November 2009

A Form of Google Paid Inclusion?

Submitted by Matt on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 17:52

One of the reasons Yahoo Search is somewhat less trusted in the industry is because they have a paid inclusion system. In order to increase rankings to your site, all you really had to have was enough money. Very simple for people to buy rankings of some form or another. (This is all moot, of course, when Bing takes over their search).

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Read Only Fields for Drupal Forms

Submitted by Matt on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 20:49

When developing CrowdedText.com, I ran into the problem of needing read-only fields once a node had been created.  I didn't want to prohibit editing completely. Only for a few fields.

You can't just hide or disable the field, although that's a necessary step.  Anyone with a tool like Firebug would still be able to edit the html in real-time and submit the form, changing the value.  When some of your backend logic depends on the keeping these values accurate, this is a big no-no.

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