Module: Spam Hurdles 2, release candidate - testers welcome

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, release candidate - testers welcome

ckoval7 — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:38:45 -0600

Thank you very much!

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, release candidate - testers welcome

Thomas Seifert — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:13:04 -0600

So you are using PHP 5.4 as it seems.
Change this line to

Language: PHP
$scrambled{(int)(((int)$scramblePassword{$k}) * $numberOfRows) + $i} = $escaped{$k};

and it should avoid those warnings.

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, release candidate - testers welcome

ckoval7 — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:22:51 -0600

Correct

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, release candidate - testers welcome

Thomas Seifert — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:11:04 -0600

using the latest version of spamhurdles hopefully means that you use the one distributed with phorum, not the one from this thread, right?

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, release candidate - testers welcome

ckoval7 — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:25:10 -0600

I am having a problem with Spam Hurdles. When I go to the "Create a new profile" page it prints the following line on the page about a billion times:

Notice: String offset cast occurred in /opt/lampp/htdocs/forum/mods/spamhurdles/api.php on line 771

Line 771 in api.php is:

            $scrambled{(((int)$scramblePassword{$k}) * $numberOfRows) + $i} = $escaped{$k};

I don't even pretend to know php, so I don't know what's causing that issue.

I'm using the latest version of phorum and spam hurdles. I can provide any additional information on request.

Thanks,
Corey

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, release candidate - testers welcome

Fade2k — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:08:50 -0600

Is there a quick and easy way to have the CAPTCHA on login pages? Right now, I have it set so its above every text-text box (new posts, replies) which does appear to be doing the job.. I just wonder if it wouldn't work just as well on login without having it for every post.

Thanks!

[Sorry, I posted this in the wrong section!]

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, release candidate - testers welcome

kswift — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:46:52 -0600

This works well, generally! However since the previous spam hurdles, and still with this version, I have had a problem:

I would completely disable the 'Spam Hurdles for posting new messages' section, because we only need this to prevent robots from signing up. However despite only enabling the 'Spam Hurdles for user registration' section, we still get the occasional message that is kept in unapproved mode because of spam hurdles somehow thinking it is spam.
Any idea what may cause this?

Using version 5.2.16.

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, release candidate - testers welcome

ori — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 05:21:46 -0600

Hi Maurice,

I published a new version of my German Language Files Package which includes also translations for you module in two character sets iso-8859-1 and utf-8.

Please add the attached language files to the next release of your module and remove maybe existing old style files like german.php oder german-sie.php. Thanks!

Regards
Oliver

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, release candidate - testers welcome

tankslap — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:42:14 -0600

Hi Maurice,

I worked the problem out and just though I would let you know the solution FYI.

I upgraded a local copy of the site and still had the problem, so I started digging around. The module admin had complained at a missing hook:

	{HOOK "tpl_editor_before_textarea"}

So being lazy I just added that to the top of the template, this obviously wasn't the correct thing to do. I've now moved it to a position more inline with emerald and bingo, mod working perfectly.

As an enhancement it would be nice if the module had a top level condition to check if any hurdles are active, and if not skip all processing. It would help with dodgy templates and have a small performance benefit.

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, release candidate - testers welcome

Maurice Makaay — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 13:02:54 -0500

Yeah, sorry, it took me 5 minutes. Next time I'll try to be a bit faster ;-)

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, release candidate - testers welcome

tankslap — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 12:47:34 -0500

Wow, now that's a response time :D

Thanks for your suggestion Maurice, I'll copy the site down to my local server and try the upgrade.. I'll post back if I still have problems.

Thanks again for your quick response.

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, release candidate - testers welcome

Maurice Makaay — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 12:42:17 -0500

I tested it in my local Phorum installation, but was unable to reproduce the behavior.

My first suggestion would be to upgrade to the recent Phorum 5.1.16-RC1, since the module is included in that release and has been tested thoroughly.

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, release candidate - testers welcome

tankslap — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 12:37:43 -0500

Hi,

We've started getting a high number of automated registrations recently and was hoping to use the registration part of this module alone.

Since enabling the module all new posts in the forum are being marked as un-approved.

I set the module options to disable all hurdles under both the new posts section and pm section, and the enabled the multiple post, HTML check, and capture hurdles under the registration section. When I saved the module settings I did get a warning about the posting.tpl within the active template, but I don't see that should be an issue as the posting section is disabled.

I would really appreciate any suggestions as this module would be perfect for keeping the bot registrations down.

Thanks, Jon.

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, release candidate - testers welcome

Maurice Makaay — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:01:47 -0500

The code has been updated. Thanks!

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, release candidate - testers welcome

cactux — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:33:42 -0500

Hello,

Please find attached a completed french.php file.

There's a typo in the English message NeedJavascript:
s/diabled/disabled/

Thanks again for your module, Maurice!

Edit maurice: removed the language file, because it is now part of the Phorum distribution.

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, release candidate - testers welcome

Maurice Makaay — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:22:44 -0500

A sanity check is too late for this. The admin who enables the setting needs to know right away that his template might be causing issues for the selected protection. When things are wrong, nobody can post a form at all. That's why I put this sanity-check-like check right in the admin settings form.

A sanity check could be an option next to the checking that is already done in the admin settings. I'll see what I can do for that.

