View source for TMM Insider Newsletter June 2008 (Vol. I, Issue 3)

== Recent News ==

=== Too Much Media Takes Over Vegas! ===
Representatives from Too Much Media will be on-hand at next month's 
[http://www.xbizsummerforum.com/ X-Biz Summer Forum] in Las Vegas, NV on July 9-11.  Come check out the 
latest releases of all products, including NATS v4.0 and CARMA v1.3.  If 
you are attending the forum, please come find us and we will be happy to 
field any questions or concerns you may have.  Please let us know what 
you think, as we always welcome any feedback you may have for us!

=== CARMA 1.3 Release date set for 06/16/2008! ===
We at Too Much Media are constant striving to provide you with the most 
up-to-date, cutting edge software solutions.  We have been working hard 
on our latest major revision of CARMA, and we are pleased to announce 
that the release date for CARMA 1.3 is set for Monday, June 16, 2008.  
Check out the details of what we've added in the Recent Feature 
Additions Section below! If you are interested in receiving an upgrade, 
please submit a ticket at http://clients.toomuchmedia.com.

== Recent Feature Additions & Bug Fixes ==

=== NATS v3.1 ===
==== WebBilling Integration ====
NATS is now fully integrated with WebBilling, a payment processor that
specializes in European Direct Debit transaction processing. For more
information on WebBilling and their services, or to signup with
WebBilling, please visit
http://webbilling.com/ach-check-processing/online-check-processing.html
or contact JoeD at joed@webbilling.com <mailto:joed@webbilling.com>.

==== GTBill Integration ====
NATS now supports credit card processing for GTBill. If you are
interested in using GTBill as a payment processor, please visit
http://www.gtbill.com or email [mailto:support@GTbill.com support@GTbill.com].

==== Data Encryption Update ==== 
Based on the request from a number of customers, you can now choose
whether or not to store sensitive data (such as email addresses or tax
id's) encrypted in the NATS database. While having your data encrypted
will not affect your view in the NATS admin, it is not possible to
return partial matches in any of the admin searches. The option to
switch back/forth will only be available while a TMM tech support
specialist is performing an upgrade. If you would like to take advantage
of this feature, please submit a ticket at
http://clients.toomuchmedia.com. _*PLEASE NOTE THAT PASSWORDS WILL
ALWAYS BE ENCRYPTED IN YOUR NATS DATABASE*_.

==== CCBill Polling Fix ==== 
We recently found and corrected a bug that would cause the [[ct#Expire|expire]] date
for rebilling [[CCBill]] members to be set incorrectly in certain
circumstances.

==== Account Rep Access To Admin Overview ====
We now provide a configuration variable
($config['ALLOW_ACCT_ADMIN_REPORTS']=1) that allows [[ct#Account Representative|account reps]] to view
the admin overview.

==== Content of The Day Fixes ====
We have made a number of internal changes to make our [[Content of the Day Module]]
module more stable and easier to use.

==== Epoch & Email to Owner Fix ====
There was a bug introduced either on or after v3.1.46.1 that caused the
email address of the owner to be decrypted incorrectly when trying to
send an owner email when an [[Epoch]] initial transaction is received. This
has been corrected in the latest release.

==== Deep Linking Fix ====
After sanitizing all of the appropriate variables, some of the
tracking/redirect scripts were not properly rebuilding the query string
used for deep linking. This has been resolved in the latest release.

==== NetBilling Reporting Changes ====
Netbilling has recently made enhancements to their transaction reporting
interface. Although this does not affect any current customers, the
latest version of NATS 3.1 takes advantages of these changes.

==== CCBill Affiliate Changes ====
We have made changes in the order in which fields appear when
visiting ccbill_ref.php, which is used to merge existing CCBill
affiliate accounts.

==== Australian Dollar Support ====
The Australian dollar (AUD) is now a supported currency in NATS.

==== get_paid_date ====
This is a new [[Smarty]] function that has been added to our list of NATS
template functions that outputs the last date an affiliate was paid.
Details on how this function works can be found at
http://kb.toomuchmedia.com/idx/0/687/.

==== CCBill EU Debit Fix ====
NATS will now correctly convert EU Debit transactions from CCBill.

==== CCBill Regional Pricing ====
NATS will now support CCBill's regional pricing feature. This allows
CCBill to bill someone in currencies other than your own, and NATS will
convert the transaction back to your base currency when the transaction
is posted back to NATS.

==== NetBilling Cross-Sales Fix ====
NATS can now correctly process netbilling [[ct#Cross Sell|cross-sale]] transactions.

==== Custom Fields and Special Billers ====
NATS will now store custom information for your members when they decide
to join via a dialer or other special biller.

==== Third Party Sale Fix ====
Affiliates will now get webmaster referral payments on any third-party
transactions that are referred through NATS.

==== Forget Password Improvements ====
The script that handles forgotten passwords has been modified to be more
stable under certain unique circumstances.

==== Manual Sale Changes ====
NATS will now give proper affiliate credit when adding a manual sale for
an upgrade.

==== Distinguish Failed Logins From Timeouts on Login Page ====
NATS will now have a parameter in the URL distinguishing whether the
affiliate/admin was denied access because their login failed or their
session timed out.

