Preferences structure definition

typedef struct {
	int skeletonData;
} Prefs;

Prefs prefs;

Open preferences

void startApp() {
	Int16 prefSize = sizeof(Prefs);
	if ((PrefGetAppPreferences (AppCreator, 
			 		1000, // pref database id
			 		&prefs, 
			 		&prefSize, 
		 	 		true) // saved during Hotsync
		== noPreferenceFound) 
		|| (prefSize != sizeof(Prefs))) {
					// default initialization, since discovered 
					// Prefs was missing or old.
		prefs.skeletonData=1;
	}
}

Write preferences

void stopApp() {
	PrefSetAppPreferences (AppCreator, 
				1000,	// pref database id
				1, 	// version of pref database
				&prefs, 
				sizeof(Prefs), 
				true);	// saved during hotsync
}

Load and initializing the library

#include 
int MathLibRef = -1;
...
// is library already loaded?
err = SysLibFind("MathLib", &MathLibRef);
if (err != 0) {
	// negative, load
	err = SysLibLoad('libr', 'MthL', &MathLibRef);
	if (err == 0) {
		err = MathLibOpen (MathLibRef, 1);
	}
}

Closing library

if (MathLibRef != -1) {
	Err err;
	UInt16 usecount;
	err = MathLibClose (MathLibRef, &usecount);
	if (usecount == 0) {
		SysLibRemove (MathLibRef);
	}
}

I've created (after some strange experiences with users in my hosting) small php patch (for version 4.3.10), which disables remote includes.This patch doesn't work with Zend Optimizer enabled unfortunately :(

Download the patch there. After applying, see php.ini-dist and readme.security

example of bad code:

<?php $page = $_GET['page']; include ($page); ?>

example of better code:

<?php // filter all unneeded characters $page = eregi_replace("[^a-z0-9_]","", $_GET['page']).".inc.php"; // test if $page exists and is file if (strlen($page) && @file_exists($page) && @is_file($page)) { require_once ($page); } ?>

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