Paul wrote:We could create too a blog !
Yes we could! Simple, and little code bloat.
Paul wrote:I don't get the highlighting bbcode. If you mean highlighting it as your writing how are you going to get a textarea to cooperate with that?
Good question, not being any sort of expert programmer, I hadn't thought of that. I consider colored/highlighted BBCode to be a minor feature, but it would make it easier to write long articles with lots of formatting. (Or to edit articles with much formatting). I don't know what the alternatives to a Text Area are; again I would not want code bloat or performance loss.
I guess my ideal desired behavior would be to write text in the editing field (TextArea), then select text that you want formatted (e.g. Bold) and click a link or button to Bold the text. At this point, PunBB could rewrite to the editing field encapsulating the formatting information. I understand that a link or button could already add the formatting text to the TextArea (Please add this as an option to 1.2), but it would still be nice to have that formatting text in a different color. Even better would be an editing field that allowed the BBCode to be hidden, and the results of that code displayed. Are there any simple text editing fields that allow that kind of hidden formatting?
Another idea would be to keep a Preview Pane active as you entered text in the TextArea. When a user highlights some text (in TextArea) and clicks a formatting link (Bold), the BBCode gets added to the TextArea and the results are updated immediately in the Preview Pane.
Frank H wrote:and at least earlier Rickard said he didn't want attachments in the forum base
This I don?t understand. Rickard must have a reason for this, but I couldn?t find it. Personally, I think it is incredibly useful for web forum software to have the ability to attach (upload) files based on user permissions (e.g. registered users only). Since PunBB is managing user permission already, the file uploading should be somehow integrated.
I don?t necessarily think a file needs to be attached to a post to be useful, because attaching it through some mechanism to a particular directory (or database table) would allow it to be referenced in a post (e.g. attach an image through a simple upload, then reference it using the image tags).
FEATURE REQUEST :
It would be wonderful to have FILE UPLOADS managed similar to Forums, and to my requests for Articles, Wikis, etc. IOW, one could create a File Upload ?Forum? that could be named, or attached to a category. A user entering that would see a list of files, similar to the list of topics (and the owner/uploader of the file, date of upload, etc.). In this way, you could create ?Galleries? of images, or ?Directories? of music files, etc.
All of these CMS services could be based on the same code base as the forum, but would really enhance PunBB as an interactive community tool.
James
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