How do I set the background colors?

edit: Figured it out.

Is there any way to disable the regular register.php to prevent the bots from still trying to hit it (even if I've renamed it with your other mod).

Yes, turn off registrations in vBulletin options.
You know, the stock one. It then becomes a lil honeypot for spambots.
RFR works independantly from the registration.php or whateveryounameit.

Oh that's sexy. Thanks!

Just as another layer for spam protection, an idea for the next version could use some sort of Q&A on the popup to verify that your email address is correct.

That would be the plan, where any Q&A/Captcha would be if needed.

Would likely have to rewrite the javascript to use jquery for more options than the standard JS confirm box.

This does not work with your other mod does it?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=258035

Just want to make sure it's not me.

Thanks.

No, not with that mod, sorry. The way this works you are not logged in after registration so no real way to work that in.

Just a few hours to go in the Mod of The Month vote and ths mod is tied with DragonByte's Navtab manager!

And DragonByte just sent an email out to their bajillion subscribers asking people to vote, not once but twice, in the same email.:erm:

So I will ask you too.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=301752

Please vote for your favorite mod, even if it isn't mine.

Alas, I have already voted, and for yours BOP.

If I could I would again.

I don't use the mod, but understand why others do...
Voted for this some time ago...

Thanks for the reply. I voted for this, thanks for the reminder. Hope you win!

Oh well, good effort guys, but maybe next time... They came up with like 4+ votes in the last 5 hours, no doubt that email blast to all their customers worked.

Feel free to re-nominate the mod again to try for next month's vote!

Yeah! nominated BirdoPery5. once again thanks for your efforts. And I am sorry.. by mistake i rated 4.

Stupendous.

nice..
but i have a problem..
http://i.imgur.com/vWgRufQ.png
help-me please. :D

Looks like your CSS isn't loaded.

In Admin CP -> Settings -> Options -> Language & Style Settings, do you have CSS stored as files? If so change it back to the database, at least to see if the mod works.

If it does the system can't write changes to your CSS directory anymore.

The issue I'm getting with this great mod is no redirection to the forum page. It's just a pretty bare success page without a link (which is easily added in case of no redirection.)

The other issue concerns spam. Lately there has been TONS of it. I'd prefer to include the spam/captcha of vBulletin as an option so that it doesn't run rampant. It's currently off the charts. Without SFS plugin, there is no operating a forum any more.

It can't redirect to the forum page because I was the user to have time to read the information displayed after quick registration.

You can edit the error message phrase bop5rfr_reg_complete and add a link to the forums if you feel you need it, but I would hope most can figure there way back. Besides, they should be cecking their email for their password anyway. Not much point going to the forum until they log in.

If spam is rampart then your captcha isn't doing its job anyway, why bother using it if it doesn't work?

This is all assuming that you have email confirmation enabled. ;) In some cases you don't want to take the user back to their mailbox to confirm and then get back to the forum. It defeats a great part of the express registration, IMHO.

The back link to the forum is definitely needed on my site. Having the user go up to the menu to click befuddles some of the older generation. :) The redirect gets them there and they don't need to view the user name and password which will be emailed to them.

Spam is a problem on numerous big boards. I've got friends who are experiencing a solid number of spammers defeating the captcha. I find that if I change the questions, it minimizes the spam since these spammers must have an smart remember entry to their forum spam. So the captcha can work, it just has to be there and implemented along with SFS. :)

I still think this is a phenomenal mod and deserving of MOM, which I noted this month. ;)

I have been running this exclusively as my registration port for my site for a number of weeks.

Having been around awhile I have battled spammers continuously.

So far, only one spammer, and two failed registrations due to the email not being recieved and bounced. All three were human, and the one that got thru cruised around my site as a logged in member until he found a place where he had permission to post links.

One.

I can live with those kind of numbers.

My site is a target for foreign spammers because it's fairly well known in the niche. The number of hacking and spam attempts each day would probably shock you.

I dont think it would shock me. I know what you mean.

I should add that I have a fairly extensive blocked IP list in my htaccess which encumpasses a few certain countries where almost all of my spam attempts come from. That alone has significantly reduced all attempts on my site to near a few dozen a day. I dont miss that traffic nor the countries natural traffic as my site does not target nor support those countries.

