Ok, one more quick email then I'm done for the night... Here are some of the plans for the immediate future of ZAP. If anyone has input, would like to add items to the wishlist, or has specific suggestions, feel free to provide input now.
1. Change how ZAP modules work under the hood, to make it extremely easy to add plug in zap functions for any kind of capability you want. In fact except for a few of the more important modules, most of the miscellaneous ZAP commands could be stripped out and made available individually as needed--by cut and pasting directly to a config file, or whatever. I'm hoping that will encourage more coders to tap into the zap engine for custom applications. 2. Add a new ZAPphp command that allows you to execute limited php commands on fields such as substr, time/date, caps/lowercase, encrypt, etc. 3. I'm also wanting to add a ZAPmath command which would allow fairly basic arithemetic capabilities. 4. ZAPmail and ZAPnews will probably be merged as they have a good bit of overlap, and I'd like to merge their capabilities. That is, I'd like to make it just as easy to schedule an individual email for sending six months in the future, as it is to do that with newsletters. 5. Update ZAPchat so it refreshes using AJAX. ZAP can already do most of the required functions for simple messaging, but I plan to keep the ZAPchat module as a way to add in a full range of IRC like commands to your chat room. 6. Update ZAPcart so it is a bit more configurable. It's already working pretty well, I just need to add the documentation. Also, I'd like to do server side processing of the order form, rather than client side. Perhaps using the math command? 7. Create a new ZAPquiz module. I have a very simple but powerful plan thanks to some ideas from Crisses months ago for a module that will automatically grade quizzes virtually anyway you want to grade them, display those quiz grades in various ways, and finally compile multiple quiz grades into a course grade and automatically calculate (weighted) averages for that. Sounds complex, but it is quite easy. Can't wait to take a shot at it. Cheers Dan _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
