YapGB (https://sourceforge.net/projects/yapgb/) is a simple guestbook written in PHP. Development has been stalled for a long time and it has a big spam problem.
I'm looking for some help/advice with fixing it.
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Hello, maybe I can help, where is that spam? At the moment SourceForge is facing problems anyway, so some pages are not showed correctly and we may have to wait a bit to fix them if they are hosted here.
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Yes, the demo is hosted here. The code is too old (it throws lots of warnings on PHP 5 because of many deprecated functions), almost nobody uses it anymore, but I still receive reports of pages being attacked by spam bots from people trying the script. I guess the captcha is being bypassed, but don't know how could it be prevented. I'd like to figure it out before trying to update the codebase.
YapGB (https://sourceforge.net/projects/yapgb/) is a simple guestbook written in PHP. Development has been stalled for a long time and it has a big spam problem.
I'm looking for some help/advice with fixing it.
Hello, maybe I can help, where is that spam? At the moment SourceForge is facing problems anyway, so some pages are not showed correctly and we may have to wait a bit to fix them if they are hosted here.
Yes, the demo is hosted here. The code is too old (it throws lots of warnings on PHP 5 because of many deprecated functions), almost nobody uses it anymore, but I still receive reports of pages being attacked by spam bots from people trying the script. I guess the captcha is being bypassed, but don't know how could it be prevented. I'd like to figure it out before trying to update the codebase.
If you have some time, please have a quick look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/yapgb/files/yapgb/0.7.3/yapgb-0.7.3.zip/download, I can give you write access to the repository if you like (once it is available, that is).
Thank you.
I will file some bugs and feature requests in your trackers
thanks, but I don't need that at the moment.
I'm having a look at them right now. Thanks a lot Zangune!
Are you still having issues with this?
Same as above, do you still need help with this?