SELECT * FROM smf_messages WHERE posterName='{deletedusername}'

Replace all of {deletedusername} with the username of the deleted member and update your table name for smf_messages.

You could run a DELETE query, but this could result in some odd behaviour, forum message counts would be wrong and if it’s the first post of a topic, it could make the whole topic out of kilter. It’s best to manually delete these. (And you might consider wanting to charge people for your trouble!)

After running the above query in phpmyadmin, click the export link at the bottom and save to excel csv.

Once you have the excel file, you can copy the full link to the the forum index.php?topic= in a new inserted column. Copy from the first row and highlight the rest to paste to all cells. Delete or move the second column (message numbers) so that the link column is next to the topic number. You could then highlight both columns and paste to a text file for list of links to the topics, or concatenate (merge) both columns in another new column.

UPDATE drup_node SET `comment`=0 WHERE type='review';

Modify as needed with the correct drupal node table name for your installation, and set the type= to whatever the type you’d like to update.

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In file plugins/exec-php/includes/runtime.php find the block that starts at line 52:

	function filter_user_content($content)
	{
		global $post;

Add after it:

		// check if this post has disabled exec-php in custom fields
		$custom_fields = get_post_custom(); 
		$php_disable_this_post = $custom_fields['disablephp_exec'];
		$phpexecdisable= $php_disable_this_post[0];
		if ($phpexecdisable =='1')
			return $content;

Add the Custom Field to your post, ‘disablephp_exec’ and give it a value of 1.

Upload your new runtime.php file and you’re off.

This is a great plugin, very useful, but I wish it used code tags instead of standard php tags.

Exec-PHP Plugin on Wordpress
Exec-PHP Homepage

Have them create a new account and then run this query:

UPDATE smf_messages SET ID_MEMBER = {newaccountnumber} WHERE posterName = '{username}';

Always always back up before running queries or making changes.

Be sure to change {newaccountnumber} to the id of the new account, {username} to name of the old account (remove curly braces) and smf_messages to the correct table name/prefix.

Change the ‘numberhere’ to be the spammer’s user id number and change the table prefix to your own prefix if different. This does not delete the PM, but does replace the spam content.

 
UPDATE `smf_instant_messages` SET `body` = 'Message deleted due to spam' WHERE `ID_MEMBER_FROM` = 'numberhere';

Always always back up before running queries or making changes.

This is useful in the case of porn spam, however, people will have gotten any PM notifications of that.

This expat website began as an information resource and grew to a thriving community over the past decade. It has a Google pagerank of 4/10 and gets over a million page views per month.

We are currently working on a revamp of the site design and migrating the data to Drupal.
Website: http://www.uk-yankee.com.

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The Administrators created their own HTML design and we customised their system themes for an integrated Drupal driven website and Simple Machines Forum. We provide advice and technical scripting help when needed.

Website: http://www.kneeguru.co.uk

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This is due to the server configuration, apache mime-types. It is usually easily fixed in an .htaccess file.

AddType application/octet-stream mq4

If that doesn’t sort the issue after clearing the browser cache, you can also try adding:

<Files *.mq4>
ForceType application/octet-stream
Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</Files>

See also:
Drupal Mime-Types
Apache mod_mime
Apache htaccess directives

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TRUNCATE TABLE `drupal_sessions`

I also added a Drupal plugin to do database maintenance weekly to prevent this happening again. Sure enough, the site has been behaving and performing much better since, knock on wood.

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Myspace and Bebo have been around a long time and have been popular with teenagers. They could blog and share pictures with their friends (and even strangers). This seemed to hold little appeal for adults, we’re already too busy.

Facebook took the blog model and added a twist that appealed to adults. Instead of having to take the time to visit and read everyone’s individual pages, Facebook streams your friends updates into your facebook home page. Updates at a glance and gave the ability to acknowledge it with a thumbs up in one click, or leave a comment in a minute. In a few minutes you can get an overview of what’s happening to people who matter to you.

Social media has made the world seem smaller. With our families spanning the globe, Facebook can be a tool for strong communication, sharing events, sharing photos, videos and playing countless types of games, such as scrabble or bejeweled. You can even become a fan of The Muppets or “The Cold Side of the Pillow”.

Facebook offers many privacy settings for your posted content. If there are things you’d share with your best mates that you might not want your mum to see, it’s not a problem. You can sort your friends into groups and assign your content to be viewed by some of those groups, or not. Spam is well under control, I can’t recall seeing any.

Businesses and organisations can also take advantage of Facebook by creating a Facebook Page (this is not the same as a Facebook Group). By doing this, you can share your page with customers, staff and friends. They can then become Fans of your page and be fed your updates in their page. Their friends could also find your page interesting and become Fans. Pages provide the facilities for targeted advertising, attracting new contacts and engaging them in discussion.

Recent studies are showing that companies using social media have increased their revenue by 18% in the past 12 months. (Source: www.engagementdb.com) It is worth investigating what they are doing to defy the economic woes.

How does “Wiltshire” rank in Facebook search results? 35 Pages, 500+ Groups, and 313 Events posted.

Facebook is a diverse tool, and provides equal opportunities for all entities, with just a bit of effort.

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