Bob_La_Londe wrote on Nov 4
th, 2005 at 9:07pm:
I've been running this for over a day witth no hickups that I see. I can see where some users of this mod may want to request some tweeks, and a documentation file explaining the process and how it does the job might be in order.
Over all it looks like a relatively bug free first release.
Glad to hear it.
Quote:Some options that might be nice would be to have the option to have the default template always load unless the url is called with the template variable. Selectable use by forum administrator. I like it just the way it is, but others might want to do it differently. Basically on or off selection by admin.
Use default template if variable not passed YES / NO
The problem with this is that the template variable won't stay in the URL, so a guest would have to re-enter it in the URL to keep using the same template. That's the reason I used a cookie instead of using the URL completely. Unless your idea is to make it so Guests cannot keep the template set, I see no reason for this.
Quote:An option to lock the template setting so the user can not change it in their profile. It can only be changed by the forum administrator or by calling the url with the variable. Of course this would proably need to be a selectable on/off feature.
Allow user to manually select template in profile YES / NO
This sounds like a job for a more general purpose profile-locking system that would allow the admin to control what to allow users to set.
Quote:Like I said, for my intended use it works perfectly. For me no changes or additional features are needed. Its a clean simple hack that does the job.
You might like to hear that I am working on adding a new feature that I think is useful all around: a template selector. I haven't decided how I'm going to implement it, but this would allow users and guests to quickly switch templates on the board index even if they don't know the template name. This might be implemented by way of <yabb> template tag, or another method.