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pel

Feb 15 2005, 02:34 PM

Sent the emails below to "support@hostony.com" on 1st and 10th February. Todate, I heard nothing from you guys. I must say that your support is really extremely poor.

Are you able to help or not, or do I have to deal directly with phpBB?

Thanks.

----- Original Message -----
To: "Support" <support@hostony.com>
Sent: Thursday, 10 February 2005 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: Forum Error

> Resending...

----- Original Message -----
To: "Support" <support@hostony.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 01 February 2005 11:16 PM
Subject: Forum Error

> Hi,
>
> There is a problem with my phpBB forum on Sengkang.com:
> Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting
> ']' in /home/sengkang/public_html/forum/viewtopic.php on line 487
>
> Are you able to help?
>
> Thanks,

Alexandre

Feb 15 2005, 03:58 PM

I think you should upgrade your phpBB forum.
Give me please the link to this forum.
Thank you beforehand.

pel

Feb 15 2005, 04:21 PM

Thanks Alex for replying so soon (relatively speaking... seems that I should communication via this forum in future).

As requested:
http://www.sengkang.com/forum/

It was working well for VERY long, until recently. Not sure what is the cause...

Alexandre

Feb 15 2005, 05:37 PM

I see no errors here:
forum

Give me please the link where you got the error.
Thank you.

peteT

Feb 15 2005, 06:03 PM

QUOTE(Alexandre @ Feb 15 2005, 10:07 PM)

I see no errors here:
forum

Give me please the link where you got the error.
Thank you.

dig a little deeper.

You see that every topic gives the same error...
go here and click on any message

http://www.sengkang.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ']' in /home/sengkang/public_html/forum/viewtopic.php on line 487

bgp1

Feb 15 2005, 06:26 PM

I see it. Have you added any mods at any time or modified the board at any point in time? Have you recently tried to upgrade the board? It looks like its probably just a missing semicolon or tick mark. Why don't you open that file in some text editor and give us that line of code along with a few lines above and below it. Post that, then we can probably see the error.

Alexandre

Feb 15 2005, 06:45 PM

I have fixed the bug a few seconds ago

It's really working now
http://www.sengkang.com/forum/viewtopic.php

Thank you bgp1

pel

Feb 16 2005, 03:05 PM

Thanks.

Perhaps you could share with us what exactly happened, and what did you do to fix it.

Alexandre

Feb 16 2005, 04:52 PM

This security hole is easy to fix:

Open viewtopic.php in any text editor. Find the following section of code:
Code:

QUOTE

//
// Was a highlight request part of the URI?
//
$highlight_match = $highlight = '';
if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['highlight']))
{
// Split words and phrases
$words = explode(' ', trim(htmlspecialchars(urldecode($HTTP_GET_VARS['highlight']))));

for($i = 0; $i < sizeof($words); $i++)
{

and replace with:
Code:

QUOTE

//
// Was a highlight request part of the URI?
//
$highlight_match = $highlight = '';
if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['highlight']))
{
// Split words and phrases
$words = explode(' ', trim(htmlspecialchars($HTTP_GET_VARS['highlight'])));

for($i = 0; $i < sizeof($words); $i++)
{

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