Hey guys, 5 more days till Codoforum 2.6 released. So far, I love every features included inside this script. And I don't think there isn't any major features needed to be add except for related topics listed under the first post.

Besides that some more minor features such as:

1. Open external link in new tab
2. After publishing a post, go straight to it instead of being redirected back to the parent category
3. I don't know why but there are a bunch of same css files in cache folder just different name.
4. Support for MaxCDN

It would be nice to have the option "Open link in new tab" when adding a new link.

For example a little checkbox, like in :

I Would love to see an option to select if i want a block shows on mobile, on laptop or both.

Most of the blocks just dont work when you are viewing on mobile, that annoying so then i would love to dont show them on mobile but only on laptop.

Hope you know what i meant there.

Option for avatar size greater than 100x100px

Hmm for role based security I only have two ideas, one for back end and one for front end:

Back end:
While making a category or editing a category there must be a check box as to which user role can post in that category.
Front end:
While making a post there should be a check box at the bottom of the text editor to make it sticky or not, only for Admins n moderators.

Also there should be a small content box which can occupy the position below the category navigation in the home page, to display the rules of the community. Because all traditional forums have a separate category called "rules n regulations". But that is old fashioned.

Another thing is, try to remove "/forum" from URL structure, because it will not make sense for people who installs the software in a sub domain called forum, then URL will kook weird eg. forum.domain.com/forum/topic
So if u can remove that forum tag from URL, it will clean up the URL.

I have some big suggestions which I feel are the most significant for 2.5. Hope you do not mind me sharing them.

1. Inclusion of gallery upload option in the "upload popup box". Because what if a member wants to share, say 7 screenshots or pics from some movie or so he/she watched. Without a gallery all the images will get displayed in a list order, which will lengthen a post, so if u can provide a gallery option, it would make the posts look more elegant. BUT gallery means you SHOULD NOT include Jquery lightbox to display gallery images on-click, instead try utilising CSS3 lightbox. I once helped a person set up CSS3 lightbox for Wordpress see -> . The logic is simple and avoids the use of all jquery and other bloat. This gallery will pose another problem, so for admins there should be an option for bandwidth management, like controlling the amount of mb an user can upload in one gallery. You do not have to integrate this option in the backend (because backends are always tougher than core modifications, so we can do it another time) , but make it available in the constants.php file under /sites/default/

2. In mobile view the post editor screen, when u click on "reply button" comes under the "notifications control panel - the panel where u can adjust the level of notifications" This is a bug since the post editor should always come immediately under the comment to which we are making the reply, This happens in Tabs and mobile, u can try resizing your browser window and u will see this bug in action.

3. Sitemaps and RSS should be enabled. If RSS is enabled then people can display their forum posts in other CMS using the RSS widget. RSS should contain a thumbnail of the post also, if the starting post in a topic has atleast one image.

4. Most importantly, when people are posting in a topic, if the new posts gets loaded in real time (eg. If u have used Disqus comment system, you can see when some one replies in a conversation, those new comments will get loaded automatically) That will give the users a sensation of being engaged in a real conversation. I know live notifications are already there. But trust me, sometimes, as you can see in FB groups and all, when more than 10-20 users are engaged in conversation, we loose track of notifications. BUT the question comes, "how much impact will it have on the host server" In the case of Disqus, they have dedciated servers to handle multiple requests. So it is better if this real time conversations feature is optional. Means if a person has VPS with more than 2GB ram and all he can enable it if his/her forum has large conversations taking place. This option can also be integrated in the constants.php file rather than in the backend GUI.

5. There are some other heavy concepts missing in other departments like personal message, friend requests and blocking friends etc. But if you ask me logically it is better not to make personal messages real time, because then as u already see in Facebook, people will prefer to chat with their friends rather than making posts in a group. So if at all you are considering personal messaging, it is better to make it not in real time, or else it will defeat the purpose of a "forum".

