[Project-under development] Team-Meet, PHP website system

[s-p-n]

You should be using a framework though for security and speed. And if you don't have file-uploading then don't worry about disk space cus a MySQL database doesn't take up much, a 50gb hdd should be enough for quite a while.

Frameworks aren't for speed or security, and if you can't code efficiently & securely with your own code, God help you when you use someone else's code.

Frameworks are for developing things quickly, with the help from functions & such provided by the framework.

Any "security" that a framework claims to provide, in PHP, isn't much. There are built-in PHP functions & good practices you need to adopt with or without the framework, anyway.

If you're coding your app insecure, no framework is going to stop that. Like anything, frameworks have rules you must follow to stay secure, taking the time to learn those rules when you already know how to code securely is futile unless you're using the framework for other features..

Security & Efficiency is one of the worst reasons to use a framework.. If anything, frameworks will more than likely lead to the opposite. (security holes in the framework, or memory leaks/illegal stack operations/bad practices etc)

The only code you can trust is your own.

By all means, use frameworks for what they're for- Smarty is a great Templating engine, etc. Use tools for what they're made for. Code Igniter is great at organizing your large projects, Zend Framework is good at making things easier in PHP. They both have functions to help you along with security and to use the framework more efficiently. But don't misinterpret that as more efficient/secure than the language their coded in.. That's like saying PHP is more secure than C++.. Well, you can make C++ just as secure as PHP- hence- PHP.

Don't get me wrong, using them for their purpose is great. But frameworks poses no magical properties which make the language they're coded in superior to what it was before, (other than the added features it comes with). It certainly doesn't put less overhead on your scripts..

[Macbeth]

@viroware - It will not be an downloadable site. Thank you!
@superfun - I'll add it to our domain today so you can check it out later.
@WizCoder - Yeah it has a little twitter feeling to it I agree. We are finished with it, the only thing that we have not fully created is the payment gateway and the prices, but other than that, yeah it's done.

[viroware]

@viroware - It will not be an downloadable site. Thank you!
@superfun - I'll add it to our domain today so you can check it out later.
@WizCoder - Yeah it has a little twitter feeling to it I agree. We are finished with it, the only thing that we have not fully created is the payment gateway and the prices, but other than that, yeah it's done.

Do you know when this will be open to public, Looks like a nice website.

Also will this site include features as such to send private messages?

Also will this site be free to join, Whats the payment's for?

[Macbeth]

@viroware - When you say open do you mean to let users access it and create accounts? If so it already is, but it's currently on our normal domain. Yes, you can send private messages and such. The site is a 100% free to join, however, a "normal" account has some limitations, that's why we thought of a payment option for the user to remove those limitations.

[viroware]

@viroware - When you say open do you mean to let users access it and create accounts? If so it already is, but it's currently on our normal domain. Yes, you can send private messages and such. The site is a 100% free to join, however, a "normal" account has some limitations, that's why we thought of a payment option for the user to remove those limitations.

Yes thats what i mean, What is your domain so that i could check it out?

[Macbeth]

Alright. Our main domain is http://www.northize.com and the Team-Meet project is here : Team Meet - Where Co-workers unite

We are not sure if we will continue developing it though. It depends on how much people would like something like that.

[Lapje]

Do you have like, a test account? I'd like to check it out but I'm not sure if I'd want to sign up.
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After putting a false username and/or password you should redirect the user to the log in page after like, 5 seconds. Just a tip o_O.

[Macbeth]

I know Lapje. We have just created the core for this whole thing, simple touches and such as redirection when you get an error and all that stuff is not there yet on all places. I've created a test account.
Username: Test
Password: test

[Lapje]

Ok, Thanks =]!

[Macbeth]

No problem!

[Lapje]

I like it. Certainly needs some work here and there, but it's looking great.

[Macbeth]

Thanks. Yes it does

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When it comes to registering an account for your own purposes, we encrypt all passwords in a oneway encryption method so don't worry about your passwords.

[WizCoder]

Testing Sign up page with my user and password but for safe measures I did not provide a password I use.

either way website looks nice, pages are working and "Teams" as also been tested and seem to function as its suppose to.

goodjob

[Macbeth]

Thank you!

[Macbeth]

If someone have any thurder suggestions or what so ever, please tell me :)