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I was reluctant to switch to phpbb3. I loved my phpbb2 until the site was attacked and could not find a solution, 2 years ago. I had made so many changes to the site because I wrote template-less entire gaming scripts. I couldn't move the codes to phpbb3... I tried a couple of times but it was miser...

That code is the phpbb3 way of getting info from forms. It's been working for the past 2 years since I upgraded from phpbb2. Which phpBB version are you using now? phpbb3.2.4 .. All's been working fine the last 2 years. Yes I know 3.3 is out and I will upgrade at some point. I have so many extensio...

</Solidjeuh> wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:07 pm I don't think that code is from standard phpBB ... or is it? So that's why "others" don"t see the problem

that code is the phpbb3 way of getting info from forms. It's been working for the past 2 years since I upgraded from phpbb2.

Have you changed PHP version, have you changed anything? If it was working then stopped something has changed, if it’s not you then your host did something. That's what I suspect. Godaddy asked to changed php to version 7.2 .. So I did a couple of months ago .. I did not test this page at the time....

$post_vars_array = $request->variable_names(\phpbb\request\request_interface::POST); echo '<hr>'; print_r($post_vars_array); echo '<hr>'; I have a form that was working fine until today when I am now getting an empty array upon submission. I am using php v 7.2 Is the function obsolete or something?

And the site is back to its normal load again.
Thank you guys... You support was simply generous. !!!!!

Great.. I will update my Cpanel

Thank you guys for your input.
These bots are annoying.

I enter the IP 159.138* and I keep getting an error message that " No IP addresses or hostnames defined " I tried 159.138.* and still the same error. Doesn't go through. the only way to work is to enter the entire IP. But there are tons of them starting with that string, with agents lookin...

Setup a free *cloudflare account and get your host to whitelist only cloudflares IP addresses as listed here: https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/ Your server will only accept requests from cloudflares servers. Then use cloudflares firewall rules to block those naughty bots! *This will require a change ...

ok.. how do I get the agent? All those IP start with 159.138. Godaddy installed a firewall, but they had to remove it because no one could log in. We were all getting a firewall error. They wanted me to whitelist my IP. I told them that makes no sense because this is a forum and I can't whitelist ev...

I see a bunch of 159.138.* from Hong Kong. Lots of them.
That could be the attacker.
Let me see if banning them makes any difference.

currently no guest users. but let me check in Cpanel

ps aux --sort -rss USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND 5250718 723138 4.3 1.0 287056 21892 ? Rs 13:45 0:00 lsphp:/tpffh28tg8az/public_html/board/viewtopic.php 5250718 723139 3.6 0.9 284816 19912 ? Rs 13:45 0:00 lsphp:/tpffh28tg8az/public_html/board/viewtopic.php 5250718 723125 4....

Yeah.. this is not about getting extra memory. It's about stopping whatever is hogging up this process. And I can't see any high cpu using process.