Security Warnings and Code Tags

Hi,

Please could you post some sort of warning (e.g. near IMPORTANT) to prevent users posting their MySQL Connection information. Also, please could you enforce people using the code tags. It’s very annoying to see people not use them - I know people might not have seen them before but with a notice before they post there’s not really any excuse.

Otherwise, great forum. It’s a pleasure to be a part of it.

Thanks,
jSherz

Hi jSherz,

We have a warning message about using php/code tags (you saw that ‘IMPORTANT’ sentence right above the text area on the new post screen), but we have new users registering and posting every day, and unfortunately not all of them following this simple rule.

I am not sure if we really have to force them? Technically this should be possible by verifying posted messages with regular expression, but need to come up with some safe rules on how to correctly identify if the message body contains php/javascript/html/css code…

I’ll add warning message about not posting MySQL connection info - thanks for pointing to this.

Sponsor our Newsletter | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service