If you’re interested in the Enthusiast changes, if Enth works for you now, you don’t have a reason to update to 3.1.16. However, if you have been keen on getting it to work with WordPress, this will help with that. I am still testing out a barebones WordPress plugin, but hopefully I’ll get it tested well enough and put that up as well (likely GitHub and not the WordPress plugin directory, but we’ll see).

For most of you, the change of licensing does not mean a thing. You will still be able to use Enthusiast for whatever use you may see fit. For some of you who like to tinker with code, well, this means you can modify and release your modified version of Enthusiast (under the same license), provided I am credited.

Moving forward, I will be updating Indiscripts and removing the downloadable files from here soon, while everything else continuous on at GitHub–with the username angelasabas (please note, I am not the usual angelamaria on there!). You can download the scripts by clicking on the “Downloads” button on the project page. Separate upgrade zips are not needed nor available–config file samples have been renamed for your overwriting pleasure (and safety).

• enthusiast
• enthusiast-lite (this is the Enthusiast 2.x codebase, which I believe a minority still use due to it being a standalone management tool as opposed to Enth3′s larger scope)
• siteskin
• onho
• lj-magpie

If you’re interested in finding out why and how this change came about, I’ve just posted about it on my blog. :)

Please download the upgrade zip or the full zip if you prefer. The upgrade will be slightly more painful than the previous upgrades.

Before I get on with the upgrade instructions after the cut, I would like to take this time to say I apologize for the lack of updates and the sudden hiatus of Frontend Friday — I’ve moved houses and things have been rather crazy the past couple weeks. I haven’t forgotten this blog, I swear ;)

And now for the upgrade instructions. This is all in the upgrade zip, not to worry. :)

Important notice: the upgrade is not as simple as the previous upgrades, hence the additional instructions. Do not blindly overwrite your config.php file!

1. Overwrite the following files on your Enthusiast 3 main installation using the files found in the upgrade zip:
   • enth3/show_enthversion.php
   • enth3/show_join.php
   • enth3/show_joined.php
   • enth3/show_lostpass.php
   • enth3/show_owned.php
   • enth3/show_update.php
2. Open the config.php file found in this zip and fill in your database information. For each listing you own, you must overwrite your config.php file for that listing with this new configuration file. Please don’t forget to change the listing ID variable to the correct listing ID!
3. The following may be optional, depending on your setup, but highly recommended for forward compatibility and ensured security — you will need to update your code snippets to use the PHP constant ENTH_PATH instead of the PHP variable $path, like so:

   <?php include 'config.php';
   $show_list = false;
   include ENTH_PATH . 'show_joined.php'; ?>

   The install.txt file included in the upgrade zip will contain all the new code snippets if you need to take a look.

Please upgrade your Enthusiast installations as soon as possible. If you encounter issues with this upgrade, please feel free to post comments regarding the issues.

Remember: You must also overwrite the config file found in your collective. Basically, all configuration files except for the one inside your Enth3 administration panel will need to be updated.

Remember #2: By “code snippets”, I mean all code snippets, including the collective code snippets, and the fanlisting code snippets. In that regards, it means that the config file for your collective and each of your fanlistings will need to be updated. The process is similar to when you first set up your websites — take the config file with the commented listing ID line and put it in the collective web root, and then take the same config file, uncomment the listing ID line and plug in the correct ID, and put it in the listing web root. Rinse and repeat. :)

This update includes:

• Added mass rejection of new members feature
• Fixed bug where PEAR Mail class gets called twice when joining in certain server and/or website settings
• Fixed bug where showing/hiding of member emails do not get updated correctly when members update their information
• Fixed bug where there are still target attributes in links for the fanlisting statistics
• Fixed bug where non-numerical offsets are allowed in the pagination query

I’ve been vocal about not adding a mass-rejection feature for Enthusiast, but in the interest of helping those of us whose fanlistings get spammed, and the goal to make sure Enthusiast caters to an ever wider audience due to its openness and flexibility, I’ve finally added the feature in. However, as this is just one additional feature, I decided not to bump up the version to 3.2, as it feels rather sad that way ;)

You can download the full 3.1.4 release, or get an upgrade zip file instead.

If there are problems with regards to this upgrade, please feel free to leave comments, however all regular troubleshooting requests and support-related questions should be directed to the Enthusiast support forum at CodeGrrl. Thanks!

On the subject of Enthusiast, I would like to assure everybody that I have not “abandoned ship”. Believe you me, I’ve been through a lot because of Enthusiast, from disgruntled users who swear at me or my script, to people who have ripped my script and claimed it as their own. Yes, I have thought of “abandoning ship” plenty of times, and I suppose this might keep happening far into the future.

But I haven’t thrown in the towel just yet.

That doesn’t mean, however, that everything will be oh-so-fine and dandy and scripts will get chugged out of this scripts archive/tech blog at a steady pace. I wish I could, but there are only 24 hours a day, and seven days a week. I am no longer a college student, as the case was when I started Enthusiast all those years ago and virtually no one knew about it.

(I started to break down my time in an attempt to show just how scrapped for time I am, but I decided not to let it go that far.)

Enthusiast is not the only thing I have to put my time on. I have three blogs, and none of them even get updated as regularly as I like. My first love is creative writing, but I can’t even allot proper time for that. If you look at my fanlistings, a whole chunk of them haven’t even had new layouts in a year, some of them over two! I’ve even relegated to using layouts made by others in my journal (and maybe others) in an attempt to cut down on whatever coding I need to do. I’m a developer/designer, coding is what I do, but I can’t have time to whip up a quick CSS file to customize my own things. How sad is that?

