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The settings page has been re-resigned to group the settings by what they control. Sections can also be expanded and collapsed, allowing you to view only the settings you want to see. The expanded settings shown here are the settings for some of paFileDB 3.6's newest features, comment posting and user registration.

The Manage Categories page with the ability to quickly reorder all categories. Subcategories can also be reordered. Speaking of subcategories, you can now have an unlimited level of subcategories!

paFileDB now supports the latest internet trend - tags. Users will be able to see all tags for a file and quickly view all other files with the same tag. Additionally, if enabled, you can have a "tag cloud" displayed on the main page showing all tags in use.

Spice up your licenses with paFileDB's built-in WYSIWYG HTML editor, powered by TinyMCE. Bold important clauses in your license, create bullet-pointed lists, insert images and do pretty much anything else you want in this editor that works like and feels like a word processor.

The paFileDB Main Page now shows some basic statistics about your database with a link to view more stats. Additionally, you can choose to enable the tag clouid, and display the various tags you have entered for your files. Larger text means more files have that particular tag.

The Category View has 2 new features. The first feature, Quick Download, enables the user to bypass the file info page and jump directly to the download (or mirror selection/license agreement if one is specified for that file). The second new feature allows the user to choose their sorting options. The options are stored in a cookie so files will always be sorted according to the user's preferences.

The View Tag page is similar to the Category View page, however, it shows all files that have a particular tag, allowing users to easily view similar files which share the same tag.

The File View page will now display HTML entered in file info fields. Additionally, the file's tags will be displayed, linked to the View Tag page. One more thing that can't be shown too well in a screenshot is the new AJAX-enabled File Rating. Anyone using a supported browser (virtually any recent browser that has Javascript enabled) can rate a file without the entire page reloading. The rating will be saved and the stars will be updated without the user having to leave the page.

paFileDB now allows users to post comments! Users can use the WYSIWYG HTML editor to format their posts. To protect against any malicious HTML, paFileDB will only allow basic formatting tags to be used; any tags that can be used to mess up the layout of the page, embed media, or run Javascript will be removed.

This is the user comment once it's been posted. Comment posting is also AJAX-enabled, so once the user clicks "Post Comment" it will be saved and displayed without the page reloading.

Comments can be edited in-line. Again, using AJAX, comments can be edited without the need to reload the page.

The Search function has been enhanced to allow you to choose which fields and categories you wish to search in.

The Stats feature from paFileDB 3.1 is back, however, this time it's more efficent and actually works correctly!

Users are now able to register. You can require registration to post comments or download files. After upgrading from 3.5 to 3.6, any existing admins will become users with admin privelages, and the "Manage Admin" section of the admin control panel has been renamed to "Manage Users."

If you're requiring registration and the user is not logged in, they will see this error message instead of the database. The only features available to the guest will be Login or Register, anything else will result in this error.

That's not all...
In addition to all of the new features, paFileDB 3.6 also has many under-the-hood tweaks and changes that improve the performance of paFileDB. The biggest difference is the switch from our proprietary database abstraction layer to ADOdb Lite, an open source abstraction layer that includes support for many more database systems besides MySQL (Only MySQL drivers are included with paFileDB, as that is all we've tested so far, however, you're more than welcome to use an ADOdb driver for a different DBMS and see how it works). Unlike the old abstraction layer, ADOdb allows any type of query to be run, so we were able to combine multiple queries into one. For example, the Search function used to require 2 queries, however, with ADOdb, we were able to combine those 2 queries into one, and add the enhanced search features too!