Category Archives: MyBB

Safe PHP expressions in templates

In regards to my PHP in Templates MyBB plugin, I’ve been thinking of the possibility of using “safe expressions”, that is, allowing <if> conditionals without allowing admins to enter in “undesirable” PHP. I came up with an idea yesterday, which I’m giving a shot at. Basically, there’s probably only two main types of undesirable code: [...]

XThreads v1.2 Released

As mentioned earlier, this plugin was due for an update after I did an update to my Soft Delete plugin.  I got around to finally pushing out an update last night, after pretty much spending a whole day bug testing & fixing, and finding even more bugs – I even managed to stumble on a [...]

Forum Signature Link Spammers

Update: WTF?  Seems that spammers are targeting this post.  Comments disabled.  Ha! what are you gonna do now? For forum admins out there, you may have noticed some “people” who register and make a few retarded posts (showing little intelligence) but with links in their signatures. Clearly, these links are what admins would call spam, [...]

Reverse custom MyCode parser

Decided to try writing a basic inverse preg_replace today, knowing that it would be impossible to make a “perfect” algo. Potentially a number of uses for such, though I’m currently thinking along the lines of a WYSIWYG editor for MyBB (dunno if I’ll make one).  Well, I’ve gone around to making a basic one, which, [...]

Soft Delete v1.2

Last night, I updated my Soft Delete plugin for MyBB.  One of the most fiddly plugins I’ve wrote, it mainly includes some fiddly fixes with counters.  Had to add a new deleted thread/post count to fix up pagination displays, which I didn’t think of in earlier versions, so requires a number of changes.  Other main [...]