Since 5.4.3 is pretty close to being out I figured I would ask everyone what they think the focus for the next major release should be. A couple things have been batted around, templates and site integration being the 2 major ones. What's your opinion on the matter? What would everyone like to see most?

Site intregation would be very much appreciated Scream.<br />Most site offers many features which require some registration, it would be very nice to have an easy configuration for W3T to be intregrated to other database.<br /><br />

Hi,<br />Ooh This is great news []/testimages/icons/smile.gif[/]<br /><br />I have some suggestion :<br /><br />In send email to users could you add replacement variables?<br /> Eg, %Username% , %Password%<br />So If I includ this replacement it will automatic replace with a username .. etc <br />I hope that you understand me []/testimages/icons/smile.gif[/]<br /><br />2- Polls, if you can add bars to it<br /><br />3- If you can add online users status (Board name, Post name)<br /><br />4- Just that<br /><br />Anyhow .. WWWThreads always great and the best without this suggestions []/testimages/icons/smile.gif[/]<br /><br />Regards,<br />eDeveloper

SITE INTEGRATION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!Would be groovy []/testimages/icons/tongue.gif[/]<br />maybe a 3rd title (Moderator,Administrator,VIP) something like that

Good News .... <br /><br /><br />and i have some thing to tell : <br /><br />1. for Admin Area and FAQ ( Add to them a language file ) because it's on english only<br /><br />2. a feature to allow Admin or Moderator to post threads and the user can reply only not post new thread <br /><br />3. it will be a great idea if we can send email to all users but in HTML type .... as advertisment of any service we provide in our site .. so we can use this service as email list serivce .<br /><br />4. the 2 files (header.include & footer.include ) ... I hope if we can move this 2 file in different dir not under cgi-bin ... and will be ssi files ( header.shtml & footer.shtml ) .. it will be too useful .<br /><br /><br />any way ...... the w3t with out this suggestion is perfect .... and hope we can do any thing (even small ) to improve this greate script ....<br /><br /><br />we are waiting for this version .... and i will dream of it every day []/testimages/icons/wink.gif[/]<br /><br />Regards<br />BMH<br />

I would suggest adding a link with a function of the avantgo channel. (http://avantgo.com) For users like me who have a palm, I want to download the whole category to my palm for later browsing. Can it be done?

The one feature that I'm jealous of (from vBulletin) is a calendar.I'd like to be able to configure it so that either admins only, moderators only or all registered users can post an event.It could accentuate the community feel to wwwThreads.Just my 2˘.[]/testimages/icons/cool.gif[/]

Site integration would be top of my list ... With more and more people creating site-wide communities I think that this area has to be addressed fairly quickly. In addition to any code changes I think that this needs to be accompanied by good documentation.<br /><br />On the site integration issue, in addition to being able to use the WWWThreads users' database it would be great if we could use the message system. For example, I would like (registered) visitors to be able to post comments about articles, news items, site links, etc. but I would like to be able to do this via threaded discussion. Since WWWThreads provides this I would like to be able to create a new thread for each article and link to that thread from the bottom of each article (maybe including the discussion itself at the bottom of the page). The thread would be in the w3t_Posts table but it would not be visible (or searchable) via the main discussion forum. Effectively I want to create a hidden category containing hidden boards that contain threads relating to web pages linked by some sort of ID number. The threads would only be visible via the 'source' web pages.<br /><br />One other small thing ... Can we have a configuration setting for where email notifications come from? I would like to be able to set message notification as coming from the defined Webmaster (as currently happens), coming from the recipient (if they reply it goes back to them!) or from the poster (if they reply it goes to the poster). I always forget to hack this bit when I upgrade! It would also be good if this could be set for subscriptions, private message notifications and reply notifications.

