"My Yahoo" type of options...FEASABLE?

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Would it be feasable to offer options/modules such as "my yahoo" where users could select the modules that they want to see?

There are many modules on here, such as sports scores, weather, stocks, google search, virus alerts, etc.

It would be an unbelievable service to users if they could select in their "User CP" which boxes they wanted to see on the home page.

This might cause a lot of bandwidth usage or ram or whatever it is that the queries use, I have zero knowledge of php/html/mysql/etc. but I figured if Yahoo could do it, why not this?

Thanks.

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does anyone read these? :confused:

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No, only you and me are reading this stuff. Everyone else is off buying and installing vbAdvanced Gallery. Who can blame them? It costs a fraction of competitive scripts.

Anyway, back to your question:

It could take a little processing power, but maybe not much if you don't have a lot of modules. You would need to add some custom bb fields to your database (you know, like you'd do if you wanted countries or flags). Then you'd need to add conditionals for each template. That would let people turn them on and off (I mean remove or display them)

Now positioning them where they want would be another thing entirely. But you could fake it by having redundant modules installed in each column. Then they could enable where they want, in column 1, 2, or 3.

Regards,

Matt

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Would it be feasable to offer options/modules such as "my yahoo" where users could select the modules that they want to see?

There are many modules on here, such as sports scores, weather, stocks, google search, virus alerts, etc.

It would be an unbelievable service to users if they could select in their "User CP" which boxes they wanted to see on the home page.

This might cause a lot of bandwidth usage or ram or whatever it is that the queries use, I have zero knowledge of php/html/mysql/etc. but I figured if Yahoo could do it, why not this?

Thanks.

This addon will get you half way there
http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2047

This gives your users the ability to see the modules or not.

However it does not give them the option of rearranging them into a different order.

Good luck

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thanks!