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Is there Base64 encoding used in ChronoForms?

willp 29 Jul, 2010
I was doing a scan on my site and some of this code turned up in the "components/com_chronocontact/chronocontact.html.php" file, should this be there?
GreyHead 29 Jul, 2010
Hi willp ,

Yes, it's meant to be there and is harmless.

Bob
atomicgold 01 Jan, 2011
It may be worth noting that the call to the base64_decode( ) function can cause problems, depending on the hosting provider.

I came across this after my site was moved to a cpanel host. I found that my form worked correctly for a while (overnight?) after I FTP'd file chronocontact.html.php to the server, but it then got into a state where the form failed to load the required CSS and Javascript. This meant that the layout of the form was incorrect (text boxes not aligned) and it failed to reject invalid input.

I was able to get my hosting provider to enable calls to base64_decode, and the form now works fine.
GreyHead 01 Jan, 2011
Hi atomicgold,

Thanks for the heads-up; I haven't seen this particular problem reported here before :-(

Bob
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