Oh! That is what I thought - well that explains it then, thanks! It's a brilliant Mod, I love it. (I clicked Install about a billion times before I realized that it was javascript, not a link I was supposed to follow.)

(And er, just in case... I didn't modify any templates manually with $nospamfield or anything, it worked with just the instructions you gave. Am I supposed to modify each style also in some way or something?) (Please say no.)

No, you aren't. The plugins are meant to automatically insert the question, but if it's not working I tell people to try it the manual way. If it works for you already, there's no need for that.

Ah great. Thanks for all your help, and thanks again for a way better anti-spambot tool!

I went into the style manager (I have 3 seperate styles in use) I clicked on edit templates for each one of them and there is a template under each one labeled "nospam" each one has the following code...
When I manually entered the $nospamfield I went in to each of my styles, clicked on edit templates, expanded "registration templates" and then I opened the register template. I dfound the text $imagereg and right above it I added $nospamfield then I clicked on save and reload.

A portion of that section that I edited manuall in each template looks like this:

Hmm.

I can't really think of any explanation it wouldn't be working for you, then, captainiron19. =/ If any coder has an idea of what could be wrong, any tips would be much appreciated.

Thanks for the help anyway - hopefully someone will have an idea. I also tried doing an uninstall and re-installed the product and that didnt help either. I installed an additional product just prior to this one (The Google / You Tube video embed feature) and it worked perfectly fine.

I am seeing a few items in my contol panel....wouth either or these cause a problem? >...

"There are currently 11 customized template(s) that need to be updated or reverted. Some sections of vBulletin may not function if you do not do this!" I saw this error at my main cp page and it started once I upgraded to v 3.6.4

Under my "Manage Products" section the top is reading... "Warning: Plugins are currently globally disabled via config.php."

excellent hack .. Good work!

...well, okay, that's definitely the problem. Edit your config.php file (it's in the includes folder) and take out the line involving DISABLE_HOOKS; I can't remember exactly what it says, but therein lies the problem. You basically disabled hacks that involve plugins, which this one does.

thanks I will do that - I believe we diabled them after having a problem with upgrading to solve a problem that really wasnt effected by any plugins

Well it looks like that was the trick. After I got it all up and running I did note however that I had the No Spam question listed int here twice. I went into the style manager where I manually added $nospamfield - it was still only in there once. So, I deleted the one I added manually and seems to be working perfectly now.

On another note..... when i went into the config.php to delete the "Diable Hooks" section I did notice I had another line there labeled.... define('SKIP_REFERRER_CHECK', true); right below the disable hooks line. I removed that also.....is that ok? Like I said before, i think both of these lines were placed in there before when i had a trouble with the forum but it turned out to be a problem on my web server's side.

Thanks again for the help

I can't wait to see how this works. They could easily lie, but I made my question "Would you like to advertise on this site?" and made the answer no. Eh, might not work for that question but we'll see! thanks so much! :up:

If that line does what I think it does, then yes, it should be absolutely fine to remove it - in fact, it makes your forum more secure.

Any way this could be used with the 'Form mod" -- which we use as a "contact us" page? We're starting to get spam from there.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1162231

Thanks
-vissa

Thank you very much.

After going thru 3 weeks of 3-5 spambots/day, I installed this a couple of days ago on 2 sites and ZERO spam registrations since.

I run a pets board so my question is "Using the letters d,g, and o, type in the 3 letter name for an animal with 4 legs that barks". Ha ha! the bots can't figure that out!

I agree with the others about having the ability to turn it off on certain pages. I love it on the registration page, but am not sure if I want it on my search page for guests as it might be a little intimidating for new folks that might want to register. Anxiously awaiting the next release!

Thanks again!

Same here - working perfectly. I was getting almost 10 spam bots joining a day. I was able to stop them from posting by not allowing for members to post until responding to the email confirmation but this has definitely stopped them from joining. I run a fire department forum and my question is

What is the name of the cool wet stuff firefighters use to extinguish fires?

