Problem with backend.php

New Member Joined: Jun 20, 2005 Posts: 18

Hi, I'm running PHP-Nuke 7.6 Patched 3.1 (NSN) on my Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! and it seems to be a problem with de Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login!. I don't understand what this means. Could someone help me to correct this problem? I think it's important to have the posibility of syndicating my news.

Worker Joined: Dec 22, 2005 Posts: 158

Speaking of this, I am also interested in how this works. What does the backend.php file do anyway? Are there some threads about this or documents anywhere? How secure is this, can anyone us the backend to read forum posts?

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

It converts your ultramode.txt file into XML/RSS feed format. So you must be sure to change the perms on ultramode.txt to 666 or 777.

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:27 pm

Yes, now my Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! is OK, but the Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! doesn't work. How to fix it Raven?

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:54 pm

Run this through the RSS validator and then start working at correcting the errors Smile

http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http://nooticias.com/backend.php

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:51 am

Raven wrote:

It converts your ultramode.txt file into XML/RSS feed format. So you must be sure to change the perms on ultramode.txt to 666 or 777.

lol I had to go look up what you said because it was greek to me. So the backend.php file is allowing people to use a news aggregator to get feeds from my main page on my web site? i.e. I create news for the front page, and the text gets written to the ultamode.txt file, and then users can somehow link to my site to get this in a news feed. That's how i am reading it.

So anyone could use this feed without regard to site security? I'm new to this, I apologize.

registered · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:30 pm

Actually ultramode.txt is written seperately from backend.php. The backend.php file will query your database everytime it is accessed.

The feed should be read-only - there shouldn't be a security concern because no one should be inputting to it.

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:39 pm

Ok . . . The part I am not getting is how do I use backend.php? Is that were the news agregator comes in? you configure the software to read this backend.php file and it reads your database, and gives the news reader your forum posts?

I know they are not able to post into it, but I wouldn't want anyone that was not a subscriber using this feed. Sorry if I am missing the point, I truely am very new to this.

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:42 pm

Yes, you need some software to read the RSS feed.

Well to restrict the access, you would need to add some code using the paid() function

Code:




if (paid())


{


...


}

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:45 pm

evaders99 wrote:

Yes, you need some software to read the RSS feed.

Well to restrict the access, you would need to add some code using the paid() function

Code:




if (paid())


{


...


}

Right, in my case I'll be shutting the backend.php off. I'm actually trying to install CM2F and get it working, your answered a post on it earlier, THANKS!

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:18 pm

evaders99 wrote:

Actually ultramode.txt is written seperately from backend.php. The backend.php file will query your database everytime it is accessed.

The feed should be read-only - there shouldn't be a security concern because no one should be inputting to it.

Thanks for calrifying that for everyone. I did a poor job of writing that and made the 2 look dependent. What can I say? I'm old, blind in one eye, suffering from Narcolepsy and Bronchitis, and now have hearing aids. Factor in all the drugs I'm on you should probably just take my keyboard away! Hmmmm - that kind of sounds refreshing ......

registered · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:21 am

Raven wrote:

Hmmmm - that kind of sounds refreshing ......

Don't even think about it... Crying or Very sad

Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:43 am

You do the math killing me

Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:32 pm

I have been testing my Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! with Internet Explorer and there seems to be OK using this browser but the problem with Firefox continues. I don't know why this happens to me Evil or Very Mad

Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 11:11 pm

First of all, IE is NOT a standards compliant browser, so don't ever use it as your base line. Firefox is standard compliant so that's why you see the real issues. You need an add-on to translate XML in FF. Something like Sage or some other XML/RSS feed reader.