Add author management functionality and update routing rules

- Updated .htaccess rules to allow trailing slashes for specific routes.
- Introduced a new .gitignore file to exclude the cache directory.
- Created project configuration file for Serena with language and tool settings.
- Implemented Authors class for managing author data, including methods for saving, deleting, and editing authors.
- Added factory class for Authors to handle database interactions related to authors.
- Developed Article class to manage article data and interactions, including fetching articles and updating views.
- Created Page class with a placeholder method for sorting pages.
- Added front factory class for fetching author details with caching.

autoload/admin/factory/class.Settings.php

@@ -5,20 +5,20 @@ class Settings
   public static function settings_update( $param, $value )
   {
     global $mdb;
-    
-    $mdb -> delete( 'pp_settings', [ 'param' => $param ] );
-    $mdb -> insert( 'pp_settings', [ 'param' => $param, 'value' => $value ] );
-    
-    return true;
+
+    if ( $mdb -> count( 'pp_settings', [ 'param' => $param ] ) )
+      return $mdb -> update( 'pp_settings', [ 'value' => $value ], [ 'param' => $param ] );
+    else
+      return $mdb -> insert( 'pp_settings', [ 'param' => $param, 'value' => $value ] );
   }
-  
+
   public static function settings_save(
     $firm_name, $firm_adress, $additional_info, $contact_form, $contact_email, $email_host, $email_port, $email_login, $email_password, $google_maps,
     $facebook_link, $statistic_code, $htaccess, $robots, $newsletter_header, $newsletter_footer_1, $newsletter_footer_2, $google_map_key, $google_search_console, $update, $devel,
-    $news_limit, $visit_counter, $calendar, $tags, $ssl, $mysql_debug, $htaccess_cache, $visits, $links_structure, $link_version, $widget_phone, $update_key, $newsletter_cron )
+    $news_limit, $visit_counter, $calendar, $tags, $ssl, $mysql_debug, $htaccess_cache, $visits, $links_structure, $link_version, $widget_phone, $update_key )
   {
     global $mdb;
-    
+
     $mdb -> query( 'TRUNCATE pp_settings' );
 
     $mdb -> insert( 'pp_settings', [
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ class Settings
               'value' => $additional_info
             ], [
               'param' => 'contact_form',
-              'value' => $contact_form == 'on' ? 1 : 0
+              'value' => $contact_form
             ], [
               'param' => 'contact_email',
               'value' => $contact_email
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ class Settings
               'value' => $visits
             ], [
               'param' => 'links_structure',
-              'value' => $links_structure 
+              'value' => $links_structure
             ], [
               'param' => 'link_version',
               'value' => $link_version
@@ -121,9 +121,6 @@ class Settings
             ], [
               'param' => 'update_key',
               'value' => $update_key
-            ], [
-              'param' => 'newsletter_cron',
-              'value' => $newsletter_cron
             ]
           ]
     );
@@ -138,11 +135,11 @@ class Settings
   public static function settings_details()
   {
     global $mdb;
-    
+
     $results = $mdb -> select( 'pp_settings', '*', [ 'ORDER' => [ 'id' => 'ASC' ] ] );
     if ( is_array( $results ) ) foreach ( $results as $row )
       $settings[$row['param']] = $row['value'];
-    
+
     return $settings;
   }