After using the Webdigity Webmaster forums for supporting webmasters which are using the PHP classes and scripts provided on finalwebsites.com a new forum is created. The owner of finalwebsites.com has created a new support forum on his own domain. With this new part of the website it would be easier to provide new information to existing users (release notes, update information) and to help users with the scripts and classes.

People need to register only ones at finalwebsites.com to download the PHP classes and to get help via the forum while using the scripts. It’s not the idea to create a new PHP forum, but to offer an easy and fast way to provide information on the right place. (more…)

Today our partner site finalwebsites.com has announced an important update for the Access_user class. The update is a security update to make the script more safe against computer hacker. While there is not really a problem for existing, working applications, it’s advised to update applications very soon.

The release information:

This is an important (security related) update, in previous versions hackers can guess common and repeating passwords from user. While the “forgotten password” function was based on the password and the user id, it could be possible to change the password for some user (if the hacker knows the users id and the right password). The risk is not very high for most installations but could be work out some trouble. The new version doesn’t use the password for validation anymore. The login name (encrypted) is used together with some “secret” secret string. AU class user can replace the class file but need to update the method calls in the activate password script. You need to add the constant variable SECRET_STRING to the db_config.php file.

Download the updated version from the PHP class here.

For further questions about the class post them to the official support forum.

Today finalwebsites.com announced the release of the Attachment Mailer class version 1.2. This release is the first mature version of this e-mail script featuring:

• HTML mail with inline images
• Alternative text version (for clients doesn’t except html mail)
• E-mail address validation (testing against a regular expression and MX records)
• Multiple attachments (inline and attached)
• Support for multiple clients (tested with Gmail, Outlook (Express), Hotmail, Firebird)
• …

The PHP class is released with a BSD type license and can be downloaded here.

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