Back when I was always doing PHP work, even if I was going to be the only one ever using the page, I always sanitized out of habit. I personally feel thats a good thing though
It has lots of so many unwanted features in it that over complicate things. I don't really know how makefiles work I heard about them but I never actually learned to use them. I already had MinGw installed so I decided to use that
Ill look into it as I don't know the use of command prompt nor its features available. Im using command prompt only because I don't wanna use codeblocks nor Visual C++ as its a tough job to get them supporting allegro library and none of their interfaces really suit my needs. I found that Notepad++ was really the easiest for me to use as it didn't have tons of features and it had a larger window for typing code which appealed much more to me.
I did just find 1 potentially site breaking problem.
For the sorting method, I notice you pull the DESC or ASC straight from the URL. This is very dangerous, because (I didn't try anything to break it) I just put a random string in there and it returned a MySQL error, which means that you are putting that string straight into SQL. A better way would be to have maybe order=1 and then use a switch/case statement to say:
switch($_GET['sort']) {
case 1: $order="ASC"; break;
case 2: $order="DESC"; break;
default: $order="ASC";
}
The "onInput" method adds input input processing to an object. The first parameter is the name of the input for reconfiguration (ie. Think "Attack" button or "Cast Spell A"), the second one is which input, in this case, K (keyboard) P (button press) I (the 'I' key on the keyboard), and the third parameter is the code to fire on the object when the input occurs. So off memory, it's like KP (keyboard press) KR (?) (keyboard release), etc. There's also Mouse and Joystick, lol.
I don't think I'm dealing with quite the same pressures though, at the very least its a significantly smaller system. For the time being I'm just going to put together a quick scrubby box though and hope it works good enough to not make my house toxic
I do know this - xenforo dropped the ball by not keeping the vbulletin reputation comments as a feature. The loss of the Reputation comments data when we switched to Xenforo really was the death knell for the site when it came to all the users that left. I know I missed it so much and I got way less interested in the site when that feature was gone and I run the site.