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| July 25, 2007, 5:59 pm, admin wrote: | |
| Cookies are user-side as well. You can store some information in them, but noone else will see it, except you. | |
| July 25, 2007, 5:53 pm, *anonymous wrote: | |
| by my page I ment my blog. Thanks for your help. | |
| July 25, 2007, 5:52 pm, *anonymous wrote: | |
| Is it possible to just use cookies instead of php? I'm wondering if there is a way to save info to my page on the server just using cookies.
I might try that before I resort to php. Goodness. Html to java script to php to mysql database language. I just hope there isn't some other language yet I need to know about. So like I said I'll try using cookies first. | |
| July 25, 2007, 5:10 pm, admin wrote: | |
| Actually I'm well aware of this and most of my sites have a protection like the one you describe. | |
| July 25, 2007, 5:04 pm, *anonymous wrote: | |
| Ide be glad to share one more idea with you concerning passwords. Time is security. Make it so that if the user gets the password wrong three times he must then wait one whole minut before he can try again. Why is this so important? Because there are hacker programs, probably used by some spammers, that go in and type all possible combinations at amazing speed until something works. It is called key logging and it is used by hackers to bypass password protection. So by adding that one minute delay you actualy add serveral hours if not days to the hackers attempt to get in. If the hacker had to go through 10000 possible combinations (and that is a generous number) that could mean that the hacker may need to go through this one minut wait up to 2000 or 3000 times before he gets in right? how long is 3000 minutes you ask? It is more than two days non stop!! the hacker would have to go on a fast!! | |
| July 25, 2007, 5:00 pm, admin wrote: | |
| Blog services usually do not allow users to run php, perl or any other server-side scripts. You cannot just insert php code into your blog pages - it will simply come out as a text of the script. You need to use hosting with php support (paid hostings always provide this, free - not always, but frequent). Using it is very easy - you just put a php sctipt into a file with .php extencion and upload it to the server (usually via FTP protocol). When you call the URL with that file name, server will recognize php and run it. However, usually php scripts use MySQL database, so MySQL also should be provided and configured properly. | |
| July 25, 2007, 4:45 pm, *anonymous wrote: | |
| ok I simply cannot resist asking the most useful question I have ever asked on this forum. How do I test to see if the blog service I am currently using can run php script? And how would I do this using well written php (i.e. php that the compiler will or would not say is badly formed)?
using googles blogger service I have successfully run java script and of course html but I have no clue if it allows php. I apologize for breaking my promise not to post again, but it is so hard to find an experienced programmer to talk to let alone somone who knows php. I have a gut feeling that php is the one missing link I need and then I will be all set. I really want my own server someday, but blogger has been very useful. | |
| July 25, 2007, 11:38 am, admin wrote: | |
| On a second thought I think I can use this idea. I doubt it will make any essential income or even any income at all, as it will barely be popular and probably hard to advertize, but it's very easy to make. Thanks for your thoughts. If you have any other ideas of useful services, feel free to write them here. I lack imagination and thus always value interesting ideas. | |
| July 25, 2007, 3:01 am, admin wrote: | |
| Seems I misunderstood you... This is a corrected reply.
You mean open post forms as a communication interface, either translated to guestbook-like stream visible only to an owner or sent to his hidden e-mail address. They are used by many sites, I use them as well, when I don't want to publish e-mail openly. You see, actually if it gets popular, spammers will invent methods to massivelly post into those forms, even if they are protected like this guestbook. No protection is absolute. It's always about the costs. This guestbook's protection is relativelly strong, but only because it worth more to penetrate it than the profit that can be achieved from this penetration. When it's about big money like from spam, I cannot think about protection that would be strong enough and in the same time not annoying for the normal people. Also, e-mail SPAM exist only due to a lazyness and incompetense of people (in this case - server administrators). It can be killed almost totally simply by setting up all mail servers correctly. That would be much more anti-spam strong than creating services like you suggest. Regretably this is never going to happen. People are often lazy and/or stupid. In a current situation admins who know how to set up servers correctly just have to make it not completelly according to the specs or else the mails from incorrectly setup mail servers will never get to the destination. There are just too many incorrectly setup servers, not 5% or 10%, we are talking about 40-50%. | |
| July 25, 2007, 1:57 am, *anonymous wrote: | |
| I have one more thing to say actualy. I believe that some people want an alernate to email. I would like to suggest to you the idea of creating private password protected guest books, especialy of the kind you have here. I'm going to predict that if you (1)advertise this idea well and (2)add the option of password protecting the guest book such that other veiwers would need to know the password that you will(3) turn ordinary online email into the dust of the past. I really believe forums will someday replace normal online mail. There are just some design issues that may need to be overcome. Please add this feature and you will not regret it. Add password protection such that anyone veiwing the forum page would need to know the password. You could of course display your adds on the password page. Let me know what you think.
