Clipshare Purchase Reservation

[jaimito]

Hi,

I have been looking around clipshare and the site looks great. I would love to purchase the product but i have one or two reservations. The first is the customer support of which I have seen mixed reviews. But the more pressing issue for me was the following that I read from the creator of pornhub.com:

"This software is horrible. It is poorly coded, insecure, unmaintainable and unscalable. It is in PHP4 (EDIT: PHP4 is now considered legacy software, and is no longer supported by Zend, the company who makes PHP) and does not take advantage of any of the "object-oriented" features of the language. If you're looking for a software that you can just dump in and ignore, then ClipShare MIGHT be a solution, until somebody injects SQL somewhere or your site actually grows. It uses $_REQUEST everywhere, including in SQL strings, which means somebody could put SQL in a cookie and have it wreck your DB. It uses Smarty templates, which are designed to separate the view from the application code. Ta da, it is a bare-bones MVC architecture, minus the M part and you have to learn a new syntax/language to program the views. It also doesn't interface very well with PHP, you can only call functions and so ClipShare gives us a gigantic 3000+ line function.php file. Ever heard of modularization?

ClipShare just dumps all the files of one type in one place. Suppose you have 12 images per video, which is 4 thumbs for an animation and 3 different sizes, then you get 1000 videos on your site. That's 12 000 thumbs in one folder, which means your filesystem is going to be running crazy slow. On top of that, it must synchronize files between servers, which takes even longer. Triple the number of videos to 3000 and you've got 36 000 files in one folder. This isn't actually possible with ext3 (the standard Linux filesystem) unless you recompile your kernel, since the maximum is something like 32 000 and so thumbs will just stop being created. Now you have to re-arrange your file structure and find every place in your code that uses thumbs - since ClipShare doesn't centralize these sorts of things, it's all over the place - and organize it so that everything isn't in the same folder. Lot's of work, and time well wasted."

He finalises the rant by stating that there is no more clipshare code left on the site.

Have the issues above been rectified in clipshare 4.0?

Thanks,

Jaimito

[admin]

The PornHub owner referred to ClipShare 1.3 that he was initially using and started with. That was back in 2007. In 2007 there was no PHP5. We're in 2009 and ClipShare 4.1+