Which one of these amazing features do you need?

[riadh]

Hello!
I think that many of you have heard that phpBB will participate in GSoc (Google Summer of Code).
And It will be honor for me to apply and be mentored by phpbb.
I have read the list of ideas available here http://wiki.phpbb.com/GSoC/2012/Ideas.I added also another idea.And I want to discuss them with you and know which one of these would be the most important for you.
I want to tell that I will not be able to do them all(I can do only 3 or 4)
So,please pick your favorite ideas!

This is a summary of the ideas of phpbb(taken from here http://wiki.phpbb.com/GSoC/2012/Ideas)

• User Facing:Attachment Improvements and Rich Text Editor Integration
  Attachment Improvements
  Integration of Plupload or a similar tool that makes attachment upload a nicer experience. Ability to upload multiple files to a forum post, ability to download all attachments of a post, ability to download all attachments of a topic. It has to be ensured that existing security mechanism also apply to uploads made using JavaScript and uploads still work even without JavaScript.
  Rich Text Editor Integration
  Integration of a Rich Text Editor into phpBB core, making the use of the bulletin board a lot easier by allowing users to pick the editor that fits their needs.
• Session Backend Abstraction
  A properly designed storage interface for session data and working backend implementations for relational databases and memcached. A Redis implementation would be useful but is optional.
• Search Backend Refactoring
  A properly redesigned interface for search backends that allows search backends to modify the user interface of search. Integration of backend implementation for Sphinx and PostgreSQL into phpBB core.
• Auth Plugin Refactoring & User Integration
  An object-oriented interface for authentication backends allowing multiple authentication plugins to be selected simultaneously and allows them to change the user interface. Profile changes to both account settings and profile data should either be preventable by such plugins or cause notification of the respective plugin so the data can also be changed in its own database. Refactoring existing function-based authentication plugins and adding an OpenID implementation.
• Social networks(Facebook) integration(my own idea)
  It’s not a secret that social media is more and more important, and I useful to use the power of social Medias to stay connected with users and get more traffic.
  Dynamically synchronize the forum and a Facebook page.
  If the forum admin activates this function, he configures the Facebook page (already made) .All the content of the forum is sent to Facebook. Then when a change is made in the forum, the something occurs in the Facebook page (post<=>comment, topic <=> statue) .We could get the number of likes for example…

[callumacrae]

You should add an RFC topic for the social network integration.

[naderman]

To be more precise, that RFC topic should go into the 3.2 RFC Forum.

[sajaki]

You forgot the option 'none of the above'.

[brunoais]

Yeah... I'd go with integrating with google too.

[riadh]

thank you for your answer.

To be more precise, that RFC topic should go into the 3.2 RFC Forum.

You should add an RFC topic for the social network integration.

I have just done it.
Here is the link http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=42723

You forgot the option 'none of the above'.

If you have other ideas, I will be pleased to heard them.

Yeah... I'd go with integrating with google too.

Thank you for your suggestion.

[Rallix]

You forgot the option 'none of the above'.

I very much agree, the only edits I'd make to the default is a homepage being a standard thing, because that's only like a five minute thing, but it makes a substantial difference

[drathbun]

I picked search because it is by far the most frequent activity on just about any board. Not every topic has attachments, so while those improvements might be useful making search more flexible / powerful / accurate / semantic would be a far better addition to the core. In my opinion, of course.