everything seems to be working fine. I wonder what happened.

On both user profiles and the page that displays videos, there's a description of the video when you hover over the preview image and there are backslashes before single quotes.

By the way, I read a few weeks ago that if you see backslashes in phpMyAdmin then you are escaping incorrectly. You should not see any blackslashes in phpMyAdmin and there should be no need to use stripslashes() when you retrieve data from the db because the slashes are stripped after passing through the insert/update query. So what's causing the slashes to be added twice? Magic Quotes. The correct way to escape data is to use get_magic_quotes_gpc() and only escape if magic quotes are disabled. Or you could just disable magic quotes on your server and always escape data yourself... but fortunately magic quotes will be deprecated as of PHP 5.3.0.

Backslashes fixed.

I think I heard about magic quotes before. The concept doesn't make much sense to me. So, if  

get_magic_quotes_gpc()==true

, then it's as if all of the variables added to my query strings were filtered by  

mysql_real_escape_string()

?  

Magic quotes is explained here: http://php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.php

It was made to help beginners write better, more secure code but apparently people are more educated on SQL injection now so it's deprecated in newer versions of PHP. Yeah, pretty much. All HTTP request data gets backslashes added. It is not good to rely on magic quotes, though.

Here's an example of checking for magic quotes:

That's how it should be at least if you're going to distribute scripts out because different servers have different settings.

I found a bug that if you post this: in the chatbox, it hides it in the spoiler and makes in move in a marque, it's actually kinda funny.

EDIT: It has to be a link for it to work.

Yeah, the bug is that you're using internet explorer.

Nope, I'm using Firefox, I would never use internet explorer, and like I said, you have to put in a link.

Okay, so where's the bug?

This is what I mean:

Just put a space after the link.

I know, but I would like to have this fixed.

It's hilarious.

It's not really a bug. Trust me, Livio will post here "lol that's just the censors overriding." Fixing that would be pretty hard and marquee is for trolls, anyway.

Well I just feel like saying : m : and : / m : in my posts to get peoples attention.

Why is the bottom page number selection of this thread italicized?

Probably because quoting a spoiler containing a link in a marquee tends to screw things up. The quote italicizes the text and either the spoiler or the marquee makes sure it doesn't stop.

1. On the homepage, under "Competitions and Tournaments", if you click the name of a game that the comp is running for, it says "Error: Game does not exist."

2. I remember a long time ago I told you about a way to inject HTML into level codes and you fixed that. Well on that page where you enter levels for comps, it has the textarea, and that textarea can still have HTML injected into it so use htmlspecialchars() there.

3. If you run a search in the level database and you change the HATPC options to either only glitched caves or no glitched caves and change nothing else then you get a MySQL error when performing the search.

4. The "About the Interguild" page has a broken link to the Aeon Discussion Board.

5. That Interguild BBCode page has some errors.

1. Fixed

2. That's not much of a problem because you're the only one who would be able to see that. Unless maybe you collabed with someone...

3. Yeah that's been annoying me for some time now. Fixed.

4. Fixed.

5. I got rid of the duplicated Underline text, but I really don't feel like adding the latest bbcode tags....

You know how I like to complain about the Private Messages page to as the worst-coded page on the site? The level database is easily in second place...

For the URL tag, you are closing it with [/size] when it should be [/url].

I concluded from random exploiting that the following must be terrible code: http://www.interguild.org/videos/viewcat.php?cat=search&show=results&vidtitle=&titlesearch=partial&category=&game=&sortby=time&sortorder=desc&page=10&author[]=canadianstickdeath&lengthsearch=&lengthmin=00&lengthsec=00&datetime=before&year=&month=&day=

??? ^ That's a bug. Remember that CSS I sent you that would word wrap? Use it on the forums...

Wow Haily beats me again, with the video archive pages...

would that interfere with [code] blocks?

is there a reason that the burrom of the page is in italics for me? MOD POWERS: etc, and the page number, and the forum index < the interguild board, and the post: BBCode? and the Folt color: etc. are all italics. why?

Probably that.