I'll categorize mine based on what area it effects.
Administration- A smarty based admin area (This would allow theme creators to also create backend themes). Not super important but the sooner we make the switch the better.
- When changing a block setting, return the user to the last group setting they were on. It's really frustrating changing something for a group who is last in the list, make one change to a block and your back viewing the first in the list. You then have to select the group again and again every time you make a change to a block.
- A better DHTML editor. I have to give a hats off to the boys at Invision, their posting editor allows you to actually highlight a word and press the button to bold, hyperlink etc. But it's not a big clunky WYSIWYS either. Which I think is perfect for things like forums, news and so on. However I do agree with the above that XOOPS should also have a WYSIWYG editor available for use also. Catz editor is pretty good but it'd by nice to have a universal editor like that in the core... but I guess this is more a module need then administration.
- An easy back-up system. Something that would back-up both DB and web files and package them in gzip file for DL.
Modules- I'll just mention the WYSIWYG again incase no one read my above rambling.
- Documentation. I know this is in the works but it's really a must. Right now I tend to find functions by looking at others code but I'm sure there's some beautiful functions lying around no one uses cause they don't know they’re there.
- A url rewrite function. As someone mentioned above, a function which allowed for URL write and could be used both from PHP AND smarty. This way when you link something it can be rewritten in a universal way. Just something like:
$myts->urlrewrite("My word or image", "http://mysite.com/modules/wfsections/article.php?articleid=1", "target", "title", "option");and the above would produce something like
http://mysite.com/articles/articleid/1/Which mod rewrite could then revert back to the orig. URL. Perhaps there's a better way but you get the idea. THis is key item I think to both SEO and moving one step closer to separating us from the other CMS's out there.
btw, I think skalpa already has an idea similar to this in the works.
ThemesThe biggest thing for me as a theme developer is being able to tell from within smarty what module the user is currently viewing. I hacked this for my site but to have it built in would be great (And not all that difficult). Having this allows you to theme differently for each module by using different CSS files based on the module name, and even use different images.
I have lots more but my fingers hurt from typing this much.
