Spam blocking for FluxBB 1.4

mattT09 · 2009-09-09 22:23:13

if Flux 1.4 is close to release, how about an effective Spam blocker for it?

I've tried all the Spam - Aksimet - Captcha mods I can find referenced here on the forum as supposedly working with 1.4, but none of them seem to be working with 1.4b2.

The closest I've come is with reCaptcha v2. but all I get to is a screen containing the page links for my forum but no other content when I try to return to admin to set the Q's...

I only have a small forum, but the registrations from spammers are growing daily... be good to stop them at the front gate as opposed to inside the house!

hcgtv · 2009-09-10 00:02:57

mattT09 wrote:

if Flux 1.4 is close to release, how about an effective Spam blocker for it?

FSX is planning on releasing some spam mods for 1.4.

And I agree, we should stop them at the gates.

mattT09 · 2009-09-12 08:32:40

Just a quicky to say I've now got Akismet Mod working with 1.4b2.

A small change to a CASE statement in the install and it's up and running.

Originally the db table was not being written as I am using a mysql_innodb. A simple change to reflect this in the install and all's good.

Thankyou Frank (FXS)

Matt T

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sirena · 2009-09-13 03:58:15

mattT09 can you plls provide more details of exactly what you did to get it all working for you?

Could be handy for someone else to learn from.

Thanks!

Last edited by sirena (2009-09-13 03:58:35)

Smartys · 2009-09-13 05:44:08

He was pretty clear. He added a case to the switch statement to handle the mysql_innodb database layer (using the same code as normal MySQL).

sirena · 2009-09-13 14:00:01

LOL.

Smartys answer was no doubt 100% accurate but also 100% equally as unclear as matt's reply.

Clear to sophisticated programmers may not mean the same as it may to less experienced copypasta coders.

Hence pasting the code.

Oh well, I tried.

Smartys · 2009-09-13 15:16:19

Well, FSX is planning on remaking the modification and 1.4 is still in beta, so I don't really see a problem. Anyone who knows anything about coding (and can thus be called a "coder") should be able to understand what matt said and what I repeated. If the extent of someone's coding knowledge is the ability to copy/paste the code of others, they probably shouldn't be running a beta version. And if they are, they can wait for the Akismet mod to be re-released (after all, nobody is running 1.4 in production, right?)

Also, while I'm not a fan of "plz giv me teh codez!!!" types of posts, nowhere did you indicate that's what you were after. All you said was "can you plls provide more details of exactly what you did to get it all working for you?"

mattT09 · 2009-09-13 21:27:18

Cool to be thought of as a 'Coder'. I'm not, can feel my way round a code if I know what I'm looking for... e.g. happy updating from TRAK and playing with mod's etc then putting it back together when it doesn't work etc

In side akismet_install.php is a CASE statement; for the mysql bit I just appended _innodb onto mysql and hey presto everything works fine.

I had being unable to get the script to write the db table initially - but it all seems to be working as it should now with 1.4b2.

sirena · 2009-09-13 22:15:29

Sorry Smartys. The clouds darkened over my head and lightning filled the sky when I posted my criticism of you, so I knew I'd done something wrong. Mea culpa.

Thanks for the clarification of what you did mattT09. Now it is clear exactly what you did to get your code working, and it looks simple enough for most people to follow. Congrats on getting it to work the way you needed it to.

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Spam blocking for FluxBB 1.4

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