Advantages: many more users of your site, destroy the age old email spam monster forever, eliminate the danger of email attachments, allow people to change their address so easily a spammer has no flicker of a chance, create more open communication amongst closenit groups of freinds. All this if you add that password functionality to an ordinary guest book like this one. If you do this, I will kiss yahoo mail goodbye and use your service instead. This time I promise this is the last message I will post. Please respond as soon as you can. | |
| July 25, 2007, 12:51 am, admin wrote: | |
| Also, there is no any secret about the code you can see. It's all given on the "getcode" page. And honestly, the poll mechanism itself is so primitive that anyone with advanced programming knowledge can write it in 5-6 hours. So, no secrets here. What really can be a secret is an anticheat protection. Not a big secret either, if you have some statistics of cheat attempts, which you get over time anyway. But you cannot know how it works from the html view of the pages... | |
| July 25, 2007, 12:42 am, admin wrote: | |
| Actually it says now on the "getcode" page that you are welcomed to modify the form code in any way you desire, if you understand what you are doing. But the results and submit page are still stored with the server - there is no way to make it different... Well, actually it's possible to redirect user to your pages where you show results with JS or parse them with your own php code from this site's pages, but it would leave this site without any income. Sorry, but it's free only because it can show ads... | |
| July 25, 2007, 12:39 am, *anonymous wrote: | |
| The last three messages are all by me. Please. I am not trying to hack your site or anything. I would just prefere to have complete programing control over the look of the forum I want to put up. So what I want to know is if I can use the script I saw such that I am only relying on you for the php functionality that actual makes the text box work instead of doing nothing. This is the last message I will post for now as I have posted far to many here already. The last three messages and this fourth one were all by me. The person who posted at 8:07 pm, 8:15 pm and 8:17pm
is me. I'm not trying to do anything bad, honest. Its a well hidden secret, but anybody can open a browzer like firefox, click on view, and then click veiw page source. That shows the code of the page you are presently veiwing. iframes are a good way to discourage users from doing this, but there is hopefuly a better way. Please respond as soon as you can. Im not the kind that just takes advantage of bugs and loop holes. Thanks. | |
| July 24, 2007, 9:17 pm, *anonymous wrote: | |
| sorry. I accidently posted twice because I accidently hit the keyboard.
PS; If you want to keep the average user from seeing any of your code your should use iframes. I simply used a feature buitl into some browzers that allows users to see the highest level code of a web page. | |
| July 24, 2007, 9:07 pm, *anonymous wrote: | |
| I know about that special browzer feature that lets you veiw page code.
That said I saw the upper veiwable level of your forum code. I notice, as usual, that it depends on another script I can't see that is written in php. Would I would like to ask, as someone who already knows html and a little bit of java script, is if I can just take the code between and including the two form tags and just use that part so that I am rellying on your service soley for the actual form processing script? Doing this would allow me to completely customize the forum itself for my own purposes while I rellying on your service just to make it functional. Eventualy I will write my own php file. But for now I would like to do this. I notice that you have already done this with your poll service. Let me know. Thanks. | |
| July 22, 2007, 4:54 pm, admin wrote: | |
| There is a plenty of ready poll scripts, on various languages, some are surelly open. Simple use gogle to find them: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=free+poll+script&btnG=Google+Search
Don't mix Java Script language with Java language. Java Script language is user side, it can't store results from different users as all variables exist only in user's browser. Java is, however, a server side language and can do this. | |
| July 22, 2007, 3:11 pm, *anonymous wrote: | |
| I don't know which computer is hosting this site and whether or not this site is in california (I suspect it might be). But I do have a question.
