LWT 3.1.0: Internationalization, activity tracking, and PHP 8.5

Added

• Internationalization (i18n) (#223): PHP __() and JS t() / Alpine $t helpers backed by per-namespace JSON files under locale/, with English fallback and a per-user app_language setting. The preferences page exposes a language picker.
• Translations: Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, and Russian coverage for the home page, main navbar, and user preferences.
• Activity tracking with streaks and calendar heatmap (#227): new activity_log table and home-page widgets (current streak, best streak, today's summary, 12-month GitHub-style heatmap). New API endpoints under /api/v1/activity/.
• PHP 8.5 support: dependencies and CI matrix updated.

Changed

• Dismissible update notification, admin-only, with a new set-check-for-updates admin setting.
• Per-user statistics page moved from /admin/statistics to /profile/statistics (old URL redirects).
• Cleaner setting-definition keys: default/numeric replace the legacy dft/num.
• Build output separated from static assets: Vite bundles and themes now go to dist/ (gitignored); assets/ holds static files. Fresh clones require npm run build:all.
• Dev-tool upgrades: PHPUnit 10 → 11 (attributes migration), ESLint 9 → 10, TypeScript 5 → 6, Vite 6 → 8 (Rolldown).
• Renamed dev branch to develop.
• Replaced PNG/GIF icons with pure CSS/SVG in dark themes; removed 36 unused image files.
• Optimized Vite build chunks: main entry bundle 228 KB → 180 KB (gzip 68 → 56 KB). Tree-shook chart.js, pruned 50 unused Lucide icons.

Fixed

• Version number not updated since 3.0.0: ApplicationInfo::VERSION now correctly reflects releases.

Removed

• Dead routes /text/set-mode and /admin/save-setting, fully superseded by POST /api/v1/settings.

Deprecated

• Legacy query-parameter routes now emit Deprecation, Sunset, and Link HTTP headers. Affected: /text/read, /text/display, /text/print-plain, /text/edit, /word/new, /word/show, /vocabulary/term/status, /feeds/edit, /dictionaries, /dictionaries/import, and the /api.php/v1/* prefix. They still work but will be removed in the next major version.

Full Changelog: 3.0.2...3.1.0

LWT 3.0.2: EPUB fix, reader controls, and export improvements

Added

• Reading area width and text size controls (#225): Display dropdown in the reader toolbar with width slider (40–100%) and text size buttons. Settings persist across sessions.

Changed

• Removed @vitejs/plugin-legacy, cutting JS build output by ~70%.

Fixed

• EPUB import always failing (#231): Extension check was validating the PHP temp path instead of the original filename.
• Glosbe translation blocked: Upgraded API calls to HTTPS and added CSP allowlist.
• Anki export missing sentences: Words without {word} markup in their sentences are now included.
• License link broken in page headers after file rename.
• Docker image builds failing on arm/v7 due to multi-stage build issue.

Full Changelog:

3.0.1...3.0.2

LWT 3.0.1 — Minor Docker fix

Fixed

• Docker image build for arm/v7 and other architectures: MeCab system packages and mecab-python3 now skip gracefully on unsupported platforms instead of failing the entire build. Japanese parsing remains available on amd64 and arm64.

Full Changelog: 3.0.0...3.0.1

LWT 3.0.0 — The Great Rewrite

This is the largest release in LWT's history. The entire application has been restructured from the ground up — new architecture, new frontend, new database engine, new security model — while preserving full compatibility with your existing data.

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Highlights

Completely new architecture

• MVC + Front Controller: All requests route through index.php with proper Controllers (17 classes), Services (35 classes), and Views. The root folder no longer contains dozens of PHP files. (#212, #213, #215). Contributing becomes easy!
• Extensible Language Parsers (#222): Clean parser architecture using the Strategy Pattern — Regex (default), Character (CJK), and MeCab (Japanese). New parsers can be added by implementing ParserInterface and registering in ParserRegistry. We can now parse Chinese, Korean, and more!

