Journal #7765

Left 3 comments. My first one didn't get displayed though because of the way I navigated away from the "Congraturations" page.

And how did you navigate away?
Also, it seems that writing a single apostrophe returns an error. Writing two apostrophes returns one apostrophe. Similar situation with "\" on TWHL ...

<table border="1">
<tr><td>Do</td><td>Tables</td></tr>
<tr><td>Actually</td><td>Work?</td></tr>
</table>

I can''t believe this. They work!

Nah, this doesn't work on TWHL :D.

Umm you might want to check for empty fields and display an error if that occurs.

Start by stripping malicious script tags from the comments.
Someone could have plugged something a lot more dangerous (like stealing user session data).

Other than that - good job!

Weird, my antivirus blocked your site

It says:
"The web page is on the list of websites with potentially dangerous content."

Use mysql_real_escape_string(); and preg_match(); to check for "bad letters"

"On the list"- what? I only just put the page online. Your antivirus lies to you :P.

Ok, I added mysql_real_escape_string() and htmlentities() :).

That's why it's weird. It's blocking the entire co.cc domain. Odd.

Oh shit son. You on the list. D:

I was thinking about switching to the .free domain, but I don't want to over complicate myself now. I use Avast! and it doesn't say anything about the co.cc domain( btw co.cc is very popular, I don't understand why would your antivirus block it... what antivirus are you using?)

[EDIT] Made the div blocks colored differently.

Huh, my AV blocked it as well.

Added captcha. No spamming anymore :).

Captcha's are obsolete against bot-spammers believe it or not, better add a random math question

Against amateur spammers it's super efficient.

[EDIT] I accidentally the whole comment system. I don't understand this, I tried making the comment boxes square and float them all to the left. Now they all get out from the initial div block, why does this happen?

clear: both;
is your friend. Use it for the div containers.

No, I'm not trying to stack them vertically. The way they're arranged is the expected result. What is unexpected is that the same div block where it's written "comments" is the parent of these boxes, but it doesn't extend in the background!

Add a <div style="clear: both;"></div> under all the comment containers before the main wrapper ends.

Yes, that stacks them vertically. I don't want that.

[EDIT] Meh, reverted to normal vertical stacking, without float. I bet if I'd use tables though it would work the way I want.

Another fun project is to make an active web chat with an ajax script. You basically make the script send a request for messages newer than your last update time every ~second, and if the request comes back with something in it the message is appended onto the end of the chat window. It's a pretty cool project to see work, and a good extension to your project if you're interested.

Nice, grats. But line breaks don't work. They're not hard to look for.

Even has captcha. Colour me impressed.
Also, I put my captcha results in my comment.

For whoever requested I add time and date: mission accomplished!

OH so you also moderate the spam? Too bad. I thought it was a perfect addition for this sort of page.

Also, I'm looking at a captcha that is a photo of something rather than scanned text.

Yeah, but if you don't understand the current one you can just hit refresh to get a new one...

You could try and create your own captcha by using sessions and gd

Hmm, actually that's a good idea. A simplified system of approving an easy math calculation can be a great replacement for reCaptcha I guess...