Invision Power Services have announced the development of Invision Power Board 3.0. They promise a new
Features Include
- Template engine
- Search engine friendly URLS (I presume /forumname/topicname rather than ?fid=493&tid=98 )
- New BB Code system
- More Administrator controls (Picky options i’d image - turning signatures off in specific forums etc..)
- Reputation System (Finally catching up with vBulletin
)
- Enhanced permission and moderator systems.
They say they are adding more integration tools, so…
Im a big Fan of PHP and one day i wanted to make a desktop application that could pull down posts and private messages from one of my forums. I didn’t want to learn a whole new language, just code the small application so i dismissed C, and looked at Python. I saw there was PyGTK, saw i wondered if…
So far you should have read/watched:
So you know the very basics of jQuery, and multiple ways to select the HTML element that you want to manipulate. In this tutorial i’ll show you how to manipulate that element after you have selected it; changing the contents, changing the HTML and…
Every been linked to one of those pages? You know, the ones you can’t escape.. Javascript boxes start popping out of nowhere and then you hear him.. Rick Astley.. telling you how he’s feeling about you.. You’ve been Rick Rolled.
Rick Rolling has taken off as late and links are popping up all over forums, websites and IRC. What links? You say.…
Dropbox is the next big thing. Its an application that lets you sync multiple computers. For example if you have a laptop and a Desktop and want to keep some files across the two machines synchronized then this is the tool for you. The great thing is that its multiple Operating System compatible. There are currently clients for Windows and…
The popular discussion board phpbb2 is being pulled/development dropped. Security patches and support will be given until January 2009 and you will be able to download the software from the website until the 1st of Ocbober 2008 . phpBB2 has been plagued by a large number of vulnerabilities, a significant number of them were through user submitted modifications.
phpBB 3 started…
In this tutorial i’ll go over some of the frequently used Selectors and show you how to use them. Most of jQuery’s manipulations revolve around selectors, so it’s a vital skill to know.
So.. we want to select the first td. We do this by first selecting all the td tags and then use :first to select the first td. Using jQuery’s great…
The 8th version of Ubuntu has now been released! Notable inclusions are..
- Linux Kernel 2.6.24
- Xorg 7.3 (Latest)
- GNOME 2.22
- Firefox 3 Beta 5
Its interesting to see that they’ve given some
of their older applications an overhaul. It now includes the Brasero CD burning utility which replaces Serpentine. They’ve also included the GTK front-end bit-torrent client Transmission and added a new VNC viewer called Vinagre. If…
Heres a quick tutorial on how to stream internet radio, in particular shoutcast, through VLC media player. Most people stream through Windows Media Player or Winamp, but if you like Open Source applications like me, heres how you do it.
File -> Open Network Stream
Select the HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MMS box and in the form, enter the URL of the shoutcast server, with the port. In…
In nearly all of my PHP tutorials you’ll see me using the secure function to sanitise incoming user data from things like forms, and $_GETs . Its a small function, which no doubt alot of you already have, but here it is anyway.
function secure($string) {
$string = strip_tags($string);
$string = htmlspecialchars($string);
$string = trim($string);
$string = stripslashes($string);
$string = mysql_real_escape_string($string);…
There are alot of remotely hosted systems out nowadays, Zetaboards, SMF for Free and the series of IPB 1.3.1s. If you want to edit the looks of your board you need to use Javascript since you can’t access the source PHP files. You can work your way around using getElementById and the likes, or you can use jQuery. Here are…
Heres a tutorial on how to use the apt-get package management system in Debian and its derivitives such as Ubuntu and Knoppix. I will cover command line use of apt-get, the aptitude program and the Synaptic Package Manager. I wrote all of this myself, feel free to link to here but do not copy and paste it.
Debian uses apt-get package…
This isn’t Yet Another PHP Security blog post, like you see on all the other websites. This is aimed at people who run existing software such as SMF, Joomla and Wordpress.
Some people using pre-made software think they are immune to hacking attempts. 4 days ago, there was a vulnerability found in the latest version of the Coppermine Gallery software, after…
Heres a quick video tutorial i made, you’ll learn the basics of jQuery such as selecting elements as well as usage of the slide effect. Feel free to ask any questions
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