Albums and Bots

david6363 · Beginner Joined: Jun 20, 2008 Posts: 10

It appears that if you have the setting to create album on first visit when a Bot visits Gallery2 an album is created. I am not sure how you have coded that part but I think that you probably need a check on phpbb3 user_type != 2.

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dari · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:22 am Post subject: Re: Albums and Bots

Good catch. Note that this should only happen if the useralbum module in G2 is installed (which creates the albums for each registered user).
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jettyrat · Moderator Joined: Nov 28, 2005 Posts: 1044

That's already been reported and fixed actually Smile

- http://www.nukedgallery.net/postt3930.html [nukedgallery.net]

I need to get the new code out. Was hoping to get more testing done by independent users, but nobody else has time.

The fix is this: Open g2helper.php
Find:

Code: › // not anonymous user
if ($user->data['username'] != 'Anonymous') {

Replace with:

Code: ›    // not anonymous user or bot
   if ($user->data['user_type'] != USER_IGNORE)
   {

HOTSPOT · Beginner Joined: Sep 14, 2007 Posts: 7

My site gets indexed quite a bit. I noticed a Google Bot had created an album. I added your code above and will report back.

HOTSPOT · Beginner Joined: Sep 14, 2007 Posts: 7

So far so good. No more Bot issues, thanks.