First of all, I want to say that among millions of other solutions out there, CuteNews is the best I've seen, by far! 
SQL
I still think it's a good idea to implement SQL-support. I know it's a dirty job to rewrite the entire core, but it would be a major lift for CuteNews. It's my intentions that the user is able to select either SQL or flat-file storage during the installation process. The option that's not selected during installation should not be installed either. When it comes to performance, this should not slow down the user experience afaik.
As for security, all configuration files (ie. MySQL config) could (and probably should) be placed outside the web-root, where they can only be reached by PHP. Unfortunately, I don't have enough experiece to discuss that single topic in details.
Categories
I might have been misleading in my original post. As I said, I have three categories, all numbered 1, 2 and 3. First, I make a post in category 1, then 2 and finally 3. The three posts will be showed on three different pages, but I also want a fourth page (ie. the main page) where I want to show the posts from both 1, 2 and 3. I know that it can be done by showing ie:
<?php
$category = "1";
include("show_news.php");
?>
<?php
$category = "2";
include("show_news.php");
?>
<?php
$category = "3";
include("show_news.php");
?>
The example above still shows the news index from the other categories, while showing the news for the selected category.
I have to admit that I've never tried the following:
<?PHP
$category = "2,3,5";
include("show_news.php");
?>
... wich is stated in the documentation.
--> Note to self: RTFM! :blink:
Auto-archive
In several ERP-environments (ie. SAP) there is a saying, "Don't change the vendors code". In other words, hacks, mods and add-ons are not necessarily for the better, but should (if possible) be delivered as a part of the standard CuteNews-code, with ability to switch the feature on an off in the system config. This ensures easier, faster and cheaper upgrades.
Latest comments
I find the way that CuteNews shows news, archives etc. very smart, by including files. I guess there's a simple way of doing the same with comments, ie.
<?php
$number_of_comments = "5";
$sort_order = "ascending"; // could be descending
include("show_latest_comments.php");
?>
I know this feature exists in AJ-Fork, but I still want it in standard CuteNews, regarding the earlier statement about the vendors code.
Friendly URL's
I've seen the posts about friendly URL's, but as for the other wishes, I still believe that this should be a part of standard CuteNews.
Spam-filter
Actually, I've only looked at the flood protection. A banned word-protection would be the ideal solution, made in standard CuteNews.
RSS
Most people I know, reads the news through the RSS-feed. Still I think there should be feeds for other formats than 0.91, and that there should be feeds for both news and comments.
Search-function
Umm... Is there a search function in standard CuteNews? I've never seen it... :unsure:
Just my two cents (or more like a million dollars to me).
Best regards,
Martin
