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Re: Cookie Warning (new European law) insertion. How ?

2012/7/18 21:09
Peekay
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The Opta.nl site says:
Quote:

Dit geldt niet voor cookies die noodzakelijk zijn voor de technische werking van de site. - This does not include cookies that are necessary for the technical operation of the site

That (should) mean that session cookies are exempt. A basic install of Xoops (should) only set a session cookie.

However, I can see that your concerns are valid and that the information officer for the Dutch government really needs to clarify the issue. If they really do require every site to have a cookie warning, then they will seriously damage the opportunities of Dutch businesses that own websites.

I am sure I am not the only person that will treat such a warning as a security risk and quickly go back to the search listing.

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Re: Cookie Warning (new European law) insertion. How ?

2012/7/18 12:32
Peekay
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Since: 2004/11/20

@shine

As Mamba has already pointed out.

From the ICO website:

Quote:

Some cookies can be exempted from informed consent under certain conditions if they are not used for additional purposes. These cookies include cookies used to keep track of a user’s input when filling online forms or as a shopping card, also known as session-id cookies, multimedia player session cookies and user interface customisation cookies, eg language preference cookies to remember the language selected by the user.

Session cookies, language cookies, cookies to prevent security issues are exempt under this law and fall under the status of 'implied consent'. You do NOT have to ask permission to set them before the site is loaded.

If you implement a script to pop up a cookie warning when you are just setting a session cookie, many people will (quite rightly) assume you want to set tracking cookies and go elsewhere.

As the only way to record someone's consent to cookies is to set a cookie, or to store their IP address in a database, this stupid law is encouraging webmasters to record more personal data about site visitors than before the law was introduced.

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Re: Cookie Warning (new European law) insertion. How ?

2012/7/18 8:14
Peekay
XOOPS is my life!
Posts: 2335
Since: 2004/11/20

Firstly, make sure this is not a scam. I am confident many webmasters will be getting letters saying their websites are 'illegal' and offering services to rectify this. I wouldn't put it past them for issuing a 'fine' so make sure this is genuine.

Then I would (quickly) put a Xoops block on the homepage that says 'The content management system on this domain sets a session cookie which is essential to provide the requested service of viewing the site'. (session cookies are OK)

and if required...

'The gallery application sets a cookie which is essential to prevent users from voting for the same item twice. This cookie expires after xxx time'.

and most importantly...

'No tracking cookies or third-party cookies are set from this domain'.

AFAIK the law only requires you to ask permission to set cookies if they are non-essential to the user viewing or navigating the site. However, if you use services like Google analytics then you will need to present an 'opt-in' screen.

You can check the cookies set by your site and their expiry times in Firefox via the menu 'tools/page info/security/view cookies'.

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Re: How do I save catads form settings for registered users?

2012/7/4 15:59
Peekay
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The cookie approach sounds OK to me. Although, if an advertiser posted from a different location they would need to complete the whole form. You could always add rows to the module DB if cookies turn out to be a pain. To avoid unnecessary overhead, as you have suggested you could add a checkbox like 'Store my location details Y/N'. You would definitely need to add that as a user pref if you used cookies.

Or... you could just modify the PHP to pull the field data from the last advertisement they posted.

It is a good idea though.

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Re: How do I save catads form settings for registered users?

2012/7/4 13:32
Peekay
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Since: 2004/11/20

I suppose you could put the field values into a session VAR, or use a short-term cookie. EU cookie laws have recently changed and you should explain that a cookie will be set to preserve a user's preference.

You could store the pref in a DB table, but seems like a lot of extra coding for what it's worth.

Which version of Catads do you use?

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Re: Profile module : make a field visible but not editable ?

2012/7/4 10:35
Peekay
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<input type="text" value="n" readonly="readonly" />

You can also give the field a class to make it greyed-out for example. I guess you would need to pass a variable to the Smarty template to set a field as readonly based on the logged-in user ID or a module pref.

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Re: And likely Ender's Corner

2012/6/15 23:41
Peekay
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Posts: 2335
Since: 2004/11/20

@Mamba

If you are looking for an excuse, the category 'unintelligible posts' is a valid reason for deletion for most forum moderators.

A thread is for life. Not just for Christmas.

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Re: beacuse newbb multiple scripts caused high loading issues ,my is suspended

2012/6/13 23:59
Peekay
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Posts: 2335
Since: 2004/11/20

It is obviously best if you can get your localhost to match your server. If you go to the XAMPP website they naturally want you to use the latest version, but you can download older versions of XAMPP from here.

You have to look closely to find out the PHP/Apache/MySQL versions included in the download, but they are listed under 'Version History'.

For example, I use XAMPP 1.73 because it matches my VPS server config as closely as I can get (apart from a small incremental difference in the MySQL version). Getting the PHP versions to match is probably the most significant task if you want to ensure your localhost site will work properly online.

I would also recommend upgrading from Xoops 2.4 to 2.5. The whole 2.4 series was pretty poor IMHO. Once again, try this on localhost before doing it on your live site.

A thread is for life. Not just for Christmas.

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Re: LinkedIN Bomb 1.02 -::[LinkedIn.com]::- Direct Marketing Application for XOOPS 2.5

2012/6/13 21:38
Peekay
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Posts: 2335
Since: 2004/11/20

OK. Thx for clarifying that. Just wouldn't want you to get into trouble with those LinkedIn folks.

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Re: beacuse newbb multiple scripts caused high loading issues ,my is suspended

2012/6/13 21:20
Peekay
XOOPS is my life!
Posts: 2335
Since: 2004/11/20

CBB 3.08 is, AFAIK, a stable version of the module which works with PHP 5. It was (AFAIK again) the forum module used here on XO for a very long time so it shouldn't have any significant performance issues. It's the closest version to the one you've got, so I would suspect there will be few database differences. You'll find CBB 3.08 on Sourceforge.

Whichever version you choose, CBB or Xforum, to preserve your forum posts, back up your DB and try the upgrade off-line first on a localhost setup, using XAMPP etc.

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