[geeklog-devel] An observation as a semi-developer/user

[Blaine Lang]

Dirk Haun" <dirk at haun-online.de> wrote:
> The forum may need some work, though, to catch up with the problems we've
> been having with Geeklog in the past. For example, words in curly
> brackets like {site_url} currently vanish from forum posts. Also, we may
> hit the problem with single quotes causing SQL errors on geeklog.net (I
> don't know if we do, but if we do, it renders the forum pretty much
> useless). This is already causing some gripes on geeklog.info ...

I've tried to duplicate this and can not. I've tested this under
1) WinXP IIS - PHP4.3
2) FreeBSD - PHP4.1
3) Linux - PHP 4.3

In all cases I can post single quotes, double quotes {curley brackets} or
another character.
Tested with magic_quotes_gpc = on and off
See my recent test on my site - currently hosted at a service provider

Tested results:
http://www.langfamily.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=6&showtopic=454

For my phpinfo: http://www.langfamily.ca/faqman/index.php?op=view&t=9

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So if anyone who has this error or can duplicate it. Please do a little
testing and give me more information.

Additionally, it's easy to use .htaccess to change the local value of
magic_quotes_gpc or other php setting.
This works - tested by adding debug code in my common forum function that
formats the data before SQL inserts
That function is gf_preparefordb() in the
public_html/forum/include/gf_format.php file

Blaine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dirk Haun" <dirk at haun-online.de>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] An observation as a semi-developer/user


> Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com> wrote:
>
> >Dirk,  either you don't have an opinion on this or you do and have been
> >quiet.  Any thoughts before we get too far down the road?
>
> I do have an opinion and it's "Let's do it".
>
> Since I installed the forum on geeklog.info, people have been starting to
> post most of the support requests there. So they do accept it (but see
below).
>
> The forum may need some work, though, to catch up with the problems we've
> been having with Geeklog in the past. For example, words in curly
> brackets like {site_url} currently vanish from forum posts. Also, we may
> hit the problem with single quotes causing SQL errors on geeklog.net (I
> don't know if we do, but if we do, it renders the forum pretty much
> useless). This is already causing some gripes on geeklog.info ...
>
>
> >I gaurantee once we try to roll this
> >out we will have users posting things that belong in the forums to the
> >story submission queue.
>
> Yep. Over on the www.macosx-faq.de, people keep posting questions to the
> Geeklog site even though I added big fat "please post questions to the
> forums" hints all over the place. I think Rob has the same problem on
> www.macosxhints.com.
>
>
> >I have ideas on how to do this that require
> >little change to the core GL stuff...
>
> It shouldn't be too hard to write a plugin that posts story submissions
> to the forums. I did something similar for the YaBB forum that I run
> alongside the MacOS X FAQ (the main problem there is that you have two
> separate user bases - that should be much easier with Geeklog's
> integrated forum).
>
> bye, Dirk
>
>
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