pea Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Hello. I hope this is the right forum - there are so many! I'm officially releasing my content management system for gaming clans. I wasn't sure what to do about security, but in the end I decided there wasn't much i could do without some clever coding, so it's open for everyone to pirate. I'm going to be offering the CMS for free to a few clans to promote it a bit and get some feedback, so if you happen to own a clan (i'm sure no one here does), please let me know. If you haven't, but are thinking of renting a gaming server, i'm also giving it away if you pick gameservers.com. I should've come here before releasing it actually - I needed people to pull it apart and test it. But anyway, if you're willing to part with £20 i'll gladly refund £15 if you do a decent test . Thanks, Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coreye Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 It's kind of hard to critique a website when we don't know the link of the website you want us to look at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pea Posted January 25, 2009 Author Share Posted January 25, 2009 Haha. http://www.clan-system.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clown[NOR] Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 Poll & Members returns a white page with "EPIC FAIL" that's not good.. Screenshots took torever to load also there's no image. it would be good if you also provided a demo user so people can have a look at the control panel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pea Posted January 26, 2009 Author Share Posted January 26, 2009 That's taught me not to rely on testers who aren't me.. They were just silly mistakes - needed to add some templates. The error page has also had a template and language file added. As for test members, you can register and edit your profile, you just won't be added to the members list until you've been approved into the clan. Before you're approved you won't be able to use certain features like the poll. The screenshots take a long time to load either because you have a slow internet connection or my host is being slow. It shouldn't be anything to do with the code.. Not sure what image you mean, but every image is loading for me. I appreciate the help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Little Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 The color scheme seems all wrong. It should reflect what the site is about and what you are offering. The white background does little for this. Try looking at some gaming sites and some CMS sites and merge the schemes. Is it ClanSystem or Clan System? Home: Needs a bit more elaboration for the first two paragraphs (spelled achieve, not acheivce). Ditto the news section. Suggest moving the GameServers image into the header. Move the copyright into a footer. What's the PayPal image for? Move the online support lower in the page and make image smaller. About: Need to add more content. Give some examples of what you do and some future concepts. Any testimonials? Features: Should this be the Smarty templating engine? The copyright and PayPal obscure some text. Contact: I get the following error when trying to access the page Fatal error: Cannot redeclare db_connect() (previously declared in /home/publicwa/clan-system.com/includes/functions.php:3) in /home/publicwa/clan-system.com/includes/functions.php on line 3 Demo: Nice images. Purchase: Like the features page, the copyright and PayPal obscure some text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pea Posted January 26, 2009 Author Share Posted January 26, 2009 All of those errors have been fixed. I was trying to create a contrast between what gaming websites normally look like and my website. Taken, I could add some more gaming elements. I've done a test of 36 browsers and it looks like IE7 is forcing the footer up, for a reason I'll investigate. If you look at it on any other browser, the copyright and Paypal icon is in the footer. IE8 is showing it correctly. Unless you know of a IE7 CSS hack for this all i can say is download another browser. when I shop online I like to be able to quickly see if they accept Paypal. That's the reason for the icon. Without an icon the user must go to buy it to find out what payment system is used. I've created a page which lets users monitor future features. The link is in the sidebar. I could also add a link in the about page. I purposely left my plans out of the about page because I thought it would highlight what the program hasn't got. 'ClanSystem' is the logo, 'Clan System' is for everything else to aid in the Google ranking. 'ClanSystem' looks better in the logo. Again, I appreciate the response. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ionik Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 This has been released, it doesn't look finished? Pardon if I seem a bit mean but, This is nowhere near capable of being called a "clan" software.....here is why in my opinion. 1. Roster? 2. Matches? 3. Forums? 4. Sponsors? 5. Functionality at all? Everything uses lightbox for its processing videos, photos.....they cant have their own page? Registration captcha can be broken in about 15 seconds......might I suggest reCaptcha? I could successfully enter the Database through the login form.....I suggest fixing that issue. You have something started but its nowhere near standards to sell. Don't take it personal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pea Posted January 26, 2009 Author Share Posted January 26, 2009 Roster - what's that? matches - to come forums - will be compatible with popular forums sponsors - clans have sponsors? Screenshots can't have their own page because they don't normally fit on the screen. It's either lightbox or a link directly to the image. The captcha is fine. I've been using it on my other sites that are more popular than any clan site and they've never been broken. This is my first sql project. I thought I had researched security enough but obviously I haven't. So i'm interested in hearing how you did it. I didn't say that this is only the foundation of what I'm going to do. Buyers would get updates forever. The main selling point will be the ability to monitor game servers. This opens other doors to automatically log matches, player scores etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pea Posted January 27, 2009 Author Share Posted January 27, 2009 Sorry for double posting but this forum is strange in how you're allowed to edit posts, unless i'm missing something. I think I've figured it out. I've known that escaping quotes stops any injection, but I've never followed this rule because looking at the database of forums the quotes aren't escaped. Now I know the slashes aren't actually written to the database. So I've revisited every script sanitizing any content to be written. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 I'm not keen! Not smooth and sleek like I'd expect from this kind of software. How much does it actually cost, without spending $25 at GameServer.com?? Getting: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: check_email_address() in /home/publicwa/clan-system.com/contact.php on line 24 .. on the contact page after I send an email. Also you just have ClanSystem in the title on that page. Why not have two versions of the image? One sized down smaller so you can provide a link within the website and another at full size? Err? A roster is just a list of members / players within the clan. Yes. Clans have sponsors. As ionik said, don't take it personally but I certainly wouldn't go for this software. Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pea Posted January 28, 2009 Author Share Posted January 28, 2009 The skin of the clan system is only temporary really. It was quickly made for testing and i've never really changed it. I'm also not a graphic designer. There is a member list. i doubt the free webserver you get with gameservers is equipped enough to handle image resizing. i've used non-free hosts that die when they have to resize a large-ish image. That goes for re-captcha as well, i think you need some specific software installed for it. I just want to point out the number of software developers that release their product without finishing it. Games for example; left 4 dead was released with 2 whole levels missing, a player match system that hardly worked and hundreds of obvious bugs. It looks like i might be giving up this project anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serverman Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 tell you host to hide that so usersdont hack your site https://sh139.surpasshosting.com:2083/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I just want to point out the number of software developers that release their product without finishing it. Games for example; left 4 dead was released with 2 whole levels missing, a player match system that hardly worked and hundreds of obvious bugs. That doesn't mean you should do the same, especially when people are pointing out obvious bugs and security issues. It looks like i might be giving up this project anyway. Why give up? You should try to gain ideas from other clan sites... For example I used to belong to this CS clan, Pantless Gaming. They have a pretty good setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pea Posted February 7, 2009 Author Share Posted February 7, 2009 Actually, because of my system, someone who was developing something similar (a clan website host) had asked me to help him finish it. We're still using the clan-system.com domain so please come and visit in a few weeks when it's finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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