Community Feature Requests

[eluser]skunkbad[/eluser]
[quote author="Phil Sturgeon" date="1290621845"][quote author="skunkbad" date="1290595481"]3) Have better HTTPS support in regards to the url helper functions, anchor function, base_url, etc.[/quote]

Something like this?

http://sajjadhossain.com/2008/10/27/ssl-...deigniter/

[quote author="skunkbad" date="1290595481"]4) Make better custom 404/error pages. I make my own quite nicely, but these pages should be like that out of the box.[/quote]

I know what you mean, but I think with the addition of $route['404'] this is now much less of an issue? You can map a 404'ed request through to errors/error_404 and have it loading just like any other page/controller in your system.

[quote author="skunkbad" date="1290595481"]5) Pagination that works with non-database type data. Right now the offset doesn't allow for us to paginate stuff that doesn't come out of a query.[/quote]

I suppose the closest you'd get here is some array_slice()? Could you explain the problem a little more?

[quote author="skunkbad" date="1290595481"]I could probably think of more... but will anyone care?[/quote]

I do [/quote]

In regards to HTTPS and the link provided, yes. I use something similar. It makes sense that the framework would have this built in.

Haven't played with $route['404']. Is this new in 2.0? Is it documented anywhere in the official user guide?
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The first time I tried to paginate something that wasn't a db result, it was clear that the offset used by the pagination library made it impossible to use without some custom extension. I then searched the forum and saw that other people were saying the same thing, so I just did the pagination on my own. Maybe there is an easy way to do the non-db pagination, but it isn't documented. Do you know what I mean now?

Now for more:

6) The cart class is like a tease. If CI is dedicated to e-commerce, then it would be nice to have a checkout class that allowed developers to add in shipping / gateway / tax modules as needed. I'm sure the community would love to have a checkout module library so we could share these modules. Yes, I know of the wiki, but I'm trying to emphasize how nice it would be to have a CI checkout class. We have a smiley helper and a calendar class. How much more useful would a checkout class be? Working together with the cart class, it could ensure that somebody wasn't trying to cheat the system, and it could handle accepting either credit card data, paypal redirect, both, or whatever. Having built my own Community Cart, I know there's a ton of work, and would love to have not spent so many hours doing it.

7) Better documentation on how to handle errors when using both the form validation class and the uploader class at once. In fact, it is not very simple to merge the two (at least for me). I've came up with my own way of doing what I need to do here, but I wish it was easier.

Anyways, being called by the wife....