v3.0.4-beta.5

Fixed

• Fixes a handful of minor bugs and improvements

v3.0.4-beta.4

• Fixes recursion issue when loading extension dependencies.
• Improvements to how assets are combined
• Allows shared component partials

v3.0.4-beta.2

• Disable core updates through system config value.
• Named migration classes
• Remove the use of .env file

Remember to copy your database connection details from the .env file to the database config file when upgrading.

v3.0.4-beta

Added

• Laravel 5.5 framework
• Admin controller actions to keep controller DRY and ease CRUD operations
• Admin widgets and form widgets
• Ability for developers to easily extend and build on top TastyIgniter existing features
• Ability to install extensions and themes from TastyIgniter marketplace

Changed

• Codebase folder and files restructure
• Move to more OOP style - affects the entire codebase
• Restructured admin view files into directories [controller/method]
• All language & config files to return an array, laravel-style
• Admin controllers, models has been separated into System & Admin apps
• Code style consistency: psr4, use protected instead of private methods,
  use loose instead of strict comparison where appropriate,
  enforced studly case on all class & file names except models
• Design patterns: less code in controllers
• Improved app setup

Removed

• All model methods whose only responsibility is retrieving/storing data from/to database,
  since Eloquent already provides the same.
• getList and getCount methods from models, use Model::get(), Model::count() instead
• Move extensions files & schema from codebase to separate repo
• All main controllers, since we are using october/rain style of rendering front pages

Version 2.1.1

v2.1.1

Release Date: June 2016

Fixed

• Fixed issue with saving new menu option
• Fixed issue with adding new customer from admin
• Fixed issue with permalink reverse routing
• Fixed faulty backend url #121
• Fixed menu category permalinks and reverse routing

Version 2.1.0

v2.1.0

Release Date: May 2016

Added

• Customers model: new method saveAddress() to update/save/delete customer addresses
• URL Helper: new method assets_url() to return full URL (including segments) of the assets directory
• Location admin option to choose different delivery and collection hours or use same as opening hours, and option to choose future days in advance
• Migration: added column type to working_hours table and update type column value to opening on existing rows
• Locations can now have opening, delivery and collection hours past midnight
• Location library methods hasFutureOrders() to check if location future order option is enabled or disabled in admin settings
• Location library methods futureOrderDays() to get the future days in advance location option value
• Location library methods checkOrderType() to check if delivery or collection order type is available open, and accepting orders
• Location library methods checkOrderTime() to check if order time is within delivery or collection open and close hour
• Improve local_module and cart_module to display and check opening, delivery and collection hours and status
• Affix categories sidebar (module) to page
• Migration: added column order_date to orders table to allow future orders
• Customer now redirects back to previous page after login when previous page is either checkout or reservation page
• Composer support, to enabled create a file vendor/autoload.php within the system folder and
• Location library method deliveryCondition() to return an array of the current location delivery conditions to be used within controller
• Capability to create a child theme and override any parent theme file or extension view file from within the child theme
• TI_url_helper theme_url() function to return the site theme URL
• Total cash payments to admin dashboard statistics and payment column to admin order list view
• New Stripe payment method to accept credit card payments through Stripe
• Mealtimes (breakfast, lunch, dinner, ...) to set what time of the day a menu item can be ordered by the customer
• Migration: add column priority to Menus table and column default_value_id to Menu Option table to sort the storefront menu list and choose an option value to be selected default in storefront
• Migration: new table mealtimes to hold start_time and end_time for mealtimes
• Improved Cart: new extension type cart_total to allow cart totals extension and priority from within cart module
• Event Hook: developers can add new cart total using cart_module_before_cart_totals hook point and
• Cart library methods add_total(), remove_total() and get_total()
• Extensions_model method getModule($module) to return specified installed module
• Theme config item under partial_area module_html to customise each module html template displayed in storefront
• Extension config item layout_ready to tell system an extension can be configured as layout module and displayed in storefront

