Drupal 4.7.x

Ho does spam work exactly when it requires email confirmation? Our sites are getting spammed like crazy, and I have the spam module installed.

I've upgraded to the latest 4.7 release of the privatemsg module, then I tried backporting the "preview" feature of the 5.x release to mt 4.7.x install

I tried modifying the privatemsg.module as per: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/privatemsg/...

Here is the code I put in, in case someone can spot something obvious problems with it on a 4.7 installation:

$form = array('preview' => array());

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$form[] = array(
'#type' => 'submit',
'#value' => t('Preview')
);
$form[] = array(

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$form['#after_build'] = array('_privatemsg_new_preview');
return $form;
}

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function _privatemsg_new_preview($form, $form_values) {
if ($form_values['op'] == t('Preview')) {
$recipient = user_load(array('name' => $form_values['recipient']));
if ($recipient->uid) {
global $user;
$message->subject = $form_values['subject'];
$message->message = $form_values['privatemsgbody'];
$message->format = $form_values['format'];
message->timestamp = time();
$message->newmsg = TRUE;
$message->folder = 1;
$message->uid = $message->author = $user->uid;
$message->name = $user->name;
$message->recipient = $recipient->uid;
$form['preview'] = array(

I have noticed a problem with adding character encoded mailto links to the core contact form.

The following encoded mailto link:

Hello,

in order to upgrade safely a 4.7.6 site to 5.0 I have replicated the whole mysql database, copied all the drupal directory to another folder (cp -r -p drupal drupal_new), modified settings.php in drupal_new to point to the replicated database, pointed apache to drupal_new.

When I point the browser at mysite.net, the home page appears OK. When I click on the login button I get the login form OK.

When I enter user name and password and click login , I get

Not Found

The requested URL /user/login was not found on this server.

The server log says:

File does not exist: /var/www/html/drupal_new/user, referer: http://mysite.net/?q=user/login

After that, I discovered that, while the home page displays OK, no link from it works.. If I, for example, click on a menu entry in the home page pointing to "http://mysite.net/taxonomy/term/1", I get

Not Found

The requested URL /taxonomy/term/1 was not found on this server

and in the apache log:

File does not exist: /var/www/html/drupal_new/taxonomy, referer: http://mysite.net/

Hi All,

Hi all

I am the current part-time freelance developer for a multimedia website containing essays, speeches, picture galleries, audio clips and links to video. The site has a background traffic of c. 8k page views per day, rising up to c. 200k/day after TV or high-profile internet exposure. It is edited by a non-technical user so the TinyMCE plugin is used to provide a reasonably WYSIWYG preview of content, and I have added an AJAX widget to aid ordering the substantial number of menu items.

I am intending to bow out of this responsibility due to time limitations, so my London-based employer has asked me to help find a replacement.

The site is running Drupal 4.7.5 and has been patched reasonably up to date, although a fresh install of the latest 4.7 branch IMHO would be a good idea - we've been hit by a front-page defacing cracker once already. A switch to Drupal 5 would be fine but the last time I looked into it, the TinyMCE module was not as feature-rich as its 4.7.x counterpart. A template redesign will be required, but it will not require particularly advanced graphics skills - it's a fairly square and simple 2-column CSS layout. Good x-browser CSS and a standards-based approach to design is, in my view, important. Naturally a good level of familiarity with SSH/Bash/Linux/security is a pre-requisite.