Daniel0

I actually think IP.Board allows you to have multiple sources of authentication data. A chain of login strategies you might say.

I think John's air is probably just heavily polluted.

When the content changes often and realtime updates are necessary.

Isn't it sort of stupid planning fights in a public forum (unless it's a martial arts/boxing competition or whatever) or just generally planning illegal things publicly? Not like I expect people who plan such things to be very smart anyway.

It's generally good to know the source of your data, but there might be cases where you don't particularly care if some variable is passed using GET or POST. I can't think of any good example right now. Even better would be to use filter_input.

I can from personal experience say that you'll benefit greatly from researching other people's problems and helping solve them. Doing that you will get insight in other things you might not have wanted to look into or hadn't thought about yourself. This is particularly true for beginners, so if you think you have the solution to other people's problems, or you find someone's problem interesting, go ahead and help them. Anyways, welcome!

Yeah. Sometimes the EU should just mind their own business. It's particularly stupid because the user can just choose not to save the cookies if they don't want them. Just because I say Set-Cookie: foo=bar doesn't mean the user has to save it to a file on their computer. They are the ones who are ultimately responsible for actively saving it somewhere.

Maybe your computer is just slow?

I've added a notice in the description. I'm not sure it'll help though. I bet some people would post help requests in "announcements" or "deleted posts" if they could.

AlexWD is not a moderator, and anyone can technically be reported.

Perhaps that why it's you "all the time" then.

And hit the report button when he spots them. We cannot monitor every single post.

So posting about things that earn you money isn't spamming?

[ot]Sorry guys. I'll have to see if I can get that bookmark mod ported to RC2.[/ot]

If you have a spare computer, you can just plug in the HDD on that one, install your Linux distro and then move the HDD back.

What also bothers me is that some people think they can do stuff here that they wouldn't otherwise get away with just because it's on the Internet. Examples: "Urgent!! Help me now. NEED HELP ASAP" - When waiting in the line in the supermarket, would you start shouting and demand that you should move up front in the queue? "I'm special, so I don't have to follow the rules" OR "I don't bother reading the rules, so I don't have to follow them." - Did you read your country's laws. Do you expect to be exempt because you didn't? "If you don't do as I say I'll sue you/kill you/DDoS you/hack you/etc." - No you're not, now GTFO. The extremity of the "I'll X you" seems to be inversely proportional to the age of the threathening member as well. "I'll leave this forum if I don't get it my way." - For most people, this threat is entirely without value. He is not paying us any money, and he is probably not contributing to (but only taking from) community, so we lose nothing. We lose something by having people who think they can do whatever they want. This effectively makes it a win if said person leaves. "The staff is abusing their powers when they moderate my clearly rule violating behavior." The list goes on and on. If you want the rules changed because you think they're unreasonable, make a topic in this board with proper arguments (not just that you think they suck). If you really think that a moderator's action was unfair, the rules page clearly states how you should appeal it. Starting to attack staff members is unlikely to gain you any sympathy and getting the actions reverted.

Just thought of something. You could have a field in the database that says whether or not the post has been manually verified by an admin. Then you can just check the unverified posts regularly.

Perhaps if he had chosen a more diplomatic instead of offensive route he would have received nicer responses. Compare it to saying "I think you suck and is an idiot" to your boss versus "I think X and Y are wrong, could we work on resolving it?" I bet your boss would tell you that you can just leave if you chose the former, or maybe even just plain fire you for insubordination.

Actually, it'll just be moved to PECL as far as I know. Maybe things have changed though.

The edit button "disappears" after 10 minutes because we've had problems with people replacing their original post with something like "solved". This ruins the search feature and makes it impossible for people to suggest alternate (better) solutions if they aren't fast enough. After that time frame has passed you can add additional information in a reply to the topic. Other problems were people addressing issues by going back editing posts instead of replying. This makes the topic really difficult to read. I stand by what I said though: If he does not accept our terms of service, he is not allowed to use this website. That is non-debatable. He agreed to the ToS when he registered. Whether or not he actually read it is irrelevant. The repercussions for breaking it is the same regardless. He even said he didn't care about our rules. In that case he is required to leave unless he changes his mind. It's not even a suggestion.

The session must have a name, by default it's PHPSESSID. You can pass the session ID to PHP in two ways: 1) Using a cookie with that name. 2) Using a parameter in the URL with that name, e.g. index.php?PHPSESSID=987sd9fshfblablabla You can turn off #2, which I would recommend.

No, but then again, neither will sessions unless you use that ugly PHPSESSID thing.

Uh... what's the problem with session_set_cookie_params(600); ? Cookies already have expiration, so just use that.

Just make the lifetime 10 minutes (well, 600 seconds) using session_set_cookie_params.

What is? I can't see the pattern. It's called lexicographical order.