Family login for parents

Parent role and My family hub launched, allowing parents to manage U18 availability and events.

My family

Profile notification dot

The red dot on your profile avatar (desktop and mobile) now appears for time-sensitive tasks as well as new milestone badges—awards voting, reffing in the next week, pending player approvals (Players role), and match availability not updated in 14 days (active players).

Your profile

PHP 8.4 production upgrade

The live site now runs PHP 8.4 after compatibility checks on the codebase; server settings were updated so pages render correctly on the new runtime.

Player milestone badges

Career badges for goals, appearances, and MVPs on player profiles (desktop and mobile): earned dates under each badge, the next milestone greyed out with a small progress bar beside them, and a linear timeline from when you joined.

Your profile

Guest recruitment pages

Players list and player profiles opened to visitors without login, plus sitewide footer and legal pages for GDPR transparency.

Players Privacy policy

Public photo gallery

New gallery page with albums, stream view, search, and filters — the first dedicated public photo browsing experience on the site.

Photo gallery

Mobile match reporting

New mobile workflow to submit and edit full match results in the field.

Submit result

Platform security & PHP 8 readiness

Site-wide hardening across hundreds of files: verified login cookies, prepared statements, CSRF on state-changing actions, secured uploads, blocked web access to backups and logs, and expanded guest access rules.

Season report card

New personal end-of-season report page with charts, milestones, and career highs — promoted on home and mobile feeds.

Season report card

Website analytics dashboard

Major expansion of the admin analytics page with period comparisons, charts, and device breakdown.

Website analytics

Mobile site v2 redesign

New mobile shell with drawer navigation, quick availability, and much closer parity with the desktop home feed.

Mobile home

Club history timeline

New visual timeline page replacing the old history link.

History timeline

HTTPS & server hardening

Enforced HTTPS, security headers, and directory protections via .htaccess.

Home page feed redesign

Rebuilt home story list with larger images, milestone headlines, and a two-week rolling window.

Home

Modern navigation menu

Full replacement of the legacy menu with a new top navigation system across the desktop site.

Milestone & summary feed system

New virtual news stories for player milestones, monthly stats, and end-of-season round-ups on home and mobile.

News

Unified player profiles

Major redesign of the player page — charts, teammate network, privacy rules — replacing legacy mypage across the site.

Player profile

Database admin & SQL injection fixes

New DB admin area and a broad move to prepared statements and CSRF across core forms.

DB admin

Mobile site launch

Brand-new mobile site with auto-redirect, news feed, fixtures, goals, availability, and guest CTAs.

Mobile home

Families committee overview

Committee members with the Players role can review all parent–child links on a single Families page, grouped by parent with orphan links highlighted. If you have both Parent and Players roles, My family includes a link to that overview.

Families My family

Family login (Parent role)

Parents with the Parent role can now link to U18 players and manage availability, event responses, and emergency contact details on their behalf from a dedicated My family hub. Committee receives email notification on every new link.

My family

Profile notification dot

The red dot on your profile avatar (desktop header and mobile top bar) now means you have something to do—not only new milestone badges. It also appears for end-of-season awards voting, reffing or shotclocking in the next seven days, new player profiles awaiting approval (Players role), and match availability that has not been updated in 14 days (active players with upcoming fixtures). Open your profile to clear new-badge alerts; other items clear when you complete the action or the date passes. The dot stays visible until everything it is flagging is resolved.

Your profile

PHP 8.4 production upgrade

Production moved from PHP 8.3 to PHP 8.4. Syntax and compatibility scans were run before cutover; host configuration (short tags and extensions) was aligned so existing templates and features keep working.

Player milestone badges

Player profiles (desktop and mobile) show career badges for goals, appearances, and MVPs as medals (disc and ribbon): blue for goals, green for appearances, gold for MVPs. Each earned badge shows when it was won (e.g. Sep-18); the next milestone appears greyed out to the right with a small progress bar underneath. A year-by-year milestone timeline groups badges under each calendar year. A red dot on your avatar appears when you have new milestones; viewing your own profile marks them as seen. Season report cards show the same next-badge preview for that season’s milestones.

