Added a much better page picker which opens in a modal window and shows the site structure instead of just a drop-down menu.
Added a "redirect if mobile device" setting to website root pages to forward visitors using a mobile device to another website root page. We recommend to use the sub-domains "www.domain.tld" and "m.domain.tld".
Show a confirmation screen if an invalid URL has been detected instead of the default error screen, so deep linking in the back end remains possible.
Check the request token in the back end when $_GET['act'] is set (see #4007).
The TreeView is now searchable.
Added support for folder-style URLs (see #3921). This is meant as a proof of concept to see whether it works and is useful. We might have to add a feature to the site structure to automatically generate folder-style aliases.
Using folder-style URLs requires one additional database query if the request contains more than one parameter, therefore it can be disabled in the settings.
Improved the moo/j_analytics templates and added moo/j_piwik templates in
case someone wants to use Piwik instead of Google Analytics.
Improved the RSS feed handling of the calendar module accordingly.
Improved the RSS feed handling in the news module (will do the same for the calendar module). Feeds are no longer bound to a news archive and can include multiple archives now.
Added a nicer dialog script in the back end.
Added mootools-mobile.js and swipe support to the mediabox and slimbox.
You can now add external style sheets from the files directory to page layouts.
They are then treated like the internal style sheets, meaning they can be added
to the combiner by adding the |static flag to the file name.
Rewrote all front end JavaScripts so they run in "no-conflict" mode, which means you don't have to decide "MooTools or jQuery" anymore but can have them both.
You can now choose jQuery instead of MooTools in the front end. Also, there is
a jQuery mediabox alternative called "colorbox" (template j_colorbox).
Modified the plugins folder structure to prepare for jQuery support.
Split the models into Model (single record) and ModelCollection (multiple
models) to have a "cleaner" implementaion (thanks to Andreas Schempp).
Merged the "registration", "rss_reader" and "tpl_editor" module into the core modules ("backend" and "frontend").
All front end modules of the core modules now use Models.
Added lazy and eager loading of related records to the Model class. Usage:
$objArticle = ArticleModel::findByPk(5);
// The author will be eager loaded
echo $objArticle->author['name']; // Kevin Jones
// The parent page can be lazy loaded
$objArticle->getRelated('pid');
echo $objArticle->pid['title']; // Music Academy
Relations are defined in the DCA files.
All core modules are now using namespaces and can thus be overriden.
Ported the news extension into its own namespace. Note that this is completely optional and does not have to be done with your custom modules! I am just doing it so the classes can be overriden by an extension
Use the TemplateLoader in the getTemplate() and getTemplateGroup() methods.
Added a merge script (contao/merge.php) which automatically prepares Contao 2
extensions for Contao 3 by creating the config/autoload.php file.
Much nicer debug output.
Modules are now disabled by adding a .skip file instead of using the global
inactiveModules array. This way the local configuration file does not have to
be included twice in the Config class.
Moved the Contao framework into the 'library' folder.
Renamed the default configuration file from config.php to default.php, so
hopefully less people will try to edit the file directly.
Moved the generated scripts to assets/css and assets/js and the thumbnails
to assets/images. Also moved the feed files into the share folder.
Renamed the tl_files directory to files.