Making a social network

[Cam]

Well Nick's known for a while and now it's working I will tell you about it. It's basically a school project for Dragons Den, I'm going to precent this. It's a bit basic and at the moment has the basic post and see status', login, signup etc.

Just thought this might be a cool place for a log.

[Cam]

Todays work:

Status's done
Post on other peoples profiles done
Time which someone posted done

[Nick]

Attack of the double posting monster! (someone should really make a funny icon for this )

Hey, do you have any screenshots?

[Cam]

Yes, Colin is the only one to see it live though.

[edenwax]

Wooooooooooooo

[Cam]

Tomorrow I plan on doing friendship things. Not sure how it will work ATM.

[Nick]

Make a table in your DB called friends, and store 2 user ids in each row. The person who sent the request and the person who recieved it. Then have another row called Status, that will keep track of whether or not the friend request has been accepted.

[Jordan]

When do we get to break your code? ;P

[edenwax]

WHELP. I may have put a pesky javascript redirect to google in...

Just testing vulnerabilities!

[Cam]

At the moment just getting features done then security can be thought about.

[Nick]

Security > All


'Nuff said

[edenwax]

Oh! Another thing, instead of having <input type="text" value="Post a status..." />
Use
<input type="text" placeholder="Post a status..." />

It makes it so when you click it the text disappears, and when you click something else it comes back. It beats having to erase the default text.

Also can you delete my statuses, it keeps redirecting me to google

[echnaret]

Sept 30, 2011 21:24:26 GMT edenwax said:

Oh! Another thing, instead of having <input type="text" value="Post a status..." />
Use
<input type="text" placeholder="Post a status..." />

It makes it so when you click it the text disappears, and when you click something else it comes back. It beats having to erase the default text.

Also can you delete my statuses, it keeps redirecting me to google

Ooh, me likey. I'll have to remember that for my code.

[Cam]

Thanks Colin Trying to work out how to stop you from posting scripts.

[xcessive]

Oct 1, 2011 18:27:01 GMT Cam said:

Thanks Colin Trying to work out how to stop you from posting scripts.

Uh... htmlspecialchars?

[Cam]

Oct 2, 2011 2:10:50 GMT xcessive said:

Oct 1, 2011 18:27:01 GMT Cam said:

Thanks Colin Trying to work out how to stop you from posting scripts.

Uh... htmlspecialchars?

M

I saw something about that today

[echnaret]

<?php
$filtered_string = filter_var($string, FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS);
?>
That's what I use.