Merged How to protect my forum from spam

katalyst wrote: I've taken the hack from here:
www.kunena.org/forum/114-user-written-ha...for-x-first-messages

and updated it to work with Kunena 1.6.3

To use it, you would edit the /components/com_kunena/lib/kunena.posting.class.php file around line 389 and add the below code. You can edit the $ks_minposts variable to however many posts you want to set as the minimum before the user is no longer moderated.

I'm open to suggestions on how to improve it. I would love to see something like that implemented in the core. I hope its useful to someone.



// Hold the post for new users
$ks_minposts = 2;
$query = "SELECT (count(*)<{$ks_minposts}) AS review FROM #__kunena_messages WHERE userid={$this->_my->id} AND hold=0";
$this->_db->setQuery ( $query );
$this->_db->query ();
$dberror = $this->checkDatabaseError ();
if ($dberror){
return $this->setError ( '-post-', JText::_ ( 'COM_KUNENA_POST_ERROR_SAVE' ) );
}
$ks_userposts = $this->_db->loadResult ();
if ($ks_userposts <= $ks_minposts) {
$this->set ( 'hold', 1 );
}

Mortti wrote: We have used Admin Tools Professional extension in our site(I do not mean Kunena.org) and there is not SPAM so much... but we have to do couple exception than we release everything not working just fine in Kunena, thanks fast support of admin tools pro...

It's this extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-...ite-protection/16363

There is still more learning of this extension for me and our team... registered gmail addresses go in gmail junk post still(and some other domains), but all site/forum issues are solved.

Anyway in ReCaptcha you can take again those words @"costisefu" if people/users don't understand... there come new ones, it's helpful sometimes. I use Captcha in my tests...