Drupal 4.5.x or older

Profile spam. Got my first three today, and it was three in a row on a rapid post timestamps, which makes me suspect the process has already been automated.

Do you have a site where people can subscribe immediately and fill out their profile? Even if the profile requires an email-confirm, with yahoo/hotmail disposable accounts, that's a no-brainer, and the profile may even still be visible and be visible for Google indexing long before the new member is validated.

If you have a site like this, where you accept registrations with only an email confirm, then you have a new scourge to keep scrubbing from your site, and this just underlines what I have said before, that all publically writable space must be subjected to a spam filter. No exceptions, and no more sticking our head in the sand thinking it could never happen to me. Every bit of public write-access space on your site, every bit of data that does not eminate from your own fingers, must be filtered.

For example, consider this real-world example of a perfectly legal entry placed into the Instant Messenger field in this morning's latest spam-profile ...

Instant Messenger
Jabber:
Here are just some fun questions from <a href=&#039;http://RANDOMspamURL&#039;>http://RANDOMspamURL</a> about interesting things! 1. What is your favorite sexual position? explain? 2. Which do you prefer more, Recieving oral sex, or making love? 3. Do you use toys? explain? 4a. What do you do to your partner, that really turns YOU on? 4b. What does your partner do to you that really turns you on? 5. What really turns your significant other on?

I want to create my module (drupal 4.5.7) and I have something like this:

Got an email earlier asking this:

>Do you know if there is a way to get info about a user in the template?
>I need to add a link in the page.tpl.php only when no user is logged in.
>The $user seems to be empty.
>
>I'm using Drupal 4.6 with PHPTemplate engine.

I'm not sure if you mean when the users are not logged in, or when there is nobody logged in.

Inserting a link when a user is not logged in can be done by inserting the following in your page.tpl.php or node.tpl.php etc. :

I want to show list of users. But do not want to edit permission or add role.
How to manage this?
Please give me solution.
Thank you
Kavita

Hi!

I will build a site using Drupal CMS and I cannot decide what version to choose. I read the changelog but I still don't understand something. Is version 4.5.x stable ? Do you update this version too, or only 4.7.x ?

There are some modules that I really need, but only for version 4.5.x. That's why I am interested in using old version. And I don't know if it is a old version with many bugs or an old version stable to use on a production site ?

And another one ... exept the bugfixes and little changes, what are main differences between 4.5.x and 4.6.x ?

If your webhost allow the use of .htaccess, there are several options to stop trackback spam (or splogs) from occuring in the first place.

You can stop it via the .htaccess file