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, release candidate - testers welcome

ori — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:00:41 -0500

Hi Maurice,

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Maurice Makaay
Added code to the settings screen that will check if all templates contain the required template hooks. If there are template files that do not contain the required hooks, then a warning message is printed in the settings screen, telling the admin what templates to update with what hook.

I think this should be part of a sanity check...

Regards
Oliver

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, beta - testers welcome

noe — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:22:36 -0500

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Maurice Makaay
I think that the template code is the issue here. If you check out changeset 4610, then you can see that template data might need to be updated in order to make SpamHurdles v2 work for the PM posting as well.

What you need to check, is if you have the following in your pm_post.tpl:
 {HOOK "tpl_pm_editor_before_textarea"}
If not, then take a look at the template that you used as your base template and add the hook statement in your own pm_post.tpl at the correct position. That should make PM posting with SpamHurdles v2 work.

Yes, that was it, thanks!

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, release candidate - testers welcome

Maurice Makaay — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:36:25 -0500

I just released version 2.0.2 of the module This version was also added to the Phorum 5.2 code, making Spam Hurdles 2 the default for the next stable Phorum release!

Changes for this version:

Implemented more complete logging of blocked form posts using the Event Logging module.
Extended the settings for this module to make it possible to enable or disable the logging of form posts that are blocked by the Spam Hurdles module.
Added code to the settings screen that will check if all templates contain the required template hooks. If there are template files that do not contain the required hooks, then a warning message is printed in the settings screen, telling the admin what templates to update with what hook.

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, beta - testers welcome

Maurice Makaay — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:11:26 -0500

I think that the template code is the issue here. If you check out changeset 4610, then you can see that template data might need to be updated in order to make SpamHurdles v2 work for the PM posting as well.

What you need to check, is if you have the following in your pm_post.tpl:

 {HOOK "tpl_pm_editor_before_textarea"}

If not, then take a look at the template that you used as your base template and add the hook statement in your own pm_post.tpl at the correct position. That should make PM posting with SpamHurdles v2 work.

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, beta - testers welcome

Maurice Makaay — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:53:06 -0500

It has been a while, but I now have had time to look into the issue. Unfortunately, I have been unable to find an issue the PM handling. I installed a basic Phorum 5.2 using Emerald and installed the 2.0.1 version of the spam hurdles module. Using that configuration I could post CAPTCHA-protected PM's.

Can you please check if switching to the main Emerald template changes things? The only reason that I can think of for the PM protection not working, would be some missing template code.

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, beta - testers welcome

Maurice Makaay — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:29:03 -0500

Thanks for the report. I will look into it!

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, beta - testers welcome

cactux — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:03:11 -0500

Hi,

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noe
They get this message: "The data that you have submitted to the server have been rejected, because it looks like they were posted by an automated bot"

I get the same problem, after this upgrade:
* Phorum from 5.2.14 to 5.2.15a
* spamhurdles from 2.0.0 to 2.0.1

I commented the lines related to PM in the infos.txt file, and in the Phorum admin of spamhurdles, section "Spam Hurdles for posting private messages (PM)", I disabled 4 of the 5 hurdles (I enabled the one in the middle "Hurdle: Check if an HTML commented form field is submitted").

Now it works.

My template is based on the Emerald one, but modified.

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, beta - testers welcome

noe — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:24:15 -0500

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Maurice Makaay
Yeah, but the SpamHurdles v2 adds protection of the PM system, which was not available in v1 of the module. I don't remember if there were template changes needed for the new PM protection.

If things don't work out, you should at least be able to disable the PM checking by modifying the info.txt and commenting out the pm related hooks.

Oh perhaps I schould have said, that I only updated from v2.0.0 to v2.0.1.
So before this update, there were no problems at all...

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, beta - testers welcome

Maurice Makaay — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:29:26 -0500

Yeah, but the SpamHurdles v2 adds protection of the PM system, which was not available in v1 of the module. I don't remember if there were template changes needed for the new PM protection.

If things don't work out, you should at least be able to disable the PM checking by modifying the info.txt and commenting out the pm related hooks.

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, beta - testers welcome

noe — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:07:57 -0500

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Maurice Makaay
What exact version of Phorum are you running?
Does the same thing happen with the default Emerald template?

Phorum Version: 5.2.15a

Hm ... I've to try if it happens with the original emerald template (I only have a modified emerald template).
But everything worked perfect for me before updating to the latest spam hurdles version.

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, beta - testers welcome

Maurice Makaay — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:59:31 -0500

What exact version of Phorum are you running?
Does the same thing happen with the default Emerald template?

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, beta - testers welcome

noe — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:03:05 -0500

Hi,

After updating to the latest spam hurdles version (v2.0.1) my users aren't able to send pm's anymore (no matter if I enable or disable spam hurdles options for PM).
They get this message: "The data that you have submitted to the server have been rejected, because it looks like they were posted by an automated bot"

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, beta - testers welcome

Maurice Makaay — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:38:25 -0500

Darn, I must have totally overlooked that bugfix. I incorporated it in version 2.0.1 of the module. Thanks, David!

Re: Module: Spam Hurdles 2, beta - testers welcome

DavidVB — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:32:26 -0500

There is a bug in the class.captcha_recaptcha.php program - see my earlier post. I was able to get it working with just a couple of changes.