PHP iAddressBook

This release adds support for PHP 5.3 (removing deprecation messages). It fixes a bug in the birthday reminder when birthdays were not shown correctly around year end. It changes <? tags to <php to improve compatibility.

The two biggest achievements are the automatic installer and the new XML-RPC API interface. Many minor bugfixes have been made. In birthday reminder, if there are no birthdays in the future but at least one in the past, the birthday 'none' label is now displayed. File creation modes have been fixed. The config setting $conf['fmode'] now has effect whenever a file is created. Image handling has been improved by replacing proc_open with popen, which should work better with restrictive PHP settings. Image resizing when using GD to convert photos has been added. Bulgarian and Hungarian language files have been added.

Contact photos are no longer saved inside the database but in a separate folder. Photo export in vCards was fixed for Apple AddressBook in Mac OS X. The search field and sort function were improved. Names beginning with non-ASCII characters (like öäüéèà) are now sorted correctly. The edit template was improved. Adding details such as phone numbers as well as custom labels is now much fancier than ever before. Birthday reminders, a "Remember Me" feature, and vCard mass import through the filesystem were added. Slovak, Russian, Czech, Swedish, and Indonesian translations were added.

This release adds Skype support, advanced access
controls, an alphabet
to quickly filter contacts that begin with the
same letter, custom
labels for phone numbers, email messages, URLs,
related names, and
instant messaging handles, an option to change the
image format in vCard
exports, and support for phonetic
firstname/lastname (for Japanese
users). It improves importation of
non-RFC-compliant vCards. The contact
list can now be divided into several subpages. The
search function now
supports multiple keywords.

This release fixes a problem with PEAR.php not
being found, adds CSV and
LDIF exportation, improves the category layout in
the default template,
improves vCard importation, and adds a Portuguese
translation.