Sorry I missed this, I'm trying to catch up! I'll link to your work from the downloads page.

DOOgie wrote:

Nice piece of PHP..

How and where do i put this into my Vbulletin forum ?
*edit*

I found it on Vbull.org.

Thanks installed..

Apart from the necro post, do you not search the forums for the native vBulletin mod?

To expand this to also check the fSpamlist database;

After;

    //check the e-mail adress
    $xml_string = file_get_contents('http://www.stopforumspam.com/api?email='.$mail);
    $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xml_string);
    if($xml->appears == 'yes'){
        $spambot = true;
    }elseif($spambot != true){
        //e-mail not found in the database, now check the ip
        $xml_string = file_get_contents('http://www.stopforumspam.com/api?ip='.$ip);
        $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xml_string);
        if($xml->appears == 'yes'){
            $spambot = true;
        }
    }

Add:

    //check the e-mail adress against fSpamlist
    $xml_string = file_get_contents('http://www.fspamlist.com/xml.php?email='.$mail);
    $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xml_string);
    if($xml->appears == 'yes'){
        $spambot = true;
    }elseif($spambot != true){
        //e-mail not found in the database, now check the ip
        $xml_string = file_get_contents('http://www.fspamlist.com/xml.php?ip='.$ip);
        $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xml_string);
        if($xml->appears == 'yes'){
            $spambot = true;
        }elseif($spambot != true}{
            // IP not found, lets check the username
            $xml_string = file_get_contents('http://www.fspamlist.com/xml.php?username='.$name);
            $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xml_string);
            if($xml->appears == 'yes'){
                $spambot = true;
            }
        }
    }

My PHP isn't great, so apologies if there's any errors in the above.

Last edited by MysteryFCM (2008-09-18 2:10 pm)

You should tell people that if they want to use that code, that in addition to copying and saving the code to a file named check_spammers.php (if they use the same filename as you did anyway) that they also need to create a folder under whatever folder they put that file into named spambots, and CHMOD it to 777 so that the text files you have the file creating will be able to be saved properly, otherwise they will get an error similar to this:

Warning: file_put_contents(spambots/sfs_specified_email_address.com.txt) [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /../../check_spammers.php on line 72

Here's a question for ya... If you do a wildcard search for an Email Domain such as *@gawab.com, it seems to check the fSpamList database but not the SFS database. I commented out the fSpamList section to see if it was just finding things like that in there first, and doing so shows that it isn't doing that. It's not finding them in the SFS database at all...

Cool... Thanks!

Bummer... That's odd though, considering you can do a wildcard search on the index page of the SFS website. Must just be an internal thing and you can't do it from anywhere else. Oh well... Thanks for checking it out for me.

Updated, and thanks to FastHosts being a pain in the rear and killing the domain, it's been moved aswell;

http://fspamlist.com/checkspammers/

Now also checks Sorbs, DSBL and Spamhaus (if an IP is entered anyway).

Couple minor updates;

1. Fixed a minor bug in the HTML code
2. Code copied to check_spammers_plain.php and modified to allow phpBB3 users to have their forum check new registrants;

http://temerc.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=71

Hi, MysteryFCM!
I get your new code but how can I install it in phpbb2 \if it possible\?
Thanks in advance!

This is very simple and easy.
Thank you very much!

Sorry, MysteryFCM, but your spam filter doesn't work in my board \phpbb2\.
When I click "agree" link, I get error:

Warning: file_get_contents(http://temerc.com/Check_Spammers/check_spammers_plain.php?name=&email=&ip=192.168.0.1) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error in C:\xAmp\xampp\htdocs\phpbb2\includes\usercp_register.php on line 84

The line 84 is

$fspamcheck = file_get_contents('http://temerc.com/Check_Spammers/check_spammers_plain.php?name='.$username.'&email='.$email.'&ip='.$ip);

I have uploaded folders: check_spammers\private\ in my root dir and change http://temerc.com/Check_Spammers/check_ … _plain.php to http://MY_DOMAIN/heck_spammers/private/check_spammers_plain.php
Now I cann't open register page.

What can I do?