Kryptronic Software Support Forum

Hello everyone.  I know that we said CCP5 would be out originally on 06/20 and we've been pushing the date back every five or so days since then...

CCP5 WILL be out on 07/25 or we will be dropping the $39.99 upgrade price by $10.00 a license.  The main reason we're pushing it back this time is that we want to include the upgrade scripting (which is in it's preliminary stages right now) into the administrator utility itself, so you won't have to install and configure a second set of scripts just to get data over to the new version.

Everyone reading this forum (or *mostly* everyone) already has CCP4 and releasing CCP5 tomorrow without an upgrade script wouldn't do you much good anyway.  For those of you that don't have CCP4 and are patiently waiting - believe me when I say that it will be well worth the wait.

The database features in the program alone are worth the upgrade/install, but there's tons more.  If you haven't checked out the preliminary PDF manual yet, please visit the documents section of the clickcartpro site.  There's a 43 page manual there that sums up the functionality but *does not do the actual program any justice at all*.

My most favorite part of the new program is the fact that 100% of the displays are driven from database tables and text file elements.  That means that if you want to change the look of something, you can do it through admin.  There is no printed text at all in the Perl code.

Better yet, the elements are all run through a display parser built into the code before they are outputted, which means we can do all kinds of cool things with HTML-like tags.  We've created two new tags that can be placed in elements, one to call any available variable that looks like this:

<CGIVAR>variable_name</CGIVAR>

and another that lets you call up another element:

<CGIGET TYPE="ELEMENT" VALUE="element_name">

or execute a subroutine with paramters:

<CGIGET TYPE="SUB" VALUE="sub_name" PARAMS="param 1|param 2|etc..">

or without parameters:

<CGIGET TYPE="SUB" VALUE="sub_name">

There are so many other cool things too.  The manual is well worth the read while you're waiting.  The database and element code is so novel that nobody has ever done it (or probably even thought about it) on the net before.  We went through every email and post on this forum that we received requesting new features and were able to slam in about 90% of them.  CCP5 is what you've been waiting for, please bear with us while we have you wait a bit longer.

Thanks and have a great day.