IndexU product suggestions

[Bruceper]

I'd like users to list any suggestions they have for improving the IndexU product. I have a list of suggestions that ESM compiled, and I'll be going through them, but I'm looking for more.

Please be very specific if you can and not just say "more plugins". If you want plugins then try and tell me what you want the plugins to do.

New features, new functions, new toys, addons and gadgets. Remember this isn't going to be for a rewrite of IndexU, just to add to the current product.

[esm]

and for god's sake stay away from the licensee fee issue and don't be a nattering nabob of negativism...! Leave the *****ing to me...!

and DO NOT RESPOND TO MY POST. bruceper is giving you a chance to do something to really help INDEXU. I'd like bruceper to move any post to one of the gripe posts already out there.


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[esm]

a feature to loop thru the detail listings in one category by clicking on a "prev" or "next" link


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[esm]

use of BBcode markup language in the description field


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[Bruceper]

BBCode is interesting, and technically safer than allowing HTML. I like that one a lot.

[esm]

Separate new and updated links and create a separate updated listing.



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[Mitchell]

* Rotating Banners, accessible from the the Directory's Admin area only
* Banners, ability for the advertisers to add or manage their Banners in their listings description
* Individual stats, so webmasters can check in their admin area how many hit their listing has
* Multi categories
* Classifieds
* Articles
* Photo Gallery
* Event, add a new event
* Integration with Wordpress

[FSGDAG]

A plugin similar to the way phpBLD does with bidding, listing the top 10 bidders on the main page. You can see the home page of http://www.Web4Bids.com for what I mean. I had to write the code myself, but its extremely messy and is going to make upgrading IndexU a pain in the butt again! A plugin would be a great addition.

An addon maybe ( or could even be a seperate one ) to the stats plugin where it could count how many outgoing hits an individual link has.

Theres more, but I'm pressed for time... Will write more in a bit

[esm]

monthly hits with a hot monthly listing. monthly hits would be reset to 0 at the end of the day on the last day of the month.


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[echo@]

vbulletin intergration or and api bridge

wysiwyg - css injection compatibility. maybe a backend control page that allows the admin to fully control the filter files

[Bruceper]

That's one thing that would not be done would be css injection. Too many possibilities for abuse.

[echo@]

I must of explained it wrong.

the thread is here http://www.nicecoder.com/community/s...0911#post30911

esm said

well, I have figured out why FireFox "crashes" when the text area uses a "style" tag.

Many INDEXU files use the pre and post filter functions. In modify.php the RunPreFilter(__FILE__) function calls the filter.xss_blocking.php file and the filter_xss_blocking function looks for the style tag. If it finds an instance of the style tag, then INDEXU aborts and merely displays a white screen (no graceful error capturing there...!!! ).

either comment out the RunPreFilter funtion in modify.php/add.php or edit the filter.xss_blocking.php file and delete the style tag.

If your going to impliment a wysiwyg for the description and other text areas should the admin have more control over whats allowed, instead of just the allowed html tags. Firefox seems to work diffrently than i.e

maybe a breakdown of how the filter.xss_blocking.php works, i would find that very intresting.

Some people would have other purposes for indexu other than a web directory, currently if someone wanted to use a wysiwyg for the end users, including font size , colours etc, during submission indexu would just display a blank page and not submit the listing.

Ide like to have more control over what was filtered through the back end

Its just a thought,

[esm]

while I am no expert, from what I read bbcodes are safer than allowing html in the text area.

By and large, I think some formatting of text is useful and bbcodes allow for this with almost no need to resort to allowing html.

I think vB does it right. see the vB bbcodes. we're not formatting an entire page. just a small section.

for those very few that need more, one of the wysiwyg textarea formatters could be installed.


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[Bruceper]

I think allowing html code is a security risk, even if you only allow certain code there's usually a way around it. bbcode only has very specific code that can be used, it would be a great addition.

[FSGDAG]

Having this as a plugin :

http://nicecoder.com/community/showt...validate+links

instead of needing to hack up the code would be HUGE for me! If you have a busy / popular directory, approving / validating links can be a royal pain in the ass. Extremely time consuming! I'm really surprised something like this hasn't been thought of before.

mpdaddy did a great job making the mod for 5.4, but like I said, would love to see it as a plugin so I didn't have to hack up the code and make upgrading an issue.