Ophal

Implemented in Lua, Ophal allows developers to create websites in a programming language that was not intended for using on the Web, but which fairs better than most Web-first technologies.

What is new in this release:

• Theming / Front-end improvements:
• Add uuid.js v0.1 as default UUID library
• Add jssha256 v0.1 as default SHA256 and HMAC-SHA256 library
• Add json2.js 2012-10-08 default JSON stringify and parse library
• Implement theme functions: form(), textfield(), label() and button().hidden() and textarea() item_list() and submit()
• Allow to extend templates environment (see settings.lua)
• Allow delayed theme rendering
• Force theme functions to have a single param named 'variables'
• Implement pager primitives
• Make sure to output script tags in FIFO order
• Load Form API on bootstrap (if enabled)
• Add function arg() to theme environment
• Add mobile library to theming environment
• Backend improvements:
• Default interpreter changed from LuaJIT to Lua. You can change it back by yourself if needed
• New functions: formatdate(), dblastinsertid(), goto()
• Fix some bugs in Boost module
• Improve error handling during bootstrap
• Refactor bootstrap: distributed in 15 phases
• Improve mobile detection by redirecting to the full url using REQUEST_URI header
• Add error message to output of function db_query()
• Installation / Deployment:
• Looking for a cheap Ophal host? check the Ophal hosting directory
• Implement steps 0, 1, 2 and 3 of Ophal installer
• New options in settings.lua: settings.site.hash and settings.date_format
• Miscelaneous improvements:
• New coding standard: Use single quotes when possible
• API documentation improved! source code does not lie.
• Improve SEO with a robots.txt, now core comes with a robost.example.txt
• Use the new .gitignore file as your source code tracking helper.
• Bug fix: Allow downloads from directory 'files'.

What is new in version 0.1-beta2:

• Theming / Front-end improvements:
• Add uuid.js v0.1 as default UUID library
• Add jssha256 v0.1 as default SHA256 and HMAC-SHA256 library
• Add json2.js 2012-10-08 default JSON stringify and parse library
• Implement theme functions: form(), textfield(), label() and button().hidden() and textarea() item_list() and submit()
• Allow to extend templates environment (see settings.lua)
• Allow delayed theme rendering
• Force theme functions to have a single param named 'variables'
• Implement pager primitives
• Make sure to output script tags in FIFO order
• Load Form API on bootstrap (if enabled)
• Add function arg() to theme environment
• Add mobile library to theming environment
• Backend improvements:
• Default interpreter changed from LuaJIT to Lua. You can change it back by yourself if needed
• New functions: formatdate(), dblastinsertid(), goto()
• Fix some bugs in Boost module
• Improve error handling during bootstrap
• Refactor bootstrap: distributed in 15 phases
• Improve mobile detection by redirecting to the full url using REQUEST_URI header
• Add error message to output of function db_query()
• Installation / Deployment:
• Looking for a cheap Ophal host? check the Ophal hosting directory
• Implement steps 0, 1, 2 and 3 of Ophal installer
• New options in settings.lua: settings.site.hash and settings.date_format
• Miscelaneous improvements:
• New coding standard: Use single quotes when possible
• API documentation improved! source code does not lie.
• Improve SEO with a robots.txt, now core comes with a robost.example.txt
• Use the new .gitignore file as your source code tracking helper.
• Bug fix: Allow downloads from directory 'files'.

What is new in version 0.1-beta1:

• Theming / Front-end improvements:
• Add uuid.js v0.1 as default UUID library
• Add jssha256 v0.1 as default SHA256 and HMAC-SHA256 library
• Add json2.js 2012-10-08 default JSON stringify and parse library
• Implement theme functions: form(), textfield(), label() and button().hidden() and textarea() item_list() and submit()
• Allow to extend templates environment (see settings.lua)
• Allow delayed theme rendering
• Force theme functions to have a single param named 'variables'
• Implement pager primitives
• Make sure to output script tags in FIFO order
• Load Form API on bootstrap (if enabled)
• Add function arg() to theme environment
• Add mobile library to theming environment
• Backend improvements:
• Default interpreter changed from LuaJIT to Lua. You can change it back by yourself if needed
• New functions: formatdate(), dblastinsertid(), goto()
• Fix some bugs in Boost module
• Improve error handling during bootstrap
• Refactor bootstrap: distributed in 15 phases
• Improve mobile detection by redirecting to the full url using REQUEST_URI header
• Add error message to output of function db_query()
• Installation / Deployment:
• Looking for a cheap Ophal host? check the Ophal hosting directory
• Implement steps 0, 1, 2 and 3 of Ophal installer
• New options in settings.lua: settings.site.hash and settings.date_format
• Miscelaneous improvements:
• New coding standard: Use single quotes when possible
• API documentation improved! source code does not lie.
• Improve SEO with a robots.txt, now core comes with a robost.example.txt
• Use the new .gitignore file as your source code tracking helper.
• Bug fix: Allow downloads from directory 'files'.

Requirements:

• Lua 5.1.x only

Limitations:

• Still under development.