Blogging Fool

A quick apology to the aspiring bloggers for getting way off-topic with this quick interjection, but I wanted to share a little tip for those of you who lived in the pre-Wordpress era and used to run that swarthy CMS (content management system) phpNuke.

I have been running a phpBB community for almost a decade and it was hosted/integrated within the now nearly abandoned phpnuke CMS. The site’s underlying php is deeply customized and its theme was created by a brilliant designer whom I can no longer get a hold of so upgrades were tricky to say the least.

After a pair of hacker tagging mishaps, however, we were forced to attempt the delicate process of updating the portal to preserve the thousands of forum posts, private messages and news articles and the integrity of the platform where they were hosted. Unfortunately when we upgraded to phpnuke 8.0 and then 8.1 I could no longer include my image of the day in the header news story.

I called upon a MySQL/php expert friend to see if he could figure out why my image tags were being stripped upon saving from my WYSIWYG editor, but he wasn’t versed in phpnuke so it was a bit of a long search for him and since I was pulling a favor, I just couldn’t ask him to take on the long search through the dozens of files where the problem could lie.

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