I had a few people ask me when the Arcade Mod would be finished.

I work on it randomly and feel that it should not take priority over the PHP 8 update, I will be consumed by this update for a little while.

Every once in a while I take a break from updating and work a little bit on the templates and I even fixed the Arcade Tweaks module that was broken a few days ago.

The Arcade Mod is fixed and functional, I just need to finish the theme templates for additional themes and make an update pak for new themes.

When I am doing updates occasionally when I go through the code as closely as I have been, it is inevitable that I am going to see things that need to be fixed. I always fix them and get sidetracked doing it...

I have fixed numerous things that I did not even know were a problem until I skipped over them in the code.

Yesterday I realized that the Blog system never had the right time but always had the right date when posting a Blog. It turned out an old function from Evo was the culprit, one that ReOrGaNiZaTiOn wrote many years back. I was making my work harder than it needed to be. In PHP, there are now many date-handling functions which means I don't have to treat dates like strings anymore. So, rather than him testing input dates and making sure they were in the right format, I just decided to insist on the correct format, the right way after hours of overlooking the obvious. Needless to say, I fixed it!

While I was fixing that, I realized that if you do not select a topic it would throw an exception, so I fixed that. I added an Error Function specifically for the Blog system.

I realize now more than ever, there needs to be a Question 2 Answer system. I'm not sure who asked about that a while back but I will make that happen soon and it is a much-needed module that currently does not exist.

I also thought maybe I would add a bridge system into the code so that we can use anything we like with the current build. I think I will build a check bridge! It will scan the database for certain tables and if it sees them it will activate the bridge automatically.

I am also going to put in a theme bridge that will scan every theme for version information. It is possible to make any theme from any software work on the Fly!

I can do just about anything and as I am going through all the code it seemed to spark a bazillion ideas!

I will post more later, you all have a great evening.

Data Scientist / Programmer   name: Ernest Allen Buffington   email: ernest.buffington[at]gmail.com   www: https://theghost.86it.us   github: https://github.com/ernestbuffington

ZF1 Future - Zend Framework

Copyright © 2005-2021 Zend Technologies Inc.

We have done some research and are still doing research and it appears there is a group called ZF1 Future that intends to continue the legacy of Zends original framework.

Zend Framework 1 is now for PHP 8.1!

Classic ZF1 Reborn

Zend may have abandoned the original Zend Framework, but the global Zend Framework Community has not! Since Zend sentenced ZF1 to EOL, the Zend Framework community around the globe has continued to work and build on what we consider to be one of the best PHP frameworks of all time.

ZF1-Future Sponsors

Products and Projects built with ZF1-Future:

Creators of the Tiger Development Platform featuring ZF1-Future

Creators of CommunityPlus+ PHP for IBM i featuring ZF1-Future

Creators of PHP-Nuke Titanium featuring ZF1-Future

ZF1 is Now Version 1.21!

Over 200 updates and bug fixes since 1.12!

The ZF1 community has been hard at work updating Zend Framework with all of the latest features of PHP 8 and 8.1.

Documentation

New ZF1-Future Manual: ZF1-Future Docs

Data Scientist / Programmer   name: Ernest Allen Buffington   email: ernest.buffington[at]gmail.com   www: https://theghost.86it.us   github: https://github.com/ernestbuffington

Current Developer Support:

FROM:
PHP 5.4 for porting only.
PHP 5.5 for porting only.
PHP 5.6 for porting only.
PHP 7.0 for porting only.
PHP 7.1 for porting only.
PHP 7.2 for porting only.
PHP 7.3 for porting only
PHP 7.4 for porting only

TO:
PHP 8.1.14 for current development.
OR
PHP 8.2 for advanced current development.

PHP 8 has been here for a little while now. It was released on November 26, 2020. This will introduce some breaking changes, as well as lots of new features and performance improvements.

Because of the breaking changes, there's a higher chance you'll need to make some changes in your code to get it running on PHP 8. If you've kept up to date with the latest releases though, the upgrade shouldn't be too hard, since most breaking changes were deprecated in the PHP 7. x versions.

Besides breaking changes, PHP 8 also brings a nice set of new features such as the JIT compiler, union types, attributes, and more.