Modern frontend

• Alpine.js + TypeScript: 90+ TypeScript files with reactive Alpine.js components replace the legacy jQuery/iframe/overlib stack. (#208, #209, #211). The app will feel easier to use and be faster.
• Lucide SVG icons: All 97 legacy Fugue PNG icons replaced with scalable, CSS-customizable SVG icons via the IconHelper class. Modern icons!
• Iframe removal (#166): Legacy iframe-based layout replaced with Alpine.js components and REST API calls. Only dictionary iframes remain for external dictionary display. It brings better mobile support.

Multi-user support (#221)

• Dedicated users table with proper foreign key relationships.
• User authentication, registration, and role-based access (user/admin) with per-user data isolation.
• All user-owned data (languages, texts, words, tags, feeds) linked to the users table with CASCADE delete.

Database overhaul (#220)

• All tables migrated from MyISAM to InnoDB — ACID transactions, row-level locking, crash recovery.
• 16 foreign key constraints for referential integrity across tables.
• All SQL queries in validation functions now use proper input sanitization — multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities fixed.

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Added

• Notes field for terms (#128): Personal notes separate from translations, with database migration, updated entity classes, service layer, UI forms, and API endpoints.
• Inline Markdown in translations and notes (#126): Support for **bold**, *italic*, ~~strikethrough~~, and [links](url). Rendered in word modals, annotations, word lists, test screens, and detail views. Custom lightweight parsers in both TypeScript and PHP with XSS protection.
• Official support for PHP 8.3 and 8.4.
• Modular Monolith + MVC Architecture (#212, #215): Complete restructure with Controllers in src/backend/Controllers/, Services in src/backend/Services/, Views in src/backend/Views/, Router in src/backend/Router/. Then, the architecture was refactored as Modular Monolith.
• Front Controller Pattern (#213): All requests route through index.php. Only index.php and router.php remain in the root folder.
• Alpine.js Frontend Framework (#208): Reactive UI components reducing reliance on PHP-rendered pages.
• TypeScript Migration (#209): 90+ .ts files in src/frontend/js/ with proper module structure (api/, core/, reading/, testing/, feeds/, languages/, etc.).
• jQuery Removal (#211): Replaced with modern vanilla JavaScript and Alpine.js.
• Overlib Replacement (#214): The 20-year-old overlib tooltip library has been removed.
• HoverIntent Replacement (#210): jQuery plugin replaced with a native TypeScript implementation.
• Extensible Language Parsers (#222): Strategy Pattern with ParserInterface, ParserRegistry, ParsingCoordinator, and value objects (Token, ParserResult, ParserConfig). Each language specifies its parser via the LgParserType column. Language edit form dynamically adjusts to the selected parser.
• Multi-user support (#221): Dedicated users table with foreign keys, authentication, registration, and role-based access (user/admin).

Changed

• Database Engine Migration (#220): All permanent tables converted from MyISAM to InnoDB (ACID transactions, row-level locking, foreign keys, crash recovery).
• Inter-Table Foreign Keys (#220): 16 foreign key constraints added. Language references, text references, word references, and tag references all enforce referential integrity with CASCADE behavior. Migration: 20251221_120000_add_inter_table_foreign_keys.sql.
• TTS Settings Storage (#186): Text-to-Speech settings now use browser localStorage instead of cookies. Includes automatic migration from old cookie format.
• Icon Migration to Lucide SVG: All 97 legacy Fugue PNG icons (16×16) replaced with scalable Lucide SVG icons. IconHelper class provides a unified rendering interface.
• Removed SYSTEM_VARIABLES_ADMIN Privilege Requirement (#167): No more elevated database privileges for word imports. Replaced with chunked batch inserts (500 rows per batch) that stream files line-by-line.

