Release notes
This is an overview of the release history of simpleContact Lite so far. If you have any comments, questions or feature suggestions, please contact me. I reply to all messages.
Version 1.21
This update improves Lite's presentation, fixes some bugs and adopts the new site's look and feel.
- New logo, colour scheme and favicon
- All links updated for simplecontactform.com (also fixes error on line 1 bug in update check)
- Fixed a layout problem on the logout page in Firefox 3
- Various CSS improvements
- Tested against the Google Chrome web browser
- Fixed a security vulnerability in password reset function
- Fixed a rare issue that could cause the installation script to fail
- Added SMTP port option to config file
- Includes PHPMailer 2.0.4 for PHP 4
- Attribution link added to forms
- Online support documentation replaces PDF file
Renamed ‘simpleContact Lite’
To coincide with the release of simpleContact Pro, the free version is renamed “simpleContact Lite.”
Version 1.2
- User options page to edit your email address and password
- Paging in the inbox (the control appears when you have over fifty messages)
- Email addresses in the mailing list and recipients pages are now mailto links
- You can remove someone from the mailing list inside the message view
- “Remember me” checkbox at login (uses a cookie)
- The function that cleans submitted data now strips out HTML markup
- Dates and times are now formatted in a more clear and international manner
- Fixed for certain server configurations where include paths could break
- The email sending script correctly formats line breaks and quotemarks
- Update check tries again with cURL if fopen is disabled
- password.php updates the sc_admins table when a password is reset
- Formatting of received messages is improved
- The “simpleContact” name now links to the inbox or the login page
- General copy and layout improvements
Version 1.1
- Improvements to email validation – fixes an issue where upper case letters were reported as invalid
- Now uses PHPMailer for a more robust email sending solution than the PHP mail() function
- You can set a from-name and reply-to address in the autoresponder
- Inbound messages now appear as being from the user's name and email, which will make it easier to reply
- Mailing list unsubscribe form
- Group checkbox actions in inbox: 'delete message' and 'remove from mailing list'
- Web address field on contact form
- You can turn off the * required indicator, in case you want to require every field on a form
- Logout screen with feedback options
- Checks whether an update is available on alex-hardy.co.uk (nothing is logged, it reads a static XML file)
Version 1.0
‘simpleContact’ is released with the following key features:
- Contact and mailing list subscribe forms with server side validation
- Web-based admin system with login to keep your messages private
- Convenient messages inbox
- List of email addresses on your mailing list
- Choose contact form fields just by ticking checkboxes
- Compose a personalised response email
- Set which email addresses messages are sent to