UserSpice - UserSpice 5 - Roadmapping the Future

Event Calendar

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:12:04 +0000

I would love to see an event calendar added to US in the future

UserSpice 5 Folder Structure

Sat, 05 Jan 2019 12:53:03 +0000

Folders Structure

Now we have only two root folders - users and usersc. The first is core, and the second is users customized. If we want to change something we need to copy files from core to custom folder and change it. I think, such solution looks rough. We need to implement MVC pattern.

In well-coded systems developer doesn't need to change core files. He using existing functions on front-end to generate static content and hooks to change something in admin panel. That's why I think, that WordPress folders structure is perfect (wp-admin and wp-includes is a core folders that never edit because it always updates, and wp-content - for a user's themes, plugins and content).

How I see UserSpice folders structure:
▣ core - CMS core files (api, cron, helpers ...).
▣ admin - back-end files needed for displaying admin panel.
▣ plugins - folder for plugins (dbman, demo, fileman ...).
▣ themes - main site templates (bs4, default, light ...).
▣ uploads - folder for user's content (avatars, images and others).

This structure is approximate, but it best description of separation core files from user edit content. If new update exist, it rewrite core folder, but don't touch for example user's template or plugin.

With such folders structure we able to create own folders, for example pages and get links like mysite.com/pages/myfile.php. The file content may look like this:

PHP Code:
('header'); ?>

                    echo page_title(); ?>
                    echo page_content(); ?>


        

('footer'); ?>

We just include header and footer from theme, and main code is between this includes (code in example taken from Anchor CMS page.php file).

If someone has ideas about how folders structure must look, please comment.

More modular

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 21:42:07 +0000

I've only been using US for a few days (and liking it a LOT), so this may be way off base especially if a lot of it is already available/in the works, but my early observations are that UserSpice a) does a great job of covering the bases it says it will, and b) does get in the way a bit.

What I mean is, there are quite a lot of areas where I feel I HAVE to edit files in /users or /usersc, even though that's really not a good idea.

(Aside: why two directories anyway? I'd rather see all the US core stuff in one folder, and everything a user is likely to edit in another, but even then I'd rather they be under a single folder because I'm a neatness freak )

For example, I want to disable the ability of site visitors to list all subscribers, but the only way to do that is to hack it out of the php. This isn't really a criticism of US since it's not hard to make those edits directly, but if there were a more cleanly defined module approach, it wouldn't need tweaking at code level, and it would make extensibility easier. There are other small examples - again, nothing serious, but it feels like it's due for a bit of a cleanup.

For another - US outputs the entire header and then the start of the body, in one go. I may have overlooked it, but I can't find a way for me to add headers, js/css includes, and so on, without directly editing header.php. I'd really like to be able to affect that directly from within files, because I don't always want the includes. Maybe provide a US equivalent of header() so pages can inject header material before the page renders?

I'd also like to be able to do multi-project management, with users and pages grouped per project, and role-based management including project-limited access. And while I'm thinking about that, I'd also like to be able to include user template files, on a per-project basis. I use global php classes, and I'd quite like to be able to say "For all files in this project, include that file." You may have to resolve issues like conflicting versions of jquery though.

Lastly - the video of "how to do a minimal use" Honey Badger site looks out of date. Far as I can see, all you need to invoke US is this:

Code:
require_once 'users/init.php';

if (!securePage($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])){die();}

Which is pretty darned lean, and I really like that minimalist approach. I have to ask, though, why isn't the second line just moved to init.php? Given that you always want it to be present, it kinda looks like the single require_once line should be all you really need. (One line, for a complete user management backend? That's neat.)

All of this is fairly minor though. I'm liking how US (mostly) takes care of the messy user management stuff and lets me focus on rolling out pages. And that's really the win for me, in a nutshell; just let me focus on my stuff, and take care of your stuff. So a non-function suggestion would be to focus some of the documentation on exactly that. The docs are good from a technical standpoint, but could maybe do with some more focus on the use-case stuff.

Thanks for a great project. Glad I found it!

