Current Release: Version 2.6.3

Current Release: Version 2.6.3

Release Date: September 3, 2026
Status: Stable Release

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📈 Version 2.6.3 - About Popup & README Cleanup

Released: September 3, 2026

🌟 Highlights

• New About popup — a beautiful modal that shows the
  current MyAPIs version (loaded from a single source of truth),
  a short project description, six feature highlights, and
  quick links to GitHub, the release notes and the author's
  blog
• Single-source version metadata in
  public/includes/version.php —
  bumps only need to be made once and they propagate to every
  page that renders the About popup (homepage + all 7 tool
  pages)
• data-open-about trigger — any element with the
  data-open-about attribute opens the popup; the homepage
  exposes it under the status badge (ℹ️ About MyAPIs) and
  every page exposes it through the footer (ℹ️ About)
• Accessibility built-in — role="dialog", aria-modal,
  aria-labelledby, Escape-to-close, backdrop click-to-close,
  and a small focus-trap so keyboard users stay inside the
  modal while it is open
• Responsive — on screens ≤ 480 px the feature list stacks
  to a single column and the action buttons wrap to multiple
  rows
• Rendered once per request — guarded by the
  MYAPIS_ABOUT_POPUP_RENDERED constant inside the footer
  partial, so even if multiple pages include the footer the
  popup markup / <style> / <script> only appears once

🔧 How It Works

A new shared partial lives at
public/includes/about_popup.php
and is automatically appended by the footer partial. It
expects (or requires on demand)
public/includes/version.php:

$MYAPIS_VERSION = [
    'version'  => '2.6.3',
    'codename' => 'About Popup',
    'released' => '2026-09-03',
];

To bump the version, edit public/includes/version.php —
nothing else needs to change. The popup reads the array and
renders both the gradient version pill (v2.6.3 · About Popup)
and the released date automatically.

To add a new trigger anywhere on the site, just add the
data-open-about attribute:

<a href="#" data-open-about>ℹ️ About</a>
<button data-open-about>What's this?</button>

The popup closes when the user clicks the close button, the
backdrop, or presses Escape.

📁 Updated Files

• public/includes/version.php — new single-source
  version metadata (version, codename, released)
• public/includes/about_popup.php — new About popup
  partial (HTML + scoped CSS + JS open/close behaviour,
  focus trap, Escape handler)
• public/includes/footer.php — appends the popup partial
  (guarded by MYAPIS_ABOUT_POPUP_RENDERED) and adds a new
  ℹ️ About link with data-open-about
• public/index.php — adds an extra ℹ️ About MyAPIs link
  under the status badge for first-visit discoverability
• README.md — removed the in-README version / changelog
  sections (Latest Updates v2.5.0, v2.4.0, v2.3.x, v2.0.0);
  a one-liner now points readers at this file
• RELEASE.md — bumped current release pointer to 2.6.3

✅ Verification

• All four PHP files (version.php, about_popup.php,
  footer.php, index.php) pass php -l
• ℹ️ About link confirmed in the footer of every page
  (homepage + 7 tool pages)
• ℹ️ About MyAPIs link confirmed on the homepage, sitting
  just below the ✅ All Systems Operational badge
• Popup opens via both triggers, closes via the close
  button, backdrop click, and Escape
• Keyboard tab order stays inside the modal while it is open
• No duplicate popup markup when multiple pages include the
  footer in the same request (constant guard)
• No backend / API changes; existing endpoints unaffected

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📈 Version 2.6.2 - Unified Site Footer

Released: September 3, 2026

🌟 Highlights

• Shared footer across every page — the homepage and all
  seven tool pages (fortune-teller, health-calculator,
  password-generator, promptpay-qr-generator,
  qr-code-generator, randomizer, username-generator)
  now render the same footer via a single partial, so links
  and copyright stay consistent everywhere
• New Blog link to https://atipat.lorwongam.com — sits
  alongside the GitHub repository link and opens in a new tab
• Dead anchor links removed — #documentation, #api-status
  and #support (which had no targets on the homepage) are
  gone; only meaningful links remain in the footer
• Two style variants (glass / simple) so the footer
  looks right on the gradient homepage and on the lighter,
  opaque-container tool pages
• Responsive — links stack vertically on narrow screens
  (≤ 600 px)

🔧 How It Works

A new shared partial lives at
public/includes/footer.php.
It accepts an optional $footer_variant variable:

• 'glass' (default) — translucent card with white text and
  a #ffd700 hover, designed for the gradient homepage
• 'simple' — lighter styling for tool pages that already
  have their own opaque background container

Each tool page simply sets the variant and includes the
partial right before </body>:

<?php $footer_variant = 'simple'; ?>
<?php include __DIR__ . '/../includes/footer.php'; ?>

CSS is emitted inline by the partial itself, so the existing
inline <style> blocks in each tool page don't need any
changes. The homepage keeps using the old .footer class names
intact in public/assets/css/index.css for backwards
compatibility — the new partial just supersedes them.

📁 Updated Files

• public/includes/footer.php — new shared footer
  partial (glass + simple variants, responsive)
• public/index.php — replaces inline .footer markup with
  include of the partial (glass variant)
• public/tools/fortune-teller.php — includes partial
  (simple variant)
• public/tools/health-calculator.php — includes partial
  (simple variant)
• public/tools/password-generator.php — includes partial
  (simple variant)
• public/tools/promptpay-qr-generator.php — includes
  partial (simple variant)
• public/tools/qr-code-generator.php — includes partial
  (simple variant)
• public/tools/randomizer.php — includes partial
  (simple variant)
• public/tools/username-generator.php — includes partial
  (simple variant)
• README.md — bumped current release pointer to 2.6.2

✅ Verification

• All eight pages (public/index.php + 7 tools) confirmed to
  render exactly one footer instance — no duplicate footers
• Footer links (GitHub + Blog) verified to open in a new tab
  with rel="noopener noreferrer"
• Blog link points to https://atipat.lorwongam.com
• Responsive layout verified: links switch from row to column
  at ≤ 600 px viewport width
• No backend / API changes; existing endpoints unaffected

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