Features Planned after 0.50 (in no particular order)

• Movie Forum features
• Ability to edit a post
• pagination so that the forum pages don't get to long.
• member info added to each post
• RSS feeds
• ability to add image and urls
• Ability to add similar movies to a movie
• Add Links where members can buy Video, Sound track,book etc.
• Printer Friendly review and movie pages
• Movie Watch - Get an email when new information gets added for a movie
• Movie Recomendations - Based on your preferences, and how you rate certain movies we will recommend movies that we think you will like.
• Email Page to a friend
• Add filtering and sorting to the movie page, this will allow members to more easily find the movies they are looking for, or for new movies to watch
• Add more detailed help pages
• RSS feeds for forums, new movie info, and site news
• add genre list with checkboxes that members can add more then one genre at once.
• Upcoming movie pages, showing which movies are coming out soon, and there release date
• Bulk Movie Info submission, add all of the movie information for a new movie in one form all at once, eliminating the need to submit everything seperately
• add bulk acceptance to genre editor pages
• Use Cookies to remember a member so that they don't have to always login
• Ability to sort movies by genre,year,MPAA rating,PM rating
• Advanced Search - search with more parameters to get what you want
• Full site search - search the whole site (movies,reviews,forums,etc) for what you are looking for
• Improve images gallery pages, make them look nicer
• Add ability to upload a zip file of images at a time
• create a page that lets the user decided how many images they want to upload and then show that many input fields, it will be much faster then entering one at a time
• Add a Box office top 10 section to the front page.
• Add Top 10 least movies and fav and least fav actors for a member
• Oscar Game
• Surveys

Features Planned for 0.50

• Edit birthdate for a person
• Edit deathdate for a person
• Add/Edit a bio for a person
• Edit Character for a Cast Member
• Add ability for an Admin to add a contest from admin home

0.49.9.3 (09-11-2006)

• Added Google SiteMaps
• Started work on Add/Edit Person birthday,and deathday
• Created SiteMapBot to create the sitemaps
• Added Amazon Reviews
• Created AmazonReviewBot to get amazon reviews
• Added 350,000 more movies to the database

0.49.9.2 (09-06-2006)

• You can now upload images instead of just being able to link to them on the web
• Added a new AJAX enabled search box, it will suggest results as you type. Works for both people and movies
• When a new image gets uploaded it is now resized to some standard sizes, so that they look nicer
• There are new image galleries on the movie and person pages, it shows thumbnails of the images and if you want to see a large version of the image all you need to do is click on the thumbnail.

0.49.9 (9-3-2006)

• Fixed a bug that was preventing the editors from approving mpaa ratings
• Fixed a bug that was preventing the admins to say when a prize was shipped
• Upgraded to Java 1.5
• Upgraded PopcornMonsters to Tomcat 5.5
• Changed the movielist pages, so that they are faster, and easier to naviagate when we get more movies added
• Changed the prize catalog so that it only shows prizes that are currently in stock
• Member Directory

0.49.8 (11-20-2005)

• Fixed a bug in the Person editor pages that required a person editor, to also be a ratings editor in order to edit persons.
• Fixed some minor bugs in the RSS feed: Date format, and removed copyright character.
• Upgraded PopcornMonsters to MySQL 5

0.49.7 (03-01-2005)

• Fixed a bug with MemberTopMovies.
• Added Links so that people can add the RSS feed to My Yahoo and My MSN.
• Fixed some minor bugs in the RSS feed.
• Made it so that when someone goes to http://PopcornMonsters.com it automaticly redirects to /home.do instead of /index.jsp

0.49.6 (02-27-2005)

• Added the ability to disable and enable ads.
• Added the ability to rotate ads of the same type.
• Added a link to the beta RSS feed on the front page, and to the default layout.
• Added Dublin Core meta tags to the RSS Feed.

0.49.5 (02-02-2005)

• Added a Top 10 Movie Feature, so that the Members can say what their favorite Movies are. (Brian L.)
• Released some Beta RSS Feeds for the site.
• Added a page that lists all of the reviews in the database so that it is easier for MovieReviewIndex.com to index our site.
• Fixed a bug with the RealTextAds on the review and forum pages.