Data Scientist / Programmer   name: Ernest Allen Buffington   email: ernest.buffington[at]gmail.com   www: https://theghost.86it.us   github: https://github.com/ernestbuffington

PHP-Nuke Titanium BlackJack Theme v1.0
Created: December 12/02/2022 by Ernest Allen Buffington
Author: Ernest Allen Buffington of The 86it Developers Network

The name of our new theme is BlackJack and was written and designed by Ernest Allen Buffington.

Main Developers

• Ernest Allen Buffington (main designer and coder)
• Bob Marion (programmer/designer)
• Sebastian Buffington (concept designer)

Contributors

• coRpSE
• TheMortal
• Lonestar
• SgtLegend
• Technocrat
• Eyecu
• Wolfstar

Data Scientist / Programmer   name: Ernest Allen Buffington   email: ernest.buffington[at]gmail.com   www: https://theghost.86it.us   github: https://github.com/ernestbuffington

We just upgraded MariaDB from Version: 5.5.5-10.2.44 to Version: 5.5.5-10.3.37

This message is for the PHP-Nuke Titanium admins that have cPanel access. 

The revision number links will take you to the revision's page on GitHub. On GitHub you can view more details of the revision and view diffs of the code modified in that revision.

• Includes all fixes from MariaDB 10.2.44
• Revision #3303748fd1 2022-11-02 12:49:24 +0100
  • MDEV-29926: ASAN heap-use-after-free in Explain_query::Explain_query
• Revision #278fbe61d8 2022-10-26 10:14:34 +0200
  • Add skipped changes to oracle mode parser.
• Revision #fa5f26b422 2022-09-22 15:13:22 +0100
  • MDEV-29578 Fix CONNECT build warnings
• Revision #055cb3fcd1 2022-10-22 23:08:06 -0400
  • Rocksdb: Add initial OpenBSD support
• Revision #77951dd710 2022-10-25 23:48:54 +0400
  • MDEV-26161 crash in Gis_point::calculate_haversine
• Revision #e910dff81e 2022-10-25 21:21:19 +0200
  • MDEV-26161 crash in Gis_point::calculate_haversine
• Revision #72e79eaaf3 2022-10-25 20:24:11 +0200
  • cleanup: put casts in a separate statement
• Revision #1ff476b415 2022-09-12 14:39:12 +0200
  • MDEV-29490 Renaming internally used client API to avoid name conflicts
• Revision #32158be720 2022-10-21 19:50:07 +0200
  • MDEV-29811 server advertises ssl even if it's unusable.
• Revision #34ff5ca895 2022-10-24 15:52:29 +0200
  • MDEV-28701 Update 10.3 HELP tables
• Revision #4fd6dd2d3b 2022-10-12 15:59:46 +0200
  • MDEV-29748 ASAN errors or server crash in File_parser::parse upon concurrent view operations
• Revision #e00ea301ef 2022-10-21 13:47:17 +0200
  • MDEV-16549 Server crashes in Item_field::fix_fields on query with view and subquery, Assertion `context' failed, Assertion `field' failed
• Revision #28d6f6a514 2022-10-24 13:58:14 +0400
  • MDEV-14983 Wrong error message with SET sql_mode=sha2(ucs2_value)
• Revision #68fb05c360 2022-10-22 17:11:04 +0200
  • MDEV-29851 Cached role privileges are not invalidated when needed
• Revision #7a2f995649 2022-10-22 17:06:50 +0200
  • cleanup: rename test file
• Revision #741c14cbdd 2022-10-22 12:33:09 +0200
  • remove two acl_cache->clear()
• Revision #16d4431ab6 2022-10-22 11:45:38 +0200
  • CONNECT: compile with libxml2 2.10.x
• Revision #0609b34555 2022-10-21 20:37:09 +0200
  • disable LTO in debian builds
• Revision #3e377fd35b 2022-10-21 19:40:08 +0200
  • MDEV-15795 Stack exceeded if pthread_attr_setstacksize(&thr_attr,8196) succeeds
• Revision #68391acef2 2022-10-22 10:22:56 +0200
  • fix for x86 and other 32-bit little engian arch
• Revision #45755c4e1b 2022-09-13 00:41:43 +0000
  • Use OPENSSL_free instead of free to avoid instance crash
• Revision #e46217182f 2022-10-12 10:42:54 +1100
  • MDEV-29678 Valgrind/MSAN uninitialised value errors upon PS with ALTER under ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY
• Revision #6bc2e93381 2022-10-21 12:04:00 +0300
  • MDEV-23160: SIGSEGV in Explain_node::print_explain_for_children on UNION SELECT
• Revision #0c06320ae9 2022-10-21 14:26:06 +0200
  • MDEV-29687:ODBC tables do not quote identifier names correctly (#2295)
• Revision #e1414fc7e3 2022-10-20 08:29:56 +0530
  • MDEV-29778 Having Unique index interference with MATCH from a FULLTEXT
• Revision #e11661a4a2 2022-09-21 11:29:07 +0800
  • MDEV-25343 Error log message not helpful when filekey is too long
• Revision #9de37e07de 2022-10-18 00:01:58 +0400
  • MDEV-19569 Assertion `table_list->table' failed in find_field_in_table_ref.
• Revision #3a62ff7e89 2022-10-19 19:25:48 +1100
  • Revert "MDEV-25343 add read secret size in file key plugin"
• Revision #cee7175b79 2022-09-21 11:29:07 +0800
  • MDEV-25343 add read secret size in file key plugin
• Revision #64d85c369b 2022-09-22 14:57:57 +0800
  • MDEV-28720 add log message if flush log failure
• Revision #8c38939369 2022-09-16 11:20:41 +1000
  • MDEV-29540 Incorrect sequence values in INSERT SELECT
• Revision #d6707ab11f 2022-10-18 10:29:15 +0300
  • MDEV-29753 fixup: Silence bogus GCC -Og -Wmaybe-uninitialized

