[06-August-2024] Events Booking version 5.0.0 releases

Dear customers !

Today, I am happy to announce the next major release of Events Booking, version 5.0.0. Below are the improvements in this release:

1. Drop Support For Joomla 3

- Raise minimum PHP requirement to 7.4.0
- Raise minimum Joomla version requirement to 4.2.0
- Clean up code, remove the code which is needed to support Joomla 3
- Use latest Joomla API available for Joomla 4.2.0+
- Drop Support For Twitter Bootstrap 2 and Twitter Bootstrap 3
- Convert plugins in the extension to use Subscriber Interface (available on Joomla 4+), thus make these plugins work faster

We will still maintain support for Joomla 3, but mostly bugs fixes and minor improvements. Future improvements will only focus for Joomla 4+.

2. Improvements

- Improve User - Events Booking plugin: Added Synchronize Data parameter to allow synchronize data from Joomla user profile back to his/her registration record when the data is updated for the account.
- Improve Events Management: Added Show Event Creator config option to allow showing event creator on events management screen.
- Improve Export Registrants: Added config options to allow including/excluding Registrant ID and Event ID in the export.
- Improve Upcoming Modules/ Upcoming Events menu item type, Category menu item type: Added Month parameter to allow showing events from certain selected month only.
- Improve Registration History: Added config options to allow hiding First Name, and Last Name. Also, you can now decide to not show registrations of past events in registration history if needed.
- Improve Frontend Registrants Management: Do not show past events in events filter if the menu item is configured to not show registrants from past events.

Please update your site to this latest version of Events Booking to use these improvements. Thanks for continue using our products and support our development

Regards,

Tuan


 

RE; - Improve Registration History: Added config options to allow hiding First Name, and Last Name. Also, you can now decide to not show registrations of past events in registration history if needed.
This config option does not affect the event booking registration history for the individual user when shown in Membership Pro User Profile Menu item, The first name and last name still appear.  I think it would be more useful to have this facility to hide on Individual's history rather than the managing registration history for all users.  ie. apply it to Membership Pro - Events Booking Registration History plugin. 
J ust my opinion though, other EB Users might find hiding first and last name for all registrations. David

Hi David

Yes. I will have that fixed in the next release of Membership Pro. For now, if someone needs it, you can install the updated version of the plugin I sent in the attachment of this response

Regards,

Tuan

Hi Tuan, I can confirm it works fine now in Registration history on Membership Pro User Profile. Thanks David

Great. Thanks David !

Hi Tuan,

Where can I download the latest J3 compatible version ?

Hi

You can submit a support ticket and we will send you the latest version which is compatible with Joomla 3

Regards,

Tuan

has anyone reported problems with this release? We seem to be getting spurious problems such as first names missing from booking forms, drop-down lists showing random bookings of other members and several other issues since this update.

Regards,

Peter

Hi Peter

1. There was an issue with Registration History page and it was fixed. So please download latest package from My Downloads section and upgrade it to your site to get the issue fixed

2. For other issues, please check it again after updating. If the issue still happens, submit a support ticket so that I can check it on your site as I haven't seen anyone reported issues like that yet

Tuan

Tuan Pham Ngoc wrote:

Hi

You can submit a support ticket and we will send you the latest version which is compatible with Joomla 3

Regards,

Tuan

Since the minimum Joomla version requirement has been raised to 4.2.0, a link to the last version J3 was supported (4.9.4) should be made available without the need for a ticket. You could place a link at least here, in this topic, or -even better- make it available in the "Downloads" section for registered members with an active subscription for Events Booking extension.