New features requests for Elxis next version

[datahell]

We plan to release an upgraded/improved Elxis version in the next 2-3 months (spring 2009), fully compatible to the Elxis 2008.x generation.
You can post bellow your feature requests or your ideas for the next Elxis version. As it will be a minor Elxis upgrade please stay only to easy to implement new features. You can also report any bug you may found in the current version (2008.1). Thank you.

[Farhad Sakhaei]

- Ability to make a page for every users (Make accessibility for any accessible elements for users (Currently is for user groups))
- Ability to define the site title , keywords , description multilingual
- Ability to detect the user default language by the browser language (Like installation)
- Ability to define an intro page for the site (Like elxis.org site)
- Ability to assign "templates" and "modules" for every components (For example I want to show a desired template for whole eshop component) (Currently is menu item base)
- Statistics for visits of users in daily , monthly , yearly for public visitors
- Show online users with their country flags (IP2Country)
- Members be able to send PM to themselves
- Search in every components items (this can be a multi search system for most Elxis popular components [Stargallery,eshop,downloads])
- a stable dynamic menu for both vertical and horizontal menus with sub menus
- I think the banner system should be more improve (Add flash banners, customers be able to see statistics of their banners, choose the banner position by admin ,...)
- Comment for contents
- Ability to manage templates images (Can be a hack in media manager)
- Ability to set the users subscription expiry date (By expire date or number of days)
- Create a rating/voting/commenting system (This is a good idea and can be simply implement by listing (table view) the categories/sections items ratings,visits,... Also for downloads items , weblinks , ... [Will be very nice system and easy])

Thank you

[pavel]

1) TinyMCE for EBlog.

For E-blog TinyMCE  I think it is good to have (styleselect) and (code) buttons present.  Same is controlled from tinymce.php and easily adjustable, but it is good to include it in the default configuration. 

2) White background default for elements that inherit body background property. 

If color or image is used for the template background, it is interited by TinyMCE editor for Eblog as well as a poll preview window (and may be some other elements which I have not discovered yet).  For TinyMCE it is fixed with one line of code: .mceContentBody {background: none; background: white}.  I suggest to include it in the standard.css

For poll preview it is more difficult because it opens in a new window that has it's own body which takes the value from the template_css.css.  Ideally, the body tag on that page should be assigned a class that would allow to specify background white for this page.  If there is an easy way to implement this - please include it in the list, if not - it is not very critical.

[rentasite]

Well, 2 quick ones:

1) A solution to this problem:  https://forum.elxis.org/index.php?topic=2692.msg16212#msg16212

2) A "Read more..." feature for E-blog. If possible.

[Farhad Sakhaei]

2) A "Read more..." feature for E-blog. If possible.

And also allow all users (or a group of users) to have blog without activating blog for them by admin

[muharihar]

only ones:
* More compatible with Oracle 

and this ones for bug:
* https://forum.elxis.org/index.php?topic=2955.0
 

Thank!

[datahell]

- Access per user, no, this can not be implemented right now as it requires many changes in ACL that will break compatibility to 2008.x.
- Multi-lingual page title and meta data. I guess you ask this only for front-page because it is already supported for all other pages. We could do this via softdisk. Any other solution would required modifications to configuration.
- The search needs totally re-design. Can not be implemented in this minor update.
- No need of an "into page" modification. You can do this easily right now.
- Statistics are too CPU consuming. Collecting too much data will slower down elxis.
- You can assign a template to a component right now via the menus. No need for modifications.
- You can add any banner you wish, even flash banner, right now. No need for modifications.
- No for subscriptions in this minor update.
- Users and country flags: you can create a small module or modify existing one to add this feature. Resolving an IP to a country wont work for all servers. Better use an external service provider such as IP to country.