6. I know the script is already fast, but if it can make use of X-cache or other php opcode cacheer (I said X-cache, because it is easiest to install in VPS as compared to APC) , I donno may be it will accelerate codoforum a little bit more? O.o I don't know. Just my feeling

Hope this is not a pain to read such long suggestions. I know it will be impossible for you to implement all these features in next version it self (infact, no developer can do these much changes in one iteration of a script) so choose the most important from the above, preferably real time post replying and loading of other replies in a topic and gallery uploads and role based security.
@adesh @avinash

For version 2.5, I feel main focus should be on three things:

1. Sticky posts and restricted categories ( where only moderators can post)

2. Integration of personal messaging system.

3. Small seo control panel in back end where admins can change meta description favicon and all.

I think these three things deserve your primary focus for version 2.5. I am under the belief that these features have not already been incorporated into version 2.4

@avinash @adesh

Hi, I am a wordpress developer. The only suggestion I can give regarding this forum is to introduce a more fluent way to upgrade from one version to another. The current way of importing database is not a reliable one. it would be really good if you can provide some alternate ways to update the software, considering the fact that you guys are releasing updates every 15-20 days.

Right now am using 2.3 version. My client needed a simple forum, so I will not be updating the version for a long time. So after 1 year if my client have to upgrade, then importing the whole database to another database is least easy method for him.

Hope you introduce better upgrade methods in the next releases.
@avinash

The end of the description text for the Suggestion Box category in this forum reads:

(...) our guests and members a like.

It it should be:

(...) our guests and members alike.

Hello,

FreiChat is awesome but it still needs some polishing chat box is missing scroll bar it should have a scroll bar to view old messages and on every request it should fetch only 5 or 10 old messages...

Regards,

Mehroz Anjum

Nice job on this joomla extension! Very helpful compared to some extensions available in the market. I would like to suggest that you put filter on all the users online in case they all piled up in the list.

More power!

the resign i suggest this is because having two chats open is really annoying this is why i suggest putting the group chat into the main chat it will be much easyer to use

I am new to Joomla 3.2.2 but I notice that by default it has a "Nav-up" button on the bottom right of every page to allow visitors to pop up to the top of the page.
Nice. But the Freichat interface covers this up.
Is there a way to move the interface a little bit to the left?

Just a suggestion.

hi, it's just an idea, don't you thing the style of the chat windows would be better if inspired by iphone/facebook chat style?
like
http://static.tecnocino.it/625X0/cellulari/tecnocino/it/img/iphone-facebook-chat.png

it would a tiny work in your code

Hi,

1) Is the following line of client\chat.php:



correct?

2) In the following line of \installation\smart_integration.php

$ses = LOGGED_IN_USERID //tell freichat the userid of the current user

I think you should add ";" before "//tell...":

Thanks for your work,
Nino

I searched the site and didn't see these anywhere... so I'll post here.

This chat software will be used by customer support:

When a Chat ends, can it or does it ask for customer feedback?

When a Chat is requested, can it or does it send a text message to the person on duty, who can click a link in the text message and chat with customer on their mobile device?

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

I tested codopm, excellent first version! I saw the projects for future releases, I would like to suggest that the user receives an email to his personal inbox (a little like facebook notifies users of new emails to the users' email address).

Hello,

i use the freichat with the php fusion driver, but it display no useravatar from php fusion. What must i do to display the useravatar from php fusion in the freichat.

The useravatar name is in the msql table users and the useravatar field ist user_avatar

The name from the avatar for users without an avatar is no_avatar.gif

I hope, you cann help me. Sorry for my bad english.

Hello,

you have a bug in the styles.css on line 2181 from the theme silver

#frei_userpanel {
float:left;
display:none;
}

User do not show in chatrooms onlinelist with display:none

One thing that bugs me is that when you click on a username on the user list, a box pops up but it doesn't automatically focus on the chat. I would have to click the chat box in order to chat with that person. Will this be implemented in the future?

i want to see it, when my friend is writing a message to me in private chat, like >> xx is writing (maybe in the chatboxhead)