PHP Programming Language - OpenLibra

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In August, we announced a major overhaul of the code base. Rather than targeting all of these changes
in a single, long-term release, we intend to accomplish all the planned improvements over a number of
versions. In order to achieve this goal, the largest vBulletin development team ever assembled is now
working within an Agile development process, allowing us to deliver new features into your hands
faster.
Each incremental release in the vBulletin 4 series will include improvements in features, usability and
architecture. Development efforts are prioritized towards those areas that can provide real, tangible
benefits to our customers, at all times with an eye toward maintaining and enhancing the performance
and reliability expected of a vBulletin product.
Key features and improvements that will be included in the first vBulletin 4 release are:
1. Cross-content search system providing a single interface to search across forum posts, blog entries and
comments and other supported products
2. Improved search performance
3. A fresh design and layout making use of semantic markup and CSS styling
4. An enhanced style and template system to enhance your ability to change the layout
5. Controls to assist with the placement of advertising elements
6. SEO features, including friendly URLs
7. A centralized attachment system, allowing the sharing of attachments across products
8. Widget system for single pages
9. Video BBCode - Popup to the editor that allows a video url (youtube, metacafe, etc) to be input
In the lengthy discussions [10] which followed this turn of events, additional information was revealed, including that:
• The PHP and MySQL requirements won't be raised as high as announced in August, because the first release will
be sooner than previously expected
• Jelsoft is now developing a Content Management System which will be fully integrated with vBulletin although it
is unclear whether it will be sold separately like Jelsoft's Blog and Projects products.
• vBulletin 4 is now being developed and will be released incrementally through 2009, with the first Beta expected
"early Q2 of 2009". In a later post, the first Beta got pushed back to "late Q2". For users that paid the pre-sale cost
for vBulletin 4.0, a message stating that the Beta will be available "sometime in mid-November" was issued.
Forum and Suite
vBulletin is now available as two product lines. The vBulletin Publishing Suite is $285 for the life of the 4.0
development cycle and includes customer ticket support. The vBulletin Classic Forum is $195 for the life of the 4.0
development cycle but does not include ticket support.
The vBulletin Publishing Suite includes Forums, an article-based Content Management System and the vBulletin
Blog product. [11]