Would be ultra beneficial if the registration also was on every page, not just the forum home. Ideally, shown to guests on every page when not logged in so that they will be induced to register. I guess you might be able to copy the form onto the showthread templates and use a conditional if statement.

Yes, I have relocated just below the navbar, and it now shows up on every page with a header.

Better global than just one page imo.

That's a good idea. Can you explain how you did that?

smirkley - great idea. What did you do to accomplish this? Did you move the hook for the plugin?

I knew I remembered seeing somewhere on how to do this. It tells you how in the AdminCP Options for RFR. Enable RFR Anywhere, then add the listed code at the bottom of the navbar template.

Totally forgot about that. Many thanks.

I'm probably going to hack in the captcha or the human interface captcha which I think might be just a matter of plugging in the code from the registration page.

BOP, having all the stylevars lined up puts the entire vBulletin team that created vb4 to shape. They were easy to find and modify, unlike the hours of wasted time tracking down VB4 stylevars.

This has been possible for a while, it is in the instructions, you just need to do a manual template edit to the template(s) you want it in.

Not sure we're talking about the same thing. This mod (RFR) ignored whether Email Confirmation is turned on or not. In RFR after a user submits the form they have to read the info that comes up. In most cases it tells them they need to check their email for their password then come back and log in.

If you are someone who tells them their password immediately then they still need time to copy it down and log in.

In either case they need time to read the message. A link back to forum home is fine, but an automatic redirection would not leave most people enough time to realize what is going on since most people won't be used to this mod.

BOP - Thanks. I realized what the optional edit meant only later and then forgot where to look. I just assumed it would be enabled below the navbar by default.

Regarding the second issue - I realize that I have another mod on my forum. I'll explain the one part about this great mod - which will improve things for most - but I feel makes it less useful for me.

I want users registering and posting asap. I do not want to force them to validate email or wait to check it and then find their password. Both creates a time lag and potential complications, especially when these emails go to the spam folder.

The captcha is what helps to separate the humans from the bots. While it makes the fast registration less fast, it's still much faster than forcing new users to confirm their email address and then login. So what is the ideal? To have users logged in after hitting "join" and having their password sent to them in email. If they don't get it, they will be able to recover their password if they don't know it or will already be logged in already from the initial autologin. This keeps users on the forum at all times. Makes sense?

I have to say l like the current version the most.

Email verification is very important, with a popup reminder to fill in correct email, that's more than enough for legit members who want to participate. Members without valid emails usually don't post follow-up to their threads, which bothers our core members.

Regarding the human verification, I haven't seen any bot registrations. If we use a custom file name, with only a few hundred forums using this mod, I don't think spammers will target this mod. Human verification is not just one more field, it makes the registration several times more complicated.

will try it out, thanks for it.

^ Nevermind, I read everypage but the last :)

Would be great to add a Q/A on it. Since installing it a few hours ago I have had 22 spam accounts, granted they cannot complete registration but thats bad news for my newsletters I send out, lots of fake members...

That is odd to me. I have my website up 9+ years and have been literally hammered by spammers and trying to block them every day.

Up until which I installed this mod.

My setup:
Really Fast Registration by BOP installed
Change registration filename by BOP installed
Allow registrations - vb OEM - turned OFF

What this configuration allows is that :
any bot will not find if looking for register.php...
If the bot is programmed to find the registration page then it will just get the error page with registrations turned off...

It ends up like a honeypot, at least for me.

That said the occasional human can figure out how if they want to spam. With that I have denied access of most IP's owned in China,Vietnam, Russian Federation and India using entries in my htaccess file. (I do not cater to these countries anyway so I am not missing out on desired traffic.

Result of several months of RFR,... only one human spammer, quickly snubbed manually.

It has been so much easier for me now to manage spam.

edit to add- I do have q&a still setup for things like the Contact Form.

How would I add this to all my templates? For forum and CMS and blog? Not sure which templates to edit...

Just take this --> and paste it in your advertisements - under navbar, thats what I did anyway.

Its not working, which template did you go into? Thanks!

This mod provides high flexibility to put anywhere you want. I really like that.