Some suggestions for a new version

After few time spent programming in ASP it was necessary also to start using php and some weeks ago I started to learn it.

Last week I had the opportunity to test and see also the invision board and vBulletin forum but in particular admin section and I was amazed... what many features php allows to add!

Anyway, I took some of them as an example and studied how they could be implemented in the forum using asp language and, hoping to be usefult, I'm goingo to post them.

I think they could be very useful for part of all web wiz forums users and the most of them are not too long to be added.
- boRg -, I've seen browsing the forums that you're very busy and I understand that it could be hard to take to time to implement them.
I think, if you want, there will be no problem for wwf community to help you creating part of them as a mod that you could easily adapt to your (and wwf) standards.

Well, about the features I'd like to suggest:

1. In the Lock Forums section to add a textarea where admin could decide to write a message that could be displayed to users.
In this way admin don't have to change language file to temporaly close the forum and he also may do that if not with FTP access in that moment.
In the same way there could be also a radio or select option to decide if closed forums page must display standard text (taken from the language file) or database text.
This feature because the forum could be closed to database maintenance and it could be hard to make a fully db maintenance if it is query to show the db message.   

2. Add in banned IPs and banned email domains also a section to select banned usernames.
(I made something like that as a mod many time ago).

3. Add a on/off option to turn on an option to notify the admin (or to a different email address filled in a input text) when a new user is registered to the forums.

4. Well, I think this feature you've just added in the 8.0 version.
It's subforums and moderate forum feature.
I take the time to send you my compliments for addind the feature.

5. Dynamic smileys admin.
Yes, this feature requires to change the emoticons array to a dinamic array created quering the db, but it could allows admin (in particulat user that are not asp friendly) to easily manage them eventually using the upload object supported by the forums.

6. I was forgotten... in forum closed section add an option to allows users or group of users to entry the forums (for example moderators) also if it's closed.

7. In manage forums section adding an option to create forum rules.
I think each forum usually have a policy that could be shared and for all forums or it could be refered to a particular section.
Well, this feature could allow admin to add a single forum regolamentation (for that now you can use announcement) that could be linked or displayed at the top of the forum or, for example, just above the forum layout.

8. Add an option to notify the user about the topic he posted in.
I've already created a mod for this that uses a string, just one query and the InStr function without slowing down database performance.
It allows the user to friendly found in forum topics page the topic where he posted in, notified for example as a different post icon or an other icon.


Well, sorry for the long post , anyway I hope it could be useful.
They are just suggestions and ideas but I hope some (or all ) of them will be added in a next version.

PS. Sorry for my english errors.