[24-June-2024] Payment Form version 7.0.0 releases

=13pxDear CustomersToday, I released Payment Form version 7.0.0 . In this version, we decided to start dropping support for Joomla 3 and focus future development of the extension for Joomla 4, Joomla 5 and future Joomla versions only. For Joomla 3, we will only release new version if there is bug fixes, no new features will be added for Joomla 3 version.

1. Raise PHP and Joomla Version Requirement

- Minimum PHP version now is PHP 7.4.0
- Minimum Joomla version requirement is now 4.4.0

2. Code Clean Up

In earlier version of Payment Form, we have to maintain old code to support Joomla 3. From this version, we drop support for Joomla 3, so we spent time to clean up code to use latest Joomla API, remove the code which is needed to have the extension works well with Joomla 3.

Also, support for Twitter Bootstrap 2 and Twitter Bootstrap 3 was removed because on Joomla 4 and Joomla 5, most customers are using Twitter Bootstrap 5 and UIKIT 3 (from Yootheme)

3. Convert Payment Form Plugins To New Structure

Joomla 4 introduce new plugin structure which make it faster for plugins to run. As we dropped support for Joomla3, we could convert all plugins in the extension to use new structure, result in cleaner code and performance improvement.

Please update your site to this latest version of Payment Form to use these improvements. Thanks for continue using our products and support our development.

Regards,

Tuan

Sorry, there was a small bug in the plugin Content - Payment Form , so I released version 7.0.1 contains the fix. If you updated to 7.0.0 before, please update to 7.0.1 to have the issue fixed

Sorry for the inconvenience

Regards,

Tuan

Hi I updated the component
Now I receive this message
public_html/components/com_pmform/Helper/PaymentMethods.php on line 163

I use joomla 5
Something went wrong with your update

Hi Davide

Exactly what's the error? Could you please send me screenshot of the error page so that I can take a quick look to see what's wrong here ?

Or better, submit a support ticket sending us super user account of the site and link to the page which we can see the error so that I can check to see why it happens and get it sorted

Regards,

Tuan

Hi, can you release a "bug fix only" separate version for 3.x? I have an update available notification in my Joomla 3.x dashboards and it won't let me install 7.0.1

Otherwise it's a little misleading here, it makes it seem like J3.9 is supported with the latest 7.x version of Payment Form:
joomdonation.com/joomla-extensions/joomla-payment-form.html

Hi Nate

Yes. I will handle that in next release of the extension

Regards,

Tuan

Hello Tuan,

Thank you for your support but when the next update will be available which supports Joomla 3?

Thanks in advance.

Hi Amad

The version for Joomla 3 is now in maintenance mode only, so unless there is new bugs/security issue found, we won't release new version for Joomla 3

At this time, users should plan to update sites to Joomla 4/ Joomla 5

Regards,

Tuan

BTW, we provide service to update sites from Joomla 3 to Joomla 5. So if anyone wants to update sites to Joomla 5, feel free to submit a support ticket to ask us to look at it and give you quote for upgrading

Regards,

Tuan