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Yeah the email and website fields each have their own very complex validation functions and I checked that they don't validate foreign characters. Although as I understand it email and website addresses will be unicode some day.
I found that utf-8 will be native in PHP 6 on the page that you linked.
I'm really glad that the Web Resources Depot decided to feature Commentics. Have you seen my blog entry about how many visitors it resulted in?
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Do you mind me asking why you need a comments script, and why it needs to be utf-8?
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Quote:Although as I understand it email and website addresses will be unicode some day.
I hope that day doesn't come before it's time. The web's a nightmare for developers as it is.
Yes, I have seen the blog entry. Other sites have started featuring it too. The forum seems to be growing a little too.
Quote:Do you mind me asking why you need a comments script, and why it needs to be utf-8?
Why I need a comment script? For comments, of course. Why utf-8? There's a chance that the website I'm developing will have comments in Russian. I'll show you the website when it's done.
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Silly question I suppose
I think I just meant what will people be commenting on.
I agree, unicode email and website addresses will cause total chaos!
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Most people will be commenting on blogs. Others will be as reviews, and others will be of products. That's what comment scripts are usually for. I'll be using mine a little differently though. Won't be anything special, just to see people's opinions.
How's the progress on v1.1? Anything else you plan on adding?
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Well I'm going to sort out the field validation regarding utf-8 today. That should complete the change to utf-8. I have added code to the upgrade process to convert existing tables.
The only other thing I want to do is to add an option to enable/disable the referrer check as it's clear that it's causing problems in some cases. I haven't decided yet whether it will be enabled by default.
There is nothing else that I plan to add. I'm hoping to release the v1.1 beta early next week.
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The referrer check should be left in there. As soon as they set up the comment script correctly, it shouldn't bother anyone. And about the moderator thing...
Yes, I can edit and delete posts, see.
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Well I'd like to add it as an option but I will make it enabled by default.
What options do you have now? Can you edit and delete posts?
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I'm a mod now! I can edit, delete posts, close, stick threads, log IP's, etc. Thanks. Any guidelines I must follow?
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Just common sense. Oh and I don't like closing threads unless it's really necessary.
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