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[phpWebLog-devel] stuff.

[Jason H. <ope...@ey...>]

The problem with some users not being to login to admin has finally been
solved. I apologize
that so many have had to help troubleshoot/debug this to get it working
on their system. The
problem was a result of ignorance, a huge blunder on my part. 

I was not using php's crypt() correctly AT ALL. Instead of checking for
which encryption methods were
availble of a system, and encrypting accordingly, I was using using the
string "CRYPT_BLOWFISH" as
the salt. Lame eh. I must've been skimming the docs a page a second.
CRYPT_BLOWFISH is a constant
that returns either 0 or 1 depending of whether or not that particular
system supports it. What this was
doing was setting the salt to either 0 or 1. I develop on Linux, which
by default does not support blowfish,
so the default password that was shipped with phpWebLog was set with a
salt of 0. This means that this
would work fine on any system that didn't support blowfish. However, as
I saw more people using BSD
having problems, whala. BSD is well know for their all-encompassing
encryption support. 

I learned my lesson. =] 

Jason

[phpWebLog-devel] Email problem

[Brian K. <bk...@ww...>]

Hi all,

 I'm getting an error when I try to mail an author by clicking on the author
link in an article or comment. (There was an error sending your message.
Please try again. )

 I also notice that some email addresses of authors are getting  encrypted,
whereas others aren't.

Anybody else have similar experiences?

I'm using:

PhpWebLog .2.4
Apache 1.3
MySql 3.22...
PHP 3.0.16
FreeBSD 3.3

Brian

Re: [phpWebLog-devel] Email problem

[jason <ope...@ey...>]

>  I'm getting an error when I try to mail an author by clicking on the author
> link in an article or comment. (There was an error sending your message.
> Please try again. )


This message is the result of php's mail() function.  If it fails for
any reason, phpWebLog will report this error.
The reason it is failing might be because:


>  I also notice that some email addresses of authors are getting  encrypted,
> whereas others aren't.


It might be trying to send mail to an encrypted email address.  This, I
believe is working fine in 0.2.4, but only if you did a clean install,
database and all.  Previous versions did not encrypt the email
addresses, so if you upgraded, and are trying to email one of the older
profile addresses, it may be encrypting for the first time, rather than
unencrypting an already encrypted address. (whew)

This is the first I've heard of this kind of error.  What this an
upgrade or a fresh install (database and all)?

Jason

Re: [phpWebLog-devel] Email problem

[Brian K. <bk...@ww...>]

It was a .2.4 clean install in terms of the files.Some of the data was imported
from before, though. But I seem to get the same error regardless of whether the
email address is encrypted or not.

So if I do another clean install,  does this mean I can't use the old data? This
wouldn't quite be a disaster, but a little inconvenient...There are quite a few
email addresses that are important for what I'm trying to do with my site.

Brian

jason wrote:

> >  I'm getting an error when I try to mail an author by clicking on the author
> > link in an article or comment. (There was an error sending your message.
> > Please try again. )
>
> This message is the result of php's mail() function.  If it fails for
> any reason, phpWebLog will report this error.
> The reason it is failing might be because:
>
> >  I also notice that some email addresses of authors are getting  encrypted,
> > whereas others aren't.
>
> It might be trying to send mail to an encrypted email address.  This, I
> believe is working fine in 0.2.4, but only if you did a clean install,
> database and all.  Previous versions did not encrypt the email
> addresses, so if you upgraded, and are trying to email one of the older
> profile addresses, it may be encrypting for the first time, rather than
> unencrypting an already encrypted address. (whew)
>
> This is the first I've heard of this kind of error.  What this an
> upgrade or a fresh install (database and all)?
>
> Jason
>
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