Fixed

• Tag Duplicate Key Error (#120): Fixed rare error when saving a word with a tag from a stale session cache. Changed to INSERT IGNORE for race condition handling.
• Japanese Annotations (#101): Fixed off-by-one index in annotationToJson() causing ~50% of annotations to fail.
• Text Parsing (#114): Last word of text now recognized when text ends without punctuation.
• PHP 8.3 Compatibility: Fixed deprecation warnings in langFromDict() and targetLangFromDict() (null checks before parse_str()).
• Database Maintenance: Fixed initWordCount() generating invalid SQL for CJK languages. Word count now defaults to 1 minimum.
• SQL Prefix Queries: Fixed prefixQuery() to handle DROP TABLE IF EXISTS and case-insensitive SQL keywords.
• Punctuation Formatting (#125): Punctuation marks no longer break onto separate lines — wrapped in non-breaking groups.

Security

• Session security cookie to protect against session hijacking.
• Fixed SQL injection vulnerabilities in validateLang(), validateText(), validateTag(), and validateArchTextTag() — all validation functions now properly sanitize non-numeric input.
• Fixed SQL injection vulnerabilities in inc/tags.php: getTextTitle(), saveWordTags(), saveTextTags(), and saveArchivedTextTags() now validate numeric input.
• Fixed SQL syntax errors in tag list functions when handling empty lists or failed tag creation.

Deprecated

• PHP 8.0 testing & support removed.
• PHP 8.1 support removed.
• Legacy table prefix system ($tbpref) is deprecated in favor of user-based multi-tenancy. Existing prefixed tables will be migrated automatically (if things go well). It has been a long way from #76 to #164

Removed

• Orphaned Frame Settings (#116): Removed all 7 legacy frame-related settings from the admin settings page (frame heights, widths for text and test interfaces). These became non-functional after the iframe replacement (#166). Also removed the dead initFrameResizable() TypeScript function.

Breaking Changes

Back up your database before upgrading.

• textitems2.Ti2WoID now uses NULL instead of 0 for unknown words (required for FK constraints).
• Legacy table prefix system ($tbpref) is deprecated — existing prefixed tables are migrated automatically.
• Frame-related settings removed (non-functional since iframe replacement). (#116)
• Elevated database privileges (SYSTEM_VARIABLES_ADMIN) no longer required. (#167)

Upgrading

# Docker (recommended)
docker compose pull && docker compose up -d

# Manual
composer install
npm install && npm run build:all
# Database migrations run automatically on first request

Contributors

Thanks to @ProgramComputer, @quopquai, @rahimnathwani and everyone who filed issues and participated in discussions. Particular thanks to @jzohrab, creator of Lute. Discussions with him, and his work on Lute, has been foundational to many of the DB changes. Have a look at his guide to managing database changes.

Full Changelog: 2.10.0...3.0.0

External text reader, cleaner database management, and much more!

This release is composed of many small enhancements, but also of many regular bug fixes.

Added

• Support for Japanese with MeCab on Mac! This was added thanks to quopquai on #135.
• New globals (#163):
  • On inc/kernel_utility.php: LWT_APP_VERSION and LWT_RELEASE_DATE.
  • On api.php: LWT_API_VERSION and LWT_API_RELEASE_DATE.
  • src/js/jq_pgm.js: LWT_DATA.
  • unloadformcheck.js now declares a new object lwtFormCheck that contains all the functions needed.
• Important additions to Text-To-Speech (TTS):
  • Word can be read on hover or on click. Pull request #147 by @ProgramComputer.
  • You can add a custom text reader with the new voice API feature! A courtesy of @ProgramComputer on pull request #153. A feature first requested on #143. Discussion in open on #174.
  • New JS functions: readTextWithExternal to read a text with an external application and speechDispatcher that can choose a text reader (browser or third party).
• Starts a cleaner database management. Database schema is defined in db/schema/baseline.sql and no longer in PHP code.
• You can choose to add romanization for languages that don't need it in the language settings (#119).
• Docker images are now built for multiple platforms, see PR #169, closing discussion
  #141. Many thanks to @ProgramComputer!
• On word review:
  • The "Read words aloud" setting is now saved, PR #185.
  • UX change: You can click on "Read words aloud" text to check the checkbox.