Fixes/Improvements on schedule:
- Elxis content items commentary
- Improved Oracle support
- Improved Elxis installer. Stop of english/greek languages to be required, more sample data packages, option to select second template.
- Removal of register globals emulation. Elxis and all of it's extensions do not require register globals, or the emulation, to be on.
- Removal of some configuration options that have no more meaning to exist (such as automatic page titles - elxis inserts them automatically)
- Locale support for BSD, debian and Ubuntu (already done)
- Removal of extra files in Elxis root folder
- Fixes in TinyMCE were needed.
- Improved mailing system
- Re-write of old style code blocks to make them OO.
- Re-design of the error 404 page
- EDC live downloader and installer for extensions and templates. Possible removal of the "install from directory" option.
- Some more...

Please stay only to easy to be implemented new features.

[ks-net]

Datahell

- Removal of extra files in Elxis root folder
- Re-design of the error 404 page

-what extra files? you mean that elxis will check and remove files that it is not own?
- what about custom error 404 page?

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Farhad Sakhaei

- Ability to define the site title , keywords , description multilingual

this is already done - in a little tricky way -  but it would be nice to have options in administrator area like you suggested

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I think that must starting considering again about frontend access and user-group-permissions for content items ,
many of our costumers finding difficult  the backend.

menus, specially flat-lists must be able to list sublevels

[rentasite]

-what extra files? you mean that elxis will check and remove files that it is not own?

 

[datahell]

The next version (it will be called 2009.0 instead of 2008.2) is not a major upgrade like when we upgraded from 2006.x to 2008.x. Elxis 2009.x will be an 2008.x with some improvements and fixes. We can not lost compatibility with the 2008.x generation so we will do only "soft changes".

Regarding the "extra files":
We just want to clean up Elxis root folder from readme, license, changelog and globals files and move offline file to the "includes" folder. At the end Elxis root folder will be consisted by just 2 files: index.php and index2.php. That's all.

Currently I work on the live download and install new feature. In Elxis 2009.0 you will be able to download and install a module, component, template, etc directly from Elxis Downloads Center without having to download it in your computer and upload the zip package. You will also be able to see EDC extensions live from within your Elxis installer manager. Just one click and Elxis will download and install the extension for you!

[rentasite]

Regarding the "extra files":
We just want to clean up Elxis root folder from readme, license, changelog and globals files and move offline file to the "includes" folder. At the end Elxis root folder will be consisted by just 2 files: index.php and index2.php. That's all.

What about other (NOT RELATED TO ELXIS) files in the Elxis root folder.... ?

In Elxis 2009.0 you will be able to download and install a module, component, template, etc directly from Elxis Downloads Center without having to download it in your computer and upload the zip package. You will also be able to see EDC extensions live from within your Elxis installer manager. Just one click and Elxis will download and install the extension for you!

S U P E R 

[Farhad Sakhaei]

Currently I work on the live download and install new feature. In Elxis 2009.0 you will be able to download and install a module, component, template, etc directly from Elxis Downloads Center without having to download it in your computer and upload the zip package. You will also be able to see EDC extensions live from within your Elxis installer manager. Just one click and Elxis will download and install the extension for you!

This will reduce our services 

[pavel]

Here is another small one:

Problem: most sites built with Elxis use the same images for flags because flags are inbuilt and the only way to change them is to overwrite them or to use some JS.

This is how the only option that does not place flag images appears:

<div class="moduletable">
        <a href="#" title="russian">russian</a>
        <a href="#" title="english"><strong>english</strong></a>
        <a href="#" title="greek">greek</a>

</div>

Ideally, I would like to see the following:

<div class="moduletable">
        <ul>
            <li class="russian"><a href="#" title="russian">russian</a></li>
           <li class="english"><a href="#" title="english"><strong>english</strong></a></li>
       </ul>
</div>

Would this be possible in this or future updates?

[datahell]

Normally in a site you publish 1, 2, 3, even 4 languages. It is not too hard to change 4 images with those you like.
Language flags are located inside language folder.
For instance the english language flag is here: /language/english/english.gif
The Italian language flag is here: /language/italian/italian.gif
and so on...
Default language flags have dimension of 23X12 pixel (WxH).
Adding a class name in CSS for each language will make this much more complicated.

[Coursar]

What about advance template system like in J1.5 - add parametrs to template like in modules. For example - ability to choose template color and etc from template parametrs page without edit index.php and store this parametrs, for example, in *.ini file or another...