Guests can add news

[scottdallas]

Looks like I'm going to have to add captcha to this. Darnit. Well, I'm glad it's available. I logged in to add some news to www.itsgamertime.com and had page 1 and 2 completely full of unapproved BS advertisements all through it. Frustrating. Who does that stuff? What do they think they're gettin away with? It even happens on my phpbb installations. I get sign ups with xanax and phentermine ALL THE TIME! I can't imagine if I had more traffic how much more spam I'd get. I really thought the guest can add news hack wouldn't get spammed though.

[RAMI7250]

and i have been searching that for along time!



thanks again!

[afxback]

I dont know why something in cutenews changes sometime itself.

1.previously I used "guest' mod and it worked well. but once I found after some guest submition, all my database gone!

I tried much to return it. but now, when I turn the captcha config in "guest" mod to "true" and call it in browser , just a white page comes up!

if I turn it to "false", then I have the mod working but recive lots of daily webbot spams!



2.This mod has another problem that once before I asked about but no response recieved. That is : when guest post an article without filling the "required xfields", it says that you have not filled all required fileds and should go back and send again. However, when you sign in as admin you will find all guest posts( including that one rejected before), added to database and waiting for approval?!

regards

[afxback]

I am a bit getting frustrated when ask a problem repeatedly and recieve no response while this was a verry active forum before.

ok. this is not a criticism indeed and I have posted a dffence here even:

http://english.cutenews.ru/forum/where- ... -t756.html



maybe people have got too busy.

[FI-DD]

2.This mod has another problem that once before I asked about but no response recieved. That is : when guest post an article without filling the "required xfields", it says that you have not filled all required fileds and should go back and send again. However, when you sign in as admin you will find all guest posts( including that one rejected before), added to database and waiting for approval?!

regards

You have to add the XFields to the javascript check. By default it only checks if the short-story is blank:

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if (document.guest.short_story.value == ""){

     document.guest.short_story.focus();

     alert ("The short story can't be blank.");

     return false;

   }

Copy this code and replace "short_story" with the name(s) of your XField(s).

[scottdallas]

Can I turn approval off? In other words I'd like it so when guests submit news, they are live immediately. Maybe like an approve/unapprove toggle.

[FI-DD]

Just remove or comment out the javascript part from the code.

[scottdallas]

doh! that easy!? thanks



update:I tried that just now and it still goes unapproved. Is there anything else I should delete or comment out?



This is exactly what I took out:

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<script type="text/javascript">

function check_fields(){

   if (document.guest.short_story.value == ""){

     document.guest.short_story.focus();

     alert ("The short story can't be blank.");

     return false;

   }

   return true;

}

</script>

[joshers]

doh! that easy!? thanks



update:I tried that just now and it still goes unapproved. Is there anything else I should delete or comment out?



This is exactly what I took out:

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<script type="text/javascript">

function check_fields(){

   if (document.guest.short_story.value == ""){

     document.guest.short_story.focus();

     alert ("The short story can't be blank.");

     return false;

   }

   return true;

}

</script>

thats the wrong code, that code is for checking fields, to make sure someone typed something in.

in guest.php try changing

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     'values' => array(

         'date'      => $added_time,

         'author'   => ($_POST['name'] ? $_POST['name'] : 'guest'),

         'title'       => replace_news('add', $title),

         'short'       => strlen(replace_news('add', $short_story)),

         'full'      => strlen(replace_news('add', $full_story)),

         'avatar'   => $avatar,

         'category' => $category,

         'url'      => namespace(totranslit($title)),

         'hidden'   => true

         )

     ));

try changing hidden to false.. i dont know if that'll do it,but worth a shot.

[scottdallas]

ok i put the javascript back in.. i thought it didn't look like the right thing to change. i also tried changing hidden to false and that made no difference either.. i know there has to be a way! thanks for the help though guys.. when i get this it's going to be sweet!

[FI-DD]

Sorry, I misread your question.



Normally, setting hidden to false should work.



Try this instead:

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'hidden'   => '0'

[scottdallas]

that did the trick!



http://www.metaspammer.com/spam-this-site.php

[Saszoo]

What a Site

[scottdallas]

haha i know who does that really? thanks for spamming it, i saw your site.

[Saszoo]

haha, yea I couldn't let an oppurtunity like this slip away!

great concept you'll probably see lot of spamming from me