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 ...

- a first file which uses blobs - as a test/debug case

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

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.

- 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

- 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)

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 ...

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

Changelog
---------
- improved the user information page.
- improved the story submission page.
- fixed comments score bug: '.00' --> 'x.00'
- tried fixing the calendar wrapping - UnConeD, is it fixed now?
- provided a link back to the submission queue after having voted
  for a story.
- fixed comment subject bug (and security flaw) by replacing
  quotes by ".
- updated theme 'zaphod': fixed 2 bugs.
- updated theme 'marvin': fixed 1 bug and improved the layout so
  things wrap (hopefully) better in Windows.
- comments have by default no subject pre-set - if no subject is
  provided, the user is warned and when a comment eventually got
  submitted without a subject, a subject is composed using the x
  first characters of the comment's body.
- improved comments on submit.php
- corrected a typo in the FAQ.

UnConeD
-------
- replace 'article.php' by 'discussion.php'
- comment() still uses old references to account.php: the
  parameters you supply to account.php does no longer hold.
  You have to update those links to the new syntax.
- commentcontrol() is outdated - copy paste the one of
  theme 'marvin' and adjust it to your likings.

- 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.

Over the last 2 days I redid and reorganized an afwul lot of code and
made quite a lot of additions.   The most remarkable addition is the
diary server, which I slapped together in less then 40 minutes.   Most
of the other changes are however `unvisible' for the user but add much
value to a better maintainability from a developer's objective.  Like
always, I fixed quite a number of small bugs that creeped into the code
so we should have a bigger, better and more stable drop.org.

Unfortunatly, some theme update _are_ required:


REQUIRED THEME UPDATES:
=======================

* use format_username() where usernames are used
* use format_date() where timestamps/dates are used
* use format_email() where e-mail addresses are displayed
* use format_url() where url are displayed
* replace 'formatTimestamp' with format_date
* replace 'morelink_*' with 'display_morelink'

[most of these functions are in function.inc or template.inc]

___PLEASE___ (<- this should get your attention ;) update your themes
as soon as possible - it only takes 30 min. to get in sync with the
other themes.  Don't start whining about the fact you don't know what
to change ... either eat the source cookie, or ask me to elaborate on
a few changes.  Just let me know what's puzzling you and I'll try to
help you out!


TODO LIST FOR NEXT WEEK
=======================
* Add checks for max. text length in textarea's?  Is there an HMTL
  attribute for this or ...?
* Comment moderation + mojo
* Edit/admin user accounts: block, delete, change permissions, ...
* E-mail password, change password, change e-mail address -> extra
  checks and routines to validate such `special' changes.
* Input checking - input filter: bad words, html tags, ...

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 ...

* Just a quick test

* Fixed 2 small bugs in submit.php reported by Pepijn (kangaroot.net).

Updates:
--------

* URI/URL enhancements to make the URLs more comprehensive and shorter.
* Fixed a bug in submit.php that slipped in during the latest commit.
* Changed a few tidbits on the calendar.
* Fixed a bug in most themes:
    $tid       --> $cid
    COUNT(tid) --> COUNT(cid)
  Updated most themes except for UnConeD's.
* Fixed a handful of problems with Jeroen's theme.  However, Jeroen's
  theme is still not working yet - some features are completly missing,
  making the theme not very useful ...

Any known bugs left?  If not, I'll head on tonight and add some new
features.  I'll probably add basic admin tools to edit articles and
such.  Once done, we can start on the comment moderation.

Bugfixes:
  (1) fixed SQL bug in search.php.
  (2) fixed SQL bug in discussion.php.
  (3) fixed theme-bug in submit.php.
  (4) fixed theme-bug in discussion.php.
  (5) fixed Dries2-theme: it more or less works now though
      I still have to change the look/layout.

Important:
  (3) and (4) did fix the i-suddenly-seem-to-log-out behavior.

* Various small bugfixes and enhancements: I think I fixed all bugs I
  knew about.
* The code generated by my theme `Dries' is now 90% of the time
  aligned correctly. :o)

IMPORANT - IMPORTANT - :)
=========================

Wulp.  I did a major upgrade by (a) breaking a lot of stuff and (b) by
re-doing those things in a much better way.  I redesigned the stories
and submissions SQL tables, the way they work and the way they co-
operate together.

In addition, I changed the way parameters are passed to
$theme->abstract() and $theme->article().  Instead of passing a
sh!tload of parameters that only cluttered the code and required too
much pre-processing on the engine-side, we now pass a singly object
$story.  $story has more variables then the paramaters we used to pass,
so it allows for better theming (if you feel like it).

I'm not finished yet but I decided to upload my changes so you can
start patching and updating your themes: PLEASE update your themes
ASAP!  I don't plan making heavy changes like this again, so don't
get intimiated. ;)  You mainly have to update article() and abstract()
as well as a minor update of footer():

article(), abstract():
----------------------
 - use the $story object - see my theme!
 - the morelink can now be themed.  Currently you can use the function
   morelink_bytes() in function.inc to `render' the old morelink.  The
   idea is to make a morelink_words() or morelink_lines() sooner or
   later because "188 bytes in body" is not half as clear as "52 words
   in body".  Clearly, "52 words" is much more informative. ;-)

footer():
---------
 - in the article-part, you need to update the displayRelatedLinks():
   instead of passing it $sid, you need to pass it $story (after you
   globaled $story).