Is there a way to create a Java Script that handles the poll instead of php? If Not, I would be happy to receive intruction on how to create a script in php that handles this poll. I'm serious about being very independant when it comes to making a website. I want to relly on the script and code of others as little as possible. If nothing help. please tell me how to make this script in php. If the one you are already using is something you want kept secret then please use your knowledge to make another one so I can see how to do it myself. You have nothing to loose as many people don't even want to go where I am trying to go. my email is cjbell@liberty.edu. PS; I don't really agree with everything Liberty University teaches so my address says almost nothing about me. Please help me regarding this programing issue. Thanks. | |
| May 7, 2007, 2:08 pm, admin wrote: | |
| I'm afraid I do not understand you. Return URL works just fine as we tested it. You should not forget to enter http:// otherwise it won't work. | |
| May 6, 2007, 9:39 pm, *anonymous wrote: | |
| When you mess up and need the return URL, it doesn't let you, even when opening a new window and starting from scratch! :( Otherwise it's pretty cool and thanks for creating this site! | |
| April 16, 2007, 6:13 pm, admin wrote: | |
| Could you explain this further? It's rather unclear. | |
| April 15, 2007, 10:51 pm, jamesdevereaux wrote: | |
| can you make it so that you can have one vote more powerful (make the value more) than another one | |
| March 30, 2007, 9:29 pm, admin wrote: | |
| It's a shame that we did not think about showing a "percentage" from the beginning... It's done now. | |
| March 29, 2007, 7:04 pm, *chris c wrote: | |
| Thank you!
I know I'm sort of defeating the purpose of a true "poll" with both the ability to select multiple options AND being able to vote again, but thank you. (Using it for an American Idol-type of voting utility.) In the future, it might be cool to see a "percentage" of total votes thing too, along with the ACTUAL votes number? (a separate algorithm). HOWEVER, this poll is JUST GREAT as it is right now! Thanks again! | |
| March 29, 2007, 11:37 am, admin wrote: | |
| Honestly I cannot understand this need when there is a possibility of creating a multiple selection poll (in which voters can select several options at once). But it's done now. It's "Use Cookies" checkbox in "Anti-cheating protection" section. By default it's ON, but you can turn it off if you wish. | |
| March 29, 2007, 7:52 am, *chris c wrote: | |
| This poll service is simple to use and AWESOME!
I am using it for a voting poll and would actually PREFER if people could vote MORE THAN ONCE per computer! Is it possible to bypass the cookie saving function that prevents that? (Just for a particular poll? ... to turn it off?) Thanks! | |
| March 26, 2007, 10:22 am, admin wrote: | |
| I'm sorry for that. Initially there were 20 maximum answers, but recently we extended this to 25 and made a mistake during that - multiselect polls with more than 20 options were not counting correctly options 21-25 (single-select or shorter polls worked correctly so we did not notice). It is now corrected. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. | |
| March 26, 2007, 9:02 am, *Wendy wrote: | |
| I made a poll, and people ar etelling me they voted for Ruby Tuesday, but it still says 0. I have 22 checkboxes... is that too many? My email is gardenplum@comcast.net and the poll can be viewed here:
http://www.yourfreepoll.com/cmznqzaasr.html Do you know if I did something wrong when I 'made it look pretty' on the web site? Thank you! | |
| March 11, 2007, 11:21 pm, admin wrote: | |
| Actually you are supposed to simply create another if you made a mistake and forget about the incorrect one. Editing possibility can be implemented, but is there really such a need for it?
I think I'll do this anyway, but this is not a first priority matter at the moment, so it'll take some time. | |
| March 11, 2007, 6:26 pm, *www.tbl.cc wrote: | |
| Need some way to edit your own poll, ( if you make a mistake ) | |
| March 7, 2007, 10:19 pm, admin wrote: | |
| It's done now. You can specify an URL of the page you wish your voters to return after they voted during a poll creation. | |
| March 5, 2007, 4:05 pm, admin wrote: | |
| Not a problem to implement this. I'll do this when I'm back from vacations. | |
| March 5, 2007, 8:39 am, *anonymous wrote: | |
| Is it possible to have a link back to my site from the results page and after the person has voted. | |
| February 24, 2007, 5:33 pm, admin wrote: | |
| This is a guestbook for users of Your Free Poll Service. You can post your comments and suggestions here, report found bugs. | |
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