0.49 (01-23-2005)

• Added RealTextAds to Review and Forum pages
• Fixed a bug that was saying a prize was out of stock when there was still one available
• Fixed a bug that caused problems when a member tried to add film credits to an actor
• Made it so that Admins can add/change special offer images on the front page

0.48.5 (12-13-2004)

• Added bulk acceptance rating editor pages
• Added ability for an editor to change the image type for movie and person images.
• Added Sponsor section and sponsor URL section to a prize in prize catalog
• Fixed a bug that wasn't sending the order notification to the right person
• Fixed a bug that broke the not logged in redirect back to original page after valid login
• Fixed a bug that wasn't showing all of the new posts in the new posts table on the forums home page.

0.48 (11-22-2004)

• Added Forums version 0.20
• Added Avatars to forum posts
• When you write a post you can now see the current message history for the thread
• Added more links to the forums
• Added two new forums: Site Info, and General Movie Info
• Added a top 25,and top 100 forums for each catagory on the forums home page
• Added links to the forums from the movie and person pages
• Added a more info to the top of the forums page
• Prize Catalog version 0.10
• Added a new Prize Catalog where members can turn in their monster points for prizes.
• Added an admin section where admins can add/edit prizes in the catalog
• Added a new image to the front page telling everyone about the new prize catalog (thanks Andrew)
• Added order history to the member home page, so that member can see status of their order
• Added link to the prize catalog from the Top Filmstip, so that members can get to it from anywhere
• Added some more help pages to explain the Monster Points, and Prize Points.
• Added a Prize Points area to the member home page so that the member can see how many points they have.
• Replaced the About us tab, with a people tab on the site header.
• Added forums,topics,posts,newest member to the front page stats box
• Changed the Login box so that is was a little smaller (thanks Andrew)
• Fixed the PM Ratings for movies so that they are all the same now. They are now updated every hour on the hour.
• Made it so that the search box, searches for both movies and people by default
• Made the top 10 member list show the top 10 members by total points instead of month points
• Fixed a bug in the adding a cast member to a movie page, the validation was broken and sometimes it was Stopping people from adding cast members.
• Removed ads from the editor and admin pages, and some of the member pages. This should speed up the loading of some of the pages.

0.47 (08-28-2004)

• Added Forums version 0.10
• Movie Forums are live
• People Forums are live
• Review Forums are live
• Every movie,person and review page shows the most recent posts for each forum related to that page.
• When a new movie,person,review is added to the site, the forum is automatically created
• updated the forums home page so that it show the top forums on the site.
• Added Members posts to their member home page, and public profile
• Notification of topic replies is working, users can pick if they want to recieve an email when someone replies to a topic they posted in
• members can turn off the topic notifications in their member home page
• Fixed a bug with the person editing/rejecting. emails were getting sent to the wrong people when a person request was getting reject. Thank you apalmer for pointing this out.
• Removed deathdate from person pages if the person hasn't died yet
• Turned off spell checking on the writing review pages, needs to be reworked so that it is easier to use and much faster.
• Fixed a problem with peoples birthdays it was saying 0001-01-01 if we didn't know it. now it says ?

0.46.5 (08-07-2004)

• Fixed a bug that was causing the plots not to show up on the movie overview pages
• You can now change your movie rating after you rate a movie. (John)
• Cleaned up the About us page, and added some more info.
• Added an advertising page were you can see the current ad rates and descriptions.
• Added Member Demographic information to the advertising page
• Added a site Statistics page, that shows the unique visitors and page views by month for PopcornMonsters.com
• Added an Admin section to the site, if you are an admin you can see it, if you are not an admin you can't see it.
• Now you can add/edit the site news from the admin section
• Changed the Order in which movies are displayed for actors, the newest ones are now on top
• Changed the cast order for movies, it is now is alphabetical order by last name
• You can now see how many people are currently on PopcornMonsters.com by looking at the stats box on the front page

0.46.1 (07-08-2004)

• Fixed a bug that was causing some of the database connections to hang.