Data Scientist / Programmer   name: Ernest Allen Buffington   email: ernest.buffington[at]gmail.com   www: https://theghost.86it.us   github: https://github.com/ernestbuffington

PHP-Nuke Titanium SimpleBlack Theme v3.0
Last Updated: October 12/03/2022 by Ernest Allen Buffington
Original Author: Killigan 09/14/2019 of DarkForge Graphics

The name of our new ported theme is SimpleBlack, and it was written and designed by Killigan of DarkForge Graphics.
 

Main Developers

• Killigan (main designer and coder)
• Ernest Allen Buffington (programmer / designer / porter)
• Sebastian Buffington (concept designer)

Contributors

• coRpSE
• TheMortal
• Lonestar
• SgtLegend
• Technocrat
• Eyecu
• Wolfstar

This new theme was designed and worked on from 2019 all the way up until now. This theme is incompatible with other versions of PHP-Nuke Titanium or Nuke Evolution. You must be using the US version in order to have and use these advanced themes.

Data Scientist / Programmer   name: Ernest Allen Buffington   email: ernest.buffington[at]gmail.com   www: https://theghost.86it.us   github: https://github.com/ernestbuffington

Module Name: Google-Site-Map
Author: Ernest Buffington
Module Version: v2.0
Last Updated: November 21st 2022 by Ernest Allen Buffington aka TheGhost
Core: PHP-Nuke Titanium v4.0.3 <> v4.x.x

The original sitemap was an abandoned project and idea, not by me but whoever was working on it originally. The new one is awesome and works great. I'm not sure people really understand how important this little module is. Contrary to popular belief, this is an important part of being found on the internet. The class.sitemap.php file can be found in the includes/classes directory.

I used some of the old code, not much just a few lines here and there, and the old sitemap's admin panel is the same.

This uses sitemap 0.9

The new Google Site Map Generator works better than just about anything I have seen. You will need to delete the old sitemap.xml file that is in the root directory of your portal/website as it is no longer used. The new sitemap.xml file is generated in the xmls/sitemap folder. This is not the file you tell google to look at.

You will need to point Google to your sitemap-index.xml file which resides in that very same directory.

You will do this by telling Google where the file is at like so https://yourwebsite.com/xmls/sitemap/sitemap-index.xml

You can do so by going here https://search.google.com/search-console?resource_id=sc-domain:yourdomain.com

I used a fast and lightweight class for generating Google-Site-Map XML files and index of sitemap files. Written in PHP and uses XMLWriter extension (wrapper for libxml xmlWriter API) for creating XML files. XMLWriter extension is enabled by default in PHP 5 > = 5.1.2. If you have more than 50000 URLs, it will split items into separated files. (In benchmarks, 1.000.000 URLs were generating in 8 seconds) The version we are using is a slightly modified version of the original.

The Sitemap class is now added to a SitemapPHP namespace.