Changed

• Major UI improvements to local, cart and categories modules, local, locations and checkout pages
• Location library: MUST call initialize() method or setLocation() to load location library
• Improved orderTimeRange() method in Location Library to get future order dates and hours
• Removed local_module admin edit language text feature. Language text should be changed from language file instead.
• Location library methods getOpeningType(), openingStatus(), openingHours(), checkDeliveryTime() to getWorkingType(), workingStatus(), workingHours(), checkOrderTime()
• Improved Checkout future order (order for later) feature with option to select date and time for later delivery or collection
• Improved Admin Location settings whether customer must enter address to order or not
• Improved Cart Module alerts to display top screen on mobile devices
• Show order date instead of date added on admin & customer account order and checkout pages and display menu option on new line
• Improved get_remote_data method
• Pass entire module array into extension module index method instead of passing only the data array key value
• Improved banner module with admin options to allow multiple banners on different layouts
• Added option to enter billing address during checkout when authorize.net is selected as payment method
• Load Template library right after permalink library so the right modules can be loaded based on uri
• Improved messages view folders and delete functionality ( you might find some archived messages showing under 'all' folder but not in 'archive', fix by moving to archive again)
• Filter lost (blank status) orders from order list in admin by default
• Updated CI core files to version 3.0.6, TI system files and modular HMVC files
• Improved locations delivery area with conditions such as free delivery if total over certain amount
• Location library method deliveryCharge() and minimumOrder() now expect cart total as parameter
• Customer login function to login admin to any customer account without knowing the customer's password
• Replaced _find_view() with _find_view_path() in Template Library, use _load_view() instead of _find_view()
• Improved Template library to search for files views, css, js both in the active and parent theme if the active theme is a child theme
• Improved TI_Loader library view() method to search current (child and parent) theme folder for view file before modules, this allows extension view files to be overridden from within a child theme folder
• Improved Cart: moved cart validate methods from controller to new Cart_module_lib library
• Removed admin settings option Tax Title, so tax title can be set from within Cart Module
• Improved send message to all newsletter subscriber feature to include emails submitted via newsletter extension
• Improved Template Library to read new config item layout_ready and customise module based on module_html value in theme_config
• Improved Admin Layout edit page to drag and drop layout modules into partial areas, add title and position module to page

Fixed

• Issue with payment and confirm button changing incorrectly on checkout page
• Issue with lost orders, this way a new order is not created after payment fails
• Issue with displaying form validation error for payment methods
• Issue where previous successfully placed order is overwritten when placing new order as guest
• Issue where class selector passed into get_partial method is ignored
• Issue with storefront menu list and sidebar modules widths
• Missing category module admin fixed position settings
• Default language from being deleted accidentally
• Issue where core modules are not displaying on fresh install
• Storefront multi-level categories list to have more than one level
• Issue with clearing images and removed required validation rule to make field optional
• Issue to allow duplicate permalink slug

Release Candidate 2 for 2.1.0

see CHANGELOG.md

Release Candidate for 2.1.0

Added

• Customers model: new method saveAddress() to update/save/delete customer addresses
• URL Helper: new method assets_url() to return full URL (including segments) of the assets directory
• Location admin option to choose different delivery and collection hours or use same as opening hours, and option to choose future days in advance
• Migration: added column type to working_hours table and update type column value to opening on existing rows
• Locations can now have opening, delivery and collection hours past midnight
• Location library methods hasFutureOrders() to check if location future order option is enabled or disabled in admin settings
• Location library methods futureOrderDays() to get the future days in advance location option value
• Location library methods checkOrderType() to check if delivery or collection order type is available open, and accepting orders
• Location library methods checkOrderTime() to check if order time is within delivery or collection open and close hour
• Improve local_module and cart_module to display and check opening, delivery and collection hours and status
• Affix categories sidebar (module) to page
• Migration: added column order_date to orders table to allow future orders
• Customer now redirects back to previous page after login when previous page is either checkout or reservation page
• Location library methods deliveryCondition() to return an array of the current location delivery conditions to be used within controller

Changed

• Major UI improvements to local, cart and categories modules, local, locations and checkout pages
• Location library: MUST call initialize() method or setLocation() to load location library
• Improved orderTimeRange() method in Location Library to get future order dates and hours
• Removed local_module admin edit language text feature. Language text should be changed from language file instead.
• Location library methods getOpeningType(), openingStatus(), openingHours(), checkDeliveryTime() to getWorkingType(), workingStatus(), workingHours(), checkOrderTime()
• Improved Checkout future order (order for later) feature with option to select date and time for later delivery or collection
• Improved Location feature where customer must enter address to order
• Improved Cart Module alerts to display top screen on mobile devices
• Show order date instead of date added on order and checkout pages and display menu option on new line
• Improved get_remote_data method and added is_ssl method
• Pass entire extension array into extension index method instead of passing only the data key value
• Improved banner module to allow multiple banners
• Added option to enter billing address during checkout when authorize.net is selected as payment method
• Load Template library right after permalink library so the right modules can be loaded based on uri
• Improved messages view folders and delete functionality ( you might find some archived messages showing under 'all' folder but not in 'archive', fix by moving to archive again)
• Filter lost (blank status) orders from order list in admin by default
• Updated CI core files to version 3.0.6, TI system files and modular HMVC files, also added composer support
• Improved locations delivery area with conditions such as free delivery if total over certain amount
• Location library method deliveryCharge() & minimumOrder() now expect cart total as parameter
• Customer login function to allow the admin to login to any customer account without knowing the customer's password

