I help out with a minecraft server website. and we made a GCCP(Global Chat Control Panel), which is for our staff team. Instead of a mysql database to store passwords and such, which can be exploited to access our passwords, we used flatfile to store our passwords. It works the same as mysql, but it cannot be exploited ;)

-ScHmIdTy wrote I help out with a minecraft server website. and we made a GCCP(Global Chat Control Panel), which is for our staff team. Instead of a mysql database to store passwords and such, which can be exploited to access our passwords, we used flatfile to store our passwords. It works the same as mysql, but it cannot be exploited ;)

I wouldn't really recommend that to be honest. Databases are as secure as you make them, not to mention a good web developer never stores password in their original form. Passwords should be hashed (sha256 or sha512 for example, which are one-way algorithms) and salted, so even if someone were to gain unauthorized access to your database, it would be impossible to find out what the passwords are. Not to mention when it comes to maintenance, a database management system has a huge advantage over flat files.

I'd only use flat files for sharing small amounts of data that hold little value (so no users information or passwords, etc).

Just sharing my thoughts ;)

Nicasus wrote

-ScHmIdTy wrote I help out with a minecraft server website. and we made a GCCP(Global Chat Control Panel), which is for our staff team. Instead of a mysql database to store passwords and such, which can be exploited to access our passwords, we used flatfile to store our passwords. It works the same as mysql, but it cannot be exploited ;)

I wouldn't really recommend that to be honest. Databases are as secure as you make them, not to mention a good web developer never stores password in their original form. Passwords should be hashed (sha256 or sha512 for example, which are one-way algorithms) and salted, so even if someone were to gain unauthorized access to your database, it would be impossible to find out what the passwords are. Not to mention when it comes to maintenance, a database management system has a huge advantage over flat files.

I'd only use flat files for sharing small amounts of data that hold little value (so no users information or passwords, etc).

Just sharing my thoughts ;)

Well HurDur. Were not that idiotic to just store our passwords in a flatfile in their original form. we hash it.

The Layouts Kind of Like Tumblr :/

But Besides That its Pretty Great, All I can Say is Just Switch Teh Colors A bit darker!

Snaffers wrote The Layouts Kind of Like Tumblr :/

But Besides That its Pretty Great, All I can Say is Just Switch Teh Colors A bit darker!

That's actually the theme i was going for. Not exactly obviously but something similar.

looks good :)mee and my mate built somehting like this

CoNdEmR wrote So, for the past 2 weeks, I've been delving further into PHP as I've had the time off with college finished for the summer. And so i put it to myself to do something productive with my time, and have managed to construct a very basic template for a blogging site.

The site is functional, and entirely written in PHP you can visit it here: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

The idea of the blog will be to document the progress and updates i make to it in order to get myself into the habit of documentation. As well as other project's i may work on in the future, or maybe even some personal stuff WHO KNOWS.

In any case tell me what you guys think, and let me know of any additions you think i could add. What i hope to add in the future thus far is to allow users to comment on my articles posted, and maybe some more user interaction.

This needs alot of work, but nice joib so far.