Your profile Season report card

Guest-friendly players & profiles

Visitors can browse the players list and open public player profiles without logging in — helpful for recruitment.

Players

Public photo gallery

Browse club photos in album or stream view, with search, filter by player, filter by content type (matches, events, news), and year-based pagination.

Photo gallery

Site footer & legal pages

A compact footer on desktop and mobile with links to Privacy, Cookies, Terms, and Code of Conduct — making GDPR-related information easy to find on every page.

Privacy policy Cookie policy

Website analytics: Members vs Guests

Admin analytics can filter traffic by audience with an improved period selector and top-pages view.

Website analytics

Coming Soon on the home feed

Off-season upcoming fixtures appear as “Coming Soon” cards on desktop and mobile home feeds.

Home

Security dashboard access filter

Admins can filter the security overview by access level to audit public vs login-required pages.

Security dashboard

reCAPTCHA on registration & feedback

Public registration and feedback forms use Google reCAPTCHA to reduce spam.

Mobile event photo carousels

Swipeable event photos on mobile with in-place delete where permitted.

Events

Mobile match reporting

Submit and edit match results from mobile with validation — same data as desktop forms.

Submit result (mobile)

Photo uploads & carousels

Consolidated bulk upload; up to 48 photos per story; modern carousels on events and match reports.

Events

Single profile photo

One profile image field — upload sets your avatar; legacy manage-photos flows removed.

Your profile

Platform security & PHP 8 readiness

Verified login cookies, prepared statements, CSRF, secured uploads, blocked backup/log access, design tokens, shared desktop chrome.

Winningest Team in monthly summary

Monthly and season summaries can highlight the winningest team.

Monthly summary

Mobile end-of-season awards voting

Vote in season awards from the mobile news feed.

Awards

Season report card

Personal end-of-season report with YoY deltas, career highs, charts, and teammate network.

Season report card

Awards: dynamic voting & results

Team-based votes, MVP-only POTY labels, mobile tiles, winner plus runners-up.

Awards

Match report photo re-crop

Re-crop and rotate match-report photos after upload.

Website analytics dashboard

Period comparisons, doughnut charts, device breakdown, layout improvements.

Website analytics

Mobile v2 shell

Drawer navigation, quick availability FAB, guest CTAs, desktop feed parity.

Mobile home

Bulk insert recurring events

Admin tool to preview and confirm batches of recurring events.

Club history timeline

Visual timeline replacing the old history link.

History timeline

Match & news photo carousels

Swipeable galleries with thumbnails and overlay delete for editors.

Golden day site border

Golden accent when all four senior teams win on the same match day.

Home

HTTPS & site hardening (.htaccess)

HTTPS, security headers, compression, caching, custom 404, no directory listing.

Home page v2 feed

Larger images, milestone headlines, story age, two-week window.

Home

News reel pagination

News archive paginated (40 per page) with cleaner styling.

News

Score predictor improvements

Opposition filtered to played teams; confidence % from recent form.

Score predictor

Faster players list

Batch queries and cached roles for snappier admin views.

Players

Modern navigation menu

New top menu with submenus and Members’ Zone gating.

Secrets in config.local.php

Credentials moved out of the repo into a local config file.

Milestone & monthly summary stories

Virtual news for milestones, monthly stats, and end-of-season round-ups.

News Monthly summary

Committee page refresh

Modern grid with photos and contact details.

Committee

Unified player profiles

Charts, teammate network, U18 privacy — replacing legacy mypage.

Player profile

Website analytics (first release)

Page views, browsers, active users, bot filtering for admins.

Website analytics

Fixtures calendar download

Download or subscribe to fixtures as iCalendar (.ics).

Fixtures

Mobile site launch

Mobile layout with news, fixtures, goals, availability, and guest CTAs.

Mobile home

Database admin & SQL injection fixes

DB admin area; prepared statements and CSRF on core forms.

DB admin

Match report photo upload

Upload action shots to match reports with permission checks.