Changed

• Adds missing documentation in the Docker image:
  • MarkDown files in the root folder are now included. See #160. It adds README.md and UNLICENSE.md.
  • Adds docs/info.html and docs/index.html from #146.
• Multi-word creation was reviewed to use a simpler JS code.
• Word review:
  • Status + 1 can be set only after word display. Before, you could press key up at any time to increase term status, but keydown was effective only after solution display (#159).
  • When testing sentences, sentences are always displayed, even when less than 70% of words in the sentence are known. See #194.
• New files:
  • inc/feeds.php and inc/tags.php, stemmed from inc/session_utility.php. It should not lead to any code or behaviour change.
  • src/js/overlib_interface.js, stemmed from src/js/pgm.js. It contains all the overlib interactions.
  • src/js/src/js/text_events.js, stemmed from src/js/jq_pgm.js. It defines interactions with a text on reading.
• For audio URI, raises the characters length limit from 200 to 2048
  (#144).
• Database:
  • For Linux users, the official database RDBMS recommended is now MariaDB as a drop-in replacement of MySQL.
  • Database creation and migration is now handled directly in SQL, for a safer behavior.
  • You do no longer need to give to LWT SYSTEM_VARIABLES_ADMIN for text reparsing. (new function checkExpressions) (#167). It is still necessary for words import.
• Docker changes:
  • By default, the images now runs at localhot/lwt and no longer in the
    root folder (installer #4
    and #169).
  • Image updated from apache-buster to apache-bullseye.
• Composer dependencies up to date 2024-03-24.

Fixed

• The database wizard was broken since 2.9.0.
• Word status:
  • It was impossible to change a word status on hover since 2.9.1.
  • Having wrong dictionary link and error reporting enabled prevented word status from being changed.
• Avoids JavaScript error on editing a language when the dictionary field is empty.
• For some feeds, feed wizard session was not working due to ill-configured session. Solves #129, thanks to the help of PR #168.
• Text reading position was not working consistently when adding several known words.
• Multi-words:
  • Tooltip was not properly saved (#170).
  • Translation may be escaped two times (#170).
  • Fixes #170: on creation, multi-word was always displayed before the text it encompasses, without removing this text.
  • Tootltip title was not properly saved, normally without incidence on user display.
  • Fixes #69: having the same multi-word on multiple texts was displaying it at many positions on creation.
• Japanese:
  • Parsing Japanese texts with MeCab was creating warnings when the text was not finishing by a punctuation mark.
  • Multi-words were not saved with MeCab parsing on Japanese.
  • Japanese was always requiring MeCab for TTS, even if it was not used (#155) and #182.
• On word review (test):
  • Space keyboard shortcut may have been inoperative.
  • On api.php, tests were always set to "multi-word" due to a missing variable type conversion. Pull request #175.
  • Text-To-Speech was not working (suggested by #187).
  • Testing terms (Terms > Multi Actions > Test ALL Terms) was broken since 2.9.0. #192.
• An explicit dependency to php-dom was missing in INSTALL.sh (and composer.json), as stated in #178.
• API: the REST API was not accessible for users running LWT in a root folder.
• On audio, the replay button is fixed: issue #138 and PR #191.
• The field SeFirstPos was missing in table sentences of demo database, resulting in failed installation the first time.
• Editing test annotation would not display since 2.9.1 #193.

Deprecated

• Using any function from unloadformcheck.js without using lwtFormCheck is deprecated.
• get_database_prefixes is deprecated, superseded by getDatabasePrefix which is much cleaner.
• Globals defined in jq_pgm.js are going into a single global LWT_DATA.
• New text creation workflow simplified in inc/database_connect.php: update_default_values replaced by
  registerSentencesTextItems and check_text by displayTextStatistics.

Full Changelog for 2.10.0-fork

• 2.9.1...2.10.0

2.9.1

This patch is mainly made of bug fixes.

Yet it also features a new JS documentation https://hugofara.github.io/lwt/docs/js/ and an enhanced PHP documentation https://hugofara.github.io/lwt/docs/php/.

Special @ProgramComputer for his insights, pull requests and issues. @HenryWales and @PeterHero were also great to contributor to this release by documenting bugs. Thank you all!

