2.7.0: the Dust-blower

[HugoFara]

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 Invalid default value for 'WoStatusChanged' #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 (Expressions in RTL languagues display twice #89).
  • For Japanese: multi-words indicator was before each character, this is fixed Multi-words for Japanese displayed next to each character #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

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