Abeon Tech

If 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, which are automatically cached by Wordpress.

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There 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.

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It’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 “off” in php.ini, then the PHP eggs will not show, but it is “on” by default, and many webhosting servers do not change it.

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A 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.

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I 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 way to insert the code into the page (As the whole site is one PHP page, modulated).

Instead of adding functions and inclusions in several files of the AV Arcade template system, I needed an easier way to include the advert on one page only.

After asking the great font of all knowing (google) then playing with the code a little, I came up with this…

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