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Davio
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 Posted - 12 September 2002 : 11:43:47
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I have decided to write a Snitz Forums MOD Guide for the mod authors and users who are deciding to create mods. I have already started it and already put a lot of work into it. But it still has a lot work left to do before it is completed. And it is too much work for me to complete.
So, instead of the Snitz Team here work on it, I decided I will let the community help with it. After all, this is not just the Snitz Teams forum. It's your forum.
This will be an official MOD Guide for the forums. I am not looking for new ideas (although they are welcomed), I am looking to finish what I have started.
Here is what I have started so far: http://www.dsilvera.com/misc/mod_doc.htm
Most of the content are place holders to put in for later.
I would appreciate mod authors or other dev team members and moderators to help out in providing the content for each topic posted there. You will post what topic you are willing to write on, that you feel you can contribute to and write what knowledge you have on that topic. You will write this in a .txt file, upload it your server/website and post a link to it so I can view it. You can write as much as you can, or as a little as you can.
I would prefer members who have been around Snitz for a while to participate in this.
For the database fields, the functions and subs, if you believe you have enough experience to write descriptions on these, please go ahead. This is for advanced users though. You will see I have a description for 2 functions as an example so far.
If there are any questions, please let me know. Please keep any new ideas you might have to add to this to a minimum. |
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Edited by - Davio on 12 September 2002 12:01:15 |
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@tomic
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GauravBhabu
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Posted - 12 September 2002 : 11:56:26
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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
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Posted - 12 September 2002 : 12:02:27
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Your link is dead.
What? Did you kill it? Do you see who did? 
It's fixed, sorry about that. |
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@tomic
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
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Posted - 12 September 2002 : 12:08:36
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| Did you lose the file I sent you with the descriptions of some of the functions (and files names where the functions could be found), or was it as worthless as I thought it'd be? |
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burthold
Junior Member
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Posted - 12 September 2002 : 12:11:02
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do you want to break up the functions table's and cookie/subroutines up so people don't work on the same chunk as someone else? I am already going through the fucntions now and would LOVE to help with this project! I love the page layout too.
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Davio
Development Team Member
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Posted - 12 September 2002 : 12:11:07
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| No I didn't lose it Frutzle. I still have it. But there is a lot more functions and subs there that needs to be done. I haven't worked on this since I came back, so the info you gave me hasn't been included yet. |
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@tomic
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@tomic
Senior Member
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Posted - 12 September 2002 : 12:14:29
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Oh, and how to code to protect against SQL injection attacks would be usefull.
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Davio
Development Team Member
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Posted - 12 September 2002 : 12:15:52
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do you want to break up the functions table's and cookie/subroutines up so people don't work on the same chunk as someone else? I am already going through the fucntions now and would LOVE to help with this project! I love the page layout too.
You can do a few functions and/or subs at a time and post which ones you are doing. I will gradually integrate the info I get from everyone into the document. |
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burthold
Junior Member
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Posted - 12 September 2002 : 12:16:29
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| I've got functions coded to protect against sql injection attacks. |
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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
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Posted - 12 September 2002 : 12:20:58
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The DisplayUsersAge and DOBToDate functions I have already done to show you an example of what it is going to be like. (For those users who are willing to work on the functions).
Tomic, think you can put the content you have on those pages into a .txt file? It makes it much easier for me to organize what everyone is offering by downloading the .txt file with the info so i can do the work offline. It would be appreciated. |
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burthold
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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
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Posted - 12 September 2002 : 12:38:15
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We already have functions that prevent sql injections. The ChkString() function prevents such attacks. I believe tomic was saying that the document should include what mod authors should do in thier mods to prevent such a thing. Passing any user input into a sql query needs to go through ChkString function to prevent that.
That will be part of the doc. |
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Edited by - Davio on 12 September 2002 12:40:07 |
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alex042
Average Member
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Posted - 12 September 2002 : 13:11:42
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I would prefer members who have been around Snitz for a while to participate in this.
I may not be a veteran, but I thought I'd leave my 2 cents. There doesn't seem to be much on what should be included in the readme.txt files included in MODs, so for my 2 cents, I think the MOD authors should include some standards info like: MOD Name and copyright info, version info, features, and installation instructions including how difficult the MOD may be to implement. Standard versioning might some something like v99.99.99 (major version, minor version, bug fixes) Implementation ease should probably be somewhat objective with some guidelines because what an author might think is easy, the person adding it might not. For example, just a link might be a 1, but if database fields need to be created, this might add a couple more difficulty points, etc. I don't know if I should write up something or if someone can take this and run with it.
As for the actual coding, I could provide some input there, but it looks like there are some veterans who have already volunteered.
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