Hey look! It's a fucking UPDATE!

Heh. I know you all hate me, I know nobody visits this damn thing, and I know people think this is just another one of those abandonblogs. Well, you are mistaken, because here is an update! Wow! A rather big update in fact.

First of all: No, I still haven't done jack shit on the project (code-wise). All I've done so far is lay out tons and tons of ideas in my head. I do love planning ahead. I haven't started coding this because I was (wrongly) focused on ArtChat, and school. I've got 4 tests on Tuesday, in case anyone cares.

Now, there are a few things I'd like to explain:

• First and foremost, I've changed my mind about the scope of this project. I sort of feel like making this an open-source and public project. That's right, I want people to look at the code and just try to find an exploit. I also might've gotten a partner: LimonLock. At first I thought he was just a script kiddie, but damn was I wrong. He seems like a great coder, and he understands my coding standards :') . I am really glad that I'll be able to get help on this.
• As I've said, I want this forum software to be completely modular. I've thought of something that I think has never been done before in the world of PHP: an actual "plug-in" system that doesn't require modification of the actual source code of the software. I was thinking of making this an event-based system. For example, when a post is made, an onPost event is dispatched to all installed plug-ins. The plug-in can then do whatever it wants with the data sent to it. Plug-ins will also be able to overwrite methods.
• I'm going to try to save as much time as I can coding this forum software. I, like a lot of other programmers, hate coding HTML forms. I hate this shit because it's so repetitive, boring and you keep forgetting shit. This is why the templating system will come "bundled" with a Form Generator, and a complex one at that. Forms will be able to have Web 2.0 - style tabs and various pages. This will all be easily doable with a simple method-based form builder. Example:
  
  $myForm = new Form();
  $myForm->Page1 = $myForm->createPage();
  $myForm->Page1->addField(TEXT, 'UserName', $userData->UserName);
  
  
  Hopefully you will have understood that this would create a new form with a text field named "UserName" with adefault value of the UserName of the current logged in person. Well you sort of get the point. Making forms is going to be easy.
• The administration panel will be a bit Web 2.0. You might know my friend ArmLock, or theDrunkMonkey, or ABoxInABox, or anything you remember him as. He's developping Olympus, and he uses a great trick to have a constant set of buttons and other stuff at the top of the page, without using frames! I hate frames, and I am probably going to use a technique of the sort to make the administration panel.
• I am not sure about this, but I was thinking of letting the admin truely customize the forum from the admin panel. For example you could easily add a new field to a user's profile, instead of having to go in the code or developp a new plugin just for a field. You'd be able to set where the field shows, wether it is user-modifiable or not, wether it's a numeric, etc, etc.
  

And that's pretty much all I can think of right now. I usually get more ideas before I fall asleep, but I just can't remember them as I'm typing this.

Please post comments of actual quality, not just mindless blabber or insults.