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Malachai informed me tonight that he finally fixed the weird-ass Dashboard styling glitches that made the Wordpress interface so difficult to use for several months, which makes it much less painful for me to post random (tangentially tech-related) crap once again. Yes, we can has more typewriter. =P
I’ve just had my first experience programming in PHP. What was it, you ask? Well, about six months or so ago, I created a World of Warcraft Private Server on my computer, using a piece of software called MaNGOS. The “Massive Network Game Object Server.” MaNGOS uses MySQL to store all of it’s data.
One problem. The only way to create/delete accounts, or to change the passwords, is to either directly manipulate the SQL using something like SQLYog, or to use the server window to issue Admin-level commands to the server. That was unacceptable. There are also no good PHP frontends for MaNGOS, to do this for you. So, in my infinite wisdom, I decided that I would create my own. I created a HTML/PHP/MySQL script that, when used correctly, is able to create/delete/ and change the passwords of accounts.
Eventually, I will set it up to sanitize the database inputs, so that malicious code can’t be run using it, and then I will post it up here, so that anyone else who cares to create a MaNGOS server won’t have to deal with all the crap that I have.
Heya all. Look at the addressbar. Look again. Notice anything different? Notice it doesn’t say ‘rivalsfantasygames.com/icanhastypewriter’ anymore? It now says ‘www.icanhastypewriter.com’. Ain’t that just grand!? Over the last few days, I’ve migrated the databases and files over to this server, which it just so happens, is OUR server! We now have our own hosting for this blog, so that we no longer have to piggy-back off of someone else. What’s quite funny is, the hosting we had, was costing our benefactors money. We now have the same hosting, but it’s provided for free by GoDaddy.