All I want for Christmas is...

[darnoldy]

Folks-

I am helping to set up a not-yet-public board aimed at a group that has been using other software. There are some features that vB seems to be missing that we'd like to have.

I'd like to know if these things are possible, and what level of modification they'd require. I'm pretty competent at HTML, CSS & Javascript--I'm a front-end guy--but clueless about php (so please, baby talk<G>).

1. A "to:" field in each message--esentially the poster of the parent message. I have figured out how to edit the postbit template, but not generate the value to include.

2. A "Waiting messages display" I would like to add a field to each member record that carried a list of new messages addressed to them. Each time someone replies to a user's post, the postid of the reply is added to the list. If the list is not empty, a link/message displays in the "welcome" box stating "you have X new messages". User clicks, get page displaying messages. As user reads messages, postid is removed from list.

3. The ability to address the first post in a new thread to a specific person. which would cause it to show up in their waiting messages display. Default would be "All" which acts as threads do now.

4. A "Staff" address, which would cause the message to show a waiting message for all staff (Mods, supermods and admins).

5. An "Admin" address, which would cause the message to show a waiting message for all admins--and it, and any replies would be visible only to admins and the thread creator.

Thanks!

--don