Browsing by date plugin

bleveck · 2004-06-20 20:48:55

Yeah… I had the same problem. I used the date aware articles but the month list was not working. It may be that your host does not support register_globals on (this was my problem). The month list plugin relies on that. Many hosts don’t allow register_globals on because there is a security vulnerability associated with it. I talked to the kolonel and he said he’ll probably rewrite the plugin to not rely on it.

mrpunkin · 2004-06-20 21:18:17

Is there a way to turn it on? I run my own server in house but am not too savvy with that stuff.

bleveck · 2004-06-20 22:52:07

Sure. I think you could just enable it in your php configuration or if you use apache, you can use an .htaccess file with the command: php_flag register_globals on. I don’t know your server setup, but you can find this sort of information very easily with a google search.

Remember though, it opens up a security vulnerability whereby people can start sending certain php commands to your website. There is supposedly a security modifcation to counter this, but I don’t know what that is. I’m still new at this sort of thing myself, and I don’t run my own server. Ideally, programmers wouldn’t rely on register_globals being on, but the reality is they do. So its a matter of doing the above, or rewriting the scripts.

mrpunkin · 2004-06-20 23:19:41

maybe ill just wait then ;)

ubernostrum · 2004-06-22 01:41:30

bleveck:

The problem with having register_globals on is that you have to be very, very careful with all your variables, because you never know where they’re coming from. Suppose, for example, that you have a very rudimentary CMS which, internally, decides what page to serve based on a variable named $file; whatever file’s name is in that variable, the CMS will include and serve. With register_globals on, someone could type the following URL:

http://yoursite.com/index.php?file=/etc/passwd

and your CMS would serve up your server’s password file. That’s an exaggerated example, but when you have register_globals on, any variable you use could, without your knowledge, be overwritten to a possibly malicious value by a well-constructed GET or POST request. With register_globals off, that isn’t possble; the above URL wouldn’t set the variable $file, it’d set the variable $_GET['file'] and your CMS wouldn’t hand over any passwords. So if you don’t know what you’re doing (and even, in a lot of cases, if you do) it’s a good idea to turn off register_globals.

bleveck · 2004-06-22 01:52:08

Wow… thanks ubernostrum. That was surprisingly clear.

CellarFloor · 2004-06-22 02:02:32

A question about <txp:akw_article_date_aware /> when the next month rolls around will my homepage be blank because there are no articles from that month? is there a way I can set it to just display the last 20 articles regardless of date, and if date is specified in a get request have it go by that instead?

philippo · 2004-06-22 21:32:49

thekolonel,

do you think the register_globals fix is going to be a difficult one?

thekolonel · 2004-06-23 19:56:51

Shouldn’t be too hard. I’ll crank it out sometime this week.

mrpunkin · 2004-06-28 23:01:27

Any updates?

thekolonel · 2004-06-29 19:25:03

New version’s up. Let me know if those of you on TextDrive still have problems. Grab the new archive plugin as well if you’re using that.

pynchon · 2004-06-30 14:10:34

Hello, sorry, but I’m totally new at this. This is my first time ever using a plugin. If anyone could provide help or point me in some direction, I’d really appreciate it.

My steps:

1) I installed the two plug-ins from thekolonel: akw_archive and akw_date_aware. I then clicked on their active columns so that it now reads “Yes”

2) Next I made a new archives section and replaced the <txp:article /> in the center with <txp:akw_article_date_aware />.

This is as far as I got. What am I missing?

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