Realy good ! !
jared_c and u r nearly there for real ! !
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Realy good ! !
jared_c and u r nearly there for real ! !
Greetings All:
I want to thank jared_c for the way he went about reporting this bug. It says a lot about him, and about the community that we have here at AntiOnline.
As for the problem, jared_c is right. We had the code in place for newreply and newthread, but weren't calling it correctly. Where I disagree with jared_c, is when he mentions to use a referer tag to make sure the form is being submitted from the site, and not from the user's local drive. Unfortunately, some browsers don't pass along the referer tag to the server, and some can actually be set up to fake the referer tags as well.
So, on our site, anything that needs validated, such as whether or not a user can post to the AO Addicts forum, is done via database queries. A quick lookup to see if the user's post count is greater than or equal to the total number of posts necessary to reply to the AO Addicts Forum, does the trick.
Thanks again to all that helped with this matter, and especially to jared_c!
Bug Fixed, Thread Closed!