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Nice one, very simple, but should be very effective

I have done a similar thing using CakePHP framework. I know it's not the same, but the basics should be, so perhaps this article will help anyway: http://blog.jandorsman.com/2011/01/flux … tegration/

Looking good, love the matching portal and the cool style

Well, I agree with the first reply to that post:

Furthermore if someone would use an upload form to upload a PHP-based file browser, he could access pretty much everything on that server. Not that there really is any "real" security on a shared hosting server on which Apache runs under 1 single user anyway though. That's why I tend to use mod_fcgi wherever possible, it isolates the vhosts from each other by using their own user instead of "apache" or "www-data" for all the vhosts. In that case a 777 chmod is pretty much just a risk for that particular vhost.

Hmm, good point. Guess I need more coffee to start thinking properly again

Hi bgiddins,

That shouldn't be too hard. A small modification to your database and register.php should do that trick for you.
Assuming you're on MySQL (since it's the most popular of the choices), alter your database like this:

ALTER TABLE  `flux_users` ADD  `email_original` VARCHAR( 80 ) NOT NULL AFTER  `email`;

Your prefix might differ (I have flux_ as prefix), so you might need to drop or change that from the query. Next, change your register.php as follows:

Around line 158, FIND:
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        // Add the user
        $db->query('INSERT INTO '.$db->prefix.'users (username, group_id, password, email, email_setting, timezone, dst, language, style, registered, registration_ip, last_visit) VALUES(\''.$db->escape($username).'\', '.$intial_group_id.', \''.$password_hash.'\', \''.$db->escape($email1).'\', '.$email_setting.', '.$timezone.' , '.$dst.', \''.$db->escape($language).'\', \''.$pun_config['o_default_style'].'\', '.$now.', \''.get_remote_address().'\', '.$now.')') or error('Unable to create user', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());

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Then REPLACE with:

        // Add the user
        $db->query('INSERT INTO '.$db->prefix.'users (username, group_id, password, email, email_original, email_setting, timezone, dst, language, style, registered, registration_ip, last_visit) VALUES(\''.$db->escape($username).'\', '.$intial_group_id.', \''.$password_hash.'\', \''.$db->escape($email1).'\', \''.$db->escape($email1).'\', '.$email_setting.', '.$timezone.' , '.$dst.', \''.$db->escape($language).'\', \''.$pun_config['o_default_style'].'\', '.$now.', \''.get_remote_address().'\', '.$now.')') or error('Unable to create user', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());

This will insert an extra field upon registration time in the field email_original. It's value will be static.

True, we always love to see the FluxBB link in the bottom of the boards that use it, but according to the license it's not a requirement.

The report function is meant for reporting inappropriate posts to the board staff. What you want sounds like a PM mod.

Well, most browsers (the decent ones) already have cookie control options. Although the default is to allow everything, you can set to deny all. I actually do this all the time. My browsers always deny all cookies unless I explicitly state otherwise. Same with JavaScript and media elements (like Flash). I would like to be able to decide whether I want this or not.
It might be a bit inconvenient at first, but once you 'trained' your browser to allow what you want, it keeps your PC clean of the cr*p you don't want (Like who really wants cookies from doubleclick or tradedoubler or google analytics and such, I'm not asking for them, so bug off... that's my theory ).

Apart from the viewforum style, it really starts to look like IPB. Nice job there, the default IPB style was pretty neat and your style is starting to look like it quite nicely. Keep it up

Well, yeah but I've only done this for hobby projects, not for paid projects from customers. I couldn't do that And sometimes I do start from scratch and just move the original code to my local dev archive so I can still borrow the 'useful' code from it

Good to hear that everything is working again. And it's no surprise that the host screwed things up with the migration. Luckily they have finally managed to figure that out themselves.

Good luck with your forum and let us know if you need any other help with it.