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Today's Topics:

   1. New features in CVS (Dirk Haun)
   2. Re: New features in CVS (Tom Willett)
   3. Re: New features in CVS (Dirk Haun)

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Message: 1
From: "Dirk Haun" <dirk at haun-online.de>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 20:15:33 +0200
Organization: Terra Software Systems
Subject: [geeklog-devel] New features in CVS
Reply-To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

I had some time to play around a bit and decided to implement 2 features
(now in CVS), for which I'd like to hear some feedback.

1) On top of Michael's patches to log IP addresses of comment posters,
I've added an option that lets you click on that IP address and have it
looked up by a website that does IP address lookups. The idea being that
this could help you track down where abusers come from.

My only concern is that this may be considered abuse of those services.
But then again, it's not automated and you'll have to do a lot of
clicking before they'll even notice and additional load.

I've listed three such services in config.php, all commented out per default.

Comments?


2) Feature request #204 asked for an option to let the admin post a story
for someone, i.e. under their name. I've now added a dropdown menu in the
admin's story editor that lets you pick the user that should be displayed
as the author of the story.

The only problem is, of course, that it may take a while when you have a
lot of users. It's already noticable with the 7300+ users in the
geeklog.net database. And I don't really want to know how long it would
take on MFI (how many users, Marc? 250,000?).

Maybe it would be easier (on the database ...) to replace the dropdown
with a text entry field or something.

Ideas, anyone?

bye, Dirk


-- 
http://www.haun-online.de/
http://mypod.de/


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Message: 2
From: "Tom Willett" <tomw at pigstye.net>
To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] New features in CVS
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 18:39:49 +0000
Reply-To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

I have from early on had a ip lookup function in the stats plugin.  I used 
two different net based whois providers and they both soon started blocking 
access or regularly changed the interface.  So I looked into and adopted 
phpwhois2.  It contacts the whois servers directly and does not have this 
problem.  You can see my implementation in my nettools hacks.  I would 
recommend that if you do go with ip lookup that you look at phpwhois to 
avoid problems.

--
Tom Willett
tomw at pigstye.net

---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Dirk Haun" <dirk at haun-online.de>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Sent: Tue, 11 May 2004 20:15:33 +0200
Subject: [geeklog-devel] New features in CVS


> I had some time to play around a bit and decided to implement 2 features

> (now in CVS), for which I'd like to hear some feedback.

> 

> 1) On top of Michael's patches to log IP addresses of comment posters,

> I've added an option that lets you click on that IP address and have it

> looked up by a website that does IP address lookups. The idea being that

> this could help you track down where abusers come from.

> 

> My only concern is that this may be considered abuse of those services.

> But then again, it's not automated and you'll have to do a lot of

> clicking before they'll even notice and additional load.

> 

> I've listed three such services in config.php, all commented out per 

default.

> 

> Comments?

> 

> 2) Feature request #204 asked for an option to let the admin post a story

> for someone, i.e. under their name. I've now added a dropdown menu in the

> admin's story editor that lets you pick the user that should be displayed

> as the author of the story.

> 

> The only problem is, of course, that it may take a while when you have a

> lot of users. It's already noticable with the 7300+ users in the

> geeklog.net database. And I don't really want to know how long it would

> take on MFI (how many users, Marc? 250,000?).

> 

> Maybe it would be easier (on the database ...) to replace the dropdown

> with a text entry field or something.

> 

> Ideas, anyone?

> 

> bye, Dirk

> 

> -- 

> http://www.haun-online.de/

> http://mypod.de/

> 

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Message: 3
From: "Dirk Haun" <dirk at haun-online.de>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] New features in CVS
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 21:21:27 +0200
Organization: Terra Software Systems
Reply-To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

Tom,


>I would 

>recommend that if you do go with ip lookup that you look at phpwhois to 

>avoid problems.


Thanks, Tom, I'll look into this.

I see there's also a PEAR package for Whois lookups (Net_Whois), but it
does appear to be less advanced.

bye, Dirk


-- 
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