Having problems with Cutenews, spam comments |
 Apr 7 2009, 09:37 AM
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 Mel Blanc was allergic to carrots.  Group: Official Designer Posts: 6,371 Joined: Aug 2008 Member No: 676,291  |
Ok, so recently, I've been deleting a lot of comments from my blog because they had a bunch of spam. I've also tried banning them but they all have different ip's so that means I have a spam bot on my hands. I really want the spam comments to stop so I've tried using some codes.
You see, Cutenews has its own forums, CutePHP Forums, and on those forums I tried searching for some help. I found a topic that could help me. I've tried using the first method and followed all the instructions. QUOTE Hack Name: Spam protection with random bot word. Description: people will have to fill in this word before the comment can be added to the database. This word is a generated String of letters and numbers. This hack is updated on 06/08/2008 to improve the effectivness. It should work now with more then 1 include code, though that's unconfirmed!. Author: FUNimations Extra credits: Ifa 1. open the file that has your CN include code ... important make back-up first. add CODE <?php session_start(); ?> At the top of that page. This must be the very first php code!! If you get a warning/error about sessions on your site. This will be due to the fact you have another php script in there that also uses sessions. Ask their support what to do. And tell them that session_start() allready happens before you use their script. This function is a php function and is not limited to a script, but can be used by all scripts in that page. 2. open shows.inc.php in inc folder find CODE $mail = trim($mail); add under CODE $test = trim($_POST[$_SESSION['spam']]); find CODE <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ucat\" value=\"$ucat\" /> and add under CODE <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"".$_SESSION['spam']."\" value=\"$test\" /> find CODE $mail = replace_comment("add", preg_replace("/\n/", "",$mail)); add under CODE $test = replace_comment("add", preg_replace("/\n/", "",$test)); find CODE if($name == " " or $name == ""){ add above CODE if($_SESSION[$_SESSION['spam']] == $test ) {$ok = TRUE;} else { echo("<div style=\"text-align: center;color:white;background-color:darkred;\"> Your write too long!<br /> <a href=\"java script:history.go(-1)\"> go back </a> </div>"); $CN_HALT = TRUE; break 1; } Please ... before you save show.inc.php , make sure javascript dont have space like this java script:history.go(-1) find CODE $template_form = str_replace("{smilies}", $smilies_form, $template_form); add under CODE if( !isset($input_name) ){ function code($nc, $a='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0') { $l=strlen($a)-1; $r=''; while($nc-->0) $r.=$a{mt_rand(0,$l)}; return $r; } $input_name = code(10); $_SESSION['spam'] = $input_name; $code = code(5); $_SESSION[$input_name] = $code; } $template_form = str_replace("{smilies}", $smilies_form, $template_form); $template_form = str_replace("{bot-inputname}", $_SESSION['spam'] ,$template_form); $template_form = str_replace("{bot-word}", $_SESSION[$_SESSION['spam']] ,$template_form); 3. Go to the comments form template. Put something along this piece of code goes inside the comments form template. CODE <tr> <td width="450" height="1"> <small>Type {bot-word} in the box:</small> </td> <td width="450" height="1"><small><input type="text" name="{bot-inputname}" tabindex="1"> (anti-spam)</small> </td> </tr> I did exactly what it said but it still didn't work. I'm not so sure about the first step but I added the <?php session_start(); ?> as the first line under my <body> tag. I haven't used the CAPCTCHA method yet but I just want to see if there is any way of doing like this, without a CAPTCHA. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. 
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Apr 7 2009, 10:28 AM
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Mel Blanc was allergic to carrots. Group: Official Designer Posts: 6,371 Joined: Aug 2008 Member No: 676,291 |
Err..never mind. I got it to work. Used a reCaptcha. lol. This may be closed.
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