Stop (Most) Spam Bot Registrations on phpBB

[racefan20]

Just thought I'd pass this along for those of you who've had problems with spam bot registration and posting on your phpBB forum. I didn't write it, I'm just passing it along.

The edits are easy to do, but I can email the files with the edits complete to anyone who is having problems. NOTE: This means you need to try on your own first.


http://www.phpbb.com/files/mods/Easy...opper__100.mod is the download link, support thread is here: http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic...er=asc&start=0

[Vasili]

Great Post, General!

As always, your support and expertise is always welcome.....

[Aliens Anonymous]

Good mod Race, does this take away the website altogether or untill they have registered ? i put the humanizer on which seems to work.

How do you install this ? he he he just messing

[racefan20]

Originally Posted by Aliens Anonymous

Good mod Race, does this take away the website altogether or untill they have registered ? i put the humanizer on which seems to work.

How do you install this ? he he he just messing

Your registered users can still add their website through their profiles, but not on registration. I added this on a forum a friend runs - he's been having a helluva time with bot registrations and this stopped them cold.

The Humanizer is another really good one and I'll probably add it as well for that added layer of protection.

Install instructions can be found by dialing 800-DONTASKME.

[Aliens Anonymous]

installed my good friend, went straight in using easymod even with three skins.

Intall info phone No did not work got redirected to 800-doityourself.

[Girlonthehill]

Originally Posted by racefan20

Install instructions can be found by dialing 800-DONTASKME.

Originally Posted by Aliens Anonymous

Intall info phone No did not work got redirected to 800-doityourself.

LMAO!! Too funny.

[Vasili]

Quote:
Originally Posted by racefan20
Install instructions can be found by dialing 800-DONTASKME.



Quote:
Originally Posted by Aliens Anonymous
Intall info phone No did not work got redirected to 800-doityourself.



Did an online number search and discoverd the REAL number was 1-888-ImPouredOut.

Was answered by a message left by what sounded like a lady with no teeth and such a raspy voice dogs were heard howling in the background.
The short message was "To publish in BV you have to have an account, and if you want a Forum, you need to learn to install it yourself. DOB does NOT mean date of birth, and beyond that submit a ticket. Don't call again! Cough-cough"

I slowly hung up the phone and immediately started longing for the good old days before a Clone button ....

[limebrook1]

Hi Race - this post was manna from heaven for me as I am sick to death of all the spammers on my forum!

But I couldn't get the link to open - it said page not found.

Any ideas? (You know how challenged I am with all of this!)

[racefan20]

Here ya go, Trish!

#
#-----[ OPEN ]------------------------------------------
#
includes/usercp_register.php

#
#-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------
#
$unhtml_specialchars_match = array('#>#', '#<#', '#"#', '#&#');
$unhtml_specialchars_replace = array('>', '<', '"', '&');

#
#-----[ AFTER, ADD ]------------------------------------------
#

if ( $mode == 'editprofile' )
{
$template->assign_block_vars('only_show_notbot', array());
}

#
#-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------
#
if ( !($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) )
{
message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, 'Could not obtain next user_id information', '', __LINE__, __FILE__, $sql);
}
$user_id = $row['total'] + 1;

#
#-----[ AFTER, ADD ]------------------------------------------
#
if( $website != '' )
{
die();
}

#
#-----[ OPEN ]------------------------------------------
#
templates/subSilver/profile_add_body.tpl

#
#-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------
#
<tr>
<td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_WEBSITE}:</span></td>

#
#-----[ BEFORE, ADD ]------------------------------------------
#
<!-- BEGIN only_show_notbot -->

#
#-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------
#
<input type="text" class="post" style="width: 200px" name="website" size="25" maxlength="255" value="{WEBSITE}" />
</td>
</tr>

#
#-----[ AFTER, ADD ]------------------------------------------
#
<!-- END only_show_notbot -->

#
#-----[ SAVE/CLOSE ALL FILES ]------------------------------------------
#
# EoM

[limebrook1]

thanks Race - I'll give it a try!

[limebrook1]

Help! I put the code in, but got an unexpected parse string error on line 632 when I tried the registration! Took it out again and the board works again.

I copied it all in exactly - any idea where i am going wrong?

[racefan20]

You probably missed a small character or something, that's easy to do.

For your convenience, here are both files edited, tested and ready to go.

http://daysofblunder.com/botsmod.zip

[limebrook1]

What can I say, Race? Worked fine! Thank you so much for your help!

One other strange thing - do you remember the trouble I had with disappearing avatars each time I upgrade? Well, I haven't upgraded the Limebrook Forum (too much trouble with the adsense), but I have another forum on the Bearded Dragon site. I upgraded this one, and lo and behold - lost the avatars! Something very strange happening with my forums - I haven't touched that one at all!

[Aliens Anonymous]

Hi limebrook1 this is one of the problems with upgrading. any modifacations or avatars or or images go walkies. when you upgrade it replaces old files with the new files. so any changes you have made will disappear. best to use the same forum then add things to it.
i am still useing 2.19 with 23 mods in it if i upgrade i would lose most and have to do them all again by hand. for the small change the upgrade does it's not worth it.

[racefan20]

Going along with what Alien Dude posted - before you upgrade, download the images folder from the forum to your pc and then ftp it back in place after the upgrade.