https://www.icyphoenix.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=8635&p=59125#p59125
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Informpro
Fri 16 Aug, 2013 15:48

Re: What About A Medal MOD For Icy 2.0?
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Bumping a bit here, as I have time to think of everything right now (that's what happens when I don't have my comp  :mrgreen: ).

From the list mort has posted :
[quote]Sudoku
Credits
Album
Downloads
Bookmarks
Chat
Links[/quote](too lazy to use [* ] stuff, sorry)
1) let's remove sudoku
2) I think credits should be available as a standalone page (for support forums :p)
3) Album is very tied to the core as said before, and as the download part, it's a pretty underestimated feature but I've seen it be used a lot for many purposes.
4) Downloads are admittedly a bit less useful than album, but it still fits a lot of times, even when you wouldn't really expect it to, you start uploading stuff in a topic, and then you think, I won't ever find that again and you move it to your downloads  :lol: 
5) Bookmarks are really useful
6) I think chat mods were the most used MODs. It fits any kind of community
7) Links is not really useful for me, I agree, never ever used it.


Now, what I really wanted to talk about in this message is Plugin System.
It's really great to have the plugin system, but we have several problems here, that prevent us from a drag'n'drop install, in a batch :

- We're using "file.php", instead of (for example) "index.php?page=XYZ" (I think IPB and others are doing that already). It'd really be more flexible, and would allow us to leave "root files" from mods in their directory. Same goes for ACP stuff.

- We don't really have hooks yet. We'd need to add them on a one-case basis in the code, in the templates ... I don't know. Maybe we should add divs and people would hook it through JS or something ? We've discussed this before, and I don't have any real answer yet, maybe we'd need something really complicated like a block system which we could override, etc.


I actually thought about this and said "i'm gonna try to implement medal mod as a plugin only", as a crash-test. I don't have it on my comp so I can't really try ATM, but I'll try to see how we can manage with MG (MG -- we need to get on skype or something, GTalk is totally broken and MSN is down).

Another problem with that is that he's always really busy, but I'm not a real grown-up yet so I don't have these kind of problems (understand : I'm still in school), but I can't usually start working on something big because MG does big commits once in a while, so I have no idea if I'll have to change everything i've done or even if he's doing the same as I am :P .

I also told Yros I'd look into adapting ADR 0.4.5 (or was it ..6 ? Can't remember !), so maybe I'll try to see if we can provide better support to phpBB2 mods too ?
There's a lot we can do, I'll be able to open the french community board soon (thanks MathieuM, btw) and I'll see what I want to focus on by then.

On that (big) note ... :)


