Since I have just upgraded howforge.com to Drupal 4.7.0 beta 5, the common task is to test the functionality of all modules. The first module I found bug is ip2cc module. The symptom is that you will never see all flags. This is because Drupal 4.7.0 beta 5 doesn’t rely on base tag anymore! This is very interesting and exciting feature since Drupal use base tag to simplify path creation for so long. For all module maintainers, they have to call url() function to make sure all URLs are valid. Below is the list of modules I have to patch in Drupal 4.7.0 beta 5. Most of them has problem with CSS.

phpBB is a powerful and popular bulletin board software running on top of PHP and mySQL. However, you will get some trouble to use so popular softwares. Can you guess what kind of trouble you will get from phpBB? It is a very simple one. If you have deployed phpBB for a year you could encounter this situation. Yes, it is hacked again and again.

My friend is providing hosting services on FreeBSD server. This server is very secure. However, it was hacked 2 days ago through phpBB deployed by his customer himself. The result is that the hacker successfully added a cron entry to run IRC bot. Then he found that the installed phpBB had at least a vulnerability relating to mishandling string.

If you are using Drupal and you have an ’ account, you might be interested to try Google Analytics for Drupal. By using this module, you will be able to add necessary code to all pages automatically without modification to your theme.

This is a good start. Anyway, it is possible to track your website programmatically using Google Analytics. Google Analytics module should provide high-level APIs to support Drupal user. Hope budda, the author, will continue this impressive project.