Hey Guys,

I get hundreds of fake forum users who register on my forums here: http://reviewtrip.com/traveltalk

Even though I use the plugin Human Test, I still get these spam users. So I decided to create a plugin that hooks into StopForumSpam API to stop these guys.

You can download and find the instructions here:

http://reviewtrip.com/blog/stop-forum-spam-api-plugin-for-bbpress

Let me know what you guys think!

[@_ck_ Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

I guess it would be a good alternative to akismet (or even in addition to).

Your code can be cleaned up and condensed considerably.

It also could benefit from some security checks on the $_POST data being injected into the url.

Here is an untested, condensed version with some mild security checks on the $_POST

http://pastebin.com/f7a50d82a

(there is also an alternative to curl in there for the 50% that don’t have it on their server)

I took out some of the extended manipulation of the returned data that you didn’t need.

[@ipstenu Moderator 16 years, 7 months ago]

I admit, I’m using the same tool (but I force all registration through WP so I run a plugin there). It’s actually used with Bad-Behavior and Akismet, since those were catching about 90% of the forum spam (and 99.99999% of the blog spam). Dunno what it is but you get more spammers able to make accounts via bbPress than WordPress.