By pinkblob on

I've created a modified version of the Drupal 4.5.1 comment module with Captcha support added.

You can read about it at http://www.bisiand.me.uk/node/629 and test it out too.

Hope someone finds it useful.

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fallacious’s picture

fallacious commented

When using this module, comments tend to end up with the wrong owner, e.g. and anonymous comment is owned by a registered user (that was recently active) and the ownership of comments posted by registered users is similarly messed up. Any ideas? The only thing I can think of is that the sess_write calls mix up the user ids.

chrisada’s picture

chrisada commented

I see in downloads section that the captcha.module has just been upgraded to offer comment captcha too. Haven't tried it though.

fallacious’s picture

fallacious commented

This one completely breaks login sessions on my site if enabled for comments by registered users (not that I want to do this).

I also needed a quick patch to actually enable captchas for anonymous posters.

Don't know how this setup behaves under stress, but so far it seems to do what I want it to do for the time being,

pinkblob’s picture

pinkblob commented

I am sorry if this patch has problems but it works for me and I don't have time to perfect it. As it says on the tin, I am really waiting for proper support to be put into Drupal.

Anyway, after a falling out with my domain name registrar (1&1, avoid them at all cost), the patch is now available from http://www.petersblog.org/node/629.

Peter
http://www.petersblog.org

fallacious’s picture

fallacious commented

I'm grateful for the work you've done. My regret is that I don't have a patch ready.

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dallasgrant@newswire.ws commented

Huh, no wonder why they are so inexpensive. I own a domain registar and have wished to compete with them .... now at least I know they are not worth it.

Sorry for going off topic

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daniel read commented

A big Thank You to all developers who worked on the upgrade to the captcha module to support comments. Those poker spamming a$$holes were killing me. I just finished adding the latest captcha.module from CVS and it's working great.

Dan

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fallacious’s picture

fallacious commented

You had these poker spammers, too? So far, captchas stopped them cold.

Now what about a referrer log cleaner? :-)