0.46 (07-02-2004)

• Change the Format of the Merchandise Box so that it looks better and it is easier to read.
• Updated ap4j to the latest version, it fixes a bug that was causing some movies to not have movie posters, when in fact they did.
• Ratings tab under movies is now working, you can now rate a movie instead of writing a full review. The average rating including reviews is shown in the ratings tab. The ratings are recalculated every night. (John)

0.45.5 (6-20-2004)

• Added Amazon Merchandise to every Movie and Persons
• Added Ebay search results for all Movies and Persons
• Added a new advertising box to the bottom of the page
• Fixed a bug in the editor tables that required an editor to be both a cast editor and a person editor in order to edit cast members. Now you only need to be a cast editor.

0.45 (5-30-2004)

• Fixed a bug that was only allowing a member to select 12 or less generes
• Added AllPoster.com's Posters to Movie and Person pages
• Added ability to add Image for a person
• Added ability to approve / reject Images that are submited for a person
• Fixed a bug in the editor tables that required an editor to be both a cast editor and a person editor in order to edit cast members. Now you only need to be a cast editor.

0.44 (05-02-2004)

• Made it so that when a person only has a last name like madonna it won't add a comma after their name when it prints lastname, firstname
• We now order the personlists by lastname and firstname so if al smith and bob smith are ordered it would put al smith first then bob smith. Before it wasn't guanteed that this would happen.
• updated to urlrewrite 1.0
• Character now shows up in the editors cast list.
• When you add a movie credit to a person, or a cast member to a movie it will give you a link back to where you came from in the results page. This will help eliminate any extra clicking.
• Added better descriptions on the Movie2People and People2Movie Pages.
• New List that shows a Top 10 list for which members added the most Cast members
• We can now show more then one contest box on the front page.
• Added Cast Members to the Meta Keywords and Meta Descriptions
• Moved CSS into it's own file and link to it from every page
• You can now see what is waiting in the queue for Adding movies to people, and adding movies to people.
• When adding movies to people, or people to movies, you now can't continue past the first step if you haven't selected an item yet
• Fixed a typo in Process Cast Results
• Fixed a broken image link when there are no images for a contest prize on the contest page

0.43 (03-28-2004)

• Added Pagination to the Movies page. It now only shows 50 movies per page.
• Added Pagination to the People page. It now only shows 50 People per page.
• Made it so that the people lists are 'lastname, firstname' instead of the other way around. this makes it easier to find the person you want.
• Ability to add cast members to movies
• Ability for the editor to accept or reject new cast members
• Ability to add movies to people
• Add Movie Cast to Movie Overview page
• Got the Cast tab under movies working
• List of Movies a person has been in is now available in the person pages
• Cleaned up the SQL procedures to hopefully clean up an issue that was causing some of the request tracking to become corrupted
• Fixed a bug in editor plot reject
• Added a link in the footer to this page
• alphabetize the genre list when adding to a movie.
• added store link to footer
• Added new google ads channel feature to google ads.
• added editor link to the purple welcome bar if they are an editor
• change all Advertisements so that they are loaded from the database, this makes for easier changing of ads
• Added advertising box for bestprices.com
• added bulk acceptance to year, and runtime editor pages
• Fixed a bug in the search for movie to add movie content to in the member home area. It was producing bad links

0.42 (02-16-2004)

• Added the ability for the editor to edit a new plot while reviewing, without the need to reject it.
• Optimized some code to make it faster.
• Added the ability for a member to add a Person to our database
• Added the ability for an editor to accept or reject a new person request
• Added a person list, this lists all of the people in our database
• Added a person page, it is very rough right now, but it will hold all of the information related to a person. It currently only has Full Name, Day of Birth, Day of Death, Buy Poster link
• Added a Person search, so that you can search for a person by last name
• Added person list links to the siteMap, footer, and error pages
• Added Movie Clips as a link type under movie links
• Added # of People in DB to the stats box on the front page

0.41 (12-21-2003)

• Added Mystery as a new genre
• Disabled the highlighting of mispelled words in the spell checker, it was taking too long.
• Added Tribal Fusion Banner ads to the tops of the pages.
• Added 'Add Movie' Link to the search page
• Added 4 new Avatars
• Added and fixed some links in the header