Added

• New tools for documentation:
  • New JavaScript documentation with JSDoc! You will find it under docs/js/.
  • Better PHP documentation using phpDocumentor. The new documentation is at docs/php/.
• New constant LWT_LANGUAGES_ARRAY, that replaces $langDefs (in inc/langdefs.php). Part of #163.

Changed

• PHP files header docblocks are expanded, notably with a PHP version, package and category name.
• Japanese number are now parsed by MeCab. Big thanks to @ProgramComputer for his pull request #149!
• Removes dead feeds from the demo database, as signaled in #148.
• Patch update to the REST API to 0.1.1: requests on GET with empty payload were
  resulting in error.

Fixed

• Fixes #113: changing a language name was making text-to-speech unusable and may prompt a warning.
• Since 2.9.0, tests may be unable to run due to a missing key in an AJAX request ("type").
• Since 2.9.0, audio position was not saved properly.
• On upload_words.php, "update only empty fields" was broken.
• Translation were not set by default properly when editing terms translations table.
• The field MeCab was set for Japanese even when not asked for. Signaled on PR #155], thanks to @ProgramComputer.
• Since 2.8.1, Japanese word romanization was not displayed any more. Thanks to 아르노 for signalling the bug on Discord!
• The go slower/faster feature on audio was broken (#138), as functions click_slower
  and click_faster were declared two times in src/js/audio_controller.js.
• When opening a text, text position was not saved and a text_id is unknown error was triggered.
• Do not display an error on step 2 of feed wizard at first initialization (#129).
• It was impossible to install the demo database if they was more or less than one instruction a line.
  This is fixed, and the SQL file was made more readable.
• Changes WoStatusChange default value to '1970-01-01 01:00:01', it was impossible to install the demo DB out of LWT (related to (#78).
• Deleting a language deletes the language (#151). Before it was setting the language to empty values.
• On media select, the lwt folder name was prepended to the media folder,
  resulting in broken path (#161).
• With the REST API, requests with an empty query were resulting in an error.
• no-minify composer command was fixed, suggested as a part of PR #154 by
  @ProgramComputer.

Deprecated

• PHP documentation using Doxygen (under docs/html) is now deprecated and will be removed in 3.0.0.
• Using $langDefs is deprecated in favor of LWT_LANGUAGES_ARRAY (#163).
• Calling the global function new_pos to set audio position is deprecated. Please use lwt_audio_controller.setPosition.

Full Changelog

• 2.9.0...2.9.1

2.9.0: RESTful and fixes

After more than half a year since the latest release, LWT 2.9.0 fixes numerous bugs and brings something big: a new REST API! It is now possible to interface LWT with other apps, and the development will feel better than ever!

Added

• langFromDict and targetLangFromDict are now officially going to the
  kernel utility functions.
• Text and title boxes change language according to the text's language for
  short text creation/edition, long text creation and text check
  (#111).
• Refactored texts with OOP:
  • New class: Text (in inc/classes/Text.php).
  • New function: edit_texts_form (in edit_texts.php) that takes a Text object as input.
• Tests (checking if you know words) now use AJAX (#112), it has several advantages:
  • Musics play fully
  • Page do not need to reload.
  • The timer continues instead of resetting.
• REST API, the new api.php is intended to continue developing itself
  as a REST API. It features the following interaction:
  • On GET, the endpoints are:
    • /media-files: the list of audio and video files in the media folder.
    • /sentences-with-term: sentences containing a new term.
    • /sentences-with-term/{term-id}: sentences containing a registered term.
    • /similar-terms: terms similar to a given one.
    • /theme-path: the path for a media using theme.
    • /terms
      • /imported: imported terms.
      • /{term-id}/translations: translations for a term.
    • /review
      • /next-word: next word to review.
      • /tomorrow-count: number of reviews for the next day.
    • /phonetic-reading: phonetic reading for a term or sentence.
    • /texts/statistics: word statistics on texts.
    • /version: REST API version.
  • On POST, the endpoints are:
    • /settings: save a setting.
    • /terms followed by:
      • /{term-id} for any term update, in particular:
        • /status, to change the status, followed by either:
          • /down: decrement status of a term by one unit.
          • /up: increment status of a term by one unit.
          • /set/{new-status}: set the status of a term.
        • /translations: add a translation for an existing word.
      • /new: add a translation for a new word.
    • /texts/{text-id} followed by:
      • /annotation: change the text annotation
      • /audio-position: change audio position.
      • /reading-position: change the reading position.
• Similar terms mark the word edit form as edited only if something was
  actually changed.
• You can now specify a socket for your database through $socket in
  connect.inc.php. This feature was brought to you by
  @hangug-eo in his PR
  #132.
• You can now change the voice of the TTT feature through
  text_to_speech_settings.php.
• server_data.php was reorganized and is more informative with details
  about the REST API.

