[buddypress-dev] Proposed BuddyPress feature: Favourites

[Andy Peatling]

On 2-Apr-08, at 3:47 PM, Chris Taylor - stillbreathing.co.uk wrote:
> Hi gang,
>
> (Better let everyone know: I'm in the UK - well, the People's Republic
> of Yorkshire - so my spelling of some words maybe a little strange!)
>
> Everyone knows that people love to make lists. In several of the
> popular social networking sites users can create lists of their
> favourite books, movies or bands Thinking about that today I had an
> idea - we could make that not just a feature, but a dynamic feature.
> Here's the deal:
>
> The BP admin installs the "Favourites" plugin and goes to set it up.
> They decide they want people to be able to choose their favourite
> books, movies and bands. They create those three new favourites
> "types". For each of those types they have default fields (name,
> rating, reason for choice) and a couple of configurable fields as well
> (so they can enter artist for albums, author for books etc).
>
> Users can then enter as many items as they want into each "type" -
> books, movies etc - give them a rating etc. Their lists can appear
> with a template tag on their profile favourites("books"). And if the
> data is stored in a central table it should be easy to pull out global
> top 10's, search favourites, see how often a certain book (or movie,
> or cheese, or breed of dog) appears. The tables would be something
> like (pseudo-SQL):
>
> table wp_favourite_types (
> id int,
> title varchar(64),
> slug varchar(64)
> )
>
> table wp_user_favourites (
> id int,
> user_id int,
> favourite_type int,
> title varchar(255),
> rating smallint,
> reason varchar(max),
> field_1 varchar(max),
> field_2 varchar(max),
> field_3 varchar(max)
> )
>
> The power of this feature is it doesn't lock site admins down to only
> getting a few types of the more usual favourites, but create their own
> types if they want. So you want to see what everyone's favourite beer
> is? No problem, just create the type "Beer". How about everyone's
> favourite tree? Sorted.
>
> Anyway, just an idea. What do people think?

People love making lists and see how their favourites compare with  
others, so naturally this would be a good extension component. Lets  
keep this one in mind for when we have the core stuff stable and  
completed.

Andy