Boonex Dolphin PHP script is SCAM!!!

[brahmapudra]

Why Boonex is a scam?

Boonex problem nr1. No coding standard

Boonex is writen by several people using different technologies. Its main base (Dolphin) is writen in pure php with its own template engine and forum (Orca) uses xlst. That has large negative impact to integration of forum in site and site in forum. When coding, please use single technology and template system.

Whats even worser, different parts of dolphins code itself is writen by completely different people, and very in the hurry. So everyone has its own imagination how to interact with different parts of the code. It is very tricky to modify code that way to suit site needs.

Boonex problem nr2. Template engine and separation of code/design/database

This problem in dolphin/boonex needs a point on its own. Boonex uses custom template system ( that should be called layout system). The blocks of generated html code are pased to specific places in the template. That creates a big headache for programers as they need to search through code for the place where some box is generated. It might be generated in template, or in specific function in one of numerous includes. And so on. Even pligg has better templating than this.

It is very tricky to rip boonex templating apart, as whole coding is based on such poor programming practice. They would be better off using existing template system like smarty or similar one.

This leads to problem nr3

Boonex problem nr3. Crapy use of Database

We saw serveral other competing sites launched on boonex, but we did not care much. Why? Becouse when they reach 500-1000 daily visitors they will break apart. The reason for it is very bad programming and use of database.

For example, boonex uses profile builder which assigns fields to profiles. So the output of profile uses more than one table and is quite inefficient.

Also, there is a nice 20-30 query overhead on each page display to fetch all the configuration values from table. Silly, isn’t it ? They would be FAR better of using a file for configuring sofware or caching it in php file like it is done in most of the systems.

Another simple problem. When boonex wants to display a profile being online it additionally check database for its status. But that data was pulled from database already. So 20 useless queries again.

Resume

I would not suggest using boonex if you want to keep your programmers sane. We have have changed the code almost completely for now, and you will need to do that too. Boonex is a scam. Try googling "boonex scam" first.

[Dordhs]

Amy,

Well, it seems easy, but I keep putting that string of code in different places in single.php, and the sidebar shows up on the wrong side of the page, pushing the content over, or at the bottom. Is there a way to get it to display on the right side of the single post page like it does on the main page?

[Dordhs]

ok after going to your site and looking at what is going on, you have 2 peices of software each has it own stats page

Which are you wanting to include the PHP-Nuke stats to the Invision Board Stats?

[Dordhs]

hmm, How are you including it in php-nuke

as in are you using the admin Fuctions of PHP-Nuke to create a box and then Inserting the include?

Liek i siad I am not that filmiar with Nuke Sites so I dont know how much more help i can give you

[Dordhs]

I dont see anything on line 2 that is out of syntax, Post the full error.... is this file included in another file?
Post the HTML for the Web form.


As an aside, NEVER us _GET,_POST,_REQUEST,_SERVER or any of the other user Input to query the database with out running some validation and XSS prevention on the values first. at the very very very very very least you should have

PHP Code:
width = addslashes_GETwidth;
......

But I would do even more data Validation on it before passing it to the database.

[undunk]

Hi randyriegel,

Did you ever finish that script. I would like to use it and would love to see how you got it to write the attachment to a directory. I want to be able to email pictures to a directory.

Thank you,
-Sam

[Dordhs]

good morning ... i need a help if you only can spare me your big laugh ...?

i am a complete php illiterate, tried to install quite simple php script on my site ... when i try to run install.php from my browser, it only donwloads the page instead of running any install ...

what the hell i have screwed up here?

what am i supposed or not supposed to do?

somebody help please

it drives me nuts ...

thank u,
cokoli

[undunk]

Is there any way to write a php.ini for PHP4 that will apply to sub-dirs from the web root? When running a CMS its a real pain to replicate it for all those dirs.

[Dordhs]

php.ini is a system-wide file, so you cant access it. You can, however, override some of its settings in your .htaccess file. Try adding this to .htaccess:

php_value extension php_mhash.so

You can also try using the dl function in your code, but I would opt for the method above first.

--Jason

[undunk]

php does not have to be installed in your cgi-bin you can place it anywhere.

The problem sounds like since you put the script in your cgi-bin and it doesnt have the extention .pl or .cgi it will deny you access.

Reinstall it in another /dir and see if that works