Changed

• User Interface Improvements:
  • Prettier UI to navigate between text creation/edition/archive pages.
  • flex-spaced now sets the property of text-align: center;. This property was inherited before.
  • The long text import page looks a bit nicer.
• User Experience:
  • When reading text, you can click on "Show All" and "Translations" to click the checkbox.
  • When changing a word status, the displayed messaged is now more informative: before database change, success message, now: waiting screen, tentative database change, result message (error or success). Under the hood, we are transitioning from pure PHP to AJAX.
  • It is faster to exit a text page: audio and reading position saves are now asynchronous.
• Annotations "order" are now identical to Ti2Order (in textitems2). It makes management easier, but users may need to reload the annotations once.
• Updated composer dependencies (up-to-date 2023-11-23).

Fixed

• When editing an existing text, surrounding spaces are no longer inserted (#92).
• Language code is better detected from translator URL when editing an existing language.
• The field "Short Text Import" on long text import and was not redirecting to
  the intended page. Same goes for "New Text" on "Archived Texts" page.
• It was impossible to archive more than one text (#118).
• Testing a word was not changing it's color.
• A warning was sent 'Undefined array key "query"' when creating a new word (#121).
• A warning when savings settings in settings.php was sometimes displayed (#121).
• Test header was different when testing languages or terms since 2.1.0-fork.
• Wrong link to documentation (info.php instead of docs/info.html). Signaled by Mooncake on Discord.
• Text reading:
  • The reading button is usable at last! Clicking the button a second time stops the reading process (#108).
  • Text language code was often not recognized in TTT settings (text_to_speech_settings.php).
  • Clicking the "Read" button in TTT Settings was refreshing the page.
• It was impossible to copy a similar term that had apostrophes (#127).
• A deprecation warning for trim was sent in simterms when no similar term was found.
• During a text creation, the media_uri property of Text was used instead of source. Thanks to @hangug-eo for his PR #133!
• When looking for an audio file on file edit/creation, the displayed path may have been wrong for characters between 0x80 and 0x9F.
• Multi-words were not properly highlighted for languages separating each
  character as a word (e. g.: Chinese). Big thanks to @hangug-eo for signaling the issue and solving it in his PR #140!
• The database wizard was not correctly saving the password. This is fixed by
  @hangug-eo in #132.
• The list of translations of a term was sometimes not found on
  text annotation edition.

Deprecated

• Legacy AJAX API. The following AJAX interactions are now deprecated in favor to the new REST API (at api.php):
  • inc/ajax_show_similar_terms.php, use /similar-terms on GET, simterms_lgid becomes lg_id and simterms_word term.
  • inc/ajax_add_term_transl.php
    • For a new term, use /terms/new. lang becomes lg_id, text is term_text.
    • To update an existing term, use /terms/{term-id}/translations. Same arguments.
  • inc/ajax_check_regexp.php should no longer be used and will be removed.
  • inc/ajax_chg_term_status.php should be accessed through /terms/{term-id}/status. Argument data is now part of the URL, on post only.
  • inc/ajax_get_phonetic.php should be accessed through /phonetic-reading, same arguments.
  • inc/ajax_get_theme.php should be accessed through /settings/theme-path. Argument filepath is now path.
  • inc/ajax_save_setting.php should be accessed through /settings, k becomes key and v value.
  • inc/ajax_save_text_position.php should be accessed through /texts/{text-id}/reading-position, tposition is now position.
  • inc/ajax_word_counts.php should be accessed through /texts/statistics, on GET. Argument id is now texts_id.
  • inc/ajax_update_media_select.php should be accessed through /media-files.
  • inc/ajax_show_sentences.php should be accessed through /sentences-with-term, on GET. Argument lang is now lg_id, word is word_lc and woid is word_id, ctl is no longer required.
  • inc/ajax_show_imported_terms.php should be accessed through /terms/imported, same arguments.
  • inc/ajax_save_impr_text.php should be accessed through /texts/{text-id}/annotation, id is now optional.
  • inc/ajax_edit_impr_text.php:
    • On display, using word="" is now deprecated as the page loads in pure PHP.
    • On term edition, should be accessed through /terms/{term-id}/translations, id is now text_id and word becomes text_lc.
• During a word review (test), a "free" test where the user design there own test SQL is now deprecated and will be removed.

