Instant Personal Notepad

[irbrian]

I've posted something like this before, but no one really responded, and it has since become lost somewhere in the vast archives of these pages. Or maybe its just on page 3-4, but I'm too lazy to search for it..

Anyway, before I said that I'd like to have a personal notepad that shows up in place of or above/below the user's personal text display in post view.

But actually, it should probably just be in the SSI.php so that it could be called from the template. Regardless, it needs to be something that is unique to each user. For instance, if I log in I see my own notepad, if John logs in he sees his notepad; he would never see the contents of my notepad.

This would make it very easy to keep track of things -- from notes about posts you'd like to revisit, to code snippets, to inventory and stats management for Play-by-Post RPG boards (which is what I need it for).

An SSI.php version should be very easy.. I just don't have time to develop it right now. I'm focusing on several other projects (most notably the new CMS I'm designing and just getting two of my boards to work right in the first place).

It could even be a popup feature. Regardless, it should at least be accessible from any message-display page of the forum, so it should probably be either in display.php or accessible from the template.

[[Unknown]]

Alright, it's actually quite simple...

First, either add a column to members, a BLOB.  Name this notepad, or something...

Now, take a look at Load.php....

      if (!isset($userprofile[$user]['memberGroup']))
         $userprofile[$user]['memberGroup'] = '';

Add under that:

      if (!isset($userprofile[$user]['notepad']))
         $userprofile[$user]['notepad'] = '';

Now, when you want to display the notepad contents, use $userprofile[$username]['notepad'].  What's left is to make a function to update it and add an action to call that.  The function would need a query like:

UPDATE {$db_prefix}member SET notepad='$newInfoForNotepad' WHERE memberName='$username'

This could be easier, by I'm sure you can get it.  If you have any problems, feel free to ask.

-[Unknown]

[irbrian]

Thanks for doing most of the work Unknown I'll definitely have to find the time to implement this over the weekend.

[Vegeta]

This looks like it would be a very interesting mod.