Adventures As Me

Last
time, we discussed the interfaces in cPanel to manage Programming Language
modules, such as PEAR packages. We were left
with this problem:
Once the particular module is installed to
the user’s home directory, it is available for use in his application. However,
the application must be modified, or the environment configured, to inform the
application of the location of these modules.
With [...]

Scripting languages often provide a central location to obtain modules  
for use in user applications. For example, Perl has CPAN and PHP has  
PEAR. cPanel 11 provides an easy to use interface for managing modules  
for Perl, PHP and Ruby, both from WHM and cPanel. In this first of a  
two part series, we cover [...]

One of the problems inherent to using an Apache Module in a shared web hosting environment is the fact Apache modules gain all the permissions of Apache. Hence, using something like PHP as an Apache module can create serious security vulnerabilities. Since the PHP scripts run in the Apache context, users can easily cause problems [...]

Found in bBlog code:

function maketimestamp($day,$month,$year,$hour,$minute)
{
// make timestamp format of YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
$string = $year.$month.$day.$hour.$minute.’00′;
$timestamp = mktime(substr($string,8,2), substr($string,10,2), substr($string,12,2), substr($string,4,2), substr($string,6,2), substr($string,0,4));
return $timestamp;
}

Where in there is the bug? Ok, let me help you. Imagine that somewhere in the bBlog code, maketimestamp function [...]

This past weekend working with the “bBlog”:http://www.bblog.com codebase I was
reminded of an important principle when it comes to multiple developers on one
code base: test your fixes before merging. In trying to fix a problem of spam
html sneaking through comment moderation, I changed a regex to a more
comprehensive expression. However I used single quotes(’) rather than [...]