Deploy*

When you don’t hear much from a developer it’s usually because he is hard at work at programming. At this time not everything is finished and tested, but here are some for sure upcoming features for 1.4:

• 2 new built in functions that make it easier for non programmers to add and create files
  • create_empty_file() creates an empty file into the generated deploy. Simply specify the path and file name. E.g. ( create_empty_file(’css/mystyles.css’); )
  • import_file() will copy a file from any directory from the root into the generated deploy. To use simply tell it what file you want to copy and then where. E.g. ( import_file(’files/CSS/mystyles.css’,'css/mystyles.css’); )
• Added the following JavaScript libraries:
  • jQuery UI
  • Prototype
  • script.aculo.us
  • MooTools
  • Dojo
  • SWFOject
  • Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)
• Now has a choice of header.php, footer.php, navigation.php, and sidebar.php includes.
• Deploy* now does not use a hard copy of jQuery. It now uses Google’s AJAX method. This is the same as all the generated deploys as well. This way they will stay up to date automatically among many other benefits.
• Fixed a bug that happened ≈0.2% of the time where a file wouldn’t be copied using the exec(cp) function. Instead I use a the custom function called import_file().
• I have updated the reset.css and how it handles resets. It now adds a @import into the main.css file. Some updates to the CSS file are:
  • <b> and <strong> are now bolded by default
  • <i> and <em> are now italicised by default
  • Links in no longer have a dotted outline in some browsers
  • No longer minified for easier editing

There are many more changes and cleaner javascript code that runs the Deploy* form and I’ll make sure to add a changelog.txt file to the Deploy* 1.4 file. I’m also going to include a tarball of Deploy* as well as a zip on code.google.com for the users who want to upload it to their server.