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[Welshcookie 17]

It's looking a whole lot better now.....thanks Capt...

[Euro 3]

My bugs

but the site is running great, great work Ewok & wookie

[gag54611 1]

There is a bug when bringing up 'My Assistant'. When you click the My Assistant link on the home page, it brings up a different window than when you click My Assistant on any other page.

G

[aussiewench 9]

My bugs

HAHAHAHAHA good one

[Danoco 0]

is there a schedule daily shutdown of the site it seems every now an then i cant connect to the web page all others are fine just this one. after about 20 minutes or so its fine again

[aussiewench 9]

is there a schedule daily shutdown of the site it seems every now an then i cant connect to the web page all others are fine just this one. after about 20 minutes or so its fine again

Not that I am aware of. There is usually a msg that will come up if they are offline for upgrades etc. and that dont happen very often.

[Jenn! 918]

A lot of us are getting a messenger pop-up in Spanish.

Can you look into it? Thanks!

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...topic=10143&hl=

[aussiewench 9]

I have been getting it too and I agree with rch in that thread that it has to be spyware. However now that I see that Im not the only one and so many are all here in VJ........I would imagine that the source of it is within VJ somewhere. It has been driving me nuts.

[Captain Ewok 1,858]

See my post in the other thread. It is not VJ but likely something in someones signature.

[Tex'n'Brit 0]

Hi there,

I really need some technical assistance.

I'm having trouble with the animated smilies on VJ.com ...

Everyone's animated avatars and signature gifs are all working fine.

Some of the smilies in the posts - , , , , , , , , , , and - are still working.

None of the other smilies move anymore. I realise only some are supposed to be animated - These ones - , , , , , for example, all used to move. Plus, when I open the small smilie list window that shows the complete list of available smilies, it shows the typing required but doesn't show the actual smilies themselves next to each 'word' like it used to.

It seems very odd to me that some smilies still move and yet some have stopped. I don't believe it's anything I've done - I hadn't installed anything new before this problem cropped up. So I'm asking you to see if there's anything at all that may have changed at your end. I am probably clutching at straws, but it's really bugging me now.

FYI - I use XP (with SP2) and Firefox browser v1.5.0.3 and couldn't find anything in either program that might have changed. I also tried IE and had the same problem. I also use ZoneAlarm's free version, so I tried upgrading it to the Pro version which allows you to change the settings to allow VisaJourney to use cookies, pop-ups and animations ... but that didn't help. I also tried just disabling it - nothing made any difference.

Please can you have a think ... I've tried searching online and haven't come up with any solutions.

If you can help me sort it out I would be very grateful - it's very puzzling and irritating not to be able to fix it.

All the best,

Sheila

Edited May 25, 2006 by Tex'n'Brit

[Tex'n'Brit 0]

Hi there,

Sorry - I made a mistake ... when I open the small smilie list window that shows the complete list of available smilies, it does show the images - I just hadn't expanded the window enough ... but the same animation problem shows up there.

All the best,

Sheila

Edited May 25, 2006 by Tex'n'Brit

[Tex'n'Brit 0]

Well, there was no response from anyone about various smilies not working properly, but not to worry - all of the animations seem to be working this morning! I don't think I changed anything myself, so if you did fix something ... thank you! I would very much like to know if you did find something wonky ???

Anyway ...

All the best,

Sheila

Edited May 26, 2006 by Tex'n'Brit

[phirephly 0]

captain,

I think something went borked with the .doc MIME type. They used to be recognized and you'll get the dialog asking to save or open... now you just get a bunch of junk (binary -> ASCII) dumped into the browser. For example, aussiewench's NVC timesavers here:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=117

has this link:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums2/index.p...=post&id=356439

that i'm very very sure used to work before. Now it doesn't. I tried it with firefox 1.5.0.4 and ie 6.0.2900.2180 on Win XP (SP2).

Also, while this isn't particularly a bug, it's something that could be fixed (and probably easily!). When you click on the Embassy Info link, instead of going to the 'A' embassies, if you're logged in, it should go to the letter of your embassy.

Something like...

##
##  Determine embassy page to show
##


if((!isset($_GET['letter'])) && (isset($user['embassy'])))  {
// "intelligent" default
$embassyStartsWith = $user['embassy'][0];
}  elseif((isset($_GET['letter'])) && ((preg_match('/^[a-zA-Z]$/', $_GET['letter'])) || ($_GET['letter'] == 'ALL')))  {
// explicit selection from user
$embassyStartsWith = $_GET['letter'];
}  else  {
// fallback if we have nothing else
$embassyStartsWith = 'A';
}

just assuming how you're organizing your data... that you have a $user array with the data, and that $embassyStartsWith is the same var that is read in from the $_GET superglobal (of course the $_GET would have priority since that's the one the user clicked upon). I added a little bit of input validation on the letter URL param to help prevent XSS and the like. I noticed that if i put letter=potato in the URL, it just tells me there are no potato embassies! So it checks to see if the letter param is either a single letter or the string 'ALL'. This code assumes that the embassy data saved in the user's data structure has already been validated. Hope this is a bit of help! I was going to email this before, but I can't remember if I did or not. ttyl,

mich

PS - I'm away from my term now, so I can't double check the parens with vi, so if there are any bugs, those are free "features" a la Microsoft.

Edited June 7, 2006 by phirephly

[Captain Ewok 1,858]

:-p I think upgrading PHP may have broken the old forums (to a degree). The file was saved there. I will have to move the file over to the new board here which runs just fine under the version of PHP installed. I may use some of your code above, but right now the embassy page does not access the forums dB (for safety). I have tended to isolate most "tools" behind the scenes. In the next few weeks I may make some updates though . If you have any security things you have spotted please feel free to PM me .

[phirephly 0]

:-p I think upgrading PHP may have broken the old forums (to a degree). The file was saved there. I will have to move the file over to the new board here which runs just fine under the version of PHP installed. I may use some of your code above, but right now the embassy page does not access the forums dB (for safety). I have tended to isolate most "tools" behind the scenes. In the next few weeks I may make some updates though . If you have any security things you have spotted please feel free to PM me .

I thought it might have been something like that, though I suspected an apache upgrade.

Definitely go ahead and use it, that's why i posted it I see, I hadn't poked around in my VJ cookies (until now) to see what exactly you were storing as opposed to what you'd have to query. You still do at least one db lookup when you translate the vj2_member_id to a username (for the top chrome), don't you? maybe you can piggyback an extra field on that query or something. I don't know. Without seeing how everything is set up, I don't think I can give very insightful suggestions So I'll just leave the rest in your capable hands I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you don't already know how to do... you were kickin' butt here long before i came along

sounds good. it's nice the way you can just tweak here and there with php, huh? beats having to compile and roll out binaries yeah, i'll definitely let you know if i see any security stuff. i was just playing around with the potato embassies. didn't do any sort of serious security audit. i've just been trained to think of that sor of thing when writing code - blame my employer but if i do see any issues... don't worry, i'll PM you you'll prolly see it in your logs way before i even tell you, though. thanks captain. ttyl,

mich