JFusion Blog

The roller coaster ride of exciting new JFusion features never stops. In today's blog I'll brief you one some of the revolutionary new features that have been developed by one of the JFusion Developerment Team.

 

• Universal JFusion Plugin 

This universal plugin will allow people to easily integrate any software without writing their own plugin. It works by asking you which database to integrate, then presents you with a table list where you can select where your users are stored. You can also specify what the password encryption is and where the usergroups are being stored. This very handy plugin will be a great addition for people that need to integrate a software, but do not know how to write a new JFusion plugin. As setting up this plugin is done without any PHP coding by the user and involves setting some parameters only.

• Universal Frameless Mode

Currently frameless integration has been done through direct integration with output buffers. This has the advantage of being able to use integration hooks for advanced integration, but has the disadvantage that some softwares can not be integrated due to the usage of 100's of global vars (MediaWiki) or because of conflicts in function names (Magento). We have now created a universal frameless mode that will work for any JFusion plugin. This new feature has been tested out on MediaWiki and Coppermine with great success. It will also mean that we will support frameless mode on all JFusion plugins soon, including Magento like a lot of people have been requesting. This just demonstrates the power of JFusion where a function was written for MediaWiki and all other jfusion plugins will benefit from these new developments. This will probably mean that phpBBSEO and vbSEO might also be supported in the future, as this model uses cURL and does not care what format the URLs are in (including very optimised seo urls).

• Upcomming Supported Softwares

1. osCommerce 2.x
2. osCommerce 3.x
3. xtCommerce
4. SMF 2.x
5. MediaWiki
6. Wordpress (through Universal Plugin)
7. Elgg (through non-core JFusion developer)
8. Coppermine (through Universal Plugin)

You are probably just as excited by the doubling of supported softwares as we are :)

• JFusion 1.2.0

As some of you know the JFusion 1.1.x branch is now in bug fix mode only. The JFusion 1.1.4 release is just around the corner and you can download this pre-release version from (containing many bug fixes):
- Download pre-release JFusion 1.1.4 here -

We have also been working extremely hard on the next generation of JFusion called 1.2.0. It has a completely revamped usersync that allows synchronising between any plugins, automatically throttles its speed for optimal performance, advanced time-out protection, allows for synchronisations of subsets of users and has an advanced log/debug system. It will also allow for registration from any software (registration not just limited to the JFusion master). Has a completely revamped installer system that will allow you to select which plugins you want installed (instead of having all plugins installed by default). Also you will be able to synchronise profile fields and many more features. This will be our biggest JFusion release ever (which says a lot).

 Now that I have teased you with all of these exciting new features, it is time to let you know that we have not set a release date for JFusion 1.2.0 yet. We want this to be our stable branch so we want to make sure we include all our features for this release.

 

Thanks again for your support of JFusion!

Marius

(on behalf of the whole JFusion Team)