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Zero Spam

Simon Rycroft — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:17:45 +0000

I’m now close to 100% confident that we’ve managed to cut out spam completely on the Scratchpads. We’re doing this using two modules, Hashcash (as mentioned previously on this blog), and Mollom.

What’s Mollom? Well, it’s a spam detection service which implements its own Captcha on a site if it thinks some content posted is spam. It’s the one module I’d now recommend all Drupal installations shouldn’t be without.

Hashcash

Simon Rycroft — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:00:53 +0000

I’ve raved about how good the Wordpress Hashcash plugin is before, so I decided to implement it for Drupal (http://drupal.org/project/hashcash). I’ve got it installed on the fifty plus sites I manage, and so far it seems to be doing its thing. I’ll post here with updates if it does anything silly!

Imagex

Simon Rycroft — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:14:15 +0000

Just felt I should shout about the new module I’ve developed for Drupal. It extends the Image module to make adding large numbers of images even simpler than before. It, of course, uses Postlet for the image upload, and then a tiny smattering of jQuery for the dynamic page refresh.

Drupal module weight

Simon Rycroft — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:53:01 +0000

I just had to write a quick post having scratched my head over this one for a little too long.

Basically, within Drupal I’d wanted to change the order that the hook_form_alter hooks were executed. In order to do this all you need to do is to set the “weight” of the module in question to a greater value. In our example, I wanted my module to execute its code after the location module. The location module has a weight of 0 (the default), so simply be setting mine to 1 its code was executed after the location module’s code.