Fixed

• Issue with payment and confirm button changing incorrectly on checkout page
• Issue with lost orders, this way a new order is not created after payment fails
• Issue with displaying form validation error for payment methods
• Issue where previous successfully placed order is overwritten when placing new order as guest

2.0.0

v2.0.0 (stable)

Release Date: 15 March 2016

Added

• Setup now generates a random alpha-numeric 9 length string for database table prefixes
• Admin option to select a page for checkout and registration terms and condition.
• Missing extension meta title item and extension permission rules to config
• Version number to extension metadata and themes config for version control and automatic update feature
• Featured Menus module to display selected featured menu on homepage or anywhere on the storefront
• New admin setting option to set site date/time format
• Location image gallery: option to add multiple images to be displayed on local storefront
• New mail templates to send emails to admin on new customer registration and admin password reset
• Second parameter to both subject() and message() method of Email library to parse data into mail template
• New mail templates variables (site_logo, site_url, staff_name, staff_username, status_name, status_comment)
• Authorize.Net (AIM) Payment gateway
• Template Library function getActiveThemeOptions() to retrieve admin theme customizer options and get_theme_options() helper function to use within theme files
• Google analytics tracking code and social links theme options to tastyigniter-orange theme
• New mail templates to send emails to notify customer of order or reservation status update
• Dynamic menu navigation from nav_menu array in theme config, so that menu items can be easily managed
• Location Library orderTimeRange() function to retrieve location order time ranges
• Customer Library updateCart() function to keep track of cart so customer can login to continue later
• New admin setting option to enable or disable new customer review entry and display of existing reviews on storefront
• Invoicing: option to generate invoice number w/ prefix automatically or manually, view invoice from admin order page
• New admin setting option to set invoice prefix and auto or manual invoicing
• New admin setting option to set status to mark order as processing so system can start stock reduction and coupon redemption
• New admin setting option to display or hide stock warning messages
• New admin setting option to allow customers to still checkout if the menu they are ordering is not in stock
• Taxation: option to enable or disable calculating taxes based on set percentage and whether to apply on menu prices or as included with menu prices
• New option to add latitude and longitude manually or fetch automatically in Locations
• New mail template variable {order_payment} to display the payment method in order email sent to customer and admin
• Custom error views: override default error views within custom theme by copying the errors folder into the themes/your-custom-theme/ folder
• Themes: option to add and delete theme in the admin backend plus template helper new method delete_theme
• Local Module: option to enable or disable single or multi location search mode and selected location for single mode, where orders will be sent.
• Config helper to write configuration value like encryption key into config file
• System Events: hooks to allow you integrate your custom modifications into various points within TastyIgniter’s execution
• Categories: status field to enable or disable selected category in storefront
• Location library setDeliveryArea() and getAreaId() method to update location delivery area when customer delivery address changes
• Extension library latestMigration() method to migrate module migrations to the current version
• Added new parameter to time_elapsed to filter the time diff returned
• User library isStrictLocation method to check if staff's group has Strict Location enabled or disabled
• Auto update functionality: updates core files (default controllers, languages, themes, and extensions). ** still in beta mode
• Site.Updates permission rule to control staff permission to Update system
• Installer Library getSysInfo() function to retrieve current system info, such as ti version, php and mysql version
• Installer Library upgrade() function to install database migration and update core version after updating core files
• Added TastyIgniter news feed to admin dashboard, also added Feed_parser library to read and parse the RSS feed XML
• Added missing getStaffEmail() to retrieve currently logged staff email
• New mail template variable {order_comment}, {reservation_comment} and {telephone} to display the order comment and customer telephone in emails

