The Hacking Standard (idea)

[dymo]

this is probably one of the best ideas i have seen, but i see a few major draw backs on it. Firstly for php to be able to open, read , compare, and then write and save the changes to a file it has to have the permissions, i think this would be a major no no if people want to maintain secured servers, i would never mark everyone of my files as 777 and writeable. However this would be very easily doable thru a vb application done on the cleints machice before the upload the files, probably would only take a few hours to write a program up to do this. But you would need full community support and vbulletin support to do it. The Vbulletin source would have to be commented with "section" markers
ie
//%orginal content// (start)
//%%orignal content// (end)

//+%new content// (modified start)
//+%%new content//(modfied end)

but both the Vb developers would have to adopt that standard as would all the hack developers.

as I would see it, you would always need three copies of the board source on a client machine to do it

the original, your modified source, and the update source

first step would compare the currently used against the original and note the changes, then compare the original to the new update, and then find and match the first set of changes into the updated version.

its actually quite simple and would be easy to do, but the problem is getting everyone to use the same standards.

i have even considered the guy you modify the original queries would could have a set of markers for that as well.

if the vb staff is interested seriously i think I could come up with a viable and usable demo of the visual basic app this weekend.

dymo