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I wrote this in response to a problem with double posting, thanks to a suggestion by PierreTopping. Basically, this mod adds a checksum value to topics and replies. When a post is made, it compares the checksum values of previous posts by the same member within the last 10 days. If it finds a match, the post is not made. Get your copy at SnitzBitz.
Note: The original CRC calculation was created by someone else, but the claimed "copyright" allows incorporation for free into existing code; provided the code is not listed on a website.
Note: The original CRC calculation was created by someone else, but the claimed "copyright" allows incorporation for free into existing code; provided the code is not listed on a website.
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Note: The original CRC calculation was created by someone else, but the claimed "copyright" allows incorporation for free into existing code; provided the code is not listed on a website.
Could you not have just used the forums SHA256 function to do this ?
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Sure, but we'd end up with another long encrypted text area field. This field is only 255 characters and will probably never exceed 15.
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A sha256 is 256 bits long -- as its name indicates.
If you are using an hexadecimal representation, each digit codes for 4 bits ; so you need 64 digits to represent 256 bits -- so, you need a varchar(64), or a char(64), as the length is always the same, not varying at all.
If you are using an hexadecimal representation, each digit codes for 4 bits ; so you need 64 digits to represent 256 bits -- so, you need a varchar(64), or a char(64), as the length is always the same, not varying at all.
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The longest checksum I've been able to create was 10 characters; even with a post of over 15000 characters. Switching it to sha256 would eliminate any potential copyright issue, so should probably do so if it will be incorporated into base code in the future.
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as long as the CRC code copyright allows us to use it, it shouldn't be a problem, just wondered why you didn't use the sha256 function that was all, but definitely better to store 10 rather than 64 chars, possibly worth changing the dbs script to create a smaller field though if you don't think it will need 255.
