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OK, so they haven't really "cracked" MD5 then, it's really a brute-force attack using a dictionary.

Wow, that is scary. I've been under the impression all this time (much as you apparantly) that MD5 was (at the time anyway) uncrackable.

EDIT: well, without brute-force that is...

Well, I guess the problem was short-lived because mysql appears to be working properly again...

Is anybody else having problems with MySQL?

I'm getting this error:
"mySQL error: Too many connections"
No error code.

I assume this means that somebody is hogging all the mysql connections.

And here's a link with more information if you're still interested after that disclaimer that webzone made:

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/

There is a way to set a specific font from the webserver for the browser to use. I remember reading about it but I don't remember where. I'll see if I can find that article again...

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<?php
//define some vars
    if(!isset($_GET['size'])) $_GET['size'] = "26";
    if(!isset($_GET['text'])) $_GET['text'] = "Text";
    if(!isset($_GET['font'])) $_GET['font'] = "arial.ttf";
    if(!isset($_GET['stroke'])) $_GET['stroke'] = "1";


//find the x and y sizes
    $size = imagettfbbox($_GET['size'], 0, $_GET['font'], $_GET['text']);

    $xsize = abs($size[0]) + abs($size[2] + 2);
    $ysize = abs($size[5]) + abs($size[1] + 2);

//create an image
    $image = imagecreate($xsize, $ysize);
//set the background color
    $blue = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 0, 255);
//makes the background color transparent
    imagecolortransparent($image, $blue);
//set the text color
if (isset($_GET['r']) && isset($_GET['g']) && isset($_GET['b'])){
    $font_color = ImageColorAllocate($image, $_GET['r'], $_GET['g'], $_GET['b']);
}
else {
    $font_color = ImageColorAllocate($image, 255,255,255);
}

//set the outline color
if (isset($_GET['or']) && isset($_GET['og']) && isset($_GET['ob'])){
    $stroke_color = ImageColorAllocate($image, $_GET['or'], $_GET['og'], $_GET['ob']);
}
else {
    $stroke_color = ImageColorAllocate($image, 0, 0, 0);
}

// now draw out the outline (stroke) on the text
$stroke = $_GET['stroke'];
for ($ox = -$stroke; $ox <= $stroke; $ox++) {
for ($oy = -$stroke; $oy <= $stroke; $oy++) {
imagettftext($image, $_GET['size'], 0, abs($size[0])+$ox, abs($size[5])+$oy, -$stroke_color, $_GET['font'], $_GET['text']);
}
}

//print the text
    imagettftext($image, $_GET['size'], 0, abs($size[0]), abs($size[5]), -$font_color, $_GET['font'], $_GET['text']);

//set the type of image
//    header("Content-type: image/gif");
//barf out the image
    imagegif($image);
//free up memory
    imagedestroy($image);
?>


Just pasted the whole file.
You'll need to upload a ttf font and set it at the top or add it to the query like:
?font=something.ttf&text=blahblah&size=12&stroke=2

Obviously, you'll want to just set the defaults at the top to what you typically use.

I had this exact same problem. What I ended up doing was writing a PHP script that generates a gif image with an outline around the text. If you want I can go and get the part of the code that outlines the text.

Hehe, now I feel really smart

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in an external stylesheet there's no need for the <style type="text/css">, or the </style> lines. That may be your problem.

Here, just add this code to the page that you want to turn error reporting off for:

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<?php
//Turn off error reporting
error_reporting(0);
?>


Here's a function I had laying around that checks for a valid email address, not entirely sure where I got it

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function check_email_address($email) {
  // First, we check that there's one @ symbol, and that the lengths are right
  if (!ereg("[^@]{1,64}@[^@]{1,255}", $email)) {
    // Email invalid because wrong number of characters in one section, or wrong number of @ symbols.
    return false;
  }
  // Split it into sections to make life easier
  $email_array = explode("@", $email);
  $local_array = explode(".", $email_array[0]);
  for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($local_array); $i++) {
     if (!ereg("^(([A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-][A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~\.-]{0,63})|(\"[^(\\|\")]{0,62}\"))$", $local_array[$i])) {
      return false;
    }
  } 
  if (!ereg("^\[?[0-9\.]+\]?$", $email_array[1])) { // Check if domain is IP. If not, it should be valid domain name
    $domain_array = explode(".", $email_array[1]);
    if (sizeof($domain_array) < 2) {
        return false; // Not enough parts to domain
    }
    for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($domain_array); $i++) {
      if (!ereg("^(([A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Za-z0-9])|([A-Za-z0-9]+))$", $domain_array[$i])) {
        return false;
      }
    }
  }
  return true;
}//end check_email_address()


You could call it like this:
if (check_email_address($opmail)) {
    echo "The address is valid.";
}
else {
    echo "The address is invalid.";
}



Hope that helps

I'm certainly no expert either, but I THINK I found your problem

RewriteRule ^(fr|en|es|nl)_([a-zA-Z]*).html /index.php?page=$2&lang=$1

That line ^^^^^ is missing a $, it should be this:

RewriteRule ^(fr|en|es|nl)_([a-zA-Z]*).html$ /index.php?page=$2&lang=$1


I THINK...I'm certainly no expert either

It has (for some unknown reason) all of a sudden started working again (23:36 EST)

FTP is also broken for me, the first I noticed it was 17:39 EST