==== 24-hour Format Bug ====
There was a bug in NATS that caused NATS to only store initial
transaction in a 12-hour format instead of the intended 24-hour format.
This has been resolved in the latest version.

=== CARMA v1.3 ===

==== Content Delivery Network Support ====
We are excited to announce that we are working with a number of CDN
providers to integrate CARMA with their content delivery solutions.
Using a CDN in conjunction with CARMA will greatly alleviate your
server's workload when dealing a large amount of traffic or content. We
currently support Highwinds, and we are in the process of integrating
CaveCreek and ISprime as well. If you have another CDN you would like to
work with, please submit a ticket at http://clients.toomuchmedia.com.

==== Content Scan Fix ====
The content scan feature now correctly ignores any .extra files found in
the directory you are trying scan for CARMA content. 

==== News Admin Javascript Fix ====
There was a bug that was breaking the JavaScript associated with the
News Admin when someone used quotes in a section name. This has been
fixed as of the latest release version.

==== New Actor Template Function ====
We have added a new function called carma_actor_field, which will pull
all of the distinct values from a field in your actors table. This
function is useful for dynamically building dropdown lists that are used
to search on an actor's attributes.

==== Short Name in show_video.php ====
show_video will now have the shortname of the video including in it
output vars.

==== Improvements to Most Viewed Function ====
carma_most_viewed can now output the result for a specific member by
passing the memberid to the function.

==== Improved Stats ====
We updated CARMA's stats feature so that you can view data based on
sites, members, and content.

==== x-sendfile Support ====
CARMA now provides support for the apache x-sendfile module. This will
allow apache to serve your content files without having the transmission
of the file subject to php timeouts and memory limits. This is ideal for
anyone trying to publish extremely large content files (>= 500MB per
file). If you are interested in this feature in particular, please
submit a ticket at http://clients.toomuchmedia.com 

==== Generic Comments ====
Comments do not have to be associated to a particular content set,
meaning your members can leave generic feedback about your site via the
comments feature.

==== Background Importing ====
We've moved the import function to work as a background process so you
can continue to use your admin while videos are being moved into CARMA

==== CARMA Favorites ====
We've added a new function that will allow members to tag a content set
as a favorite. Now you can make it easy for your members to come back to
the content sets they like the most!

==== Carma Top Actors ====
We are in the process of adding a new function that 
will output content sets for a popular actor based on rating or number 
of views.

==== CARMA List Improvements ====
The carma_list function can now pull in even more data from the CARMA
database, even actor data!

==== CARMA Search Additions ====
You can now use carma_search to search your content by title,
description, and set id

==== XML Parsing Fix ====
We recently fixed a bug that prevented CARMA from parsing nested XML
children in extended data.

==== Publish Rules Update ====
We also altered the way CARMA executes publishing rules after a content
set is deleted for consistency purposes.

==== Image Rotation Bug Fix ====
There was a JavaScript bug involving the rotation of individual images
in a photo. This has been resolved.



If you are interested in utilizing any of these features, please submit 
a ticket at http://clients.toomuchmedia.com and one of our technicians 
will upgrade you to the latest version of our software.

== On The Hotplate ==

=== NATS v4.0 ===
We are pleased to announce that [[NATS4|NATS v4.0]] has moved into its next stage
of closed beta-testing on multiple clients. As the testing continues, we
will invite more and more clients to test along with us until a release
candidate is ready for public distribution. We will continue to keep you
up to date as the testing process progresses.

==== Bulk Importing of Downloadable Adtools ====
We are currently developing 
a bulk importer that will allow you to bring a large number of your 
downloadable ad tools into NATS on one form.

==== GXBill EU Debit Support ====
We are currently added EU debit support to our existing integration
of [[GXBill]].

==== FHG Smarty Function ====
We have added a new NATS template function 
called [[fhg]] which will pull information about your Free Hosted Galleries 
from your NATS database.  This will allow you to generate a listing your 
free hosted galleries based on a number of criteria.

==== Group Support for Banners ====
We are adding the ability to add banners to a group of your choosing,
in the same manner you would do so for hosted ad tools or
downloadable content.

=== CARMA v2.0 ===
Initial planning for CARMA v2.0 is under way! We have already created a
laundry list of ideas we would like to include, but we are always
looking for outside input. If there is something you would like to see
in the next major release of CARMA, please let us know by submitting a
ticket at http://clients.toomuchmedia.com

== TMM Insider Tip: Custom Smarty Functions ==
Have you ever run into a situation where the built-in functions for
Smarty and NATS aren't exactly what you were looking for? Did you know
that it is possible and actually fairly simple to add your own Smarty
functions to accomplish that one little thing you've been looking to add
to your template. With some basic knowledge of PHP, you can create your
own function in no time. Details on how to creating your own functions
can be found at http://kb.toomuchmedia.com/idx/0/667/ and
http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/plugins.php.

== Feedback ==
Is there something that you would like to see here on this newsletter? 
Have an idea for Tip of the Day?  If so, then contact the editor at 
kevin.wetter@toomuchmedia.com <mailto:kevin.wetter@toomuchmedia.com>
Thought of a new feature that you think would benefit all of our 
clients?   If so, please submit a ticket at http://clients.toomuchmedia.com

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