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Welcome to the Joomla! Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2009 project ideas page. As we move forward with the 2009 version of the Joomla! GSoC, we will use this page to develop possible project ideas. Please note that anyone who is interested can participate in this process. You do not have to be a GSoC student or mentor to suggest possible project ideas. Thanks!

Ideas

Advanced Poll/Survey Suite

The core polls extension has been removed from Joomla! 1.6. Develop a fully featured poll/survey suite that will allow relatively simple user polls and the collection of complex anonymized survey data authenticated against either the Joomla users database or an external database.

Full Frontend Editing

Right now we only have frontend editing for articles, there are a few improvements I can propose

• Article editing is done in a modal popup
• Edit module content and params from frontend (Editing done via a modal popup?)
• Article Title - edit in place
• Create some kind of a library function which allows easy frontend editing for any value (This will need some thought)

Template Manager Improvements/Advanced Template Manager

Extend the template manager so that it providers an better environment for template creation and modification. Improvements might include:

• expanded tool bar, including copy for a complete template
• access to the media manager
• access to all template files (not just css and index.php)
• override manager
• integration of an editor with code highlighting (such as codepress)
• support for template parameter groups
• remove hard-wired references to template name from the core templates (so the new copy function will work as expected)
• "export" button on the toolbar which will create a zip package file containing the template (also fixes any errors in the templateDetails.xml file as it goes).

Work Flow Extension

Create a 1.6 Extension to flexibly manage workflow for com_content. Ideally it should be extensible to other components, but com_content should be used as the proof of concept. Work flow should manage the publication process, including assignment of editors or publishers to specific content items, notifications of relevant actions to specific individuals or groups, change of status to block author editing of published work.

As much as possible administrators should be able to construct their own work flows.

Page Versioning Extension

Create a 1.6 content versioning extension with the goal that this work could be integrated into the core Joomla CMS for future releases. The Page Versioning Extension will allow the ability for frontend and backend content users to be able to save and re-publish/revert previously saved versions of content items that they have access to.

Further user permissions could be introduced in order to restrict access to this overall feature.

Features could include a visual and html code difference between the current and previously saved versions, as well as general searching data such as dates and time of previous saved entries of that content.