Question BBcodes disabled

I have a client who will only accept a forum if all bbcodes are disabled. I am not a programmer, but I have tried to find a way to do it with Kunena 1.5.7, looking through the code, and searching this entire forum. I only found ways to hide/remove the boardcode editor from earlier version, but all the same that is not the same as completely disabling bbcodes from working inside of posts. This involves several sites, so it is worth the effort.

If I cannot do it, I will have to remove the forums. But it would be a shame, since this is a great forum that fits wonderfully with the cb installed on all the sites. Specifically the client does not want a repeat of several forums that had to be permanently shut down due to aggressive spammers pasting in bbcodes of images and urls to porn sites, faster than the moderators could delete. The attacks were relentless lasting for months, managing to destroy the value of the established communities, so you can see why my client is adamant about this. Unless you have gone through this, it is hard to imagine some people devote so much time to ruins sites, but sadly these things do happen if you are unlucky enough to become the target of some malevolent parties.

I can sympathize, and I thought it would be a feature in kunena, but I found otherwise. So I am asking if someone please could provide a hack to simply disable all bbcodes. Of course if you can do it just for [img][/img] and [ / url ] that would be great, but if it is too complicated, just overall disabling of the functioning of bbcodes is acceptable.

I have been racking my brains on this for hours. Closest I can figure is something needs to be turned off in this area in kunena.parser.php:

Only I don't know what or how. I tried commenting that section out, but it only led to a blank page for the forum, not good. I read online someone suggest to put
URL Pattern(?!\[\/url\]) to exclude bbcode url, but I can't figure how, or if that would work with kunena.

Hope someone knowledgeable can let me know how to do this.

You should comment it out by using php comments: /* case 'tag': code; code; code; break; */
Just comment out from "case" to "break" before next case.

There may be other places for those tags, too.. So try to search both img and url..

BTW: Kunena also converts www.domain.com to url.

Better way to do this is to leave tags alone and restrict registration of bots. There are many good captha solutions which will help to prevent automatic registrations. If someone has to manually write all those messages, he will bget bored in no time and you will get only few spam messages.

Matias, I will try the case to break. However, not to be taken the wrong way, it is apparent that you have never done battle with real people who are criminals who do NOT tire. They are NOT bots. I will tell you why they do not tire. They are well prepared, and do not type as you suspect. As this is their pasttime, they have prepared in some text editors, blocks that they simply paste with less than a second, into new posts.

So it is very easy. And they register, go through the whole process, verify their emails. These are real people. I have seen several different webmasters, over the last 5 years, crumble under these kind of criminal, real people attacks. Again, I repeat, these are not bots, and these people go on for months, each night, even sometimes adding brazen comments. That is why is it imperative that the ability to disable urls and images in bbcode be an option. Since they only paste over and over easily blocks they have prepared of their bbcode porn images and urls, it is no work at all for them. Sometimes I wondered if these are convicts who are allowed computer use, and so this is all they have to do; one never knows as these people hide behind proxy ips.

I discovered last night someone had written an independent plug for phpbb to block out urls/images. But phpbb hardly integrates anywhere as well as kunena, and is a terrible option, if you are stricktly joomla/cb webmaster.

I will try shortly your suggestion. I did try before to comment out using <!-- -->, but I may not have gone from case to break, as the pages disappeared. I will let you know.

As far as your comment of "BTW: Kunena also converts www.domain.com to url." fortunately, yesterday I had found earlier how to stop Kunena from that kind of converting in this forum. Someone had said how to change permissions of autolinking from 0/1 and when I did it, that stopped that kind of conversion. It is the bbcodes that has been an incredible problem for me to try to figure out. I must have poured through every post here on any subject related to that, then scoured all kinds of websites through yahoo/google, and read more about this topic than I care! But my client simply will not use any forum if I cannot ensure bbcodes will not work if someone independently pastes a pre-formatted block of image/url using bbcode into a post, for the reasons I have stated above, to prevent that type of spammer. :(

Matias wrote:

You should comment it out by using php comments: /* case 'tag': code; code; code; break; */
Just comment out from "case" to "break" before next case.

There may be other places for those tags, too.. So try to search both img and url..

Sorry, this recommendation did not work. What happened is what happened to me before: the entire kunena forum returns a blank page, no matter where. I made sure at the end of the file and beginning there are no blank spaces.

If I got this wrong, please let me know. This really is draining to figure out. It must be more simple to block usage of bbcodes working for and [img]. I will continue to wrack my brains. I hope this isn't going to turn into another 22 hours marathon and no results like yesterday. :blink: