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- large commit of everything else that has been queued in my backlog:
  it's not 100% stable yet

- applied David Norman's patch to turn all <?'s into fully qualified
  <?php's.

- various smaller updates before I start watching Formula 1 with [a] a
  0.5 liter box of Haagen-Dhaz (Belgian Choclate) and [b] my laptop on
  my lap for drupal hacking.  Life hardly can get any better than this.

- fixed small translation glitch in format_interval
- added a couple of missing t() functions
- improved the comments module, fixed the score problem Jeroen
  reported earlier -> it's slicker but I hope it won't break anything

- improved RDF backend class to support more backend formats

- More updates on the translation support

- removed all tabs

- removed redundant spaces

- removed redundant options from hostname.conf

I know, I know, it is getting nasty lately but I have another large commit after nothing but code.

This time I redid the "category"-stuff.  Categories - from now on called sections - are now maintained from the admin pages, can have their own post, dump and timout thresholds as discussed earlier (some weeks ago).  By tomorrow evening users will be able to enable or disable section as well - i.e. to customize the content of drop.org.

A batch of patches:

  - configuration:
    + renamed $db_name to $db_user
    + renamed $db_base to $db_name
  - fixed small diary glitch
  - fixed initial-comment-score problem
  - fixed comment rating bug: improved the API and updated the
    themes
  - removed some tabs from Steven ;)
  - fixed backend warnings and improved robustness
    I'm not happy yet with the headline grabber - it generates
    too many SQL errors.
  - some small cosmetic changes in comment.module
  - fixed minor glitch in format_interval()

- fixed bug in hostname.conf

- prepared hostname.conf for public release

- Fixed bug in account.php.
- Updated the documentation (again): I spent most of the day writing
  documentation which might well be considered plain boring.

- a few more updates

Again, a large batch of updates - I'm twisting things around here:

 1. improved .htaccess to be more "secure": to keep prying
    eyes out

 2. rewrote the administration section from scratch using a
    modular approach

 3. improved the information gathered by error.php - we can
    now (hopefully) track what bots are crawling us.

 4. fixed a bug in submit.php, fixed a bug in theme zaphod,
    fixed a bug in theme marvin.

 5. rewrote cron from scratch - it now interfaces with
    modules as it should have been from the beginning.
    Very cool if you ask me - it can use UNIX/Linux
    crontabs.

 6. updated widget.inc to be module aware - needs more
    work though - maybe this afternoon?

 7. updated most modules: small bugfixes, improvements, and
    even the documentation

 8. removed diary.php and made it a module - you can now
    run a drop.org site without a diary system if someone
    would prefer so

 9. updated all themes to use the new modules where
    appropriate

 10. added a robots.txt because the error message in the
     watchdog become annoying.

 11. added the new configuration system (mutliple vhosts
     on the same source tree) - use hostname.conf instead
     of config.inc

 12. removed calendar.inc and made it a module

 13. added format_interval() to functions.inc (UnConeD)

 14. whatever I forgot ...

- large batch of updated files featuring various changes: big, small and
  new stuff!

- changed quite a lot of things around, including small bug fixes (nothing)
  critical and module support.  The faq.php will - for instance - become a
  module

- Redid most of account.php and fixed quite some bugs!
  Check out your new user account stuff and give me some feedback.

  - fixed bug in story section
account.php:
  - removed death code, clean-up, reorganization
  - added "lost password?" functionality
faq.php:
  - clean-up
watchdog.inc:
  - improvements
  - end of input-limit test period
error.php:
  - improvements, still crappy layout though

Another batch with a lot of internal updates, yet no visual changes to the
site:

- watchdog (rewrite):
   + the collected information provides more details and insights
     for post-mortem research
   + input limitation
- database abstraction layer:
   + mysql errors are now verbose and is no longer displayed in a
     browser - fixes a possible security risk
- admin.php:
   + updated watchdog page
   + fixed security flaw
- diary.php:
   + fixed nl2br problem
- themes:
   + fixed comment bug in all 3 themes.
- misc:
   + renamed some global variables for sake of consistency:
      $sitename  -->  $site_name
      $siteurl   -->  $site_url
   + added input check where (a) exploitable and (b) possible
   + added input size check
   + various small improvements
   + fixed various typoes

... and much, much more in fact.

