is developed.