UserSpice should be simpler for beginners

Sun, 30 Sep 2018 18:31:54 +0000

UserSpice is a great software and I imagine how much effort and attention has already been applied in its development.
You can see that it was done by dedicated people that loves collaborating with the community.

But I imagine that its initial use could be simplified.

The videos explain how to change php programs to direct the login result to your application page.
A lot of changes.

I think there should be some configuration file where you put the name of your home page that will be loaded after a successful login.
Just this: You change the configuration file and do not need to change the UserSpyce programs.

I hope to be collaborating for this great tool with my suggestion.

Best regards

Smaran

Subscription Integration

Mon, 24 Sep 2018 18:37:30 +0000

Hopefully the right place (And I have not missed a duplicate thread).

I have just started using UserSpice and love the simplicity of it!! What I would love to see in a future version is the ability for a user to purchase credits via Stripe or PayPal that can be used to upgrade their membership on the site.

I was digging through the forums and did notice there was a user who created SubSpice which tried to achieve this. I need to play around with that package more, however it would be great to see it as part of the Userspice Core.

Keep up the good work guys. Really loving UserSpice for the little time I have been using it so far

Nathan

Userspice framework7

Sun, 22 Apr 2018 15:19:36 +0000

Hi

Just had a thought since more and more of us are building applications to service mobile based users, why not think of a release that uses framework7 instead of bootstrap.

This is just a open thought, dont kill me for it.

Cheers
Nash

Routing (User-friendly URLs)

Mon, 16 Apr 2018 07:39:20 +0000

It would be nice, if you release routing system in UserSpice 5, so every new page has own user-friendly URL stored in database. Something like mysite.com/login or mysite.com/admin/users/new.

Template Engine (Theming)

Mon, 16 Apr 2018 07:25:31 +0000

It would be awesome, if you realize Template Engine (Theming) in UserSpice 5. The most popular PHP Template Engine is Smarty, but it hard to implement.

Why it's important: now if I want to change view of back-end and front-end I need to edit core files that will be updated with new version. There is some views, but they using only for header and footer.

I want something, like in WordPress - core files never edited, they easily updated without loss. Theme files are standalone and not depending from core updates. It called MVC pattern

GDPR

Mon, 19 Mar 2018 05:11:10 +0000

Hello.

As the net nannies make the www more secure, i am inquiring to see if userspice developers keep these regulations in mind. Im confident security is the forefront of your mind. Some aspects of the topic require the use of industry standards which i am a novice at...only know when another developer points something out.

However, are u aware of this GDPR? https://www.eugdpr.org
It is for protecting EU members which means any site in the world may need to comply.

Thank you.

wanted: DB before/after update class

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 13:18:49 +0000

Could there be a DB class to do record update
which logs a before and after image of the record?

custom fields

Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:49:27 +0000

it is a question asked alot "how do i create a custom field"
why not allow people to create custom fields in the admin dashboard.
i really hope to see this in 5.0

Composer

Sat, 27 Jan 2018 00:04:18 +0000

Is there any plans on bringing composer back?

Bootstrap 4

Sun, 21 Jan 2018 17:26:06 +0000

I guess Userspice 5 won't be releasing that soon.

Maybe implement Bootstrap 4?
When I started writing this article it was still on beta. But it just released! When I refreshed the 4.0 was out of beta.

https://getbootstrap.com/

Names database-tables

Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:48:29 +0000

Hi,

I have an idea for an improvement of userspice. First of all: I really like userspice!!!

But I think it might be even better if you could change the names of the tables in the database. Is it maybe possible to give all of them a prefix like "us_". That would make it easier if you need to search for your own tables in phpmyadmin and sort them by table-names. I know this might be a lot of work as you probably use these table-names a lot in your php codes but I think it would make work a bit easier when you are using own tables.

Thanks in advance and again: thanks for userspice!!
Chris

Different CSS engines

Fri, 01 Sep 2017 19:00:04 +0000

One possible suggestion for a future version of US, and I realize this one is probably more inline for US 6 or so, but there are more CSS engines than just Bootstrap, it would be nice if US could be CSS Engine independent, or perhaps say know of Bootstrap, and Foundation.

Anyways just a thought.