Intelligent Full Screen Button
Mar 03I think it’s a widely known fact that Flash Games are getting bigger. The resolutions are increasing as well as the file sizes. This may pose a problem if you use AV Arcade to manage your arcade sites’ content. The area usable for containing the games in AV Arcade’s default template is about 650px, which is fine for most games. Some other templates, on the other hand, use an...
Disable Post Revisions
Nov 27If you have run a WordPress blog for any length of time, you should know how large the SQL database can get. This is largely due to the “Post Revisions”, which get auto-saved. If you edit a post a few times, a huge list of revisions gets saved to the database. You can see these at the bottom of the post editing page. This post has easy methods to disable and delete the post revisions,...
XSS and web form security
Nov 13There are many instances when user input is needed. But allowing just any code to be passed can cause severe problems and lead to even the most annoying 10 year old script kiddie writing “PWND” all over website! There a are some simple steps which you can take to prevent most of these. This article will go over some of the fundamental XSS attacks and how to stop them. As of 2007,...
PHP Easter Egg
Oct 23It’s nice to see the developers of PHP had some fun while they worked. If you add the code… ?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42 to the end of any URL that is a PHP page, you will see a funny picture on most servers. Also on April 1st (April Fool’s Day), the picture will replace the PHP logo on any phpinfo() page. If the PHP directive expose_php is set to be...
Flash Game Hacked?
Sep 10A friend of mine just sent me the URL to a flash game (for obvious reasons I will not share the link) which is part of a number of games with a price of 10.000 EUR in the end. One would believe that a game with such a price money is secure. Especially when the organising party is an internet provider. But guess what… At the end of the flash game you can optionally submit your score to the...
PHP Detect page to show code
Aug 26I was recently offered an deal by an agency for my Free Online Arcade. I use a PHP and MySQL based content management script called AV Arcade for most of the web site because it saves me hours of programming and design. The were interested in displaying a text advert show near the top of only my home page. I played with the PHP template system for a while, but could not find a clean and simple...