Today we made small bugfixes. Michael found the stripslashes() function for, of course, stripping the slashes from a PHPstring (as preparation for putting them in plaintext format).

We’re now discussing metatags, used by indexing services like Google apparently, I had no clue coming from under my C(++) stone.

PHP is treating us nicely so far I think, it’s easy to connect to databases, parse strings with RegEx, loop and make simple choices.

Version 2 of .simplicity will have a simpler admin interface (for submitting, deleting and editing posts and comments). This shouldn’t be a difficult task, placing large pieces of code into functions like Michael did with the index should just do the trick.

Writing this, the idea came into my mind, also for v2 of course, to have some sort of “review this” option. It would allow the poster (like me now) to ask for a review from any administrator. I stress allow, it shouldn’t be mandatory for now (that would only be convenient where all the content has to be monitored and quite frankly I trust Michael not to post goatse or 4chan links in here). That would logically need some sort of user system and all that blah blah so we’ll have to give it a bit more thought.

PS: Minor edit. Maurice gave me the tip to switch off magic_quotes. A useless function if you ask me (it can’t protect you from MySQL injection for real). Switching it off killed the need for the earlier mentioned stripslashes().

-Nick