New Updates

1. Removed font declarations
2. Updated Icon layout
3. Updated Table layout

Data Scientist / Programmer   name: Ernest Allen Buffington   email: ernest.buffington[at]gmail.com   www: https://theghost.86it.us   github: https://github.com/ernestbuffington

Mod Name: phpBB Arcade
Developer(s): Ernest Allen Buffington
Contributor(s): Cy Borges
Original Author: giefca
Original Ported Website: (http://www.nukearcade.com)
Original Website: (http://www.gf-phpbb.com)
Version: v4.0.3
License: GNU General Public License version 2
Core: PHP-Nuke-Titanium 4.2.0 <> 4.x.x
Description: Original Arcade Mod phpBB by giefca - http://www.gf-phpbb.com.

Features:

1. Show games you have not played.
2. Show Newest games.
3. Show who is playing each game and when.
4. Play games in a new window.
5. Show tropy ranking for each game.
6. High Score recorded dates.
7. Show all games high scores.
8. Show current game high scores.
9. Send arcade private message when a score is beat.
10. Add to favorites your favorite game.
11. Make high score comments.
12. Manage high score comments.
13. Create game categories.
14. Manage games categories.
15. Search for games by name or description. 

ToDo List:

• Add avatar to general high scores area.
• Replace certain icons with Bootstrap Icons
• Finsish layout for core theme.

This is another example of people abandoning their projects. We have taken over and will update all the code and probably add features. There is a lot of room for improvement and the project almost seems like it was abandoned in the development stages early on. 

The OpenSource community has taken over the development of Flash rendering and like we said, there is absolutely no way to stop the world from creating new Flash movies and Games, and it will continue to do so just like before.

Adobe choked a lot of people who their sole corporate incomes involved the use of Flash and by doing so a few went out of business or bankrupt.

We say shame on you Adobe you should know better.

Adobe bought Macromedia and even with their business experience did not have what it takes to keep it going.

Adobe has been known to buy companies just to horde them and destroy them. In their effort they shut down Fireworks and fired a lot of employees that depended upon the income they made managing the project.

They also fired all the people involved in managing Adobe Flash Professional.

Adobe is a company that is full of greed and transformed their corporation into a monthly cash cow.

They take advantage of end users by charging monthly fees.

We say when you buy something its yours and you own it. They should have let us have updates for free after we purchase something.

Adobe is the poster child for greed and they started by charging people monthly fees to use Adobe PDF.

They are a big company and we need their services but the sad thing is they are destine for failure. When you screw over the folks that made you what you are today, it will only be a matter of time before the OpenSource programming world destroys them. You can't stay in business when you screw your community buyers.

This is what happens when you let some youngin who is still wet behind the ears make board decisions like getting rid of Flash, and or Fireworks.

They still have time to do the right thing and stop robbing their end users but the likelihood of that happening is very grim.

We only wish we knew who was directly responsible so we could make them a nice meme.

Adobe said "oh we retired flash" like as if after we all bought their software that they had the right to say we can't use it anymore. That in short terms is theft and they robbed the people that put them in the position they are in today.

We all gave them the money that they used to cripple and destroy Macromedia. In the end, the OpenSource communities will cripple and destroy Adobe...

We all know that Microsoft led the way with their corporate greed. Microsoft knows if you make the wrong people mad it can cost you. Microsoft could have cared less and they led the way for others to start charging monthly fees and upgrade fees.

All we can say is enjoy the fact that we are bringing flash back. A lot of programmers who spent over a decade learning to program with actionscript will probably be skeptical and they are still wandering around with the bad taste in their mouth of Adobe really sticking it to them. It's okay you can start to design new things and yes we have your back and now there will never be a way for Adobe to say "oh we retired it". Adobe is shrinking even as I type and it's their own fault.

Data Scientist / Programmer   name: Ernest Allen Buffington   email: ernest.buffington[at]gmail.com   www: https://theghost.86it.us   github: https://github.com/ernestbuffington

Mod Name: Browsers Mod
Contributor(s): Ernest Allen Buffington
Author: Chris Schuld (http://chrisschuld.com/)
Version: v1.9.6
License: GNU General Public License version 2
Core: PHP-Nuke-Titanium 3.0.0 <> 4.x.x
Description: A class to identify a visitor's browser.

