Suggestion: Adding Catagories

[Greg Sharp]

Hi

For small FAQ's your current layout is fine however I was thinking for large FAQ's navigation could become unwieldly as the size of the page grew. As a future idea have you considered adding a catagories section by adding a catagories table to the database.

  Perhaps this could even be an optional mod  for those that need catagories for larger FAQ's similar to the way PHPBB has mods available. This way say the first page could be your sites default FAQ and the catagories link (which should be at the top of each FAQ page) could lead to extra pages similar to the main index.php with just some minor treaks to display the appropriate FAQ catagory on that page. This could provide a situation for example where your default page displays say a General FAQ and other pages could show say a Hosting /Email FAQ, Products FAQ in fact whatever was needed.

Anyway this idea was just a thought and by the way good work so far.

Thanks
Greg

[Stian Hole]

This is a feature we will be adding in a future version of OpenFAQ, but thanks for the tip anyways :)

[Greg Sharp]

Hi sorry its taken so long to reply but glad to hear your working on next update. Also glad to see your adding catagories. Here are some other ideas for the future.

Frontend
1/ CSS controlled appearance eg font control, tables layout
2/ Configurable headers & footers via templates
3/ Search function ?

Backend
1/Seperate the add news section from the previously created items edit or delete sections
2/ Review showing newest entry only, however adding a preview link would be handy
3/ Header menu in backend with links to editing sections
4/ Interface for editing style sheets and template source code with live preview
5/ Cookie &/or session support for instigating "remember me" feature

These combined with catagory support would make this a polished product. Keep up the good work.