Enthusiast is not the only thing I want to do. I have three scripts I want to create, one script that desperately needs a revamp (and I mean really desperately, but guess what? Enth development is still ranked higher), and I have a couple of others (featured here) that needs an update sometime soon. They’re all competing for attention, and I’m trying to manage it all, along with my work as a Yahoo, the little things we need to do daily so that we continue living, take care of my health, interact with the people around me.

That said, Enthusiast is important to me. I don’t think any one of you who are using it can claim that Enthusiast is more important to them than it is to me. It is important to you only so far as it helps you maintain your fanlistings, but Enth as an entity by itself is useless to you. You’re free to move to other scripts if you find Enthusiast lacking, I’m not stopping you.

To those of you who have shown me support, who help others with their Enthusiast installations, who have donated a little bit to my tip jar for my efforts…I thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Your show of support does not go unnoticed, and they continue to fuel the work here when times are tough. <3

Changes for this version include:

• Allowed setup of mailing mechanism in admin panel (via either native PHP mail() command or PEAR mail)
• Made site include scripts compliant with doctypes XHTML 1.0 Strict and HTML 4.01 Strict
• Added Enthusiast version printout include
• Removed use of short tags to cater to more server setups
• Fixed minor bug in statistics template that causes blank/nonexistent fields to show up
• Added check to ensure pagination parameter is a digit

Please let me know if you run into any bugs, but support and troubleshooting should continue to be at the CodeGrrl forums.

This test will continue for about a week before I release this bugfix. Just a heads up!

The full Enth download has been updated to 3.1.1, and there is also a 3.1.1 upgrade zip file which will contain only the updated files.

The list of changes are below:

• Fixed bug that prevents showing of owned listings with different statuses in one page due to a function declaration
• Renamed get_category_children to get_enth_category_children function to make Enthusiast compatible with WordPress
• Fixed bug that does not replace $$stat_totalaffiliates$$ with the proper value in listing statistics template
• Fixed bug that prevents putting join, update, and lost password forms in one page due to function declaration
• Fixed bug that says email sending to a certain email address failed before last-resort PHP mail() mailing takes place
• Fixed errors on parsing image URLs if on Windows servers
• If image uploading fails, folder will be CHMODed to 755 then 777 to upload image; if CHMODed to 777, folder will be CHMODed back to 755 after uploading
• Half-fixed bug that doesn’t show empty child categories whose children have listings in them (read: personally not happy with the fix)
• Fix neglected listings notification bug that incorrectly states they have not been updated when a new year starts
• Fix bug that doesn’t update the member’s “show email” setting when they try changing it using the update form
• Fix bug that doesn’t remove underscores from the additional fields’ delete record field in the update form
• Fix bug that sets the latest joined fanlisting to only show the first fanlisting added in a day

Enthusiast 3.1.0 has the following new features (for the full list, please view the changelog):

• Added the following listing statistics: growth rate, number of countries, collective categories, newly-added/updated affiliates, total number of affiliates, random affiliate and random member
• New admin panel look plus dashboard
• Neglected listings notification (two months without updates)
• Multi-level categories
• Multiple categories for joined and owned listings
• Error logging
• New owned template variables for growth rate, number of countries, and new members
• If added/approved template is blank, no email is sent out to added/approved members
• Check all checkbox for approving members
• Multi-level-and-field sorting of the members list
• Option for vistors to not send their information to themselves when joining
• PEAR Mail for better email sending via fanlisting/admin panel, via sendmail
• Inclusion of collective statistics (no need for addon)

An online demo is, again, available at the Enthusiast features page. Feel free to check it out.

Online documentation of Enthusiast is also now fully available, and most the the new documentation has been delegated to it — if you see anything amiss there, please feel free to correct me. ;) Being around the scripts so much, I might sometimes skip over some documentation errors.

A fresh installation can be downloaded here as well as an upgrade script if you’re already using Enthusiast 3.0 — it contains all the new files (well, virtually EVERYTHING) plus a script you will have to run to update your database. Please go here to download the script; if you have having problems, try the quick download page.

Please note that some addons may not be needed anymore with 3.1, or might not work as expected, such as the conversion script from Fanbase. I’ll be working to update those in the next few days. :)

Much thanks to my beta testers — their help weeding out the bugs is greatly appreciated plus they got a lot of the kinks out. :) :x A few may remain, though, as with any script — if you find any, please feel free to head on over at CodeGrrl and we’ll see about that. :)

Please remember to back up your databases before upgrading your installations. ;)

Hope you guys like the new version. :)

Notably, I have also uploaded online demos — this isn’t a new thing for Enth 2.x, but you may be interested in the online demo for Enth 3.x — after all, what’s loaded is 3.1, and not 3.0 :) It’s not yet released but I’m putting it up as a sneak preview of sorts. December is just a few days away, after all. These demos will “reset” everyday at 3am (server time) — all data will be deleted from the demos and reloaded with a “clean” install. Additionally, you won’t be able to send/receive email from either of these demos; for 3.x, certain sections are disabled.

If you’re interested in taking a peek of what’s up with 3.1, head on over to the Enthusiast features page to find out. :)