Programming

Why social networking is not the end for forums

November 30, 2009

I see a lot of questions centred around social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook and how it will affect forums. I also see a lot of people saying that we should focus on social networking for IP.Board to stay competitive. This crops up every few days. It’s regular enough for me to try and [...]

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Community Content System

June 22, 2009

If you haven’t already, check out our forthcoming Community Content System: an easy way to add pages to your website. The core of the CCS application centers around allowing you to create pages for your website. The way you create pages and the types of pages you create will be specific to your site, however [...]

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The final debate

June 19, 2009

I could be forgiven for getting a sense of deja-vu at the forthcoming ‘final’ release of IP.Board 3.0.0. It’s a few months short of ten years since I released an alpha of Ikonboard and since then I’ve been in this position many times. A ‘final’ release of a new major version is an oxymoron. IP.Board [...]

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PHP 5 Will Make You A Better PHP Programmer

October 3, 2008

My apologies for the overly verbose title of this blog entry. But it’s true. Embracing PHP 5 will make you a better programmer. At least, it has for me. This minor epiphany revealed itself during yesterday’s Captcha Crisis over at IPS HeadQuarters. In a nut shell, some naughty spammer defeated our CAPTCHA and registered thousands [...]

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IP.Nexus, revealed

September 17, 2007

.. and the wait is over! If you’ve not already seen this, go see it now!

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Seriously Sucky Safari

June 12, 2007

I spent the greater half of last week tearing out clumps of hair in sheer frustration over an annoying bug in Safari. It wasn’t the kind of bug that you could really code around. I can’t get into specifics but it was to do with iFrames and javascript. The bug caused a significant problem with [...]

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HTTP Only cookies in Firefox

September 14, 2006

This follows up from my previous entry where I found a very easy way to set HttpOnly cookies for Internet Explorer 6 (SP1+) without requiring PHP 5.2 or hand-rolling set-cookie routines. Due to reasons too long to explain here Firefox doesn’t have support for these cookies yet. However, there is a Firefox (well, Gecko) only [...]

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Regular Javascript Expressions

August 3, 2006

So I had a fun hour this morning.If you’re unaware, any javascript that’s returned via ajax (XMLHttpRequest) which is embedded in the returned text isn’t executed which is a bit of a problem.To ‘fix’ this, I wrote a little function in the ajax class that takes the returned text, finds any javascript blocks and eval()s [...]

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