I’ve decided that instead of wasting my life away, I shall do something productive before I enlist. I have been thinking of creating a new web application, but gave up on that idea eventually since a) I couldn’t come up with a decent idea and b) any web application these days requires great familiarity with AJAX, which sadly I lack. I have also been considering rewriting Project Extension, but that would be quite a large scale project. So in the end I have decided to update my Integrated Contact Form script, as previously promised.
However, I know how long it usually takes before I push an update out of the door (due to my own procrastination and lack of focus) and so I have decided to change the way I do things this time around. Regardless of how many new features I manage to implement, I would get a build of ICF online on the 28th Jan, which is a week away. This gives me 6 days to code (ok, less than that, since I wouldn’t be at home all week) and 1 day to clean up and prepare the code for release. In theory, I would be more productive and you all would get more frequent updates.
Below is a updated features list for the upcoming build in terms of priority (most of these features below would be available as options). Note that I have decided to remove the Administration panel since I don’t think many of you guys actually use that feature, but I would make it available as an add-on sometime later.
- CAPTCHA check
- Prevent too many emails from being sent within a short period
- Email validation. If turned on, the visitor would be sent an email, where they would have to click a confirm link before their email is sent.
- Greater flexibility with themes and language file (even though the themes are almost ready)
- File restructuring
So keep watching this space or subscribe to my RSS feeds (link to feed dedicated to ICF updates) or follow me on Twitter (@wuxiaotian)
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