4.1 update due soon
Posted By admin on April 9, 2012
It was planned as a minor request update, but now it has delivered just a few other needed upgrades. Release 4.1 (out May 2012) will deliver the following upgrades:
- Near real-time playing interface as standard based on Javascript
- Finally basic tournament capabilities (managed by the admin)
- A near real-time home screen showing you who is coming online and what your games status is
- Minor bug fixes
As a downside phpChess now needs a more capable web hosting as database query limits at stingy hosts can lead to complaints by the provider. Please make sure you discuss this with your hosting provider before installing it when it comes out. See below some screenshots of 4.1
Near Real-time Chess Board for online play
Administration of tournaments
Near real-time home screen with all the information a player needs
Any chance of adding in an integration tool for popular forum softwares such as phpBB3? It would be nice to add phpchess to my existing forum/website and integrated with existing user database for sessions/login, etc.
I’d also love to see some sort of API for integration, specifically to Joomla in my case. Even if the actual bridge isn’t there, an API for someone else to hook into would be great.
Thank you!
Integration is already possible using the url paramters. However the solution is very technical. 4.1 will not offer any improvement on this. Sorry – the best we have is the phpbb2 integration
http://www.phpchess.com/wiki/doku.php?id=phpbb_forum_integration
I’m excited by 4.1. Just hoping it is a downloadable php script without the server. I already have xampp and use it for development projects. So, don’t require it. I also noticed that the majority download version 4.06. This I believe is due to holding the script nothing else.
Me too, I’m really looking forward to this update!!!! I hope it will be released next week
As Keen alread said, I hope there will be a script-only download available too.
Thanks a lot!!!