Latest Posts restored (updated)

[Kent]

The latest posts module has now been restored to service.

The Latest posts module has been restored, thanks to the input provided by DaveP and code fix written by Orgin.  Thanks guys.

The Amiga.org development Team

[Kent]

To keep the security level at a normal level on other Xoops sites, no.  Just know that it was a major security risk, not just for the Amiga.org server, but for your personal computer system as well.  With the right scripts, you could go so far as to potentially pull out a password, or install software to the unknowing user.  I was able to reproduce both with very basic account settings (ie, not using the admin).

I'll leave it at this... it was a very big hole waiting to be hacked.  Not to mention, there are other Xoops sites still using the "Latest Posts" module.  I am working on picking the source appart to create my own module.  I don't think it will be available until after the the new site is already in place and running for a while.  The development has to take the back burner to family, school, and work in that order.  Unfortunately I'm quite swamped at school and family life is no better.

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[Kent]

There's absolutely no "code style" enforced from what I've seen.  Granted LastPost v2 is going to be my first module for xoops, it's also the very first serious work I've done in PHP.  I'm using a strict code style that I'm already familiar with from other projects.  For example:

String strName = "string of text";
char = 'a';
for (int i = 0; i < strName.length(); i++) {
  ...;
} // Notes of "for loop"

It's the default code style found in Java, but I take it to a further extreme--putting spaces between operators, notes always at the end of a loop, whitespace after deliminators (ie ';'), and /** block commenting complete with @params */.  It's something I learned about four or five years back working with Roj in ARexx.  If you can't lock down a code style, half the work will be sloppy as all hell.

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