drupalib A place for library drupallers to hang out

Members of Drupalib who get email notifications of new content will have seen that today I created a quiz and two inane questions. I'm sorry to have polluted your inboxes. This test quiz was not meant to be publicized, but by marking it as published, I triggered the notification that you received.

I've configured Notify to not alert members about the creation of new quizzes, since I set up that module with no particular intent of making it a general feature of Drupalib. Again, I apologize for the inbox static.

Just updated the site to all the latest versions of core and contrib modules, and added the funky ASCII art CAPTCHA. This one seems to have eliminated automated spambots from another Drupal site I manage (http://pkp.sfu.ca). Let's see how it works on drupalib.

After having to delete a couple hundred spam comments this weekend, I've turned off anonymous commenting. Either the human spam bots are working overtime or CAPTCHA has been cracked. I'll turn on anonymous commenting when things settle down.

I don't know but I'm working on finding out. Will post update here tomorrow.

Update, 2009-03-14: An upgrade to Drupal and all contrib modules has not solved the problem. I tried some debugging as suggested at http://drupal.org/node/362799, but doing so produced an unexpected result, so I posted a comment to see if anyone else had seen the same.

I have to admit that the upgrade from 5.12 to 6.8 was not trouble free. I followed the instructions in the 6.8 INSTALL.txt to the letter: I backed up my db and site, and upgraded Drupal core and all contributed modules to their latest versions (actually, everything was already current except for a couple of contrib modules). As a matter of housekeeping I also uninstalled a couple of modules that were not being used.

If anyone is intererested in having a rich text editor in Drupalib, post a comment. I've used BUEditor and FCKeditor on a couple of sites, the former being a nice, simple tag editor and the latter being a full blown WYSIWYG editor. I'd favor BUEditor simply because it's so lightweight and easy to use, but that's just my preference.

I've added a "commercial services" directory -- if you provide Drupal consulting, development, or hosting services for libraries, feel free to add an entry.

Also, Drupalib now has 106 members -- wow!