Here are my ideas. Optional all. The admin decides what he enabled or disabled.

Each visitor (registered or unregistered) may open up a new entry about a "thing", or uses an already created entry. Visitors should first look to whether an entry is already present.
This can be a restaurant, doctor, mechanic, automobile, celebrity, cereals, politicians, chewing gum and so on.

For different kinds of purposes.
* A review site for restaurants, doctors, hardware, cars etc..
* Search for the identity of a violent/inappropriate (criminal) Public servant (police officer etc.)
Attention, off topic Background:

In Germany, police are rarely convicted (even if there are evidence like photos or videos).
Amnesty International criticized Germany:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-upda … 2010-07-08
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ … 02/2004/en
and so on...

And http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5774343,00.html

The unions are resisting identifiability. The judiciary does not attempt to identify them.
They bludgeon anonymous, protesters at demonstrations.
Demonstrators is it forbidden (under court penalty) to wear a mask.
It will be legally prosecuted as a "weapon", if someone is wearing a protector or similar (normal) protective clothing.
Police violence is legal, to protect themselves illegal. Some police officers wear quartz gloves (maybe "unofficially").

Project Stuttgart 21 -the real and topical state violence in Germany:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaGE1p_j2Sg

Stuttgart Police brutality against school children:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJsUb9XYKK8

This year, they shot a protester with a powerful water cannon blind:
http://www.bz-berlin.de/multimedia/arch … 654716.jpg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article … l?ITO=1490
http://www.thelocal.de/society/20101228-32075.html

Other innocent protesters were pepper sprayed in their eyes.
The innocence was confirmed by state television in the critical magazine "Monitor" (they had private videos of the demo from different perspectives).


See the sadistic grinning policemens.

* A mobile phone configurator (or other hardware "finder"). Needs a search function by limiting technical details (such as here: http://www.inside-handy.de/handy-finder).
* And many other things...

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The admin specifies what you should fill out.
E.g. Camera/audiorecorder:

* Manufacturer
* Type Name
* megapixel resolution
* Optical Zoom
* product foto(s) [upload field for pictures]
* photo samples [upload field for pictures]
* Video samples [upload field for videos]
* sound sample [upload field for audio files]
* Manual [upload field for pdf and other documents]
* ...


Doctors (or generally person):
* Gender
* Last name
* first name
* middle name
* City
* Zip Code
* Address
* No.
* Geocodes
* Specialization (general practitioner, gynecologist, ear/nose/throat doctor...)
(* Height)
(* Weight)
(* Hair color)
(* Eye color)


Individual media, (in view mode) are shown in a window.
E.g. the product photo. Or a video in a player window.
The admin placed these windows, in the form.

In the normal mode (view mode) the user/visitor can download the media files.

OK, body data are irrelevant to a doctor.
This is just one example. For a partnersearch site are more likely.

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Rating options:
* 5-star

* 10-star

* 100%

* Grades.
Remember that these are different International.

It is easier, even if the admin can set note ranges.
In letters (USA) or numbers (Germany 1 to 6, Switzerland 6 to 1...). With additional text.
E.g. Germany:
Number: "1" / Additional text: "very good".
Number 6 / Additional text: "unsatisfactory".

Grades in different "school" subjects.

E.g. Restaurant:
- Cleanliness
- Ambiente
- Taste
- Friendliness
- Price
- Parking
And so on.

This arbitrary single notes, and a calculated overall score.


* Two point "Good/bad": Red/Green or laughing smiley/sad smiley or... (arbitrary graphics)
* three point like ebay (good, neutral, bad or three smileys or...).

Not just a single method. Let the admins decide.
If that is all too much work to integrate, then at least (or "for now") two or three point or point AND school grades, or two/three point as the minimum.


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Gimmick:
Location information in a map (Google Maps API). Place a marker, or automatically from address (address fields).
The rating can be displayed in the map as markers.


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Useful:
Automatic Live Search, which makes suggestions for existing entries (reduce duplicate entries).
There are forums that suggest while entering the title existing threads.


* For each entry a separate forum.
The users can discuss together the "thing " (object or person or country, or ...).


* For each user a comment.
See in Google Maps. There you can rate and leave a comment.
As the admin wants:
[] A user may edit his comment.
[] A user may not edit his comments.

If he can not edit, he can make a supplement.
Time and date are automatically inserted.


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Search function:

Full search over all data (boolean or "intelligent"). Or data fields are combined to narrow down results.

E.g. Restaurants:
Cleanliness: from x to y
Taste: from x to y
Zip Code: 50674 (in Germany only 5 digits without attachments).

Useful: Radius search.
"50" or "5" instead of 50374.

City: Cologne

Useful: Radius search.
5Km, 10Km, 15Km, 20Km.....


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Backup/Restore:

* Complete database.
* All media files

Reasonable:
Option to download only new media files (since last backup).

Last edited by Tobias Claren (2011-01-04 03:47:45)

These were many examples. What I want, I need to think about it.
Is there an aversion to the use of Formlis for such purposes?

FomLis is so far the most promising product.

Self hosting? On a personal computer? I do not have a server with a dedicated line.


EDIT:
Is FormLis a Script like phpBB ("install" on a webspace)?
I can't find a download.

Last edited by Tobias Claren (2011-01-11 03:53:52)