Changelog v1.1

Important changes that need extra attention when releasing v1.1.

System changes

• The $request->controller property no longer holds just the lowercase controller segment(s) but the full classname of the Controller.
• Deprication of Request::show_404(), replaced with throw new HttpNotFoundException that has a handle method to show the 404
• Support for handle() method that is run when an exception isn't caught before Error::exception_handler() catches it.
• Support for special _404_ route now in public/index.php thus no longer part of the core but still supported as a 'official default'
• Closures are now also supported in routes, thus routing to a Closure instead of a controler/method uri. Also added support for any type of callable in Route extensions you write yourself.
• Closure support in all getters & setters: if you get a value and also input a default the default can also be a Closure and you'll get the result of that. For setters the input can also be a closure and the result of the Closure will be set. (except for View::set() as one might want to pass a closure to the View)
• Moved the Environment setting from the app/config/config.php file to the app/bootstrap.php file.
• All factory() methods have been renamed to forge(). This name better states the method's function. The factory() methods are still there for backwards compatibility, but are deprecated and will log warning messages when used.
• The $this->response Response object is now deprecated. Your action methods should return either a string, View object, ViewModel object or a Response object.
• Added the fuel/app/vendor directory to the default install.
• You can now have an unlimited number of sub-directories for your controllers. (e.g. classes/controller/admin/users/groups.php with a class name of Controller_Admin_Users_Groups would be at site.com/admin/users/groups)
• There is no longer a default controller for directories. It used to be that going to something like site.com/admin would bring up Controller_Admin_Admin in classes/controller/admin/admin.php. Now you must place that controller at it's expected location classes/controller/admin.php with a name of Controller_Admin.
• A Controller::after() method now gets passed the response of the controller, it must return that response (or modified) as well.
• Added new function get_real_class() to which you can pass a classname and it will return the actual class, to be used on classes of which you're not sure whether it is an alias or not.
• Module routes are prepended to the routes array when Fuel detects the fist URI segment as a module, therefor parsing them before an (:any) route in the app config.
• Config is now environment aware and allows partial/full overwriting of the base config from subdirectories in the config dir named after the environment.
• Added a new Theme class. It allows you to easily add Theme support to your applications.
• Fuel_Exception has been renamed to FuelException
• Fuel::find_file() and related methods are now deprecated. Use the Finder class instead (e.g. Finder::search()).
• Migrations are now supported in Modules and Packages
• Routing has 3 new shortcuts:
  • :almun matches all utf-8 alphabetical and numeric characters
  • :num matches all numeric characters.
  • :alpha matches all utf-8 alphabetical characters
• Put the Autoloader class into Fuel\Core to allow extending it, it must now be required in the app bootstrap file which is also the location where you must require your own extension.

Security related

• Added Fuel's own response object class Fuel\Core\Response to default whitelist in app/config/config.php of objects that aren't encoded on output by the View when passed.
• The security.auto_encode_view_data config option in app/config/config.php has been renamed to security.auto_filter_output.
• stdClass was part of the default whitelisted classes from output encoding, this was a bug and it has been removed.

Specific classes

• Arr: Added methods Arr::get(), Arr::set() and Arr::prepend().
• Arr: Arr::element() and Arr::elements() have been deprecated. Use the new Arr::get() instead.
• Database: Using transactions will no longer prevent exceptions, exceptions are thrown and should be handled by the dev. The Database_Transaction class has been deprecated as it has little use because of this change.
• File: File::read_dir() (and related methods on Area and Directory handler) now return dirnames with directory separator suffix
• Fieldset_Field: Parsing of validation rules has been moved from Fieldset_Field::add_rule() to Validaton::_find_fule(), from the outside the method still works the same but notices for inactive rules are now only shown when running the validation.
• Fieldset_Field: You can now set the type to false to prevent a field from being rendered.
• Form: Added inline error reporting, which must first be switched on in config and will replace an {error_msg} tag
• Form: New default form template which puts it inside a table.
• Fuel: Added Fuel::value() which checks if the given value is a Closure, and returns the result of the Closure if it is, otherwise, simply the value.
• Image: No longer throws Fuel_Exception for any type of exception but instead RuntimeException, InvalidArguementException and OutOfBoundsException where appropriate.
• Input: Input::post(null) doesn't work to get full post array anymore, just Input::post() without params - same for all other Input methods
• Input: Input::get_post() has been deprecated and replaced by Input::param(). It now also includes PUT and DELETE variables.
• Input / Uri: Uri::detect() moved to Input::uri() as it is part of the input and thus should be part of the input class
• Request: You can now also do external requests through the Request class, for now only a curl driver: Request::forge('http//url', 'curl') or Request::forge('http//url', array('driver' => 'curl', 'method' => 'post', 'params' => array()).
• Validation: Validation::errors() is depricated and replaced by singular form Validation::error() to be more in line with other class methods
• Validation: New 3rd parameter added to Validation::run() that allows adding callables for the duration of the run.
• View: The view class has been refactored and works much better now. Output filtering is vastly improved.
• View: View::capture() has been split into two protected instance methods: process_file() and get_data(). You will need to update your View class extensions.
• View: View::$auto_encode has been removed. It has been replaced but auto_filter, which is per-view instance.
• ViewModel: Refactored the class internals to work more transparently with the View.
• ViewModel: Deprecated $this->_template and renamed it to $this->_view.
• ViewModel: Updated to work with the refactored View class. Added $this->bind().
• ViewModel: Deprecated $this->set_template() and renamed it to $this->set_view().
• Html: Removed (not deprecated) the following methods: Html::h(), Html::br(), Html::hr(), Html::nbs(), Html::title(), Html::header(). You should simply write the HTML yourself.
• Config: Added Config file drivers for PHP, INI, JSON and Yaml. They are detected by file extension (e.g. Config::load('foo.yml') will load and parse the Yaml).

Packages

• Auth: Renamed default table name from simpleusers to users.
• Auth: Added config options for DB connection and table columns used for fetching the user.
• Auth: Removed default config for groups & roles in simpleauth.php config file, only commented out examples left.
• Auth: Added new created_at column to SimpleAuth users table which will keep the UNIX timestamp for when the user was created, suggested SQL to update: ALTER TABLE `users` ADD `created_at` INT( 11 ) UNSIGNED NOT NULL
• Auth: Added new reset_password($username) method to SimpleAuth which sets a new 8 character alpha-numeric random password for the given user and returns it as a string. It won't email it to the user though, the way this is handled is up how you implement it.
• Orm: Lots of tweaks to Observer_Validation related to changes to Validation & Fieldset_Field classes. Also changed it to only save properties that are actually changed.
• Orm: The ValidationFailed thrown when the Observer_Validation fails now includes a reference to the Fieldset instance that failed: $valfailed->get_fieldset();
• Orm: Added support for changing the type of join used when fetching relations, example: Model_Example::query()->related('something', array('join_type' => 'inner'))->get();
• Orm: Observers are no longer singleton but one instance per model with per model settings, check docs for more info.
• Orm: Added support for using a database view instead of the normal table for fetching objects, this allows you to define a view with additional fields which can be fetched by the ORM.
• Orm: Default where conditions for a relation are now put in the ON() part of a join.
• Orm: The Observer_Validation and form generation with the Fieldset class will ignore the primary key(s). (as the Observer_Typing already did)
• Parser: Added Parser package to the default install.
• Parser: Mustache is now part of the Parser package by default. Version 0.7.1.
• Email: The Email package is added.