Thread: aeDating v4.0 Has Been Announced - and Released

On the aeWebworks site, they have announced aeDating v4.0

Some comments, looking at the feature list:

New design of IM with thumbnail preview
Thumbnains could be nice... but did they improve the way users can start an IM session with someone?

Now with 9 design templates

Great, a new template!

Supports recurring billing from paypal

Is this Rip's mod? In anycase, this is a good addition.

Friends Only and Registered Only permissions to GuestBook comments

This is a bug fix, in my opinion. Great!

One-click lists with online users
Hmmm... is this something new? Have to wait and see.

Top-rated profiles lookup

This would be cool, if it a way to sort users based on rating. Needed.

I hope we don't have to wait long to download it....

Smoge

Hello!

Being a "major release" (going from version 3.X to version 4.x), I would expect some major changes and/or enhancements.

It is not available for download yet, but if things go as before, it usually is available few days after they announce it on their main site.

If we are currently working with you on your site development, please consider if, and how, this new release affects your development plans. Should development continue on v3.3, or should it instead be done on v4.0? Please tell us in your private forum, or using a PM, how you would like to proceed.

Thanks,

Rob (Smoge)

It's already been released and is available for download.

Quite a few new templates as you mentioned. Too bad they don't provide graphics for gay/lesbian sites.

Have just d/loaded new 4.0 archive but as usual no upgrade info.

Would be nice if they included v3.x to v4.0 sql upgrade only. Looks like supplied .sql file will overwrite current DB info in some cases



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Rx

I just did a test install... had an error:

aeDating-v.4.0.0000.zip (date July 13)

Depending on your server error reporting configuration, you will either get a blank screen, or the following error message.

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CASE in /home/dev/v4test/public_html/v400/langs/lang-English.php on line 1306


Open /langs/lang-English.php

Check line 1305

Code:

case "_Add new category" : return "Add new category"

Add the ; at the end, like this

Code:

case "_Add new category" : return "Add new category";

Check line 1309

Code:

case "_Category deleted successfull" : return "Category was deleted successfully"

Add the ; at the end, like this

Code:

case "_Category deleted successfull" : return "Category was deleted successfully";

Smoge

Okay, I did a test install of AE 4.0. I played around very fast so maybe some of my inital reactions are not accurate.

First problem is the simg problem again. I finally gave up on that and made a profile within the admin. Then I made some test profiles and played around. Lot's of display issues. Thumbnails not resizing properly, etc...

Now in the admin, when you create a profile you have to choose whether its for a single person or a couple. If you don't support couples like our site, its a pain because you have to skip over all the profile fields for the 2nd couple every time. If you try to delete the 2nd person's profile fields, it will crash your system and you'll have to reinstall the database.

The membership levels are great. The IM still sucks...it just superimposes above the profile now so you can view a user's profile. They've incorporated Shoutbox and from what I could tell, there is no way to disable or turn it off unless you kill it out of the html templates.

It has Userplane on/off in the admin but I think you still need to pay AE if you want Userplane support (not sure though). The compose message is pretty cool. The new templates are clean. I can tell that AE 4.0 will be a son of a gun to mod because its almost like its jimmy-rigged to support all the templates.

Now it supports watermark image on photos. I couldn't get it to work though. I would be careful before using this version. I feel there are some bugs as with any new release.

The new templates are great because they are modular and can be modded very easily.

In summary, here are the real new features:
1) Support for couples profiles
2) New templates
3) Hack job on the IM
4) Nice new membership setups (best part about 4.0)
5) Added Blog and improved Guestbook
6) Integrated Smodges Shoutbox Mod
7) Watermark on photos

I would imagine that this would be very painful update from any modded 3.X version as the database has many new fields for couples, blogs, etc...

Just a note - the security image, photo uploading resizing, and the watermark features all work fine for me.

(PS: We will try to add support for the watermarking feature to our "Replace ImageMagick with GD" mod.)

More comments to come - after I look at it a bit more.

Smoge

Just downloaded 4.0,this is the one I`m gonna roll with.Just as soon as I get that template that http://sexyplaytime.com uses,it costs $68

lol i just finished redesigning my "act" template but i want to add the blog system and the gallery and also the join page over a number of pages

but dont want to upload and overwrite everything ive done

sod it im just going buy the mods of this board from smodge and others