V3 Badger Claw

Badger Claw is the third release of WP-Librarian Alpha. It was released on August 6th 2015. A great deal of minor fixes have been made since Wolf Tail, including some which made WP-Librarian unusable on older PHP installations. Minor features have been implemented allowing for 3rd party plugins, faster page loading and improved item/member/loan/fine browsing.

The long awaited implementation of email notifications was unfortunately delayed until the fourth Alpha release.

Check [the Milestone](../milestones/Alpha V3 (Badger Claw)) to see the individual issues tied to this release.

On 10/08/15 Badger Claw was hotfixed with the following changes:

• Fixed outdated minified asset being loaded
• Fixed JS error when a Dashboard error occurred, preventing Dash error from occurring

###Features

• Sortable Admin Tables: Sort Item/Member/Loan/Fine post tables by previously unsortable columns such as item condition or loan due date.
• Minified Assets: While WordPress has built in minification it's recommended that developers use minified assets for production.
• Button to delete a library object on the Dashboard being coloured red to warn of its permanent nature
• A link to edit each member on the members admin post table. This saves going via the Dashboard
• Multiple documented plugin hooks, allowing developers to create plugins that interact with WP-Librarian

###Fixes

• The no selection bug: On certain Dashboard pages librarians were able to create invalid loans by failing to select a member. This is present in Wolf Tail but not Fox Paw.
• Admin only settings: In order to access the library settings page you had to be both a WP-Librarian Admin and a WordPress Admin. IIRC this is in both Wolf Tail and Fox Paw.
• Item cover images lacking URLs: Because internal Dashboard links are all dynamically generated the URLs you see are only generated so you can copy them for convenience or Ctrl + Click to open them in a new tab. Cover images link to the page for managing the item but have no psudo-URL.
• Items marked as delisted not appearing on the Admin Items table.
• A query being performed to check a user's library level even if no user is logged in.
• PHP Undefined offset notice on item and member admin post tables
• PHP Undefined index notice when on edit item/member pages
• PHP Undefined index notice when viewing Dashboard tables
• PHP Undefined variable error when halting AJAX page loading because of an error
• PHP Strict errors caused by the library object class using the same function name create as its child classes but a different scope and different parameters
• Parsing error on PHP versions 5.3 and older caused by use of array() shorthand
• The notification for deleted library objects listing them as plural ('Items deleted') when only single items were deleted
• Fixed Manage Item Dashboard page only displaying 10 members to loan the Item to
• Fixed security bug that may have allowed Items on loan to be deleted
• Fixed handling currency as a float (yes, I know)

###Misc.

• Removal of 'Placeholder' field for items marked as DVDs