0.40 (12-07-2003)

• Fixed an issue with the movie name on the newMovieInfo page
• Optimized the spell checker
• Fixed an issue where it only showed 100 movies per letter on the movie list pages

0.39 (11-30-2003)

• New Friendly URL's
• Fixed an issue that was distorting the page header with visitors using Opera browsers
• Added FastClick ads
• Upgraded to JSTL 1.04

0.38 (11-24-2003)

• Added a new stat's header image to the new stats box
• changed the contributors tab image to a new one.
• If someone follows an invalid link, it will now display an error message and forward them to the front page
• Added the ability to see what items are waiting in the queue when adding genres,ratings, and years. this will help prevent people from adding the same content after someone already has added it.
• Added a way to add movie length to the movie overview page. It is similar to release year. Links added all over the place to support this new category.
• Added 'War' as a new movie Genre
• Added 'Crime / Gangster' as a new movie Genre
• Added a Sponsor us page where visitors can learn how to donate to Popcorn Monsters
• Added a Links Page
• Added the ability to accept new images in bulk, so that it can be done faster.

0.37 (11-10-2003)

• Fixed a bug that was preventing new movies from getting approved
• Fixed a bug that showed a blank page after an editor approved or rejected a new review or release year
• Added the Monster points list to the Member Profile FAQ Page
• Added the Member Level list to the Member Profile FAQ Page

0.36 (11-09-2003)

• Fixed a bug that was showing a movie name more then once, in the recent movie contributions under member public profile.
• Aligned the table headers on the recent reviews table on the home page
• Fixed a bug that could allow a movie name to get added that is already in the database
• Change anime genre to animation
• Added new genres Romance, Foreign, Music/Arts and Children/Family
• fixed a bug that caused a moviename of null in the email message when a movie gets rejected
• Added more links during the inputing of movie information, so that it is easier to navigate
• Added a stats box to the front page that show how many movies and reviews are in our database as well as how many members have signed up
• Added meta tags to all of the pages on the site, so that the search engines can index up correctly
• Added a buy movie poster link to the movie overview page. If you click on it, it sends you to allposters.com and searches for the movie in their database and shows you the results
• Made it so that the links in the new movie info box and page point to the correct locations, new links point to the movies' links tab, new images now point the movies' image tab
• Made it easier for the editors to navigate when approving content by adding more links

0.35 (10-26-2003)

• Fixed the ordering of the recent movies contributed too list in member public profile. It was backwards
• Added the ability for an editor to edit a new review or new movie request. So that if it is something small the editor can make the change without having to reject it.
• Fixed a problem with the editor approval pages. Changed where the variables were getting stored from the request to the session, this elimates the losing of data when a verifcation error occurs.
• Fixed an issue with the Contests winners SQL statement, it was returning the wrong amount of results.
• Added the ability for a member to delete their reviews that are either saved or in the Queue
• Added the ability for a member to vote on whether or not a review was helpful or not. If they vote they will get 1 point. If they vote yes, the author of the review will get 1 point as well.
• Added Comments for people using SPAM blockers. SPAM blockers can block the MailBot and if so then they will not get any mail from us, and then they can't verify their account. Added a section in help as well.

0.34 (10-21-2003)

• Closed up the loop hole that would give members points for editing a review they already wrote
• Added View Image link in Editor Home
• Fixed a bug that was making some new Requests unable to be edited.
• Fixed an issue with the header, that was causing it to look a little off on some browsers
• Changed some of the wording in the review guidelines
• Removed reference to Yahoo on Review Guidelines
• Added a Blank Avatar image, that will be used for the default when you register
• Fixed the new image acceptence bug in Editor Home.
• Added a new Top 10 Members page
• Added this site version history page

0.33 (10-15-2003)

• Fixed some minor bugs
• Closed the loop hole the people where using that were adding movie content without verifing their account.
• Added 2 more contests and a movie with movie information

0.31 - 0.32 (10-14-2003)

• Minor bug fixes and enhancements

0.30 (10-13-2003)

• Offical Release of the new site

0 - 0.30

• Beta Testing and Software Development of the site.