New feature: Google Maps plugin

With JDom (v2.6.18), You can now easily instance a Google Map, and even a dynamic map in your components.
For the moment, you have to code manually, but the code is deadly simple.

You can create many types of maps :

• Basic maps + all possible parameters
• Styled Maps
• Markers + automatic bounds fit
• Info boxes
• Custom the markers icons
• Geocoding (Map + Markers)
• Directions API
• Static Maps (Simples images)

Check the demo and learn to instance a map:
www.j-cook.pro/index.php/demo




FIX for Images : Changed the thumb prefix ( . > _ )
It was not so practical to use hidden files (point prefix) for the thumbs, so we decided to change for an underscore prefix.
Some server configuration do not allow to access to hidden files (and that's the best configuration to have)
You can now delete all the hidden files thumbs from your images folders. They will not be used anymore.
All thumbs will be created again automatically.

Code improvement : Images, Files and Upload Classes

The php classes managing the files has been entirely rewritten.
It is now clean and consistent !
Now, only one helper file is handling all the work for upload, thumbs, :
HelperFile : (helpers/file.php)

The following files has been removed :

classes/file/file.php
Has been renamed in a helper, because it is a static class, so its place is in the helpers.

classes/file/upload.php
Has been merged inside HelperFile. It still does the same job with few improvements at the level of the caller.

classes/images.php
Has been totally removed and the work is left to the JImage native class of Joomla!
We don't need anymore with the actual version of Joomla!

classes/image/image.php
Has been removed because it was an empty class file.


A new important function appeared in the item controller: updateFileField()
It manages the uploader call, manages the file / thumbs deletions and update the image value field in the database in only one static call.

REVIEW YOUR FORKS !
In case you have forked and called one of those classes on your forks, you need to update your code !

Make a search in your forks about thoses classes :

• [Xxxx]ClassFile
• [Xxxx]ClassFileUpload
• [Xxxx]ClassImage
• [Xxxx]Images

Entry point

[Xxxx]ClassFile::returnFile('db');

becomes:
[Xxxx]HelperFile::returnFile();

$model->_upload('photo', array(
         'image/bmp' => 'bmp',
         'image/gif' => 'gif',
         'image/jpeg' => 'jpg,jpeg',
         'image/png' => 'png')
     , array(
         'rename' => '{ALIAS}.{MIMEXT}' 
     )
 );

becomes:

self::updateFileField($model, 'photo', array(


    'rename' => '{ALIAS}.{MIMEXT}'

));