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VBScript 
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 Posted: 14 October 2006 at 2:15pm |
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Here a few more suggestions. I have picked these up from other forum software and ideas of my own.....
Permission Check All/Deselect All
When you create a forum or use another part of the Admin CP where you interact with the permissions grid I think it would be good to have a small button for each row and column that allows you to select all or deselect all. A simple bit of javascript but very usefull to have!
Enhanced Profile
I think this would work well with the gallery. You could have another table on the profile page that has tabs: "Topics", "Posts", "Gallery".
And when you click on one of the tabs it shows the latest 5 or however many of what ever you click on.
Also, maybe a textarea for things like the interests field.
Most Online
Display the maximum number of users ever on at anyone time and when it was.
Forum Reidrection
Have the option to have a forum as a redirection link. So when they click on the forum hyperlink instead of going to a forum thread page they go to a URL.
Admins and Moderators
Someone might have already mentioned this. Put for things like the active users list it would be useful to display admins and moderators in bold.
Topic Dates
This should probably be only available to admins/moderators. An admin/mod can set a start date and an end date for a topic to be displayed. Before the start date the topic is hidden from view and after the end date it is deleted.
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dfrancis
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Joined: 16 March 2005
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Posted: 14 October 2006 at 3:15pm |
However you do it, you should tie the user upload folder with the user ID somehow so when you delete a user, you also delete the associated folder.
Here's something I've dreamed of for a long time...
Allow users to drag and drop (or cut and paste) images from their hard drive into the RTE. On save, automatically upload the images from the user's clipboard location to the users resource file. Advanced feature would include resizing the image to the same size displayed in the RTE.
It's just a thought but would make the process of uploading local images much easier for non technical users.
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dfrancis
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Posted: 14 October 2006 at 4:19pm |
one more...
It would be "cool" if a past that has been edited would flag as unread/new. Perhaps even when the display edit is off (though that could get confusing). Of course... having the ability to select this option would also be handy.
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miladanimator
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Joined: 24 July 2005
Location: United States
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Posted: 14 October 2006 at 5:39pm |
some suggestions :
1) remove "What's Going On? and stats" from index footer .
2) add a stat page (stats.asp) and add all stats in this page ...
for example :
| Forum Statistics |
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Our users have posted 106,489 Posts in 19,314 Topics in 21 Forum(s)
Last Post; Today at 10:19pm By dfrancis
We have 9,977 Forum Members
The Newest Forum Member is SGr33n |
| Active Users |
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In total there are 55 Active Users online, 49 Guest(s) and 6 Member(s)
Member(s) online: -boRg-, SGr33n, miladanimator, urko, MadDog, Scotty32
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| Today's Birthdays |
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wanfango (29), Alkens (35), twoh (45), sonny b (54) |
and add : who visited today and who register today ....
the number of today registers , this week registers and .....
3) add online chat + pm for online members ...
4) use AJAX in the site forms : register, login, search, post and ... forms ...
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Web Wiz Developer
Joined: 03 September 2001
Location: Bournemouth
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Posted: 14 October 2006 at 5:54pm |
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Some good ideas, AJAX is being consider for some things, but it does pose quite a security risk for things like on the register page, as seen in some mods, if a secure way can be found to do it, then it will certainly be added.
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mats
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Joined: 14 October 2006
Location: Sweden
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Posted: 14 October 2006 at 6:37pm |
Two ideas.
The first one is rather hard i think but it would be really nice to have an isolation layer between the forum and the database calls. This way a mod wouldn't have to care about wich database the forum is running on.
If a mod or mod installer needs access to the db for some reason (modify,read,write) it simply would call this layer with a generic instruction. The isolation layer would then translate it into specific instructions for that database.
It might take to musch "horsepower" to do but i think it would be a neat feture
The second one is to put the moderators admin buttons directly into forums_post. In other words remove the admin popup window completly. I have used yabb a litle and that's the only advantage it has, a easier acess to the moderator functions.
I'm concidering to try to make this a mod for 8.X. Don't know is i got the scill for it
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 14 October 2006 at 7:00pm |
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The problem with a database layer in the way you mention is that it already uses this layer, built in to the OS and called ADO. I doubt much could be achieved by writing a new layer on top of this.
Anyway, there are plans to do this type of thing when creating an ASP.NET version in the future as the code will need to be modulised for ASP.NET will probally go for one file that holds all the SQL, which means just swapping the SQL file to work with different database types.
As to your suggestion on admin/moderator functions, and to make a cleaner look I was thinking about implementing a drop down list from the bottom of each post with admin and moderator functions could be reached through. However, if you have a better idea, please give let me know how you would like this to be implemented?
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mats
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Joined: 14 October 2006
Location: Sweden
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Posted: 14 October 2006 at 7:31pm |
Sounds great for the .NET version.
I was thinking about something like it for 8.X. The main idea is to make it easier for mod:ers to do database routines. The second advantage is that if theese calls goes through one interface, they won't risk to corrupt the database with a bad routine.
I think the admin buttons for each post are great. It's just that i would like a similar arrangement att the top of the thread for the thread administration. i'll try to move the functions from pop_up_topic_admin.asp and to put them in forum_posts.asp
But as we are talking about indivdual posts (and i'm a newbe) it might would be nice with split and merge buttons to allow the splitting of a thread and merging of threads. I know you could do this by creating a new thread and then move the corsponding posts but it would be nice to be able to do it with one operation
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