Comments on: Facebook Index.php Source Code Leaked!

By: Rawr

Rawr — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:53:08 +0000

Apologies for replying to such an old post, but I felt like I must clear up a few things.

It doesn’t appear they’re using Smarty as their template system, but rather a custom one.

Sure, it’s not object oriented, but that’s fine. Forced indirection sometimes makes the abstraction clearer.

I think the abstract looks pretty clean and does split up the logic in a way that could be called “MVC” by some developers, especially given how most PHP Frameworks aren’t true MVC.

I can see that it would be quite easy to split their code up in to separate files for MVC. They just use one, self-contained file for a function and put different logic in sections.

It’s quite obvious where the View would be, there’s a lot of preparations for the template system. Likewise, it appears all their models are in separate files (/lib).

By: christof

christof — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:14:33 +0000

Grow up! – you are making such a big deal out of this, and blaming it all on PHP – it was a Webserver configuration problem and has nothing to do with the language PHP – why dont you rather give credit to a fantastic system written in php, a system that performs well and is extremely fast given the amount of requests per day – I know about a few other sites that was rewritten from Java or Asp to PHP because performance was key.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:55:32 +0000

Facebook seems to be all over the press lately. Perhaps a publicity stunt? Nah. Do people really expect flawless websites these days? I mean if Microsoft, which has unlimited resources, get caught with their pants down from time to time, of course companies like Facebook are going to get burned. Once you get to a certain size, the hackers come a callin’.

By: Mat Collins

Mat Collins — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:24:02 +0000

o.O Wahoo… It’s a good thing my password wasn’t in that file! lol.
Nah, in all reality, this was a bad thing. Facebook has been under fire recently, and this is just going to put more fuel on it.

By: Manny

Manny — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:52:04 +0000

FacebookSOURCE.com has a lot of other scripts, hacks, and tricks for Facebook, as well as other links to Facebook’s Homepage script incase this one goes offline.