Projects for 2009

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:17 am

In case it was of any interest to anyone, here are the projects I am currently working on or mapping out for release in 2009.
Please note that as of 1st January 2009 all Code Authors software releases will be written to be compatible with and take advantage of PHP 5.x wherever possible.

CA Money
A replacement for Nuke Treasury that will eventually support not just donations but subscriptions and one-off payments.

CA Maintenance
Automatically install and unistall modules
File back ups
DB backups
DB Comparisons
File 'monitor' which will monitor your site files and alert you to changed files e.g. a XSS attack introduces a new malicious file, this utility will let you know.

CA Anti-Spam
A module for monitoring and detecting spam submissions in comments, forums and as many other area's as I can create plug-ins for.

CA Stats
An alternative statistics module

CA Menu
A menu block intended to be a replacement for Sommaire and other similar menu systems. I have yet to determine the functionality this module will have but it will be XHTML Compliant and cross browser compatible.

CA Site Messenger
A stand alone and replacement for the current Private Messages module.
The existing PM module has dependencies on the Forum module and if the forum was ever to change i.e. go to phpBB3.x then PM would be useless in it's current state.
I am currently toying with a new system that has much the same functionalty of the PM module (i.e. you send messages and not a live chat type affair) and the only dependency on *nuke is the users table, so the system knows who the message is for and who it is from. The module currently uses BBCode and Smilies (functionality is similar to that of the forums Enhanced BBCode stuff) but is self contained within the module and not reliant on any external core code.

Site Admin Joined: Jan 06, 2006 Posts: 308

Always interested. So, you have the "Sommaire replacement bug" now too huh??? Wink

I guess jQuery will do that to a person...

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:23 pm

montego wrote:

Always interested. So, you have the "Sommaire replacement bug" now too huh??? Wink

I guess jQuery will do that to a person...

Yeah, I have not really decided on what the final methodology should be but jQuery is a possibility. I just keep going back to the fact that it may be a little heavy duty for what it seems is a relatively simple need. It wouldn't be much of a problem for RN user but......

I have been writing some code that writes out an XML file (from within an admin authenticated session and function) and then caching a copy of that file to the cache directory and using the 'cache' for the menu. So far multi-nesting of menu's is fully compliant and of course the appearence of the menu itself can be adjusting by using an XML CSS stylesheet (XLST).
I may not go that route but it is fun to experiment and as the xml file has a given structure and limited charcter set, if any nasty code should find it's way in, it should just fall over gracefully.

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 5:59 pm

2009 sounds like it will be a great year @ code-authors. Compliments, you do great work!

jc

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 7:54 pm

Well I'll be honest, I have not done a thing in two weeks due to having the flu and it will probably take me another two weeks just to catch up lol.
Thanks for the compliments though Smile

Newbie Joined: Jan 13, 2006 Posts: 78

I hadn't seen this until today, or I would have discussed the menu addon with you before working on nukeNAV. Are these overlapping?

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 6:51 pm

Hi kguske, no problem. I was investigating a few things that could be used for a menu block and different ways to achieve efficiency e.g. writing a actual menu 'file' which could be cached and only updated when block/module admin changes were made or a jQuery GUI or .....
I had not made any decision and this was around the same time we were discussing header menu's on your site and I think nukeNAV was probably a byproduct of that discussion and the work in development for nuke DH so no, there is no overlap as I never had the time to persue any further avenues - besides, I'm looking forward to nukeNAV now Smile

Site Admin Joined: Jan 06, 2006 Posts: 308

Guardian wrote:

I'm looking forward to nukeNAV now Smile

Me 2.

Newbie Joined: Nov 20, 2008 Posts: 55

Is there anyone that's not Wink