I'm Having a site build threw reantacoder(A Great Service), and now I'm in arbitration with the coder, because he doesn't want to build the admin panel as powerful as I feel my needs are. (I dont want to have to learn php to make basic changes on the site). Can someone who knows about this sort of thing, tell me what would be reasonable options in a admin panel for a site like this??? http://www.myhotcomments.com.................... Could you please be thorough in listing the basic options in a admin panel for for a site like this. (this is the type of site Im having built). Thanks, Your Help Is much needed, and appreciated.
While it will depend on many different factors. Lets look at it as a public based application. Where there is no member access. 1. Access Permissions 1a. administrator permissions 1b. assistant administrator permissions (restrict access) 1c. group access permissions (if it's a member based service) 1d. individual access permissions (if it's a member based service) 2. Category Manager 2a. options to (create, merge, delete) a category or sub-category (IE: category = astrology, sub-categories = Cancer, Leo, ... 3. Image Manager 3a. options to (add, remove, suspend access, edit) all images within the service. This also includes allowing options to allow images to be shared across different categories. 4. Template Manager 4a. options to (add, remove, edit) template sets, including (html, javascript, css) type files. A template manger should allow for the administrator to make changes to the application front-end without having to use coding blocks. So the template manger should have access to click and insert type (code macros <macro/ input=select, name=state, database=usa, selected=New York /macro>) that allow for adding code blocks without needing to know how to program. 5. Logging Manager 5a. options to (rotate, view by [month, day, year, ip, browser, ...], delete, download, keep statistics, ban users) 6. SMS Manager 6a. options to (randomly rotate, add, edit, delete, hooks into the logging manage) all of your affiliated SMS network partners. 7. Ad Manager 7a. options to dynamically add ads to different pages in your application. Options should include (ip based targeting, keyword targeting) Also options for key revenue sharing partners should be included, those options would allow for (ad placement based on targeting options [time of day, impressions paid for, type of ads, ...]) That's about all the basic stuff you need to make managing the application without any headaches. Tables... 1. users (id, groups, name, email, birthday, registration date, unique permissions, time online, last time online, downloads, ...) 2. groups (type, name, description, access permissions, upload permissions, ...) 3. cache (templates, categories, permissions, application configuration options, ads) 4. images (path, name, size, type, ...) 5. ads (ad id, partner id, type, size, keywords, regions allowed view, maximum impressions, total impressions, time start range, time end range, ...) 6. partners (partner id, ad id, name, address, phone, ...) 7. templates (template id, cached template, uncached template) 8. categories ( category id, title, about, ...) 9. subcats (sub-category id, parent category id, title, about, ...) 10. macros (id, type, title, about, macro) 11. accesslogs (id, time, user, ip, region, sms id, image sent, ...) 12. adlogs (id, ad id, time, was target ad, region, ...)