NWN2 Secondary Skills System

[Depth of Night]

After having a lengthy discussion with some database gurus (lol - well they knew a lot more than me) - I am actually rebuilding this all over for a 5th time from the ground up, using proper methods of security, the actual Database editing tools will be contained in a separate module that never even becomes a part of the PW environment now, keeping the nasty little DROP TABLE commands a long way out of reach of a potential hacker that figures some way of firing scripts on the server.

With this final step on improving the security features, I've also chosen to directly integrate the module with MySQL databases, maybe later I will do ports to other popular database environments.

Now, I've really got to get on with this - I'm back pretty much to square one, and am starting to feel the stress of the constant restarts

[cal1s]

i hear ya.
good to know your working on the security aspects as well now.
i once heard some SQL hacks involved putting a ";" in a textbox was enough to hack the system since the database acknowledged that as a command. this way it was totally easy to infiltrate the database.

if you happen to have textboxes you might also want to rule out that possibilty. but i guess current versions of mysql etc do not allow commands to be executed that way.

still wanted to let you know ...

[Depth of Night]

Actually Cal1s that is still a potential flaw in mysql commands sent to the DB, something that needs to be sorted out by middle ware. It is one of the reasons this is taking longer than I had originally expected.

On a side note, the admin section of this mod has expanded exponentially, and as such I'm thinking of shifting it to its own space, since it really will be a mod of its own in it own right.

Stripping out the main admin section, I can get this system going much sooner (as planned) - the admin section is going to take a lot longer however, and is more looking to be one of those projects I never really finish to my own satisfaction.

EDIT: Also - I'm expanding the dependencies section to not only include other skill, but also Ability Scores, Levels, Feats, perhaps even known spells.