# Evaluation — Attempt 1

## Overall Verdict: MAJOR REVISION

## Overall Assessment
The new forest-glass layer establishes the requested photographic background, stronger overlay, lemon-green accent, and a reusable header/mobile navigation shell. However, the application still reads as a CSS skin placed over legacy dashboard markup rather than one intentionally redesigned admin system, and several functional/accessibility failures make the representative experience unsafe to approve.

## Scores
| Criterion | Score | Status | Weight | Notes |
|-----------|-------|--------|--------|-------|
| Design Quality | 1/3 | FAIL | HIGH | The forest photograph, dark overlay, and lemon accent are directionally coherent, but old Bootstrap-era page structures, breadcrumbs, cards, footers, tiny action controls, and the separate portal stylesheet remain visibly mixed with the new shell. |
| Originality | 1/3 | FAIL | HIGH | The glass icon treatment is a promising custom detail, but most migrated pages retain generic legacy dashboard composition and are only globally restyled. The experience does not yet feel like the specified Apple-inspired ecclesiastical operations desk. |
| Craft | 1/3 | PASS | MEDIUM | The shared CSS covers common forms, cards, responsive columns, focus indicators, safe-area bottom navigation, and reduced motion. Craft is held back by encoding corruption, hard-coded inline minimum table widths, incomplete semantics, weak modal focus behavior, and inconsistent page hierarchy. |
| Functionality | 0/3 | FAIL | MEDIUM | Broken/dead links, an invalid Profile navigation destination, visible inline alerts alongside toasts, nonfunctional portal search, raw unescaped member output, and insufficient dialog behavior create concrete usability and security failures. |

## What's Working Well

- `admin.css` correctly reuses the church photograph and applies a substantially stronger deep forest overlay, giving operational content enough visual separation.
- The lemon-green accent (`#ccef43`) replaces the former brass color in the shared admin layer and uses dark ink on filled controls for readable contrast.
- The portal app icons receive internal highlights, translucent borders, blur, and shadow; this is the strongest expression of the requested luminous glass-instrument concept.
- `admin_shell.php` centralizes the top bar, permission-filtered bottom navigation, role display, and session toast rendering.
- The mobile stylesheet reserves bottom space, honors safe areas, provides 44px-plus navigation targets, stacks columns, and converts table rows to cards.
- Migrated representative pages use `appRequireStaff()` and their intended permission checks, and legacy sidebar/preloader includes appear to have been removed.

## Issues Found

### Issue 1: Legacy pages were skinned, not redesigned into a unified admin system
- **What**: Pages such as `member_view.php` and `member_add.php` still contain legacy `content-body`, `container-fluid`, `row page-titles`, Bootstrap column, breadcrumb, `card`, `btn`, and extensive old template comment scaffolding. Their content composition is the old dashboard with a new stylesheet and header.
- **Where**: All migrated legacy views, especially `member_view.php`, `member_add.php`, `profile.php`, and `service_days.php`.
- **Why it matters**: The brief explicitly asks for one coherent portal rather than old pages restyled individually. This inherited hierarchy makes the visual language generic and inconsistent with the purpose-built portal home.
- **Suggested fix**: Introduce shared page-intro, toolbar, data-panel, form-panel, empty-state, identity, and action-group render patterns in `admin_shell.php`; rewrite each page's outer markup around those patterns and remove legacy template comments/classes.

### Issue 2: Portal and shared shell retain visible mojibake
- **What**: Text contains corrupted characters such as `Management Portal Â·`, `Sunday Â·`, `â€¦`, and `Ã—` for the toast close control.
- **Where**: `admin/portal.php`, `admin/includes/admin_shell.php`, and other migrated page footer/text remnants.
- **Why it matters**: Encoding corruption is immediately visible, undermines polish, can produce an unclear close affordance, and directly violates the brief.
- **Suggested fix**: Normalize changed PHP files to UTF-8, replace corrupted punctuation with correct UTF-8 characters or HTML entities, and search the entire live admin scope for `Ã`/`Â`/replacement-character sequences before re-evaluation.

### Issue 3: Mobile/Profile and portal destinations are broken or deceptive
- **What**: The shared mobile nav links Profile to `profile` even though `profile.php` is an individual member record view that expects `member_id`. Portal modules link to placeholders such as `#finance`, `#communication`, and `#events`; bottom navigation similarly uses fragment destinations that do not identify real sections. The search field is explicitly only visual and cannot search.
- **Where**: `admin/includes/admin_shell.php` and `admin/portal.php`.
- **Why it matters**: Primary navigation must be dependable. These controls look actionable but fail, which warrants a functionality score of zero.
- **Suggested fix**: Point Profile to a real staff-account/settings destination; omit unavailable modules entirely or render them as clearly disabled forthcoming items; make portal bottom navigation use real permission-aware routes; implement search or remove the fake input styling/label.

