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[griimnak]

please move this thread if it's in the wrong section

Been working on my personal cms for awhile and i managed to finish some pretty unique features.

Don't take that warning message so lightly, it actualy means what it says.

Cross-site request forgery is often forgotten when developers write their code, so i made sure i'm protected against it.

there will be a hidden token generated every instance of the page load. if a request is made and this token is changed at all, it will stop the request and log the ip etc into the database.

Since this is an admin panel, i'm going to log failed login attempts aswell.

The ability to ban certain ip addresses is also done

maintenance is also finished

I'm also using prepared statements to ensure i'm protected from sql injections.

query = Database::dbConnect()->prepare("SELECT username, password FROM gweb_users WHERE username=:username AND password=:password");
        $query->bindParam(':username', $secure_user);
        $query->bindParam(':password', $secure_pass);
        $query->execute();
  
        if($row = $query->fetch()){
      
            $_SESSION['username'] = $row['username'];
            header("Location: admin_dash");
        }

Thoughts? how can i make the design prettier (i suck at designing) and what other functions should i include? cheers

 

[Benden]

Please capitalize the letters in the database rows, it looks gross without it. Also, I'm not digging the font you went with. In terms of design it would like nicer if you added icons to the navigation and a small logo beside AdminPanel

 

[griimnak]

Please capitalize the letters in the database rows, it looks gross without it. Also, I'm not digging the font you went with. In terms of design it would like nicer if you added icons to the navigation and a small logo beside AdminPanel

Thanks for the suggestions, i'll definetly go with some icons for sure. Know of any good fonts?

 

[Sysode]

Thread moved to Showcase, purely for the fact you're asking for feedback and this is personal.

Should you release this (or plan to) please update the thread and I'll move it to the necessary destination.

 

[BIOS]

The design doesn't look too bad providing you've just started the development of it, however some things could look better such as the input boxes as they are still using the default design.

Not too sure on the back-end of the project as there's not much to look at, but from what I can see it seems you are performing redirection without killing the script. Don't forget to use either exit(); or die(); after performing the redirection to ensure that the code following the redirection isn't executed.

 

[griimnak]

Thread moved to Showcase, purely for the fact you're asking for feedback and this is personal.

Should you release this (or plan to) please update the thread and I'll move it to the necessary destination.

Thanks man

The design doesn't look too bad providing you've just started the development of it, however some things could look better such as the input boxes as they are still using the default design.

Not too sure on the back-end of the project as there's not much to look at, but from what I can see it seems you are performing redirection without killing the script. Don't forget to use either exit(); or die(); after performing the redirection to ensure that the code following the redirection isn't executed.

gotcha

had some help from the community yesterday, messed around with the style more:

global font changed to tahoma, and the header font is some hippie one from google font hosting. sidebar icons are now present, and i raised the header box titles to 10px padding (thanks @Canadian )
also added some animations to the sidebar:

 

[TrueJewix]

I think it looks neat. Well, yeah kinda does.

What is it for?

 

[griimnak]

I think it looks neat. Well, yeah kinda does.

What is it for?

Thanks, and it's for my personal site. i actualy still have a blank index, only thing i've been working on is this admin panel lol, cheers

 

[BIOS]

Thanks man

gotcha

had some help from the community yesterday, messed around with the style more:

global font changed to tahoma, and the header font is some hippie one from google font hosting. sidebar icons are now present, and i raised the header box titles to 10px padding (thanks @Canadian )
also added some animations to the sidebar:

Improving, looks a lot better with the edits especially the icons.

Try to style the form inputs on the above image which are used for the "Ip Address" & "Reason for ban", maybe round the borders of them and clean them up?

 

[LeChris]

For the forms, use PureCSS (

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[griimnak]

For the forms, use PureCSS (

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thanks, i'll give this a go and see how it turns out
 

I'm digging it

 

[BIOS]

thanks, i'll give this a go and see how it turns out
 

I'm digging it
 
Live demo:

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user: devbest
pass: demo

let me know what you think

Just had a quick look and found one thing, make sure you check if it exists first as it may throw errors if there are no records:

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[griimnak]

Just had a quick look and found one thing, make sure you check if it exists first as it may throw errors if there are no records:

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true, going to fix that right now.
 
fixed! thanks for letting me know

 
So I think i'm satisfied with my site now, mods close this thread if it's nesseccary because i'm finished with this.

thanks to everyone who helped me out, cheers

 

[brsy]

Looks really nice man; I might do something like this just for the experience. I'm also not too fond of your data tables. The colors and the padding puts me off a bit.

Reduce the padding for the table body, and mess with some colors for the table heading. Maybe a darker shade of your original shade of blue.

 

[griimnak]

Looks really nice man; I might do something like this just for the experience. I'm also not too fond of your data tables. The colors and the padding puts me off a bit.

Reduce the padding for the table body, and mess with some colors for the table heading. Maybe a darker shade of your original shade of blue.

cheers man i'll fiddle with it. I'm thinking of making a counter for login attempts, because last night as demonstrated by @Khalil my security logs was getting spammed. perhaps after 2 attempts i could make it so their ip gets auto banned.

 

[Khalil]

cheers man i'll fiddle with it. I'm thinking of making a counter for login attempts, because last night as demonstrated by @Khalil my security logs was getting spammed. perhaps after 2 attempts i could make it so their ip gets auto banned.

Why you even need a control panel for a portofolio is beyond me.

 

[griimnak]

Why you even need a control panel for a portofolio is beyond me.

it's for the learning experience, i'm trying to extend my knowledge in php
ay atleast i'm not burning braincells on habbo

 

[TrueJewix]

@Khalil. Get rekt.