Changed

• LICENCE from Apache to GNU GPLv3
• Replaced file_get_contents with cURL to fix issue with google maps geocoding api request not being sent
• Renamed loadPartial() in Template Library to loadView() to load single views without header, footer and partials
• Renamed addToStaffGroup() in Permissions Model to assignPermissionRule() and moved into Staff groups Model
• Checkout and registration terms and condition pages to display in modal instead of new window
• Media Manager view and style adjustment
• Moved getPayPalDetails() method from deprecated Payments model into PayPalExpress extension Paypal model
• Pages: Removed page name redundancy so that only page title and heading are required when creating a new page
• Changed updateExtension() parameters in Extensions model to (type, name, data)
• Removed deprecated setBackButton() and getBackButton() in Template library, use setButton() and getButton() instead.
• Hard code return and cancel URI in paypal_express module
• Send HTML emails only, remove admin settings option to set TEXT as mail type format
• Improved resize() in image tool model so that original image is returned when width and height is not given
• Replaced existing mail templates into responsive HTML mail templates
• Replaced tinymce editor with summernote editor to reduce total source size
• Replaced fancybox with bootstrap modal to reduce total source size
• Restructured controllers so that post data are validated and sent to model at the beginning not end to optimize page load time
• Replaced completed_order_status admin setting input field to multiple select field
• Improved language files
• Re-arranged admin nav menu items and improved Template Library buildNavMenu() to show third level nav menu
• Improved Themes from listing admin themes on admin panel, this will allow focus only on storefront theme development
• Improved style and script tags so clearing browser cache is not required after upgrade, by appending query string to the URL
• Security: create encryption key and add to config file during setup and upgrade
• Update Page-level DocBlock in system files
• Improved database migration such that initial data schema can be inserted while migration is running instead of after. This fixes issue where mail templates data is not updated
• Improved system setup: added one additional step to system setup to confirm license agreement.
• Postcode no longer a required field for non-UK
• Database Maintenance: now saves database backup files into tastyigniter/migrations/backups instead of assets/downloads/ as added security
• Moved load_db_config() method from TI_Config to TI_Loader, so that database config items are loaded earlier in the system
• Renamed admin, main and setup language file english/english_lang.php to english/default_lang.php to allow seamless translation
• Removed timezone and language settings from staff edit in admin panel
• CORE: use DIR_WRITE_MODE when creating directories.
• Improved add extension functionality: strict upload validation with feedback, renamed methods Extensions_model::upload() to Extensions_model::extractExtension() and Extensions::uploadExtension to Extensions::addExtension
• Improved storefront theme responsiveness on all devices
• Theme Customizer: added more options to easily customize the storefront
• Improved Migration capability to check and install module migrations
• Removed acceptance testing test cases to be improved and replaced with Unit testing
• Improved currency: added left or right symbol placement, thousand & decimal sign and removed iso codes
• Cookie helper now using php native function to delete cookie
• Improved [local_module] strict location order and pre-order functions.
• Replaced system setting default address entry fields with locations dropdown list so that location details can be modified from one interface
• Disable admin from migrating database when system is in production environment
• Improved coupons redemption capability so that coupon is marked as redeemed after order status is updated to the selected processing order statuses
• Improved staff group strict location option and removed setLocationAccess method from User library
• Previous guest order now linked a to a newly created customer based on the customer email

Fixed

• Bug where extra URL query is not appended after permalink slugs in URI reverse routing
• Bug where empty value is not updated in database by using isset() instead of !empty() in models INSERT/UPDATE
• Issue where duplicate head tags are added to <head> of Media manager
• Bug with undefined method writeTheme() in Themes that was replaced in previous version to helper function save_theme_file()
• Missing extensions admin language line
• Spelling error in admin setting option complete_order_status to completed_order_status and new_order_status to default_order_status and new_reservation_status to default_reservation_status
• Issue where payment method is not disabled when order total is below the payments minimum order total
• Issue where payment method is not displayed in admin and storefront order view
• Issue where duplicate order is added upon page redirect, also remove received order from user session
• Orders model from not displaying incomplete/lost orders in customer account
• Minor bugs fix
• Issue where site is not translated to default language
• Issue w...

v1.4.2-beta

Changelog

• [fixed] staff name in staff updated activity log (67e3fa6)
• [added] TI_DEBUG constant to enable / disable profiler, disabled by default (3a20c4e)
• [fixed] display no_photo.png when resizing an image that doesnt exist (da3d3a8)
• Minor theme fix (4c1ce6b & 01b4535)
• [replaced] theme preview and thumb files with screenshot.png (bb3cfa4)
• [added] Installer library to handle TI initial setup and version updates (c5a5175)
• [replaced] INSERT SQL to REPLACE SQL in initial_schema and demo_schema (d0aa31c)