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Social media for the 19th century

public404

Social media for the 19th century

Public404.com is a website where users who are "in the know" can post content to the site and create their own pages. It is social media, social experiment and internet art all rolled into one.

There is a secret page where users can write web content (html, javascript and all) and have it appear on any page. Other users can post above, below, or even in the middle of posts. If you log in, you can moderate up to three pages with each account.

public404's Issues

No way to update all pages.

If we want to change secret.php or index.php we need a script that goes through the whole site and replaces each file in every folder across the site.

When a page is created, it uses functions in functions.php to write a secret.php, index.php, info.php and library.php. We need a function that goes through updates every page. Really we will be updating functions.php, so this script should use that file to update the folders.

Inputs aren't sanitized

The point is people should be able to post some html, but there are too many ways to execute javascript which ruins the experience for others. We need some method of whitelisting or sanitizing inputs.