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Asked: 2026-06-17T11:29:02+00:00

I am developing an iOS application from which users can post various kinds of

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I am developing an iOS application from which users can post various kinds of events in a server and view the events created from all the users. The question i have , does not have a programming nature. I would like to show here , how i would design my servers database and tell me your opinion about it and how i could improve it.

The application has a very simple interface where the user when he wants to post an event , simply writes a title , some comments and attaches a photo if he wants . Then this information is sent through XML to my server and stored to the database.

The problem is that because some people are immature , they would try to post inappropriate words or even photos. So i would like to have some control on my users. What i am thinking is , at the first time that the application runs on the mobile phone and connects to the server , the server would send a user id back to the phone. Then every time the users sends an xml file , he attaches his user id with the xml (programatically attached). Also i would keep another database with all the user ids that have been created over time. So if i notice an inappropriate event , i could delete the user id from my database , and the next time the user tries to send something, the server would understand that this id is not in the database and so not allow the posting. Of course if someone decides to uninstall and reinstall the application and get a new user id , he could again post but thats ok with me.

Would it be an easier way to prevent immature behaviors or this one sounds ok?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Sure what you describe is possible. But there is one big problem with it: that interface can easily be used by a robot (a script). So if someone really wants to missuse your service, he can flood you with whatever he likes in a second. Or he can try again and again, until you have to give up removing his posts from the service.

    I suggest you take a look at one of the existing frameworks instead. This way you do not have to reinvent the wheel (which has already been done 19562394792 times, and counting) and don’t have to learn from your mistakes (which you certainly will make).

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