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How does Simple Machines handle images? The php.ini file should limit file upload length, and any request to upload a file that is too big should fail. If it tries to store the images in the database, that could cause an issue, on top of being the absolute worst way to store images.

I was thinking more a problem with something like SQL injection. Any sufficiently supported open source project should have protection for that, but there are always oversights.

Anyway, since it seems that the owner of that page is of an unknown status, I've been looking at a way of storing the data that is still available, just in case. There are offline readers that could make it a fairly easy task, but that stores things as static files. Scraping to put things into a database would be better, but the pages are not really standard, so I can envision a lot of manual editing.

<blockquote data-quote="PoDuck" data-source="post: 635147" data-attributes="member: 52061">How does Simple Machines handle images?&nbsp; The php.ini file should limit file upload length, and any request to upload a file that is too big should fail.&nbsp; If it tries to store the images in the database, that could cause an issue, on top of being the absolute worst way to store images.I was thinking more a problem with something like SQL injection.&nbsp; Any sufficiently supported open source project should have protection for that, but there are always oversights.Anyway, since it seems that the owner of that page is of an unknown status, I&#039;ve been looking at a way of storing the data that is still available, just in case.&nbsp; There are offline readers that could make it a fairly easy task, but that stores things as static files.&nbsp; Scraping to put things into a database would be better, but the pages are not really standard, so I can envision a lot of manual editing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PoDuck, post: 635147, member: 52061"] How does Simple Machines handle images? The php.ini file should limit file upload length, and any request to upload a file that is too big should fail. If it tries to store the images in the database, that could cause an issue, on top of being the absolute worst way to store images. I was thinking more a problem with something like SQL injection. Any sufficiently supported open source project should have protection for that, but there are always oversights. Anyway, since it seems that the owner of that page is of an unknown status, I've been looking at a way of storing the data that is still available, just in case. There are offline readers that could make it a fairly easy task, but that stores things as static files. Scraping to put things into a database would be better, but the pages are not really standard, so I can envision a lot of manual editing. [/QUOTE]

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