Question: Renaming admin.php in 7.4.

Useless Joined: Aug 23, 2002 Posts: 213 Location: Chicago

I was just wondering if I could only strip out the admin.php's code from mainfile.php and make it work with 7.4, would that work or do I have to add more things? Also, as many of you know, NSN modules and few other modules have admin area in module too, would that affect too or those files need to change as well?

registered · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 9:36 pm

Since I know NSN better then anyone Wink

Most NSN Modules with admin.php files in the module's directory use modules.php for access and not admin.php . So on them it shouldn't matter what you name your admin.php file Smile

Onto your other question, let's take a leason from ChatServ and add:

Code:

$admin_file = "admin";

to your config.php file. Then go thru each admin file searching for:

Code:

admin.php

and replacing it with:

Code:

".$admin_file.".php

You will need to make note to add $admin_file to each routine's global line and for routine's without a global line you will need to add:

Code:

global $admin_file;

Yes, this is a long process with some trial and error to make sure you caught all the admin.php's and globaled all the $admin_file's. Remember that line you added to your config.php file, here's where it comes in: say you rename your admin.php file to upyours.php then you would change that new line to say:

Code:

$admin_file = "upyours";

Hope this little primer helps you out Smile

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 2:43 am

This might be a long process but at least I won't have to worry about my site breaking everytime I try to update to the new version.

This should be adopted to all versions of PHP-Nuke and I am going to use that for my 7.4 (maybe soon-to-be yet-another-modded-version) PHP-Nuke.

Thanks so much for your help man.

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:42 pm

Here is another question.
Can't we just add the globals in mainfile.php and use it instead of editing all these files? from my understand, all files to include mainfile.php anyways, no?

Subject Matter Expert Joined: Feb 23, 2004 Posts: 358

That's another really annoying difference between phpBB and Nuke. phpBB holds almost every necessary variable in these nice and tidy little arrays, while Nuke throws variables every which way and with total disarray. While conceivably adding something to mainfile should make it available almost anywhere, be prepared to track down about 10 thousand places where it mysteriously isn't available.

We spend a lot of time trying to figure ways of hiding this or hiding that from hackers, but when you think about it (and the popularity of phpBB standalone), don't you wonder why phpBB doesn't have to hide or rename its Admin area? Makes you wonder whether it's a sound direction to try and hide something versus just securing it to begin with, eh?

PHrEEk

Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 2:08 am

Well it can be done if FB stops thinking about his bank (Club) and spend some good time at first fix all the bugs and then correct them but as we all know this is not going to happen and we'll have with whatever we get and this fix it or pick a version for ourselves and stick to it, just like I am planning right now.

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:34 am

Mesum wrote:

This might be a long process but at least I won't have to worry about my site breaking everytime I try to update to the new version.

This should be adopted to all versions of PHP-Nuke and I am going to use that for my 7.4 (maybe soon-to-be yet-another-modded-version) PHP-Nuke.

Thanks so much for your help man.

I'm waiting for ChatServ to finish off his 2.8 Patch set and then I'll be modding the PHP-Nuke packages on my site to have the $admin_file value in them. It will make a little more work for me when CS releases new patches but I do file compares on each and every file to see which ones change anyway Smile