Spam Bot Question literally - is their an add on to Drupal so that I can put a question in were new users register

survival bill - July 30, 2009 - 00:38

is their an add on to Drupal so that I can put a question in were new users register since capatchas are beaten within days I found this the best way to deal with them when I used phpbb2 and 3 for registered users since the question can be changed to something different for every site it defeats the bots so my question is - Is their already something like this out if not can I do it myself if so were/what files to edit and were to add it to those files?

Yes I am new to Drupal and am more than willing to give it a go and see how it goes..

just want to speed up the finding info part once I get used to how things work I hope not to bother anyone with my quests for info.....

also noticed that Drupal allows HTML is this not a great a problem with getting a site hacked?

now to find out if it will notify me if someone posts to this all this neat new stuff to try and test out.....

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pbarnett - July 30, 2009 - 00:48

I use CAPTCHA (http://drupal.org/project/captcha) to block spambots, and the excellent HTML Purifier (http://drupal.org/project/htmlpurifier) as an HTML filter.

Works for me!

Pete.

meny thanks pete! now I have

survival bill - July 30, 2009 - 01:56

meny thanks pete!

now I have looked to see how to hard code meta tag keyword/discriptions but cant figure out what file to manipulate to add them in not like I can find a header page/file anywhere yes I know I am going through a learning curve here...

Drupal does seem very hard to modify compared to other programs I have worked with over the years...

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pbarnett - July 30, 2009 - 02:26

Read about the theming functionality at http://api.drupal.org/api/group/themeable/6

You can add site-wide meta tags by modifying page.tpl.php, and much, much, much more with the other template files and the theming system...

Pete.

again meny thanks!

survival bill - July 30, 2009 - 02:30

again meny thanks!

 
 

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