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every thread has links to the profiles, doesn't google rank 'linked to' pages higher than those not linked to?

eddie

still getting that 'unabl to connect' ... hmm... I suppose you already has tweaked the persistent connections?

I've got a favorite out of those where you say/spell same word different ... "You say tomato, I say fuck you" ... can't remember the first place I saw it at, but I just find it outstanding

I've been unable to reach punbb.org the last 1hour and 20 minutes (trouble started at 18:40, now at 20:00 I could reach it again)

I get the feeling you don't know what PHP is.

PHP is a programming/scripting language, that can generate more or less any output you want. You can generate images, html documents, or any other file.
To output stuff you often use echo ""; or printf(""); functions in PHP

I suggest you do a few simple "Hello World" scripts to get a basic understanding of how PHP works, and what it does.
Here's a couple of links
http://www.php.net/manual/en/introduction.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.p … quirements

This plugin is what you're looking for

isn't "leet" really badmouthing those that think they are "elite"?

well, not really, I usually try to limit the input as much as possible, if I'm taking in an integer value, I use the intval() function to make sure it won't be a string or something, and also, on strings where I know I won't use certain letters, I make sure to remove them, and sometimes refuse to accept the variables if some 'illegal' characters are found, all depends on how safe I want to try to make it ... and then there's the escape function aswell, that will escape out char that can break queries ...

you should try to avoid taking things from a form and put it directly into a query, and you shouldn't use register globals on either (PHP recommends it to be off), much much better to know where the variables come from (there are examples where ppl have made cookies that enter malicious data, instead of actual form field) ... so $_POST['variablename'] is a good way to limit input aswell ...

but, the most important thing is to try to limit what's taken into the script (but sometimes it's hard to do safe functions ...)... and replace stuff that's not to be there, and escape text (and putting them to htmlentities might work aswell, depending on what's done)

But, do note, that I'm no security guru... there's probably others here that have more knowledge on what is insecure and whatnot ... Above is more or less only how I try to keep my code as safe as possible

redhat has given me more trouble than windows ... there's a reason I run debian now (I even restarted the redhat server more often than when I had windows on it, so I had to remove it)
so ... different linux distros behave different aswell, one more factor that might put ppl off, even if the software is free, and based off the same stuff ... so comparing 'linux' vs. 'windows' isn't 100% comparable ... IMHO ... better compare distro vs windows version ...

(my redhat box slowed down until it stopped responding at all, with debian nothing like it has happened even once, so I take it as a pure redhat issue)

that explains this time, but I have it a bit now and then ... I can bump this if I notice anything ...

might be, perhaps in my mod release threads, wher eI have copy/pasted the mod info