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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:10:25 GMT

e107 community under attack - effective solutions

I decided to write this post because of the large number of forum help requests and accusations against e107 system. Although support team has tried to consolidate the discussion in low number of forum threads (see septor's Consolidated Flood Attack Information) people are still opening new threads which is only increasing the panic.

I often read angry posts of people who are blaming e107 because it can't handle the situation. This is wrong. You would never blame your medical man why he can't invent (develop!) a medicine against your current disease. Don't blame e107 because it's installed on servers which can't handle current bot attacks. Don't search e107/PHP based solution to fight the problem. This won't help.

I spent time to write a detailed information on my blog about server tools which will help to stop attacking bots before they reach your PHP engine. They also should help for finding rootkits already installed on the attacked servers. The information should be used by Dedicated server owners, but it could be pointed to your shared hosting provider if needed. The information I'm providing is based on my experience - number of attacked servers were able to come back in normal working state (no CPU overload, large number of FW blocked IPs).
For those server owners not familiar with server administration, I posted link to a company which offers low cost server configuration service. If you are not experienced enough, you really should look up for a security professionals.
I'm hardly convinced this is the only way we stop the attack against our community.

The whole article - Secure server configuration - stop the madness
Good Luck!

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:34:30 -0500

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:57:13 GMT

Facebook Like v0.6

The plugin renders 'Facebook Like' button with some Open Graph protocol meta properties for single news pages, download pages, and forum thread pages.

With a single click the plugin lets your website users quickly share your content to their facebook walls along with a personalized comment (if XFBML flavour of the button is used).

Tested up to: e107 v0.7.22

It uses the new Facebook Like button released on Apr. 21st 2010 and the Open Graph protocol. The plugin can be configured in the admin area to change the following parameters:

Features

Renders iFRAME or XFBML versions of the button
Asynchronous or Synchronous loading of the Javascript
Button canvas Width/Height adjustments
Button layout (standard or Count Button)
Verb to display (Like or Recommend) configurable
Configurable Fonts
Color Scheme (Light or Dark)
Show thumbnails of Facebook profile pictures
Positioning the button - above or below the content
Button alignment adjustments
Set Margins for the button in individual section (top, bottom, left, right)
Support of the Open Graph protocol (http://opengraphprotocol.org)

Installation

Extract the facebooklike_x.x.zip file (x.x denotes the version number)
Upload the facebook_like directory inside the extracted directory to your e107_plugins folder
Install it in the Plugin Manager
Configure at the configuration page

Known Problems

Auto rendering of XFBML 'like' button will fail most likely in themes that uses theme_foot() function. iFRAME button can be used instead.
Auto rendering of 'like' button for news will fail with themes that uses news_style() function. Themes like 'leaf' uses this function. Use manual method for those themes.
Auto rendering fails in the forum for most of the core themes.

SourceForge.Net Download Mirror
Facebook Like Plugin Download @ SourceForge.Net

To Do

Extent Facebook Like support for other potential plugins (awaiting user suggestions).
Show up a preview of the button realtime in the configuration page as the button get configured.

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:10:24 +0300

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Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:48:28 GMT

1 year.

zFeeder celebrates one year since it's first version.

For all the german speaking people: there is a 3 pages article in INTERNET PROFESSIONELL Magazine, 08/2004, from VNU Business Publications, Deutschland. There is a bigger article dedicated to RSS and zFeeder has an article where it's installing, administering and usage is extensively covered and there is even a short passage about it's wap capabilities. The script is also included on the magazine's listings CD and as far as I know, it's the first magazine to include it on a CD.

Development it's currently on standby, frozen on version 1.6 and will continue as soon as my free time will permit it.

Sun, 12 Sep 2004 08:22:56 -0700

zFeeder 1.6 released

Changes:

- added WAP (wml) support - outputing wml for wap enabled devices;
- fixed a bug when deleting feeds from admin panel, thanks to Felix Rabinovich;
- added alternative login mechanism to admin panel with PHP sessions, thanks to Nicholas from xenomorph.net;
- added a user-agent string for identification when retriving feeds from websites;
- added support for feeds which contain content:encoded items;

Thanks to the people from the forums.

Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:15:55 -0700

zFeeder 1.5 released

zFeeder 1.5 defines a new field for the template files - a header field which is only included once (at the begining) of zFeeder output and fixes some minor bugs:
- infojunkie javascript (contributed by Thomas Churm);
- a problem with the ampersands in the URLs (Steve from www.dreamlab.ca);

Sun, 18 Apr 2004 05:52:11 -0700

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