Hello!<br /><br />I would suggest the following:<br /><br />1-Custom table names. This could be either during installation or through a pm or a dat file.<br /><br />2-A sub board facility under a board. This hack was given somewhere here but not integrated in the routines of wwwthreads. Would be beautiful to integrate in the admin optional.<br /><br />3-Ability to display Categories in different ways i.e. in two columns table and such layout flexibility. Now it is extremely hard to change anything out there.<br /><br />4-File permissions correctly done when the scripts saves changes. On a shared server it is stupid that the scripts creates 644 and later the provider gets headaches to make then 755.<br /><br />5-Different possibility for layouts of the threads. It is extremely difficult to change even any of the fonts while not using the css.<br /><br />6-Ability to use dynamic codes while showing threads within the subjects and messages.<br /><br />7-Ability to send mass emails in steps of 25 emails batch or 50 per batch with clickable links to whom to and also searchable which users to.<br /><br />8-Backup the database<br /><br />9-Kind of a possibility to integrate other programs for authentication for e.g. e-classifieds<br /><br />But some of the above could be already in the script or discussed in the forum, I do not know.<br /><br />Even without any of those above, its a great script.<br /><br />

1. site integration<br />2. different email addresses for "contact" and for automatic mails from the program (e.g. noreply@domain.com)<br />3. moderators should only "carry the M-flag" within the forum they're moderating. I'm running a lot of forums,meanwhile the main forum sometimes looks like a moderator chat, even if no one has any priviliges on the main board.

I'd like an easy way to cross reference existing posts.<br /><br />When making a reply I could say...<br /><br />"This has already been discussed, please see [easy way to insert a cross reference]"

Hello!<br /><br />Also I forgot.<br /><br />In the moderator section, if there are lest say fifteen boards the one moderates and if there are three new posts, then one has to go through all the boards manually to be able to dig out where are the new posts which is tiresome. Hence if the moderator is given an option to display how he wants, i.e. if he wants to see the new posts by boards or in a bulk of each 25 or 10 per page, that would be grreat!!!<br /><br />Further, if by clicking on each link to view if the target = _Blank thats great instead of manually opening.<br /><br />This is very important for moderators.<br /><br />Thanks

1. Site integration<br /><br />2. Ability to display Categories in different ways<br /><br />3. Different possibility for layouts of the threads.<br /><br />4. Allow Admin or Moderator to post threads and the user can reply only not post new thread<br /><br />and for become the BEST of BEST !!!<br />the following features:<br /><br /><br />5. Any format of multimedia can be added to content pages without knowing HTML including PDF, Flash, Shockwave, and streaming audio/video<br /><br />6. Synchronous sharing like:<br />Chat;<br />Voice chat;<br />Whiteboard;<br />Application sharing;<br />Virtual space;<br />Teleconferencing & Videoconferencing<br /><br />7.Upload tool for users, moderators & administrator, supports uploading of files: text, graphics, <br />video, audio.

Here's my suggestions:<br /><br />* Multi-choice signatures (up to 3)<br />* Multi-nickname choice (1 username as login name only, but use 3 selectable nickname for displaying in the post)<br />* The registered user can decide to post anonymousely by selecting one of his nickname and did not allow the others querying their profiles.<br />* Switches to grant groups/users/boards/categories privileges.<br />* Forum boards can be applied as an article/news/download center, etc.<br />* More features for users & sub-communities, such as calendar, event manager, voting center, board master's page/news/notes.. blah, blah, etc.

Can you insert a field in admin so that we can alter the message received by new users after registration.<br /><br />I had someone install my board for me but the message people get is far from what I want it to be and it would be nice to be able to add to or subtract from it as and when necessary.

Scream: what's the matter with the layout of the previous post?

Sorry to be the one dissenting voice, but Site Integration means nothing to me. <br />I want Templates!

I saw that the moderators can Ban users in all the forums without the Administrator decide<br />I suggest the Moderator ONLY can ban user in his forum , so the user who banned him the moderator can't send posts in the moderator's(who banned the user) forums <br /><br />Regards,<br />eDeveloper

I would like to be able to search the users info. This has been discussed many times, but basically it would mean being able to search the "hobbies" field (for example) to find other users that share my interests...<br />

1) Templates! (site integration, too. But maybe afterwards)<br /><br />and<br /><br />2) Cross-Language Forums []/testimages/icons/smile.gif[/]<br />I want to be able to have a different language for each category. For example Cat1 is in English, Cat2 in German. For me it makes no sense to let the user define his language in his profile. The discussion in the forum is done in one fixed language anyway. Move the language selection out of the user-profile. Let's have it as an option for the admin, when he creates/changes a category.