Everything should display correct on the following pages:
 - main page
 - article page (follow a `read more | xxx bytes in bdoy | x comments' link)
 - submission queue
Check if they work with your theme: they should as they work fine for
me (theme `Dries') ...  If you got stuck, just look at my theme or ask
for a hand on the list!


Hopefully you can update your themes asap.  Thanks in advance.

Here we go again with a rather large commit:
fixed a lot of annoying bugs and boxed whatever there was left to be boxed.

 * user.class.php: renamed $user->update() to $user->rehash().
 * user.class.php: fixed a typical quote-bug in $user->rehash().
 * functions.inc: fixed bug in displayOldHeadlines().
 * functions.inc: improved several functions.
 * account.php: fixed major bug in showUser().
 * account.php: added some extra words to the human-readable
                password-generator(tm).
 * account.php: boxed ALL functions! Fieuw!
 * submit.php: add some general information and guidlines on how to
               post submissions.
 * config.inc: re-thought the categories to be more generic.
 * submission.php: minor changes
 * search.pph: fixed minor bug with the author's names.

Woops.  I have an exam within 4 hours: back to my books. ;-)

--------------------------------------------------------------------

 * Anyone could check sumbit.php, sumbission.php and faq.php for
   typoes?
 * Anyone could adjust calendar.class.php to fit IE?  *huh*huh*
 * Don't be scared to hack along (see below)!  I'll be working on
   the submissions and comments.

--------------------------------------------------------------------

Status of drop v0.10:
(make the system erational' and release it.)

  - submissions:
      submission queue         (75% complete)
      submission moderation    (75% complete)
  - comments:
      comment moderation       ( 0% complete)
      comment administration   ( 0% complete)
      fixup timestamp mess     ( 0% complete)
  - user system:
      mail password            ( 0% complete)
      user administation       (50% complete)
      patch admin.php          ( 0% complete)
      account confirmation     ( 0% complete)
      e-mail confimation upon modification of e-mail address
                               ( 0% complete)
  - proper handling of forms: text2html, html2text
      html2txt, txt2html       (10% complete)
      bad-word filter          (80% complete)
      automatic link detection ( 0% complete)
      allowed HTML-tag checker ( 0% complete)
  - FAQ:
      cleanup, disclaimer      (50% complete)
  - theme:
      box everything          (100% complete)

* Boxed submit.php - whew, it's a pain to edit all those print statements.
* Fixed quite a lot of HTML-bugs in the HTML code generator and cleaned up
  the generated coded quite a lot.

=> much better now :)

Hoeray!  I have a first core version of submission moderation up and
running.  This means people can submit stories, and moderators can
moderate stories.  When a submission reaches a certain positive
threshold (currently set to 2) the submission becomes a story and up
it goes.   If a submission reaches a certain negative threshold
(currently set to -2) the submission is dumped.

The fact this is all done by our visitors (without our intervention)
makes it truly spiffy imho.  The website can live a life on it's own,
fed by the visitors.

Beware, a lot of work need to be done though ... it's just a first
basic implementation with the core functionality.  There are quite
a lot of things that I'll need to change, extend and improve.  But
comments, suggestions and ideas are - as always - welcomed.

Please read this log message carefully!  It features quite a lot of
important information.

To test the moderation, log in, select theme 'Dries' (the other themes
need a small update) and head by clicking the one and only 'submission
moderation' link.  Don't be afraid to submit lame/funny/useless
stories for testing purpose ... as soon we go public, we'll wipe out
the story database.  ;-)


WHAT'S NEW?
-----------
* Added 2 new operations to user.class.php to set and retrieve the
  user's "history".  Very evil but required to avoid people voting
  twice.
* Moved dbsave() from account.php to functions.php.  In addition, I
  added a new function to user.class.php called `save()' that ...
  well, saves the object back to the database.  It's (IMHO) a better
  approach compared to dbsave(): it keeps things organized. ;-)


BUGFIXES:
---------
* Fixed a (heavy) memory leak in the constructor of user.class.php:
  mysql_fetch_array() returns an _associative_ array which made the
  constructor `pollute' the object with a lot of useless variables.
* Fixed the slash-problem on the account pages. :-)
* Fixed UnConeD's theme glitch, alas the warning.
* Fixed the e-mail address not showing in the confirmation email
  (upon registration).
* Fixed the typical quote and backslash problems in submit.php.
* submit.php now uses the database abstraction layer.

IMPORTANT:
----------
* You can check the new submission system at:
    http://beta.drop.org/submission.php
  or by following the `submission moderation' link from my theme.
* UnConeD, Jeroen: you'll need to update your themes to take
  advantage of the new function: displayAccount().  This function
  will display the `submission moderation' link when a user is
  logged on.
* Natrak: you might want to apply the patches in user.class.php
  on the other sites using the same user-system.

* Bugfix: the `story submission'-form is no longer toasted due to the new
  user system.

;)