Every year in June, around the 10th day, a commemorative event happens in Akron, Ohio - the annual celebration of the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. Hosted at the University of Akron, over 10,000 participants from around the world gather to celebrate the founding of this wonderful fellowship. In recent years, registration for this all weekend event has moved from mail-in forms to an online registration process. Online registration challenges from the past few years had made us seek a solution to that could handle a surge of registrations in the first 24 hours, and collect all the necessary information required by the University.

In past years, Zen Cart could handle our registrations - it may have even been able to handle it this year, except we needed to collect more infomation than in years' past, and we wanted to still be able to allow multiple registrations per transaction. One serious issue from last year was the server became overloaded as thousands of registants came to the site to register at midnight. We had 42 days to pick a solution, and implement.

To make custom tabs when viewing a contact, begin by using the tabs_hook "hook_civicrm_tabs".

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviCRM+hook+specification#CiviCRMhookspecification-hookcivicrmtabs

A simple example given on the hooks documentation link above

function civitest_civicrm_tabs( &$tabs, $contactID ) {

// unset the contribition tab, i.e. remove it from the page
unset( $tabs[1] );

// let's add a new "contribution" tab with a different name and put it last

We are excited to announce that CiviCRM 3.1.3 has been released, and is now available for download. You can also try it out on our demo site. This release includes jQuery performance improvements for drupal and 50+ bug fixes/improvements to existing functionality.

This is by no means an elegant solution, but is at least a step towards automatically creating an associated Drupal user when adding a membership to a CiviCRM individual.

We are happy to announce release of CiviCRM 3.1.2 and is now available for download. You can also try it out on our demo site. This release includes 35+ bug fixes/improvements to existing functionality. We recommend that sites currently running v3.1.1 or earlier upgrade to this version as soon as possible.

Download

The team is excited to announce the release of CiviCRM 3.1 Stable. You can download the release AND / OR try it out on our demo sites.

The version number for the initial stable release is 3.1.1. There was an invalid 3.1.0 distribution on Sourceforge for a few hours. If you downloaded that version, please discard and re-download 3.1.1.

v3.1 includes several COOL new features:

This is a follow up to Refactoring CiviCRM's templating system (starting with CSS). It may be helpful to read that first, although it is certainly not necessary.

We have made a lot of progress on CiviCRM 3.1's templating system, and I'm quite please to share some of the details of the work with you!

The sixth BETA release of version 3.1 is now available for download. You can also try it out on our public demo. Check out release highlights here!. (Please remember it’s a beta release and it shouldn’t be used on production sites.)

Step up and help out!

Beta releases are a great occasion to get involved in CiviCRM community. There are many ways you can help make this release better and bug free.

The fifth BETA release of version 3.1 is now available for download. This release includes some security fixes so if you are already on 3.1 we would recommend upgrade. You can also try it out on our public demo. Check out release highlights here!. (Please remember it’s a beta release and it shouldn’t be used on production sites.)

The fourth BETA release of version 3.1 is now available for download. You can also try it out on our sandbox site. Check out release highlights here!. (Please remember it’s a beta release and it shouldn’t be used on production sites.)