Preventing spamming on forum

[Guest]

Script URL: http://clubsouthampton.port5.com/mboard/mboard.php
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Version of PHP: 4
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Can you tell me how l can prevent spamming to the forum, as l am getting unwanted posts from spammers.

Justin.

[PHP junkyard regular user]

Hmmmm was searching for something and figured why not try to help being that this site is assume.


Not sure if it has any built in security for it like the guestbooks anti-spam check where user has to add numbers before post. "I would check that"

Also do you have a robots.txt "for search engines and spammers"

I use a text file named robot.txt to keep bots from searching certain directories.

example open your favorite text editor "notepad"

format "looks like this"


user-agent: *
Disallow: /mboard


save as "robot.txt"
upload to root directory.


PS: This helps a bit to keep bots away.

Hope this helps !

[Klemen]

Good info.

If you have any PHP knowledge you can setup the same check that is in GBook, I will probably add it myself someday but I can't seem to find any time to work on these scripts

Regards