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Thursday 16 August 2007 2:06:32 am - 7 replies

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Lukasz Piech

Thursday 16 August 2007 3:37:48 am

How about implementing customantispam functionality into user/register template?

http://ez.no/community/contribs/workflow/peter_s_custom_anti_spam_image

Lukasz

Xavier Dutoit

Thursday 16 August 2007 4:31:53 am

Kristof released an akismet plugin just for that.

http://projects.ez.no/akismet

http://www.sydesy.com

Jeroen Sangers

Tuesday 21 August 2007 3:45:42 am

Thanks a lot Xavier,

I just installed the Akismet extension, and it seems to work fine.

Kristof Coomans

Tuesday 21 August 2007 6:54:24 am

Hi Jeroen

Thanks for trying it! In case you want to contribute something or if you have any remaining questions, then feel free to post a message to the eZ Akismet project forum.

independent eZ Publish developer and service provider | http://blog.coomanskristof.be | http://ezpedia.org

Jeroen Sangers

Tuesday 21 August 2007 7:52:50 am

Hi Kristof,

I can't post on the Akismet project forum, as eZ Projects currently does not allow new registrations (it gave me an ugly kernel error).

Is there anywhere I can check what is happening, any kind of logging? I just noticed that three more dummy users have been created on my site, and would like to see why Akismet let them go through...

Kristof Coomans

Wednesday 22 August 2007 12:27:58 am

Hi Jeroen

Indeed you're right, new user registrations are currently not allowed. I forgot about this myself :)

Akismet probably didn't recognize those users yet as spam. You can still submit them as spam with the content action handler included with the extension, to train the web service. After some time it should detect them as spam as well :) Take a look at the main page of the project, I've put some instructions there on how to do this.

independent eZ Publish developer and service provider | http://blog.coomanskristof.be | http://ezpedia.org

Jeroen Sangers

Thursday 23 August 2007 10:58:09 am

Thanks again. When I have some more time I will try it out.

One more thing: I noticed that many of the new users do not have a first name, last name, username or e-mail address, while when I try to create such a user myself I get an 'Input did not validate' error and it won't let me create the user. Anybody knows what is going on, and how the spammers are able to create users anyway?

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