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[mfrobert]

I've been a member for about a month now and i'm still unable to access my e-mail or host any pictures. I contacted gilby but not one has responded. Does anyone have any suggestions?

thanks, Matt

[Gilby]

As stated on the registration page, the new accounts only have forum access. I have just created a gallery account for you.

[fexnix]

Can you create a gallery for me too?
I would be soo thankful forever and never spam the test forum again!

[Gilby]

Created.

[gossi]

Why do you do so Gilby? Is/Will that be to much for the Server?

[Gilby]

Originally posted by gossi
Why do you do so Gilby? Is/Will that be to much for the Server?

The biggest problem with why everything is broken is that the software was not built for such a large number of users (blame all those non unicycling chinese that signed up in masses). For the email and webspace, it uses the standard unix flat file and the disk space is also running low on that punny old system. The gallery was written with a file based data system using php serialized data and it has to read in some pretty large files each time it's accessed (the search function brought the system to a halt by filling the 1 GB of ram full and the swap).

So, I am changing and upgrading everything. New email system with a database backend and spam controls. Upgrade to the latest VB (still on the version 2 trunk. but this isn't significant as it's not currently broken), upgrading to gallery 2 even though it's still in alpha. Gallery2 uses a database instead of the serialized files, so it should be a lot faster (ie. only take a split second to load the index page instead of the current 8 seconds under no other load). Everything is going to then be integrated better together.

Today's task is to figure out the whole password storage thing. I'd like to have it be where people can change their password in vbulletin and it'll work with everything else. However, vb stores them encrypted as md5 and the imap server wants it in crypt (both of which are one way encryption).

The gallery should be easy to integrate as it's built to be easy to make a module to use another applications authentication scheme. Though, a module doesn't exist for vb, so if anyone here wants to write it, let me know and I can set you up with whatever is needed.

[gossi]

Well I don't know right now, how you handle user data's change for every foreign parallel running script. But it would be very helpful to write some common thing, doing the user-thing. IE a class, would handle that. So you do $user->update($user_id, $data) and the method for that:

<?php
class user
{
function update($user_id, $data)
{
$this->update_forum($user_id, $data);
$this->update_gallery($user_id, $data);
$this->update_email($user_id, $data);
...
}
}
?>

then you store that in ./common/class.user.php and include this everywhere you need it...

Hmm, that's the reason why I code x² (which hopefully is finished tomorrow with its minimum configuration and modules), you remember, he?

Blablabla and so on :D

Ride On,
gossi

[gossi]

Ehm, I just wan't to add, that I WON'T DO THIS, it's just an idea how... but I have to do enough the next weeks/months/years... to learn for my education, improving my own system and these things...

He, see you at the GMTW!!! -> http://www.tsv-zuffenhausen.de/radsport/GMTW/english/