A couple of feature suggestions

[Operator]

Hello everyone

First of all a BIG THANX to the Serendipity staff, you are really doing a great job

After playing around a bit with Serendipity, I've noticed some little things that could be changed to make Serendipity even better to use :

1. Adding additional BBCode buttons to the "New Entry" section.


2. Replacing the download buttons in the "Plugin Installation" section with checkboxes, so multiple selections are possible.


3. Making the BBCode button JavaScript a bit more "ergonomic" to use. When I click on a button, the tag is placed at the end of the text instead of my cursor position.


I know these little corrections can also be done manually but I think they are contributing to a nicer Serendipity, so I posted them as future suggestions here

Thanks in advance.


Greetings




Operator

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Great you enjoy serendipity!:)

1.)Which buttons are you missing exactly?

2.) That is not so easily possible; fetching and installing multiple plugins is dangerous, because each plugin may have config options. After installing a plugin you are directed to that screen, and having multiple plugins installed would mean multi directions, which is just too cumbersome and conflicting.

3.)You need to selecta a portion of your text so that the markup stuff is inserted at the cursor place. Without an actual selection JS cannot detect your cursor position Cross-browser...

Best regards,
Garvin

[Operator]

Thx for your fast response

1.) I meant buttons for [ PHP ], [ Code ] or [ align ] (like e.g. here in PHPBB)

2.) Ok, roger then. Your explanation makes sense... Would really be a bit of a chaos with multiple selcted plugins.

3.) Whoops.... I should have tried out that before posting right away


Greetings



Operator

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

I thought I answered to this one here, damn

Well, the buttons could be enhanced using a plugin. For example the serendipity_event_emoticonchooser does something similar to add the buttons. You could basically create a plugin that adds some more BBCodes easily...would you like to try it?

Regards,
Garvin

[Operator]

Good idea
I'm not a big coder (yet ) but this could be an opportunity to improve my PHP knowledge. Definately gonnna take a look at it if I find some spare time!


Greetings



Operator