[[PhplistDevelopment phplist Development]]
----

==== Feature Requests (most wanted features) ====

Being software, phplist will never be finished. We try to keep track of the **most wanted** features in our bug tracker [[http://mantis.phplist.com/ mantis]] and the [[http://forums.phplist.com/ forums]]. The main development roadmap for phplist is to develop a plugin system that will allow for easier addition of functionality to the solid base.

Apart from that, most wanted features we are aware of are:
~- Customisable front end, some templating system that will enable full manipulation of the data coming from the core. 
~~- enhanced customization of public forms
~~~- easy integration of subscribe, preferences, and unsubscribe forms into existing website pages. [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=5712 F1]]
~~~- allow redirection to custom public pages (e.g. confirmation and thank you pages). [[http://mantis.phplist.com/view.php?id=1537 M1]], [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=16808 F1]], [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=8940 F2]]
~~- multiple content areas in message templates. [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=7967 F1]], [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=4059 F-2]], [[http://mantis.phplist.com/view.php?id=8970 M1]]
~~- enhanced customization of system messages.
~~~- allow placeholders for custom attributes in system messages. [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=4966 F1]], [[http://mantis.phplist.com/view.php?id=3288 M1]]
~~~- configurable format selection of system messages (HTML or text). [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=6944 F1]]
~~- enhanced placeholder/attribute functionality. 
~~~- allow placeholders in subject line of messages. [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=16650 F1]], [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=2259 F2]]
~~~- placeholder(s) for current date, month, year. [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=16005 F1]]
~~~- conditional placeholder display. [[http://mantis.phplist.com/view.php?id=11733 M1]], [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=11225 F1]]
~~~- include an 'empty value prefix' in the date attribute. [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=16306 F1]]
~~~- placeholder to insert link to an online version of a sent message. [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=17183 F1]], [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?p=45821#45821 F2]], [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?p=32557#32557 F3]]
~~- Separate language file text strings for subscribe, unsubscribe and preferences links. [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=5962 F1]]
~- Disconnect users from the database, so phplist can slot into third party solutions. [[IntegratingPhpListWithOtherPackages D1]], [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=5009 F1]]
~- Provide API to manipulate phplist from third party solutions. [[IntegratingPhpListWithOtherPackages D1]], [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=3252 F1]], [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=16829 F2]]
~- Sequential auto-responder functionality [[http://mantis.phplist.com/view.php?id=13518 M1]], [[http://mantis.phplist.com/view.php?id=7321 M2]]
~- Full multi-language support for frontend. [[http://mantis.phplist.com/view.php?id=6461 M1]], [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=5401 F1]]
~- Additional user management functions: tagging by selection criteria, manual blacklisting of users, deletion of blacklisted or unconfirmed users, [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?p=47274#47274 F1]], [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?p=47278#47278 F2]], [[http://mantis.phplist.com/view.php?id=12801 M1]].
~- Blacklisting certain domains, so user cannot subscribe with emails from those domains. [[http://mantis.phplist.com/view.php?id=5184 M1]], [[http://mantis.phplist.com/view.php?id=4041 M2]]
~- Statistics and reporting.
~~- improved export functionality for data analysis and statistical reporting with third party solutions.
~~~- include additional selectable fields, e.g. bounce count, blacklisted users, unconfirmed users . [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?p=30097#30097 F1]], [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?p=28223#28223 F2]], [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=13483 F3]]
~~- monitoring progress in message sending process, to help detect problems in mailqueue processing. [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=16124 F1]], [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?p=44827#44827 F2]], [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?p=46168#46168 F1]]
~- Enhanced admin permissions.
~~- template permissions. [[http://mantis.phplist.com/view.php?id=2743 M1]], [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=4928 F1]], [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=10662 F2]]
~~- configurable list ownership by multiple admins. [[http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?t=5197 F1]]

We hope that once 2.11 is released, the plugin system will inspire you to contribute some of the above. 


~&**Note:** Explanation of references:
~&**D1** - reference to documentation wiki
~&**F1** - reference to forum thread
~&**M1** - reference mantis report

----
CategoryDevelopment