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Hmm.. new languages, new plugins, bug fixes.. here.. and there.. that’s it!, playSMS 0.9.6.

These are changes made in 0.9.6:

• MAJOR: move SMS sender ID logic in sendsms() and it hooks to sendsms_get_sender() (anton)
• MAJOR: all ‘mobile’ terms that are related to sending SMS are replaced by ‘sender’ (anton)
• MAJOR: all old ‘sender’ terms that are related to sending SMS are replaced by ‘footer’ (anton)
• add new language Catalan (ca_ES) (aseques)
• add new language Spanish (es_VE) (alfredo)
• add new function: sendsms_get_sender() to get effective SMS Sender ID (anton)
• add new options in preferences: sender and footer (anton)
• add new plugin: message template, replace word templates with phonebook related data (anton)
• add new plugin: send SMS by uploading a list in a CSV file (anton)
• add new plugin: inbox group (anton)
• add new theme ‘play’ (ajiwo)
• add new option for user to select active language (aseques)
• add new option for admin to select default language (aseques)
• add gpname2gpid() in simplephonebook/fn.php (emmanuel)
• add webservices type of action (ta=cr) to get user’s credit (anton)
• remove address and country from required field on user management (anton)
• remove mobile field from required field on user preferences and management (anton)
• regression: remove addslashes in sendsms() and add stripslashes when fwd to email (anton)
• replace $sms_datetime in several plugins to $datetime_now (anton)
• replace term ‘Receiver’ with ‘To’ (anton)
• replace term ‘Sender’ with ‘From’ (anton)
• sendsms() is considered low level, use sendsms_pv() on plugins (anton)
• update FAQ, reformat and fix typos (anton)
• update Clickatell’s doc (aseques)
• update Clickatell’s API URL to HTTPS (aseques)
• fix .po and .mo files, remove duplicated strings and add charset info (aseques)
• fix SMS footer display on user and all outgoing page (anton)
• fix gateway msgtoolbox, unable to properly save message ID on incoming SMS (anton)
• fix $sms_datetime for display purposes on some plugins using core_display_datetime() (anton)
• fix #3414232 sms_poll log table missing datetime field (anton)
• fix #3479182 spaces leading a message break keyword parsing (jeremymueller)

Enjoy.

It’s a strange day to publish a release I might say. It’s the 10th anniversary of the horrible tragedy. Although I’m sure theres no one think the date got anything to do with playSMS and its release, I have to say that this is pure unplanned action, tonight is simply the night I can’t sleep and I need to spend it on something useful.

Anyhow. playSMS version 0.9.5.3 got several major changes inside, bug fixes and security hole fixes.

Below are changes made since 0.9.5.2 and incorporated to playSMS version 0.9.5.3:

• MAJOR: fix security hole RFI http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17792/ (anton)
• add new option to allow/disallow forwards to inbox, email and mobile for each users (anton)
• add new language zh_CN (fvancaen)
• add new plugin, feature, SMS survey, half-way, the reporting parts are not finished (anton)
• add new method interceptsendsms() to intercept sent SMS before handled by gateway (anton)
• add new field, in_receiver, in db table tblUserInbox and tblSMSIncoming (anton)
• add all intercepts in features plugins, now hook-able from features plugin (anton)
• add method to save receiver number, currently available only in kannel and clickatell (anton)
• add sender name in email forwarded to user from PV or sms board (anton)
• add multiple destinations capability when ta=pv on webservices (anton)
• sms survey temporarily disabled, not removed, waiting for reporting parts (anton)
• sms autosend temporarily disabled, not removed, waiting for major changes (anton)
• fix checkavailablekeyword() lib/fn_core.php to have hooks return TRUE if available (anton)
• fix autoreply unable to delete scenario (anton)
• fix sms_survey unable to send sms due to accessing $core_config['user'] on playsmsd() (avudz)
• fix sms subscribe subscribing to disabled keyword should not happen (anton)
• fix sms autosend admin should have permission to edit all data (anton)
• fix typo phonebook_groupcode2id() in webservices_bc() lib/fn_webservices.php (anton)
• fix wrong group while sending broadcast sms to group when ‘Or’ field is filled (anton)
• fix sms subscribe, subscribing to disabled keyword should not happen (anton)
• fix #3109982 wrong autoreply result due to missing autoreply_id in db query (anton)
• fix #3216652 the bar graph image on the poll results page is broken (jeremymueller)

If you are a playSMS plugin’s developer then you might want to learn more on changes related to security hole, method or db field additions and fix on checkavailablekeyword().

Regards.

Version 0.9.5.2 adds two additional plugin in tools, they are: pvat and xlate. Both new plugin demonstrate how to intercept an incoming SMS and do anything we need with that, and of course returns something we want. First plugin, pvat, will intercept incoming SMS and scan for special format @<username> <messages> and then modify it to become PV <username> <messages>. Once done intercepting, pvat will returns that modified message to core function that actually handle SMS.

For example, a sender sent a message to playSMS 0.9.5.2, a message like this: @anton dude your application works. The plugin will scan and process it, change the message to: PV anton dude your application works. Once modified and returned to core function, the rest of the process is to handle a PV message, that is to save the message in username’s inbox and forward it to username’s email, in this case the username is anton.

Second plugin, xlate, will intercept incoming SMS and scan for special format: @<from language>2<to language> <words/sentences>. For example, a sender want to quickly translate “I love you” to Italian phrase. In this case sender should send SMS to playSMS 0.9.5.2 like this: @en2it I love you. Once received and intercepted, xlate will utilize Google Translate to translate “I love you” to Italian phrase, and returns “Ti amo” to sender.

More example to come

Important changes in playSMS 0.9.5.2 is actually date/time adjustment. A timezone settings is added to this version to overcome problems when an SMS gateway is not in the same location (or timezone) with playSMS. For example, if you use default kannel like from most distros, kannel will handle all date/time as GMT+0 timezone, which mean playSMS will receive SMS in GMT+0 as well. This situation is not what most playSMS users wanted.

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