PHPBB Member List Link Spam
When I overhauled my sailing community website (now at www.daysailer.org), I decided to use a free and popular web forum package called PHPBB. My home-brewed forum was getting old in the tooth anyway....
View ArticlePHPBB Member List Link Spam Part 2
Back in November I detailed a method for preventing the majority of automated "linkspam" accounts being created in PHPBB message boards. At the time I wrote "it can't prevent someone from signing up...
View ArticleWho is deixxervaisul?
On a board where I run phpBB, a recent member registered with the name "deixxervaisul". The profile says the member is in the United Kingdom. He left his occupation as "King of the Web" and the email...
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Integrating other sites with PHPBB
I have been working on integrating a PHPBB forum with an established site for a client. Their site has a pre-existing user base and sign-in method, and I didn't want to disturb that. This knowledge...
View ArticleMore PHPBB Member Linkspam
The PHPBB board that I maintain recently picked up a new user account: Analina. The user signed up with the email analina@gmail.com. The user left a link to visualpicz.com, which redirects to a page...
View ArticleIntegrating other sites with PHPBB 2.0.20
In a previous entry, I detailed how I used some code from PHPBB to integrate its session management with my existing website. The idea is to include just enough PHPBB stuff to get PHPBB sessions...
View ArticlePHPBB Fake Members
It's becoming frustrating to be a PHPBB administrator, at least if you want to keep your memberlist clean. Form bots out there create fake users on your site in the hopes that your memberlist will...
View ArticlePHPBB Inactive Member Removal Cron Job
A commenter to a previous article asked exactly how I delete inactive members from a PHPBB forum that I run. So I'll try to explain. This solution runs on Linux/Unix systems...I'm sure it could be...
View ArticlePHPBB Anti-spam Registration Question
I've been meaning to document this for a while now, and I finally made myself write it up. The simple measure I will describe has been working for my PHPBB website since last December. It has kept...
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