simpleContact 1.2 is available
If you arrived here via a certain update link you’ll already know what this post is about! I’ve released simpleContact 1.2. This is a maintenance release, which doesn’t bring radical changes but improves compatibility and existing features.
New additions
- 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)
Tweaks and fixes
- 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
This will be the last version before the release of simpleContact Pro, which I will start work on in the new year. The applications will exist side by side, with an upgrade path for those that want the advanced features of the Pro version (e.g. custom fields). I also have many ideas up my sleeve for the free version…
But all that’s for another day! Today, head on over to my downloads page and grab version 1.2. I hope you find it useful!
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January 6th, 2008 at 3:49 am
hey alex, why do i get an error saying too many connections?
January 6th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Hi Izac,
Please use my contact form to send me a more detailed description of the problem.
I need to know exactly where this error occurs for you.
If you can tell me who your host is and supply me with your FTP details (again, do this privately - you don’t want to publicise that information!) I can investigate.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Hi Alex,
The error has disappeared. I can now access the send mails and access the login page. Previously it was down completely. Is this a one off incident to do with the host?
January 10th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
That is very likely to be the case.
I did some research, and it seems most likely to happen on a busy website that is hosted on a shared server. Simply put, your website was exceeding the amount of simultaneous connections your MySQL database can handle.
You may want to upgrade to a dedicated hosting package.