Enkidu

Hiya

IPC is an amazing piece of software once you get to know it. But there are things that I feel are nice to have. Here is, yet, another wishlist for the next release:

1- Ability to export a database setup and pages. Currently, we can export templates and blocks but I wanna be able to export a database as well. This is extremely beneficial to me not just to be able to share a database but to move things from a developing to a production environment as well.

2- Bulk export. By that I mean. You can add many things to be exported into a single xml file. Just imagine the possibilities. You've done developing your website locally on your laptop. Then you export all the blocks, templates, pages, databases you've created into a single file, and re-import them to your website with just one click.

3- We can't currently specify to which category the imported stuff are going to go. Suppose I have a black cat called: apples. Now when export a block from there, the cat thingie is not exported.

thanks

Hello

I'm wanna keep it short so here it goes:

1- More control over parsing special tags. Currently, we don't have control as to how the comments tags are parsed. You just put it in your view template and it will do its magic. But we wanna be able to skin that to our liking. I wanna control how the comments are parsed and how many per page and were the editor is gonna be displayed and what goes in between the editor and the comments and so on and so forth.

2- Convenience. When you write your template, you get a handy side bar displaying common tags, but I still have to copy and paste the tag to where I want it to appear. I would love to see a click to insert functionality where I don't have to copy and paste. This at least would save errors in copying and pasting.

3- Ability to switch off revision savings. Sometimes, I would try many variations of a sentence or an appearance of a div, that would result in a gigantic amount of revisions contains nothing more than a silly change. Why would I wanna keep that over revisions with important changes? I'm not sure what to suggest here but maybe a preview or a way to temporarily change and apply the template without affecting the original?

4- Adopt the all new webdav framework of IPB 3.2. Since now we have the ability to edit our IPB CSSs and templates from the comfort of our desktop computers (....or laptops...or tab-tops), I suggest the same with IPC template. I wanna be able to use my fa editor for that because frankly speaking all the built in editors suck.

5- New Blocks!

• Search block where you'll be able to define which databases to search in, or pages or maybe which articles category.
  
• Login box. Update the existing one to match IPB framework such as ajax powered logining in, facebook, twitter. It would perfect if we could customize all that.
  
• headers blocks. I'm not sure about you guys but I'm not using IPB wrapper. because of that I need to manually include all the required IPB JSs and CSSs. Wouldn't be cool if we  have the ability to just say: {parse IPB_JS_Headers} in order to include all the necessary IPB JSs?

6- Mobile templates. This is a MUST, IMHO. coz we're living the revolution of handheld devices. I wanna be able to design a template and pages that would display for a specifc device or devices be it a mobile or a browser. We already have that in IPB so why not IPC?


7- I would expand 6 to make it event triggered templates. So for example a page/template is triggered based on useragent, time, date, member groups, birthday, no of posts....etc.

this is what I have so far

thanks

Hiya

just noticed that I couldn't find any link to the good ol' community-contributed articles that we all used to love and rely on. I'm not sure about you guys but I've learned a lot from them.

Can we add a link to it please? maybe in the all new shiny grey bar?

thanks