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| Jean-Guy Mouton 2006-12-01, 3:57 am |
| Hello,
I would like to implement a little modification but I am just a beginner in
PHP.
What I want to do is this: when users register they can choose between 2
languages: English and French. My forum is in French and when I get
registrations in English it always means it is a spambot.
How can I sort registrations based on language and cancel the ones in
English?
Thank you for your help.
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| Display an image on your registration page, which contains some lettering
for the user to enter as part of their registration. The spambots would not
be able to read this and you could periodically change the text, too.
"Jean-Guy Mouton" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I would like to implement a little modification but I am just a beginner
> in
> PHP.
>
> What I want to do is this: when users register they can choose between 2
> languages: English and French. My forum is in French and when I get
> registrations in English it always means it is a spambot.
>
> How can I sort registrations based on language and cancel the ones in
> English?
>
> Thank you for your help.
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| Jean-Guy Mouton 2006-12-01, 3:57 am |
| On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:34:50 -0000, Sean wrote:
> Display an image on your registration page, which contains some lettering
> for the user to enter as part of their registration. The spambots would not
> be able to read this and you could periodically change the text, too.
Unfortunately that does not work. There is already such a system already
implemented in phpBB but spambots register nonetheless.
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"Jean-Guy Mouton" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:34:50 -0000, Sean wrote:
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> Unfortunately that does not work. There is already such a system already
> implemented in phpBB but spambots register nonetheless.
Have you tried approaching phpBB and informing them that you're being
bombarded by spam and ask if there's anything that they can do to help
minimise this?
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| Jean-Guy Mouton 2006-12-01, 7:57 am |
| On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 09:48:15 -0000, Sean wrote:
> Have you tried approaching phpBB and informing them that you're being
> bombarded by spam and ask if there's anything that they can do to help
> minimise this?
Yes I tried that but they just ask me to install add-ons which other users
say are not effective and/or are so complex that they make any future
update process difficult and are too complex for my need anyway. Also,
they immediately close my threads because they say that too many people
have already talked about the spambot problem. I think they just do not
want to hear about that any longer (don't know why...).
For my forum, I just need an if loop to cancel the registrations in English
(99% made by spambots) but I do not know where to write such a loop in
phpBB...
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"Jean-Guy Mouton" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 09:48:15 -0000, Sean wrote:
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> Yes I tried that but they just ask me to install add-ons which other users
> say are not effective and/or are so complex that they make any future
> update process difficult and are too complex for my need anyway. Also,
> they immediately close my threads because they say that too many people
> have already talked about the spambot problem. I think they just do not
> want to hear about that any longer (don't know why...).
>
> For my forum, I just need an if loop to cancel the registrations in
> English
> (99% made by spambots) but I do not know where to write such a loop in
> phpBB...
You now have me in an area where I am not that familiar, you need someone
who uses PHP and is a phpBB user, the latter I am not. Do you get many
spambot hits and are they then posting to the forums?
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| Jean-Guy Mouton 2006-12-01, 7:57 am |
| On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 12:38:16 -0000, Sean wrote:
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> You now have me in an area where I am not that familiar, you need someone
> who uses PHP and is a phpBB user, the latter I am not. Do you get many
> spambot hits and are they then posting to the forums?
Yes I understand the problem: you need to be familiar with phpBB
structure.
I get about 50 spambot hits per day. They cannot post because their
registration must first be approved by me but each day I have to manually
clean the database :-(
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