Security

• During tests (word review), test data is no longer be send as raw SQL string, except for "free" test.

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• 2.8.1...2.9.0

2.8.1: regular bug crushing

This release fixes some small issues. In particular, you should see multi-words more often!

Changed

• Updated some documentation screenshots: home screen, language edition and terms upload.

Fixed

• Since 2.8.0-fork, PHP installations with ext-dom absent or disabled could not display text.
• Using the import terms feature, it is better detected if local infile is enabled.
• Since 2.2.2-fork, many multi-words were not displayed, as explained in #70. Issues may remain.
• Auto-translation of all words (bulk translate) could not open dictionaries starting with '*'.
• Since 2.7.0-fork, using a dictionary starting with "ggl.php" was creating a fatal error on opening text.

Full Changelog

• 2.8.0...2.8.1

2.8.0: UX/UI refreshment

This somehow shorter release brings a bunch of small but important fixes, and a much better responsive design (it'll both look nicer on your phone and 4K TV!).

Added

• Responsive design improved: LWT gets easier to visualize on phone and big screens!

Changed

• The language settings wizard is now open by default on new language creation.
• Potential breaking change in the way words are displayed while reading. The target was to make the code more robust.
• item_parser and echo_term in do_text_text.php now both takes an optional $expr argument.
• Terms import form changed for a simpler presentation. It becomes easier to use to use on your phone.
• Many tables are now displayed larger (when your screen has the available space).
• Updated composer dependencies.

Fixed

• Removed warnings: dictionaries URL without query do no longer raise warnings.
• Feeds:
  • Click "New Text" on the first page of do_feeds.php had no effect. Changed to "New Feed".
  • Step 2 of feed wizard was sometimes failing because $_SESSION['wizard']['host'] was a string an not an array.
  • Type error in get_links_from_new_feed was breaking step 2 of feed wizard.
  • Loading feeds could result in malformed SQL, see #100. Thanks @maanh96 for the hint!
• Docker: media/ was neither accessible nor saved to a container (#106). Thanks to @parradam for signaling and solving the issue!
• On creating a language, the Glosbe dictionary comes with a "?lwt_popup=1" to open in new window by default.
• Japanese pronunciation: works even if the language is not exactly called "Japanese", see #103.
• Expressions containing word feature repaired! #90.
• On text-to-speech settings, the region was often not displayed.

Full Changelog

• 2.7.0...2.8.0

2.7.0: the Dust-blower

This is a huge release implementing many things I wanted to have in LWT. As for the most important features you get:

• Auto-translation (using ggl.php)
• Auto-romanization of Japanese
• Responsive design
• And much more...