* correct database information

- fixed bug in discussion.php
- theme update: comment() now takes 3 arguments:
    $comment - an object with comment data
    $link    - a link to the reply form of that particular
               comment
    $thread  - the subthread of that particular comment
- theme 'marvin' and theme 'zaphod' are updated, theme
  'unconed' is left to be done

* the correct dbase settings

- Fixed quote bug in the comment tracker.
  (suggestion UnConeD)
- Added anchors to comment links to easy comment navigation.
  (suggestion UnConeD)
- Fixed duplicate `you voted' after moderating a story.
  (suggestion UnConeD)
- Fixed quote bug in administration center.
- Expanded user administration with timezone information.
- Improved the theme system by eliminating the "preview" function.
  Let's not make the system more complex then it ought to be.
- Refined watchdog administration.
- ...

- fixed a bug in check_input: html stripping was not 100% correct.
- fixed a bug in account.php: the confirmation url is now correct.
- improved error checking + security in diary.php.
- fixed a bug in the html code of theme zaphod.
- improved the date handling: always call format_date().
- expanded account information in administration pages.
- added a new variable $siteurl to ./includes/config.inc.
- added comment moderation to theme zaphod.
- "alter table users add timezone varchar(8);"

- !!! added new timezone feature !!! :o)

* Added the MySQL settings for www.drop.org (release preparations).

This significant commit fixes 99% of all known bugs and improves drop.org
by means of better security checks in order to avoid malicious behavior.
In addition, quite some code has been fine-tuned.

However, as a result, every theme will require a small update ...

- small bugfix: the voting settings where not 100% correct

A big, fat commit with a shitload of internal changes.  Not that much
visual changes:

- removed redundant files user.class.php, calendar.class.php
  and backend.class.php.
- converted *all* mysql queries to queries supported by the
  database abstraction layer.
- expanded the watchdog to record more information on what
  actually happened.
- bugfix: anonymous readers where not able to view comments.
- bugfix: anonymous readers could gain read-only access to
  the submission queue.
- bugfix: invalid includes in backend.php
- bugfix: invalid use of '$user->block'

and last but not least:

- redid 50% of the user account system

structure changes, some sections are expanded.  Take a look at the source
code or ask me to elaborate on certain issues/topics.

better theme descriptions so give it a change and post your ideas. (see
config.inc or the "Custumize your page" site.

- Added a basic implementation of comment moderation
- Updated and renamed my 2 themes: I removed redundant boxes and tried to
  work towards simplicity.
- Disabled the other themes as they are broken (I gave you sufficent time
  to update them).
- Removed redundant files.
- Added security checks with regard to the usage of HTML tags.

Various smaller changes: one of the more interesing is the addition of a
check()-function which validates input from forms.  The allowed HTML tags
can be configured in config.inc.

... and the correct MySQL configuration/settings would help us an awful lot ... ;)

A really BIG, BIG UPDATE, after two straight days of nothing but code
and sleep, new stuff is finally in drop.org.  This is a quite large
and wide-ranging update, which affects almost all of the system files
in one way or another.  I fixed quite a lot of bugs and added quite a
lot of new features, mostly administrative tools as these were really
lacking.  It's far from finished but it's a start ...

* Commited a *temporary* version of the new comment system: I have been
  working on it for about 4 a 5 hours today and I considered it would be
  smart (backup- or crash-wise) to commit what I have made so far.  I'm
  aware of a few bugs and I'll keep workin on it:
    - removing bugs
    - clean up the code to make it very streamlined
    - improve error checking
  Once we got a stable comment system, I'll add moderation.  But right
  now I want to sort out the major problems.
* I made my theme the default theme until the other themes are updated.
* Expanded the database abstraction layer with more goodies.