### Issue 4: Toast migration is incomplete
- **What**: Representative pages still print session messages as inline Bootstrap alerts before `adminToastFlashes()` runs. This can show notifications on the page and/or duplicate them as toasts.
- **Where**: `member_view.php`, `member_add.php`, and likely other mechanically migrated views.
- **Why it matters**: This directly violates the toast-only requirement and creates inconsistent feedback behavior.
- **Suggested fix**: Remove every inline session alert block and consume all flash variants only through one shared toast renderer. Use `role="alert"` for errors and `role="status"` for nonurgent success messages.

### Issue 5: Data rendering and image handling do not meet the safety brief
- **What**: Member names, IDs, phone numbers, ministry names, dates, and image filenames are emitted directly. Image URLs concatenate database filenames without basename/path validation or a fallback. The image anchor opens unsanitized data directly.
- **Where**: `admin/member_view.php` and likely analogous children/visitor/profile views.
- **Why it matters**: Stored content can break markup or enable XSS/path traversal, while broken/missing images degrade the responsive identity card.
- **Suggested fix**: Wrap every value in `appEscape()`, use a shared safe-image helper that applies `basename()`, validates the expected image directory, and falls back to `assets/images/jsow.png`.

### Issue 6: Responsive tables are only partially robust
- **What**: JavaScript injects `data-label` values and CSS turns rows into cards, but tables retain inline `min-width: 845px`, footers remain visible as table groups, search has no empty-result message, and identity/action priority is not explicitly modeled. With JavaScript unavailable, mobile content remains a wide table.
- **Where**: `member_view.php` and other list views using `.table-responsive`.
- **Why it matters**: The brief requires readable stacked records with key identity and action information intact, not merely a generic table-to-block conversion.
- **Suggested fix**: Remove inline minimum widths, render `data-label` server-side, hide or redesign `tfoot` on mobile, add a live result count/empty-filter state, and create deliberate mobile record headers containing image, name/ID, and primary action.

### Issue 7: Shared modal behavior is not accessibly complete
- **What**: The generic modal script does not move focus into the dialog, trap focus, close on Escape, restore focus, set `aria-modal`, or prevent background interaction.
- **Where**: `assets/portal/js/admin.js` and service/profile pages that use `.modal`.
- **Why it matters**: Keyboard and screen-reader users can lose context or interact behind an open dialog, contrary to the accessibility requirements.
- **Suggested fix**: Implement a shared accessible dialog controller with `role="dialog"`, `aria-modal="true"`, initial focus, focus trap, Escape close, focus restoration, and body scroll lock.

### Issue 8: Portal styling still carries the old gold palette underneath
- **What**: `portal.php` continues to load `portal.css`, which defines gold/brass variables and uses `.button.gold`, gold role pills, hover borders, background motifs, and varied orange tile metadata; `admin.css` overrides some but not all semantics.
- **Where**: `admin/portal.php` and `assets/portal/css/portal.css`.
- **Why it matters**: Layered overrides are fragile and leave the main portal visually split between the old design system and the new lemon/forest system.
- **Suggested fix**: Move portal home onto the shared admin shell/styles or create an explicit admin-portal component layer with no gold variables/classes. Replace hard-coded orange module colors and rename semantic classes away from `gold`.

## Priority Fixes for Next Attempt
1. Rebuild migrated page composition using shared purpose-built admin components, removing legacy dashboard wrappers/comments/classes and moving portal home onto the same shell.
2. Repair functional integrity: real permission-aware navigation, a valid staff Profile destination, no fake/dead links or search, toast-only flashes, safe escaping/images, and an accessible modal controller.
3. Normalize encoding and finish the visual system migration by eliminating residual gold/orange definitions and validating purpose-designed table/form behavior at 1440px, 768px, and 375px.

## Should the next attempt REFINE or PIVOT?
PIVOT the implementation approach while retaining the chosen forest-glass visual direction. The palette, background, and glass-icon concept are worth keeping, but continuing to layer CSS over legacy page markup will not achieve the unified, Apple-like application requested; the page structures and interaction patterns need a shared component-level rebuild.
