Messages posted by: Carbonize

This would not stop the spamming. If anything it would just be as simple. Right now all a spammer has to do is send the answer. To make it randomised we would have to send a marker to explain to the script which question/answer we are using and all the spammers would have to do is send the marker for the answer they are sending.

I rewrote the Human Verification instructions a while back so ANYBODY could follow them.

We go to all the trouble of making a sticky thread clearly titled "Read this First" then you go and start a new thread when you obviously have not read the sticky thread. Even if there was no sticky thread there's a thing at the top called SEARCH.

open counter.class.php and replace

with

Then replace

with

Again not tested but try it.

I'l download it again at some point and take another look.

Ok so the problem is that it resets to 1and then jumpt to double figures after the next visitor?

let em take a guess, You have HTML enabled in your guestbook hence them being able to post that HTML in it.

The title of this thresad states that the counter is not resetting at midnight. This is not your problem hence my fix would not work for your prolem.

If someone has managed to get in and edit your templates then it's irrelevant whether or not the script would run any code in them (which by the way it would not, it just converts variables to their value) as they could just visit the template in a web browser and the server would run it as a normal .php file.

I'll look into it. Sure you set the time zone offset correctly in the config file ?

Think they just mean the $EMAIL part.

It will work as a PHP Nuke module. Just specify that it is a module in config.inc.php file in admin.

No taking out the homepage field would not stop spamming. Check this sites guestbook to see. If you are still getting spam after implementing the Human Verification it is down to one of three things

1 - They are being posted manually (rare but does happen).
2 - You have a second, unmodded, guestbook set up using the same database tables (I made this mistake).
3 - You missed something out in the modification and it is not working.

edit: Just looked and he's forgotten to remove the homepage field when he updated to 2.3.3 but for about a month he has not had it as an option.

the priblem lies in the fact that cPanel adds a blank line to the end of the file when you save it. This is why I always recommend using FTP and a decent text editor.

When you edited the language file some blank space got added after the closing ?>

this usually happens with web based editors such as cPanel. You need to download the file to your computer, edit it with a text editor such as wordpad, then upload the edited copy to replace the old one.