By jeditdog on

My forum is getting pounded by spam. I see some modules that offer good solutions, but for right now, all I want is to approve each forum post before it is viewable by the public. I don't see a module with this functionality. Any suggestions on what to use?

I'm considering installing Mollom.... but I'd like to explore this other option first.

thanks!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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jeditdog commented

Well it wasn't difficult to hack this up a little so I altered the code.

In common.inc's drupal_write_record() I added (near top of function):

  if ($table == 'node' && 
  		$object->is_new == 1 && 
  		$object->type == 'forum')
  {
 	$object->status = 0;
 	//echo "\n<br/><br/>\n";
 	//print_r($object);		
 	//echo "\n<br/><br/>\n";
 	//print_r($update);
 	drupal_set_message('Thank you for your post.  It will be published as soon as an Administrator has approved it.'); //t('@type %title has been created.', $t_args));
  	//die();
  }

status gets set to 0. Thought I'd have to do this on comments as well, but they have the permission "post comments without approval" so I just set that.

I may eventually make a report that shows me what needs to be approved, but for now, I'll just monitor drupal's admin pages.