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The main areas I think need work:
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- Sub-switches: when deactivating the member system, for example, everything related should turn off too. Would involve a little javascript trickery and visual reorganization.
- Meta-switches: it'd be nice to have one switch that would turn off everything specific to links directories, or everything specific to non-links directories
- RAM usage could be reduced a little more still.
- Ease of use: how could I make WSN Links easier?
I'm also looking for any ways that may come up to apply my improved regular expression skills.
These are the possibilities I have jotted down -- many won't end up included. I'm listing them all in case anyone has feedback on what direction to go with them.
- custom titles page which allows admin to type a url and then type the <title> tag for that page to override the normal title (have them type non-rewritten version of url)
- 'protected fields' (beneth required etc) to make sure only admins can change certain data
- ability to make calendar events span multiple days
- option to recip-check links after 48 hours automatically, email, then delete after another 24 hours. mostly (all?) done for that guy's project
- per-category sponsorship, with an impressions-based option, as described at www.webmastersite.net/forum...ship_enhancement-6351.html
- re-create html templates. put in standard dir rather than custom.
- PostgreSQL support
- Oracle support
- ability to set links submitted by certain usergroups (especially guest) to expire after x days with a special email telling them that it expired because they weren't in the right usergroup.
- www.webmastersite.net/forum...ry_authorization-4651.html
- let submitters add an XML (or RSS? maybe handle both plain RSS and the WSN xml format for greater flexibility) feed whose items will be inserted into the directory(/forum) and updated daily... link field lastxmlupdate would be the timer, if it's been more than a day then query new data before showing link details. the feed will be a member field i guess. for wsn forum, this feature can auto-post threads. These links/threads will still go through the validation process if the submitter's usergroup requires validation. validation of edits will be annoying to handle, but so it goes.
- extract pattern from page. say, grab http://something and save whatever is between blah1 and blah2 to pagepart.txt. Type <!-- INSERT CONTENT pagepart --> in template to call it. encourages illegality though despite legit uses.
- tag clouds
- custom fields for reports
- payment detail logging
- switch to turn avatars off
- 'next page' and 'previous page' links in pagination
- single template var containing entire navigation bit
- in-template method to set a custom wrapper, <!-- usewrapper=wrapper2 -->
- sponsorship discounts for specific members
- admin search bulk editing of results
- reminder once of joined event via popup message from 10 minutes before it takes place through the scheduled end time if they come online. to have it not repeat, use calendar field 'reminded'. also have standard email reminder a day in advance, as user option.
- option to limit number of [img] tags per post
- when deleting forum/category, an option to auto-transfer all topics/links/posts to specified forum/category... just some UPDATE queries
- switch-activated pre-made avatar gallery
- ability to add extra attachment fields such as a label for each attachment that submitter can type on suggest/edit link/comment pages
- put cookie path/domain in config.php or make it overrideable by tweaks.php so that don't have to go into database when stupid conflicts happen
- limit guest access by any single IP to x page loads per day (like whois.sc does) as another rouge spider control
- per-category specification of allowed link types to submit [alter selector, also reject after submit if you try to cheat]
- ldap authentication option (see bookmark)
- for 'between' search that uses two boxes -- need a way to make the second box appear dynamically
- mechanism to override redirects with $_POST['returnto'] even when admin setting isn't blank, maybe. would go along with consolidation of redirects into a redirect function, perhaps.
- switch: optional integration of voting with comment posting so that each comment has commenter's vote with it
- switch: option to let link owners respond to comments within them
- make rotating letter work as sort order for searches (currently only works in index.php)
Note some of these aren't listed in the poll because I already know I'm going to do them, and others because it's a matter of feasibility rather than popularity. |
