Another phpLD Link Submit Problem Solved

I noticed recently that a couple of my directories were getting zero daily submissions (down from 40-50). When I tried to submit a link myself, I got an error message like "Unauthorized! Sorry, you don't have permission to view this page".

I thought this might be related to the issue I brought up a couple of weeks ago, which could be fixed by renaming unauthorised.tpl (with an "s") to unauthorized.tpl (with a "z"), but this went deeper than that.

After digging around the phpLD forums, I found a solution. The problem has to do with user-agents and referrers (which I don't pretend to understand), and can be fixed as follows:

Edit submit.php and comment out the lines on check_post_rules, so this

//Make an additional check if client is allowed to post/submit
//[Spam] protection
require_once 'include/check_post_rules.php';
$post_rules_unauthorized = check_post_rules($_POST);

becomes this

//Make an additional check if client is allowed to post/submit
//[Spam] protection
//require_once 'include/check_post_rules.php';
//$post_rules_unauthorized = check_post_rules($_POST);

Note that this only eliminates the SECOND level of spam protection; the first level is left intact. Worked like a charm for me.

Bill

 

Thanks for sharing

 

did anyone else ever have this problem? I have not yet seen it ' knock on wood '

 

thanks man you are a life savor..i was also facing same thing

 

Hello...

many thx for this fix as a few have contacted me befoer regarding this type of error..

thx
malcolm

 

I have had this error before too, but I don't really understand what is causing it, can you explain that part please?