:) This is an excellent modification that I have added to my forum. My members and myself appreciate this alot. This has totally eliminated the spammers. I have not had any at all.

Thanks
RON:up::)

Installed and configured in 3 minutes flat! :up: Thanks for developing this.

I recently got a report from one user that some of my questions didn't seem to be working with the answers that should have worked upon registration. So I tried registering myself to see if this is in fact the case, because all the questions that I previously tested seemed to work. However, the user was right, there was on question that I stumbled on specifically that didn't work. I tested a few others of that sort and they didn't seem to work either. Here are the questions:

Will you date me?:Yes[:Yeah:Yea:Ya]
Do you like video games?:Yes[:No]
Have you ever lied to your mommy?:Yes[:Yeah:Yea:Ya:No]
Are you wearing clothes?:Yes[:Yeah:Yea:Ya:No]

Perhaps I don't have the formatting right or something, but I followed the instructions as they were written... so I donno.

vissa: I'll look into it.

Yvgeniy: You were not meant to include the [ ] there; those were just put there to indicate that the second, third, fourth, etc. options were not necessary, as the examples were supposed to make clear but apparently didn't. So your question field should look like this:

Will you date me?:Yes:Yeah:Yea:Ya
Do you like video games?:Yes:No
Have you ever lied to your mommy?:Yes:Yeah:Yea:Ya:No
Are you wearing clothes?:Yes:Yeah:Yea:Ya:No

Sorry about the confusion.

Thanks for the feedback, all of you. :) I really appreciate it.

Have a question. Are answers case sensitive?

Never mind, found my answer.

HAHA.... First, great hack..... Installed...

one question I have is "what color is blue?" And you would NOT believe the amount of wrong answers I get....

This is by far one of the most useful hacks I've installed in a long time. I find myself cussing other sites that are still using the default 3.6.x captcha for registering and/or search. The font's are so hard to read and a lot of sites have all the options enabled making the captcha VERY hard to read even for myself.

GREAT HACK!

I just noticed that NoSpam! is leading February's Modification of the Month, so in gratitude for your support, I've updated the hack to version 3.0. :) Now you can specify whether the forum should use NoSpam! for registrations, Contact Us, guest posts and guest searches individually.

Nice!

Nice job, antialiasis! I've been using this for a few months and it has helped defeat a lot of the spammers.

Thank you.

updated and all is good.

Thanks for the feedback, all works well now. Running the latest version =D

Thanks for the update -- I'm voting for MOTM. Any chance you could tell me how I might be able to get this to work with the "form mod" I mentioned above? Is it just making some changes to the template on that page or more involved than that?

-vissa

hum... i download the V.3.0 of your hack and when i open the zip file is the 2.0 in ...
something wrong ?

That is definitely supposed to be version 3.0. What exactly is indicating to you that it's 2.0?

when i unzip and upload the xml (with overwriting "on" ) nothing is changed after - i see the product on the list called as 2.0 and on setting all is same as 2.0. and on the zip file is same files (and date) as in 2.0

in add if i open the xml file is writted "version 2.0"

Here is what we did to make the NoSpam! work in our dual language board. We used both questions (one in English and one in Spanish) on the same line. The user can input either the Spanish or English answer and it authenticates. :D

If you decide to do this you cannot hit the enter key after the first language or you will get two separate questions. :up: Enjoy :up:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2007/02/24.jpg

Great, thanks for the update. Still one of the best, most essential hacks around right now.

Phosphorus: I just downloaded the zip file attached to the first post here myself and it contains version 3.0. :/ Are you sure you weren't opening the previous version you downloaded or something? Try redownloading it.

Top Nurse: Remember, you can still insert a line break with HTML - just use this code:
Caiman: Thank you. :)

I have figured out the Form Hack integration; see the newly-added integration.txt file.

I still love this mod. Thank you for the update. MOTM for sure. I don't even remember the last spammer on my forums.

Oh la la! Thanks so much for the tip as that makes it look just so much nicer now. :D

I think I like it BUT:
Isn't this the same as the CAPTCHA then???