Tina MVC version 0.4.9 is available from the WordPress plugin repository (see the Tina MVC for WordPress page). No news is, well, no news, but behind the scenes Tina MVC has been used in quite a few projects. The core code is now pretty mature and well tested.

Changes since 0.4.3 (when I last posted news)

• Lots of small bug fixes (and some bigger ones)
• New functions to help debugging code
• New functions to manage view data more effectively
• New functionality for WordPress Multisite – you can now have different app folders for each site
• Two new helpers: a Pagination Helper (for creating a sortable, paged table of results from SQL) and a HTML Table Helper
• Sample files to illustrate new functionality

The Tina MVC on-line documentation has also been updated.

Coming Soon

These are features that have been used commercially and will be ported back to the GPL version.

• Image manipulation libraries for resizing, watermarking, etc.
• Libraries for Paypal’s Express Checkout NVP API and for Google Checkout
• A shopping cart helper

Tina MVC version 0.4.2 0.4.3 is available from the WordPress plugin repository (see the Tina MVC for WordPress page).

Main addition is the ‘GMAP_LOCATION’ field type in the forms helper class, but there is also a security fix.

Changes since 0.4:

• Enhancement: Added various MySQL date, time and datetime formatting functions
• Bug Fix: Password was not being verified properly on the user change email form
• Enhancement: Form helper gets a ‘GMAP_LOCATION’ field input type
• Enhancement: Form helper only loads reCaptcha libs if you define a reCaptcha field

Next from Tina MVC  non-GPL:

• Image manipulation libraries for resizing, watermarking, etc.
• Paypal libraries for the Express Checkout NVP API

If you are interested in these features now, then feel free to drop me a line.

This is a major update. Since the last stable version numerous fixes and enhancements have been backported from the non-GPL version.

Changes since 0.3.2:

• Bug fix: In tina_mvc_app_settings.php – setting the parent page for a Tina front end controller page was not working.
• Bug fix: Various fixes ported from Tina MVC non-GPL version.
• Bug fix: tina_mvc_functions.php – tina_mvc_get_GetPost() function.
• Enhancement: Better form helper sample app.
• Enhancement: HTML comments output before and after each parsed view file. Makes it easier for your designer to find a template.
• Change: $tina_mvc_disable_wpautop setting is enabled by default (stops WordPress screwing with your HTML by inserting <br> and <p> tags).
• Bug fix: Various small (and some not so small) bugs in the form helper.
• Bug fix: in tina_mvc_get_GetPost().
• Enhancement: A new test from to demonstrate all form helper functionality.
• Bug fix: In certain cases, the form helper was not returning the correct variables after form was submitted.
• Enhancement: Make it easier to change the name of the plugin folder name.
• Enhancement: New app settings option: disable wpautop() for Tina MVC pages.
• Enhancement: The form helper can manage file uploads now.
• Enhancement: added a form_errors() method to the form helper class.

Coming soon from Tina MVC  non-GPL:

• The form helper gets a Google Map field type. This allows your users to enter longitude and latitude coordinates by zooming into a Google Map and clicking on a point.
• Image manipulation libraries for resizing, watermarking, etc.
• Paypal libraries for the Express Checkout NVP API

If you are interested in these features now, then feel free to drop me a line.

This release includes numerous changes and enhancements:

There is also a new tutorial on using the custom code application hooks. These allow you to run arbitrary code at the ‘init’, ‘the_posts’ and when Tina MVC is activated or removed.

Read all about it on the Tina MVC for WordPress page.

This is a roll-up of recent fixes and enhancements. At this stage all development is on the 0.3 branch. Unless bugs appear before I’m ready with 0.3, there will be no further releases prior to 0.3.

Get it from the Tina MVC for WordPress page.

Development version 0.3.

A complete reorganisation of the plugin folder structure and some functional enhancements. Check out at the version 0.3 development branch at the WordPress plugin repository. This will be released shortly.

If you are evaluating Tina MVC then the 0.3 branch is where to go.

This update contains a roll-up of various enhancements to the core:

• removal of the PHP __autoload() function requirement
• a new dispatcher method
• configurable handling of missing controller errors

This is a release candidate for 0.2. Get it from the Tina MVC for WordPress page.

Download from the Tina MVC plugin page on WordPress.org or download from SeeIT.org here.

The shortcode and widget code and functionality remains largely unchanged and has been stable for a while now.

I have also added a tutorial on developing a contact form using Tina. It introduces the form helper and the usage of view files.

Also many thanks to Guido Mühlwitz for reviewing Tina MVC in his Webworking blog. He makes good points about code overhead, but (as he says) WordPress can be troublesome to deal with sometimes, and Tina was designed to solve a few very specific problems for me.

Download from the Tina MVC plugin page on WordPress.org or from the Tina MVC page on SeeIT.org.

• Minor bugfix: in tina_mvc_functions.php, tina_mvc_make_controller_url() was creating an incorrect url for absolute controller paths.
• Trivial bugfix: In one of the sample apps, index_view.php was using the wrong function to create some links to sample apps.

Important:

When you upgrade, the default installation will migrate files in the app/ and app_emails/ folders. As one the fixes is in sample_apps/tina-mvc-for-wordpress/index_view.php it will not be visible unless you copy the file tina-mvc-for-wordpress/index_view.php to apps/.

Thanks for Simon Stewart of CIC for spotting the bugs.

Get it at WordPress.org.

Important upgrade notice:

If you are upgrading from an older version of Tina, your customisations will NOT be migrated when you upgrade. You should manually backup the following from the tina-mvc directory:
- app/
- app_emails/
- tina_mvc_app_settings.php
and restore them after the plugin has been upgraded.

You will also need to deactivate and reactivate the plugin to reflect the new settings in tina_mvc_app_settings.php.