Re: [PHP] comments function being spammed, how do I stop it?

2008-08-27 Thread Stut
On 27 Aug 2008, at 15:37, tedd wrote: At 3:37 PM +0100 8/26/08, Stut wrote: In my experience most spam can be blocked by case-insensitively checking for "[url" and "there that don't include URLs. -Stut Well... that would block me many times from providing comment for I often not only comm

Re: [PHP] comments function being spammed, how do I stop it?

2008-08-27 Thread tedd
At 3:37 PM +0100 8/26/08, Stut wrote: In my experience most spam can be blocked by case-insensitively checking for "[url" and "there that don't include URLs. -Stut Well... that would block me many times from providing comment for I often not only comment but back my point up with a link to a

Re: [PHP] comments function being spammed, how do I stop it?

2008-08-27 Thread David Robley
tedd wrote: > At 3:14 PM -0700 8/25/08, Jim Lucas wrote: >>Here is the function that I added to a generic guest book script. >>It works great for me. I have a predefined list of sexual, >>pharmaceutical, rude, vulgar, etc... words that I have in the >>spamwords.dat file. >> >>function is_spam($st

Re: [PHP] comments function being spammed, how do I stop it?

2008-08-26 Thread Jim Lucas
Stut wrote: On 26 Aug 2008, at 15:23, tedd wrote: At 3:14 PM -0700 8/25/08, Jim Lucas wrote: Here is the function that I added to a generic guest book script. It works great for me. I have a predefined list of sexual, pharmaceutical, rude, vulgar, etc... words that I have in the spamwords.da

Re: [PHP] comments function being spammed, how do I stop it?

2008-08-26 Thread Stut
On 26 Aug 2008, at 15:23, tedd wrote: At 3:14 PM -0700 8/25/08, Jim Lucas wrote: Here is the function that I added to a generic guest book script. It works great for me. I have a predefined list of sexual, pharmaceutical, rude, vulgar, etc... words that I have in the spamwords.dat file.

Re: [PHP] comments function being spammed, how do I stop it?

2008-08-26 Thread tedd
At 3:14 PM -0700 8/25/08, Jim Lucas wrote: Here is the function that I added to a generic guest book script. It works great for me. I have a predefined list of sexual, pharmaceutical, rude, vulgar, etc... words that I have in the spamwords.dat file. function is_spam($str) { $data = './data

Re: [PHP] comments function being spammed, how do I stop it?

2008-08-25 Thread Jim Lucas
Barnaby Walters wrote: Hi there! my comments function for my website (at www.waterpigs.co.uk/php/phpTest.php) is being spammed, what would be your sugguestions of a way to deal with it? I was thinking of something to do with searching the strings of comments contained in the database for r

Re: [PHP] comments function being spammed, how do I stop it?

2008-08-25 Thread David Otton
2008/8/25 Barnaby Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > my comments function for my website (at www.waterpigs.co.uk/php/phpTest.php) > is being spammed, what would be your sugguestions of a way to deal with it? > I was thinking of something to do with searching the strings of comments > contained in the

Re: [PHP] comments function being spammed, how do I stop it?

2008-08-25 Thread Thiago H. Pojda
Captcha? On 8/25/08, Barnaby Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi there! > > my comments function for my website (at www.waterpigs.co.uk/php/phpTest.php) > is being spammed, what would be your sugguestions of a way to deal with it? > I was thinking of something to do with searching the str