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[aboyd]

Here is the tiny list of changes I want to make to phpBB Podcast:

• it appears that I add the block to process the podcast below the newtopic chunk, instead of inside the newtopic chunk. Review that. It's in functions_post.php

This is a list of the features I want to add to phpBB Blog. I'm mostly posting this for myself, although anyone and everyone is welcome to join in with new suggestions or lobbying for favorites.

• http://www.outshine.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=259
• http://www.outshine.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=617#617
• aj asks, "Is there any facility for we, as phpBB Blog Users, to trackback to other blogs?" Hmmm.
• http://www.outshine.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=401
• http://www.outshine.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=238
• Probably time to install like a normal phpBB mod. This means installing into the mod directory & verifying that include() works fine.
• pings (tie into ping-o-matic?)
• Email a blog entry to a friend
• Blog entry ratings
• Improved stylesheets, less "garish."
• Possibly stop using phpBB's built-in BBCode. Why? Because the phpBB $variables and the session that BBCode requires is really causing trouble for a lot of people. I might just need to use a homegrown BBCode parser.
• Alternatively, change $db and $sql to something else.
• Lots of people who have their own domain name actually have 2 URLs -- www.mydomain.com, and www.hostingcompany.com/~mydomain. Can phpBB Blog work with both scenarios, from a single config file?
• Better/easier/clearer installation. done in 2.2
• Demo/walkthru help screens.
• Group blogs by day (so that if there are 3 blogs in 1 day, they all fall under 1 heading for the day).
• Add avatars as an option (thanks aetolus!). done in 2.0.1
• Hide the comments link if comments cannot be made.
• Respect the security of the forums, like phpbb_fetch_all does?
• Fix the character set for international. done in 2.0.1
• For that matter, put the site text into arrays, then load the arrays as language files. I18n!
• Integrate into the phpBB control panels rather than manual text editing.
• Maybe integrate code from cdiggins.
• Use the phpBB themes (subSilver, Igloo, etc.).
• Add support for multiple users.
• Add a FAQ for "database doesn't exist" errors. done in 2.0.1
• line 77 in trackback.php is grabbing data even if it's in a PRIVATE forum. It should have WHERE forum=$forum_id.
• rss.php is NOT showing the permalink. It's showing the forum link (naughty)!
• LIMIT not supported by other DBs?
• in rss.php, the words "code:" and "quote:" do not appear. Is my parsing wiping out the words somehow?
• fix busted /span tag in all the phpBB entries
• select archive months using timezones.
• recreate blog.php as fully function-driven. First function renders HTML, then 1 function to ready a permalink, 1 function to ready archives, and 1 for default. Call the HTML function many times if needed.
• settings.php: display sidebar: left|right|none
• stylesheets should not reference table, td, and th. It should reference IDs and classes.
• put all variables into an array to limit the impact it can have if someone picked the same variable name.
• Blog categories for narrowing searches & navigating next/previous (like hot or not, male/female only).
• metablogs/metanotes/footnotes
• replace gmdate with create_date
• remove commented-out code.
• add choose-your-own-layout documentation.
• remove the tag parser thing that doesn't work done in 2.0.1
• add bloglines subscription link
• add creative commons license automation/options
• Add info to right sidebar, including blogroll (list of links) and info about site & registration & forum link
• Add "WHERE t.topic_time < NOW()" to every phpBB file, so that people can future-date their posts.
• add meta name="author" content="name" done in 2.2
• add meta name="geo.country" content="US" done in 2.2
• add meta name="dc.language" content="en" done in 2.2
• Possibly in the far off future, add support for polls/voting?
• Podcasting done in 2.2
• Make next/previous links compatible with Mozilla pre-fetching. UPDATE: Mozilla won't prefetch URLs with a query string. I'll have to find a way to make URLs without query strings first. And just for myself, here is the tag I'll eventually need to add: (link rel="next" href="2.html") (swap parens for less than/greater than symbols)
• To allow my RSS feed to have high-end features like partial downloads, only returning data if changed, and so on, I need to make the RSS file a simple XML file that the server serves, rather than a PHP file.
• OxRod found a bug, needs fixin'
• Use nofollow to spoil spammers. done in 2.2
• Minimize the errors from single quotes in the config file. Either the file should be able to check itself for errors, or I need to create a config Web page that can process all the input for the user.
• Fix the missing image in the demo. done in 2.2
• Over at Eileen and Steve's blog the entries are shown in an inconsistent order, depending upon whether you click the "next" or "previous" link. Why?
• Allow author to delete spam entries in trackbacks done in 2.2
• Remove the "short open tags" requirement done in 2.2
• the museum style needs a color to set off the blog entry headings. done in 2.2
• Probably need to add a "read more" link when admin selected to truncate the blog entries.
• Add Albert's style sheet to the app, and also make a stylesheet for him that uses subSilver.

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[didijeeeke]

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[aboyd]

Hi Dieter. Another member just finished up an improvement of the codebase. Once I get that improvement integrated in, let's pass the codebase to you, and you can take a week (or a few months) to add what you wish. Then I'll Q/A it, and we can have a shared official release.

Or, if you'd like, you could release your improvements as mods, and keep them separate. I'm just happy to have help on the project, so however you wish to do it is OK with me.

-Tony

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[aboyd]

OK, 2.2.1 has been released. The codebase is available for you to change, Dieter.

-Tony

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[ascensions]

I just wanted to thank Tony for the great new version... I've got it up and running over at greensboring.com. I think theres a bug on the view all entries link. I just ended up removing the hyperlink, but it didn't seemed to be formatted right.

Also, since I've been using the blog for a while, I just thought I'd mention a couple of things I wish we could implement. One would be functional images and hyperlinks in the RSS feed. That would be really nice.

Secondly it would be a nice SEO mod if somehow we could pull the title of each post dynamically into the meta tags, and the <TITLE> for each permalink. Maybe their is away but, I couldn't get it to work, it seems like that information only shows up in the the blog.php and therefore can't be put in the <head> section.

I also don't know exactly what causes it, but sometimes when you copy and paste information into a blog post, the RSS feed errors out. Some sort of hidden characters that sometimes appears in text are causing this error, yet I have no clue exactly what it is. Generally when I discover it, I go back and re-type the paragraph until its fixed. I don't know if this is really anything that could be fixed since the rss feed is php, but just thought I'd mention it.

Another interesting item I have no clue if its even possible or not, is that when a post is moved out of the blog forum, but someone has linked to the permalink, the page will come up blank. It would be nice if their was away to continue to display that post even if its in another forum.

I really would like to thank you Tony, as I really love this project you've created and hope you continue with it. It's really afforded me a lot of leverage with blogging by mixing the best of the blog and Message Board worlds.

Keep up the great work!

[omni]

If you're gonna whip together a home-made BBCode engine, a way for users to include sizing information in images would be nice.

[TheSunToucher]

I just started a new topic instead of posting here, sorry for that:
http://www.outshine.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=360

I could and would help with i18n and l10n for germany. Did you have written any code yet?

[aristana]

How do you find a video ID? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNNeqsUFm6Q Can somebody please give me the video ID for this video? I'm trying to use BBCode to insert the video, and it's supposed to be [youtube]videoID[/youtube]. Please, just find the ID for me. Apparently it's supposed to be in the URL, but I don't know where. Thanks!
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[aboyd]

It's everything after the v=

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