Added

• The translation and romanization of new words can now be automatic.
  • Supported automatic translation is achieved using LibreTranslate.
  • Romanization using MeCab (Japanese only) toward katakana only.
• A lot of improvements for language creation/edition:
  • More intuitive fields, better interactions with the user, etc...
  • A "Pop-Up" checkbox helps you choose if the website should be displayed in a pop-up.
• LWT becomes easier to install and maintain for users:
  • An installer for Linux users at INSTALL.sh helps installing requirements and configuration.
  • Database creation wizard (database_wizard.php) to help setting the connection with the database.
  • A server data page at server_data.php showing all relevant information.
• In index.php:
  • get_server_data_table replaces get_server_data as a better designed function.
  • index_do_main_page now renders the page to avoid global variables.
  • You get warnings if the PHP version is too low, or if a newer version of LWT is released.
• pagestart_kernel_nobody in inc/kernel.php that displays the minimal HTML formatting.
• inc/classes/ folder for a better incorporation of OOP.
  • inc/classes/Term defines the Term class representing a word or multi-word.
  • inc/classes/Language defines the Language class representing a language.
• Post-Install Documentation added:
  • MeCab without and with Docker, Thanks to @99MengXin for the link (#94).
  • LibreTranslate integration.
  • TTS issues, as suggested by @asdrubalivan in #85.

Changed

• Graphic review:
  • Headers reviewed. Most h4 headers became div.bigger, and h3 became h1 level headers.
  • We now use responsive design instead of fixed-size.
  • All themes updated accordingly, so themes were modified.
  • do_text_page (do_text.php) and do_test_page (do_test.php) now enlarge the body.
• echo_lwt_logo in inc/session_utility.php echoes a logo, without information on the table set used
  because it was useless. This information is now displayed on the welcome page.
• Access to the database prefix edition at start.php was reviewed and simplified. It is still considered a legacy feature.
• Language creation reviewed:
  • When creating a new language, the language wizard do no longer display in a pop-up but in the main window.
  • Select option boxes replaced by checkboxes (better accessibility).
• Updated hoverIntent jQuery Plug-in
  from 1.8.0 to 1.10.2. This brings some bug fixes.
• "TO DO" changed to a more explicit "Unknown words" in text header.
• Refactored bulk_translate_word.php. It has a better visual aspect and works better.
• Updated composer dependencies.
  • vimeo/psalm updated from ^4.12 to ^5.6.
  • phpunit/phpunit updated from ^9.5 to ^10.0.
• Changed to the text from YouTube feature (text_from_yt.php):
  • Refactored.
  • Moved from root folder to inc/.
  • This is still an experimental feature!
• Moved Google API files:
  • Moved googleTimeToken.php from root folder to inc/google_time_token.php.
  • Moved googleTranslateClass.php from root folder to inc/classes/GoogleTranslate.php.
• Updates in demo database:
  • Faster to install. install_demo_db_sql.gz uncompressed to install_demo_db.sql. Functions adapted.
  • Dict links changed: ### replaced by lwt_term, * replaced by lwt_popup=1, some dict url protocol changed to https.

Fixed

• Markdown: enforced consistency with official style recommendations. The documentation display got improved.
• The default date for new words was note accepted depending on the SQL configuration, causing issues with Docker installation. See #78.
• Bulk translate words:
  • Translating with bulk translate was not updating word rendering.
  • All broom icons icon were display in the screen top-right corner, and not
    at the right if text field.
• Main page (index.php) was not rendered properly on non-default theme.
• Changing language name was breaking this, this is fixed:
  • Text header was sometimes not available.
  • It was breaking full text-to-speech dispatcher. Issue signaled with issue #80
• Support for PHP 7.4 restored, wrappers for str_starts_with, str_ends_with, str_contains.
• The encoding of docs/info.html is finally fixed!
• ggl.php feature fixed!
• Multi-words:
  • Sometimes multi-words indicator was cut, resulting in strange display (#89).
  • For Japanese: multi-words indicator was before each character, this is fixed #96.
• Wrong link to documentation (docs/info.php instead of docs/info.html) on the help button (main page). Signaled by babaeali on Discord.
• Depending on browser, clicking on deletion button for active texts had no effect.

Deprecated

• Dictionary and translator URIs changed:
  • They should always be proper URLs.
  • Replacing ### by lwt_term is strongly recommended!
  • "*" At the beginning of an URI should be replaced by lwt_popup=1 as an argument.
  • ggl.php should be replaced by the file full URL, for instance "http://localhost/lwt/ggl.php".

Full Changelog

• 2.6.0...2.7.0