Te Puni Hub - Simple PHP message board
5 Oct, 2010
Te Puni Hub was an open, linear message board for students at Te Puni Village, Wellington during the 2010 academic year. While primarily a point of communication, the site also functioned as a voting system and a starting point for anyone wanting to join the Te Puni Hub.
The script for this site/page was hacked together in one shot, then developed further over the 6 months it was active, responding to real world events. The site received most of its traffic from newcomers looking to be part of Te Puni Hub, but also had a part in an anonymous dispute between the hall’s staff and students who had strung a network cable across a 20M gap between two buildings, 4 storeys up (in a non-technical effort to circumvent the network setup that isolated the buildings).
Retrospectively (two years later) I’ll add that this script was probably extremely vulnerable to SQL injection. I wasn’t using prepared statements at the time and I don’t believe security even crossed my mind. Thankfully, no one tried anything malicious!
This is a backdated post. The publish date reflects when the it would have been posted originally, however the actual publish date was later. This post was last modified 15 Oct, 2012.