Complete solution for your membership site

As an added security measure (and a nice Valentime's Day gift to the CB worldwide community), the CB Team has just released the CB Captcha plugin. This plugin provides a security image along with corresponding input field and verification logic. The plugin can be incorporated in the registration process, the forgotten password process and the email user process in order to verify that a human is actually triggering the activities. Many backend parameters and fonts have been built into this plugin.

The plugin was developed by Nick and Beat and is currently in action on this site. Special thanks to the CB testers that helped out. The plugin is available for download from the CB Team Releases category of the download area (upper menu button) of this site. Hopefully, this plugin will make CB driven websites as spam-proof as possible.

• the Free Joomlapolis Membership subscription, which is the regular free lifetime subscriptions option to this site. By default all registered and approved members are automatically added to this subscription type, as before.

• the Community Builder Documentation subscription, which is a yearly subscription that is meant to support the CB Team (expenses, tools, libraries, etc). The subscription costs 25 euros per year and the entire paypal workflow is handled automatically by the new subscriptions plugin. The plugin, when payment is confirmed by PayPal, will automatically modify the CB read-only "Member Status" field for the subscribed user and will also add the user to a specific docman group that is authorized for access and downloading of the detailed CB reference guide from "Downloads". So the entire process - end to end - is handled entirely automatically by the plugin. So for credit-card and paypal payment it gives now instant access to the documentation.

We have just updated this site to Joomla 1.0.12 RC internal Joomla core-team test-release. Same release has been made available to CB testteam for advanced compatibility tests, as usually with each Joomla! release. Please post here asap if you see something not working correctly on this site:

Note (added Dec. 02. 2006)
CB 1.0.2 is not compatible with Joomla 1.0.10. So, if you want to install or upgrade to CB 1.0.2, you need to upgrade to Joomla 1.0.11.

The CB Core Team has just released version 1.0.2 of the Joomla Community Builder Suite.
This security, performance and stability release can be found in the download area of Joomlapolis (here) and the project area on the forge (here).
All CB installations should be upgraded to this release as soon as possible as a number of low, medium and potentially high security issues have been addressed, as well as a number of anti-spamming hardenings have been made. Although there are no known exploits at release time for the security issues that have been found and fixed by CB core team, we strongly advise for an upgrade.
New features have been kept to a minimum to maximize stability and security.
These include:

• Compatibility with Joomla 1.5 beta 1 (for evaluation and test purposes only)
• CB Login support for Missus, PMS Enhanced and JIM.
• Core plugin support for PMS Enhanced and JIM.
• New tools option in CB backend to perform database checks on integrity of the CB database.
• Plugin API improvements.
• Many minor bug fixes.
• Expert installation package to preserve existing plugins (study readme very carefully!) 
• For a complete list please see the artifacts list on the forge.

Due to the extensive improvements and optimizations, this release is expected to run much faster and to use less memory than previous releases. For example, the connections path tab can now be safely published and used on large sites.

The CB Core Team would like to thank the CB Testers that have been pounding away at the test builds in order to
make this release (as all previous ones) as solid as possible.

As promised (here), this article adds more functionality to the initial CB Helloworld plugin (described here). Please read the initial article first and if you have installed the CB Helloworld plugin provided in this first article please unistall it before proceeding any further. You can access the new helloworld plugin package here.