Making Admin A Little Easier

[DungeonMaster]

Something I will like to see in future versions:

In Admin it can be quite a time consuming task disabling / enabling each module, it will be nice to have check boxes - those that are checked enabled and one save button.

[KyleMassacre]

that is actually a pretty nice idea

[a_bertrand]

Not a bad idea, however, not as easy at it seems due to the fact each module you enable / disable can have special enable / disable hooks (for example the chat bar have it), and running then all at the same time could have side effects. Not sure if that would work all that well.

[DungeonMaster]

Probably after save then it can cycle through the modules rather than try to save all at once.

[a_bertrand]

Well could be an option, however how many times do you enable / disable many modules at once?

[DungeonMaster]

Well I have had to disable more than 75% of the modules and it took a lot of time because you have to disable, wait for page load, scroll down again, etc.

I plan to have features enabled / disabled based on a time schedule so it will mean enabling and disabling multiple things often which with the way it is setup now can take a lot of time.

Multiply that by running many games and you can see what I mean.

[a_bertrand]

Enabling or disabling modules are done by creating or removing 1 file inside the module directory: module.lock

That means, if the engine finds this file inside the module directory, the module will be disabled. Nothing else.

For your time based thing, you could simply have a cron which creates or remove the files as required.