Maintain a changelog?

[mpchadwick]

Maybe out of scope for this module but could be interesting to maintain a log of changes to the firewall. EE kind of already does this with admin actions logging, but in my experience those can be difficult to grok, so a dedicated changelog could be better

[MikeParkin]

Sounds like a useful feature to me, would require a little rewrite of the storage of the firewall & entries. At the moment the IPs are stored as a simple textarea field in core config.

To achieve this (and the other feature you requested) would require creating of a 'firewall_rule' entity, and a datagrid which displays them. With options to view/create/update/delete and maybe fields like:

• IP
• Comment
• Created_At
• Updated_At
• Created_By

You would then be able to also create a filerule_rule_log (to satisfy your other requirement) which would keep a list of the changes (deleted, added, changed, created_at, created_by).

There should be a migration which coverts the core_config option into these entities, stripping lines only containing newlines and adding comments if the line(s) before start with #.

You up for writing it?

[mpchadwick]

I'll have to see if / when I would have bandwidth to work on this, but glad to know you're open to including these features.