Replacing Captcha?

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:14 am

Ok, here's a hard one..

How can I replace the Captcha with question/answer for new registrations?

Razz

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:05 am

It would take a good bit of recoding. The big problem is many bots can bypass a text based captcha. Potential users that do not speak English could also encounter problems.

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:33 am

nuken wrote:

It would take a good bit of recoding. The big problem is many bots can bypass a text based captcha. Potential users that do not speak English could also encounter problems.

Ok ya I thought so, I think your right about that just trying to work on blocking spam...maybe i'll just manually enter in ip's from stopforumspam.com

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:39 am

May want to give this a try:
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 11:11 am

Good point Montego. I have been using nukeSpam and Site Guardian both and have had almost zero spammers on my site.

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 12:31 pm

So I've decided to use zbblock just not sure where to put this line of code in the mainfile.php The forums over there do not have much on RN, just people who already know the basics of php unlike me Razz

I tried at the very top of the mainfile.php but I couldn't load my website..

Recommendations please & ty!?

Now you must add:

<?php require('/home/blahblahblah/public_html/zblock/zbblock.php'); ?>

to all the pages you wish to protect, as near as you can to the top as you can, and deffinitely before any MySQL access occurs. Make sure you do not add any spaces, or new lines between the hook's "?>" and the original script's "<?php"

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 12:53 pm

Just use nukeSPAM 1.0.1.

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 12:58 pm

ya nukespam was easy to install thanx for that, would still like to use zblock along with it to protect myadmin section. Where can i stick that code?

Site Admin Joined: Aug 22, 2007 Posts: 1772

You can protect your admin section with the sentinel AUTH, you don't need zblock for that.

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 1:27 pm

neralex wrote:

You can protect your admin section with the sentinel AUTH, you don't need zblock for that.

my issue is I can not get AUTH to work do to my servers settings apparently, so i wanted a 2nd layer of protection

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 1:32 pm

btw do i need to go download database keys for nuke spam or did it already come with them? I registered for keys regardless but api keys for stopforumspam are no longer available... what should I put in that field?

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 1:59 pm

If you hover over the info icons in nukeSPAM, you will see what needs to be done to get the keys for the services.