Messages posted by: terreus

Carbonize wrote:I had this problem so I had a friend write an image verification script to prevent bots from posting in the guestbook.
Also you would probably find a robots.txt file better than the meta tags.

Using a robots.txt file does not prevent the human spammer from typing 'Guestbook' into Google and then vsiting each of the results and posting spam intot haose guestbooks.
Those are the type of brain dead spammers I was suggesting a way of preventing by stopping the search pages from indexing the guestbook.

I have had to insert some meta tags to stop the search engines from indexing my guestbook because of the amount of halfwits using it to advertise porn and sites offering enlargement services.
I thought some others that are getting spammed may be interested.

In templates/header.php
Insert:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />

Use 'locking timeout' as the 'Server time offset' is normally used only if your server (that the site is hosted on) is in a different time zone to where you are located.

Did you put the image in the table as a background image in both the Poll View & Poll Result templates that you access from your poll admin window?

Can you not change it from your admin page (admin/admin_settings.php) I have it set to 720 hours which would be a month. I supose you could just add what hours you like, I'm not sure if there is a limit that it can go to.

I did it by just editing the templates (admin_templates.php) once you have logged into your Poll admin area (admin/index.php). Not too hard to do.