New features requests for Elxis next version

[datahell]

Backup elxis files is not so important as you can any time get them from Elxis main release. The only thing you need to back up is the images folder and your template which is always the same (does not change). Also full backup of elxis files from within elxis is not so good as you will have to do it using PHP which is not so fast and you might face permissions issues. A shell script and/or the tar command can do the same job in 1-2 seconds. So for files backup look for shell scripts. The only thing you need to frequently backup in an elxis site is the database.

[mgrc]

Hi, I know elxis currently has translate function built in.
How similar are the relevant codes to http://www.nothing2hide.net/web/wordpress-global-translator-plugin/   ?
If elxis had component/plugin with features like http://www.nothing2hide.net/global-translator-pro/   I would/will be the first one to buy it.
I was thinking if it could for example be able to also translate installed components (like reservations, downloads or others).

[Farhad Sakhaei]

Ability to remove categories/sections that they have only deleted contents ...

[pavel]

Here is a minor bug I found in present elxis - Russian translation.

Contact form in Russian language prints double column marks ":" instead of printing it only once.
Following lines should be changed in russian.php file (below is changed version where I removed the unnesessary column marks):

DEFINE('_EMAIL_DESCRIPTION','Отправить e-mail Контакту');
DEFINE('_NAME_PROMPT',' Введите Ваше имя');
DEFINE('_EMAIL_PROMPT',' Введите Ваш e-mail');
DEFINE('_MESSAGE_PROMPT',' Введите текст сообщения');

If not too late for 2009 release, please fix it as well.  Thanks.

[pavel]

Here is one more thing I came accross.  The "speaker" image for captcha is located in includes/captcha/    folder.  It would be better to have it together with all other icons in images/M_images  , so that all images are stored in the same place:  better for manipulation / replacement / future updates.

Also, it should be .png 24 type and not .gif
transparent gifs look ugly on dark backgrounds.

Actually, most of the default images even though they are pngs, they must have been saved as png 8 type and on dark backgrounds they have a white pixeled border around them.  It would be nice to have a better default set of icons. 

Thanks.

[datahell]

You are welcome to create a new icon set and send it to us. Some icons have already been changed in Elxis 2009.0 (email, pdf, print, rss, atom, etc). if you wish do it now in order to include them in Elxis 2009.0.

Your changes to Russian language added in Elxis 2009.0. Thanks!

[kebic]

png 24 can save as png 8 and solve the problem with IE. 

[datahell]

We used gifs in previous Elxis versions due to IE6 lack of png transparency support. Now that IE6 is becoming history we can use pngs 24bit for transparent images.

[xmanhattan]

I don't know if you have thought about this so I will mention these 2 points.
1.  The e-blog allows for multi-lingual blogs and the language control is in the user control panel area.
     Shouldn't the language control be under COMPONENTS EBLOG category item?
The reason I mention this is because if the category is in one language then I don't think that anyone would want users to be able to post in a different language.  Of course I don't know for sure if the blog is associating a user with a particular language base.

2.  The possibility that the image manager may be able to allow users to select from a common folder or offer the user the ability to go into another image folder already on the server to share or minimize uploading of similar images.
I do know that the admin for the Elxis site can upload images using ftp to a particular user area.

I forgot to mention that when I entered a Greek e-blog, after I clicked save Elxis took me to the base language - English index page instead of the Greek index page.

Just ideas.

[datahell]

1. eblog does not have categories. If you mean the blogs as categories then the answer is no. The philosophy is that you have each blog available for all languages in which you can write articles to different languages and visitors will see only the articles in their current selected language. I think this way the eblog multilingual content is much more simple. Notice that especially for eblog it is important the system to be simple as the authors might be inexperienced users.
2. There is no problem with the image manager, each user can manage and see only his own images.
3. I guess this has to do with your current language and the menus set up.

[xmanhattan]

Hello all,

Just remembered something that might be a good idea regarding banners.

Under banner client, it might be a good idea to have a start date / end date publish selection or at least show the date that it is created for an easy spot check.

[pavel]

com_contact/contact.html.php to have classes for dd tags  and id for form input labels.
This would enable greater freedom of styling templates and create a possibility to use a sprite(s) instead of standard images (minimizing http requests).

for example contact.html.php
..
if (($params->get( 'address_check' ) > 0) || $contact->address || $contact->suburb) {
                    $x = '';
                    echo '<dd class="card-address">';
....
<dd class="card-country">
...
<dd class="card-phone">
...etc...

email form:
<label id="label-name" for="name....
<label id="label-email" for="email...
 <label id="label-subj" for="subject...
<label id="label-text" for="text....
etc