This Mod identifies the following Browsers and does a best guess on the version:

• Opera (Browser::BROWSER_OPERA)
• WebTV (Browser::BROWSER_WEBTV)
• NetPositive (Browser::BROWSER_NETPOSITIVE)
• Edge (Browser::BROWSER_EDGE)
• Internet Explorer (Browser::BROWSER_IE)
• Pocket Internet Explorer (Browser::BROWSER_POCKET_IE)
• Galeon (Browser::BROWSER_GALEON)
• Konqueror (Browser::BROWSER_KONQUEROR)
• iCab (Browser::BROWSER_ICAB)
• OmniWeb (Browser::BROWSER_OMNIWEB)
• Phoenix (Browser::BROWSER_PHOENIX)
• Firebird (Browser::BROWSER_FIREBIRD)
• UCBrowser (Browser::BROWSER_UCBROWSER)
• Firefox (Browser::BROWSER_FIREFOX)
• Mozilla (Browser::BROWSER_MOZILLA)
• Palemoon (Browser::BROWSER_PALEMOON)
• curl (Browser::BROWSER_CURL)
• wget (Browser::BROWSER_WGET)
• Amaya (Browser::BROWSER_AMAYA)
• Lynx (Browser::BROWSER_LYNX)
• Safari (Browser::BROWSER_SAFARI)
• Playstation (Browser::BROWSER_PLAYSTATION)
• iPhone (Browser::BROWSER_IPHONE)
• iPod (Browser::BROWSER_IPOD)
• Google.s Android(Browser::BROWSER_ANDROID)
• Google.s Chrome(Browser::BROWSER_CHROME)
• GoogleBot(Browser::BROWSER_GOOGLEBOT)
• Yahoo!.s Slurp(Browser::BROWSER_SLURP)
• W3C.s Validator(Browser::BROWSER_W3CVALIDATOR)
• BlackBerry(Browser::BROWSER_BLACKBERRY)

Operating System Detection

This solution identifies the following Operating Systems:

• Windows (Browser::PLATFORM_WINDOWS)
• Windows CE (Browser::PLATFORM_WINDOWS_CE)
• Apple (Browser::PLATFORM_APPLE)
• Linux (Browser::PLATFORM_LINUX)
• Android (Browser::PLATFORM_ANDROID)
• OS/2 (Browser::PLATFORM_OS2)
• BeOS (Browser::PLATFORM_BEOS)
• iPhone (Browser::PLATFORM_IPHONE)
• iPod (Browser::PLATFORM_IPOD)
• BlackBerry (Browser::PLATFORM_BLACKBERRY)
• FreeBSD (Browser::PLATFORM_FREEBSD)
• OpenBSD (Browser::PLATFORM_OPENBSD)
• NetBSD (Browser::PLATFORM_NETBSD)
• SunOS (Browser::PLATFORM_SUNOS)
• OpenSolaris (Browser::PLATFORM_OPENSOLARIS)
• iPad (Browser::PLATFORM_IPAD)

This was a mod originally added to PHP-Nuke Titanium August 20th 2010.

Data Scientist / Programmer   name: Ernest Allen Buffington   email: ernest.buffington[at]gmail.com   www: https://theghost.86it.us   github: https://github.com/ernestbuffington

Module Name: Network Projects
Authors: Bob Marion, Ernest Allen Buffington
Version: v4.0.2
License: GNU General Public License version 2
Core: PHP-Nuke Titanium 4.x.x
Description: Network Projects Tracking System

It was time to finish this wonderful module that took so much time to create. Now that it has a warm home where it will get great use and appreciation. I am currently working on updating it with TheGhost aka Ernest Buffington. Ernest has updated a lot of the features under my tutelage and is a very creative person. So far the addons have made the Projects Tracking System easier to use and he has cosmetically improved the entire layout.

I originally created the NSN Projects Module in 2005 and many things have changed since then. Ernest came up with the idea of making a Projects Tracking System that is hosted on a remote database that is specific to our network and projects.

We expect to have it done in the next few weeks and are working diligently to get it done.

You can see the updates as we work in real-time by clicking the Networks Projeck Link.

  Added Features:

• Added Buttons instead of links
• Added 11 Project Types
• Fixed Project Links lower case change on Add Project and Edit Project
• Added Status Colors
• Added New Icons
• Fixed Table Layouts 
• Removed Bulky Tables and Menus

ToDo

• Update Task Map
• Update Report Map
• Update Request Map

NukeScripts Developer   name: Bob Marion   email: webmaster[at]nukescripts.86it.us   www: https://nukescripts.86it.us   The 86it Developers Network