Gabriel Harper's Blog

TinyMCE is a free WYSIWYG editor with two visual components – themes and skins. TinyMCE themes are very complex to customize but you can make your own TinyMCE theme. If you just want to customize the look & feel a little bit, you’re better off creating a TinyMCE skin.

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I’ll admit this is one project I wasn’t even aware of. The Wordpress blog just mentioned the sister project BuddyPress, which takes the WP architecture to a new level with a complete social networking platform.

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There are thousands of free scripts to speed up development. Established PHP frameworks and JavaScript libraries abound. It’s expensive to reinvent the wheel, and pointless besides. But when is it legal to use free code in your commercial apps, and how will it affect your project?

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This is a completely portable PHP script that fetches similar threads from a vBulletin forum. It does not require global.php or any other vBulletin scripts to run. The script uses full score matching, and supports search engine friendly URLs made by vBSEO and other custom formats.

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Those tycoons over at vBSEO released a free Google Analytics widget for vBulletin users codenamed LiveStats. This free widget displays a JavaScript widget with comprehensive Website statistics from Google Analytics. I don’t plan on publishing all my traffic statistics, but they can be kept private and LiveStats gets definite kudos for using sparklines!

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This is a simple way to add social Web icons to vBulletin posts that link to a member’s social networking profiles like Digg, Facebook, etc. You can easily add custom user profile fields from vBulletin Admin CP that let users add their profile URLs in their User CP. For your convenience I also zipped up 19 social Web icons that you can download for your vBulletin forum.

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Here are the steps I took to create a new theme for TinyMCE 3.x. It isn’t very hard to do, but the documentation is extremely out of date. You can tweak these all you want, but if you want to make a custom TinyMCE theme there isn’t much available.

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Here’s a huge list of free forums to sell your Website scripts. Make sure you register and read the rules of each forum. Perfect for selling your custom PHP apps and turnkey scripts to other Webmasters. It is very up to date since I recently compiled and edited the entire list.

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Many definitions of Web 2.0 are floating around. I answered what is Web 2.0 on Scriptalicious recently as such:

Web 2.0 refers to the second and latest major phase of evolution for the World Wide Web. It encapsulates a general shift to newer, more socially and technologically evolved Websites and Web services.

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OpenOffice.org is an awesome alternative to Microsoft Office, and it’s completely free. OpenOffice.org matches Microsoft Office on almost every feature that a typical user needs. Unfortunately, it’s still destined for failure. There’s too much “open source” in OpenOffice.org – people don’t want a geek tool, they want a friendly tool. OO is not polished for the typical end-user, and at this rate is destined to always be the underdog.

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The question is asked time and time again, and not always clear even to those who are working with Ajax! The term Ajax is short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It was coined in 2005 by Jesse James Garrett. Ajax is not a specific programming language or technology. Ajax is a Web development technique. Ajax brings dynamic data interactivity to Web pages. For example, a Web client sorts a column of data, and the data is automatically changed with live server data without reloading the entire page.

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The latest Jelsoft security bulletin, dated this August 18th, 2008, has announced the discovery of a new XSS flaw related to JavaScript escaping. This flaw could allow unauthorized users to carry out unauthorized actions or obtain access to a user’s account. vBulletin patch releases 3.7.2 PL2 and 3.6.10 PL4 have been released to address the new XSS flaw, discovered by Federico Muttis.

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A new update is now available for Scriptalicious PageRank Script which adds some new features and fixes some old bugs! Read the official announcement on Scriptalicious Blog and check out the forums announcement for feedback and such things.

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I already posted this announcement on the Scriptalicious Blog but I thought it was worth sharing here as well. For a few months now IPN errors have caused orders to sit in PENDING status until they can be manually processed (which can be, well, a process). The IPN handler has been updated and tested and is now processing PayPal Instant Payment Notifications (IPN’s) so orders will be activated instantly upon payment. Yay!

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Jelsoft just announced a new patch level release for vBulletin 3.7.1 and 3.6.10. vBulletin 3.7.1 PL2 and 3.6.10 PL2 are intended to address the deeper issues behind the XSS flaw first noted in vBulletin 3.7.1 PL1 and 3.6.10 PL1. According to the Jelsoft release annoucement 3.7.1 PL2 and 3.6.10 PL2 fixes an XSS flaw affecting the URL redirection system in vBulletin.

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Jelsoft has just announced a security update for vBulletin forum software that resolves a cross-site scripting (XSS) error. These are patch level fixes for the existing vBulletin 3.7.1 and 3.6.10 versions that focus on the XSS flaw.

According to the Jelsoft announcement:

…it is difficult to exploit the XSS flaw, and the potential for exposure and damage is limited…

However, the implications of the flaw are not entirely clear in the announcement. Has anybody out there had problems with this cross-site scripting error?

Approximately one month after the vBulletin 3.7.0 Gold release, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. has released a round of bug fixes and improvements in the vBulletin 3.7.1 update. Many vBulletin owners have still yet to upgrade to vBulletin 3.7.0 so this is a good time to jump right to the new version. Let’s look at what’s different in vBulletin 3.7.1.

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cPanel just announced the release of cPanel 11.23 which focuses on some key issues with cPanel. According to cPanel’s blog announcement the cPanel 11.23 release focuses on memory usage, mail efficiency, backups and users. cPanel server admins are getting pretty excited about the performance increases in cPanel VPS optimized, and 11.23 addresses memory usage with VPS optimized and Tailwatch.

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Jelsoft just released vBulletin 3.7.0 Gold on April 29th, right alongside the new vBulletin price changes. Good timing on their behalf, because now there is even more motivation to upgrade those licenses and buy some new ones! Starting immediately vBulletin license owners will be able to access vBulletin 3.7.0 from the member’s area.

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Jelsoft just announced a bunch of changes in their pricing scheme. They must have read my blog about whether vBSEO is worth the money and decided they could charge more! While not a huge increase, it’s enough to make me shake my head as I now run several vBulletin forums. That’s the nature of business though, and hopefully Jelsoft will continue to improve their software and make use of all that extra cash.

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