Favourite missing module?

By flibs on 24 Jul 2006 at 17:09 UTC

I'm at a bit of a loose end, and I've been tinkering with making drupal modules - got a couple of them out in the field now, with pretty good feedback.

As a result, I'm looking for more ideas on what modules I should write next.

Do you have a concept for a module that you'd find useful but there's nothing out there that even comes close?

Do you find that an existing module does almost what you want but is in someway broken or insufficient?

If so, let me know and I'll see if I can knock something up to fit the bill.

Comments

login lockout

anner commented 24 July 2006 at 17:16

There is a add on to the core login functionality that I haven't had a chance to do. What I want:
A user account becomes inactive if there are X failed login attempts in a row.

There is already a threshold value in the user table that doesn't appear to be used. There doesn't appear to be anywhere yet to store the current # of failed attempts. I (and my security team) would *love* this addition.

Not a problem - the user

flibs commented 25 July 2006 at 08:02

Not a problem - the user table has this wonderful 'data' field with a serialised hash in it where you can store anything you like.

I know it's not a complex

anner commented 25 July 2006 at 18:04

I know it's not a complex feature addition, but it would be nice to have as a security feature that I just haven't had time to do.

Hooking in?

flibs commented 26 July 2006 at 10:41

My main problem with it at the moment is working out how to hook it into the login system. Anyone have any suggestions?

Please add this patch to logintoboggan

senpai commented 8 February 2008 at 22:39

There's a great module out there called logintoboggan that alters Drupal's default login system. Please write this proposed functionality as a patch against that module, rather than creating a new module? A lot of us would appreciate that kind of feature, since its really security conscious.
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A dynamic "playoff" chart might be fun to program

just john commented 24 July 2006 at 17:18

You've seen these; on the far left side, all the entrants in a tournament are listed as pairs within boxes, then after that round is done, another column of boxes appears to the right of the first one, with the winners of that round, and that process is repeated until you have a winner.

I HOPE you've seen one of these; I've explained it very badly.

That would be awesome - I am

brianV commented 3 March 2007 at 16:25

That would be awesome - I am looking for something exactly like that right now, with the provision that the winners are determined by votes from the visitors to the site before progressing to the next round!

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Listhandler?

jjkd commented 24 July 2006 at 17:23

How about tacking getting the 'listhandler' module finished up for 4.7.x? I think it's close, but no 'official' 4.7.x release yet...
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Or indeed getting a 5.x

xMarks commented 17 February 2007 at 09:12

Or indeed getting a 5.x release for this module?

I'm fairly new to all this, but I'm gonna download the source and give it a go...

xMarks.

Digg-like module

zoon_unit commented 24 July 2006 at 18:11

There's an existing module called Vote up/down that is headed in the right direction. An expanded effort in this direction would be fantastic. Social voting concepts have proven to be tremendous content generators.

This is a natural for drupal, but development isn't moving along as fast as it should.

Vote Up Down neds to be CCK'ed

senpai commented 8 February 2008 at 22:40

If nobody beats us to it, Achieve will CCK'ify this module and begin some serious heavy patchwork in the next month.
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dba module port

dgrant commented 24 July 2006 at 18:33

I'd really like to see this dba module (http://drupal.org/project/dba) ported to 4.7

dba module port to 4.7

codevelopment

Perth, Australia

commented 26 July 2006 at 07:55

"I'd really like to see this dba module (http://drupal.org/project/dba) ported to 4.7"

Hear, hear, I second the motion -- this really used to help me sleep better at night!

Tagging for everyone

FiReaNGeL commented 24 July 2006 at 18:40

I made a couple of posts about this, but received little to no input.

What I would really want is that EVERYONE (or at least, registered users) be able to tag content, BUT the system would remember who tagged what and provide a 'my tags' and a 'others have tagged this...' for popular tags (let's say 5 or more people have tagged it the same name, to avoid spamming).

The autocomplete would search all tags (and maybe even find synonyms?), in order to minimize different tags.

I never fully understood why the poster should tag his post... users / readers should do that. And having 'my tags' and 'others have tagged this' would allow personalization of content, easier search (search posts i've tagged 'xyz'), and favorize social network development (find people who tagged stuff 'zyx', etc).

I don't think it's possible out of the box with current modules though :(

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Great feature... like last.fm

marcor commented 24 July 2006 at 19:17

This sounds to be a great feature I would also appreciate very much! :)
Since Drupal is known to be the famous social/community-CMS, I am still missing this function and others I know from last.fm, who claim to feature "the social music revolution" by tag clouds and some other functions. Just go there and you'll see, what else is missing in drupal! These guys have done really great work! ;)