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Such a feature would have to be optional and disabled by default. For one reason because of the listed drawbacks (especially leaking information), but It probably also requires the webserver to coorporate.
A way around that is to have a click-through page (for all external links) that just acts an ...

The lower can very easily be made a configuration option, assuming a UTF8 implementation of strtolower could be produced.

Can you explain more precisely what the cleaning of the topic title would work like? What are your thoughts on handling Unicode? Are the compatability problems with webservers and unicode in paths?

Should it be u<i> or m<i> for user/member? We have a member list, but typically refer to users ...

Please note this is a Request For Comments topic, not a discussion. It is not meant to serve as a discussion for whether Pretty URLs are useful or not, rather to give my suggested implementation and receive comments and suggestions on this specific implementation.

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Name : hook_registration_url
Rationale : This hook will allow website to easily integrate their custom registration form.
Placement : ucp.php, includes/ucp/ucp_register.php
Input arguments : $url string - relative to the phpBB root, it should point to the custom registration page on one's ...

I would also make it hookable, with the IP, Username, and Email available. MOD authors could create a spammer blacklist reporting system with such a thing.
Maybe we could also create a Ban Type: Normal, Spammer. A "Spammer" type ban would be rid the posts, clear out the profile, basically nuke the ...

I believe a simple solution could be implemented that would allow users to change topic titles without breaking the links. (looking back more closely at this thread, it resembles nn-'s suggestion).

/phpbb3/ <- Board index
/phpbb3/general-discussion-12/ <- General Discussion forum (id of 12 ...

What to change
Reports are used to alert Moderators of rule breaking, however their usefulness is fairly limited. The following are proposed improvements to the system as a whole.
Allow the user ID of the reporter and reportee to be associated with the report itself. Any Moderator should be able ...

The first post has been edited with another screenshot concept.

Overall, this might end up a good idea. Just a few things I'd think about:

I wouldn't tie up the design and the backend code - they can be developed independently. I certainly agree with changing the backend code to make creating ...

The current tabular/navigation based ACP is effective and very clean, but perhaps this type of administration of software via a web interface has numbered days. With rich internet applications taking over, and the web seeming less stateless each day, we may want to consider other alternatives to ...