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Prevent Users With Low Post Counts Posting/PM'ing URLS

Title: Prevent members with low post count posting/pm'ing urls.
Author: NTLDR
Version: 1.0.1
vB Compatibility: vB3 Gamma, RC1, RC2

Description: I created this hack a while ago for use on my board to prevent people signing up and just posting a URL. This hack will prevent users with less than X posts from PM'ing or posting URLs.

File edits:

In includes/functions_newpost.php find:

PHP Code:


		
			
        eval('$errors[] = "' . fetch_phrase('toomanyimages', PHRASETYPEID_ERROR) . '";');

    }

Add after:

PHP Code:


		
			
$errors = array_merge($errors, verify_message_urls($post['message']));

Find:

PHP Code:


		
			
    return sizeof($errors);

}

Add after (making sure you change REPLACE_NUMBER_OF_POSTS_HERE to the number of posts a user must have before being able to post/pm URLS):

PHP Code:


		
			
function verify_message_urls($pagetext) {



    global $vboptions, $vbphrase, $bbuserinfo;



    $errors = array();



    if ($bbuserinfo['posts'] < REPLACE_NUMBER_OF_POSTS_HERE) {

        if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'newthread' || THIS_SCRIPT == 'newreply' || THIS_SCRIPT == 'editpost') {

            $typephrase = $vbphrase['post'];

        } elseif (THIS_SCRIPT == 'private') {

            $typephrase = $vbphrase['private_message'];

        } else {

            $typephrase = $vbphrase['message'];

        }



        if (preg_match('/\[url/i', $pagetext)) {

            eval('$errors[] = "' . fetch_phrase('x_contains_urls', PHRASETYPEID_ERROR) . '";');

            $errored = true;

        }



        $pagetext = strip_bbcode($pagetext);



        if (!$errored && preg_match('/h(\s*)t(\s*)t(\s*)p/i', $pagetext)) {

            eval('$errors[] = "' . fetch_phrase('x_contains_urls', PHRASETYPEID_ERROR) . '";');

            $errored = true;

        }



        if (!$errored && preg_match('/w(\s*)w(\s*)w/i', $pagetext)) {

            eval('$errors[] = "' . fetch_phrase('x_contains_urls', PHRASETYPEID_ERROR) . '";');

            $errored = true;

        }



        if (!$errored && preg_match('/(\w*)(\s*)(\.|dot)(\s*)(c(\s*)o(\s*)m|c(\s*)o(\s*)(\.|dot)(\s*)u(\s*)k|n(\s*)e(\s*)t|o(\s*)r(\s*)g)/i', $pagetext)) {

            eval('$errors[] = "' . fetch_phrase('x_contains_urls', PHRASETYPEID_ERROR) . '";');

            $errored = true;

        }

    }



    return $errors;

}

If you want this to apply to posts only you don't need to do the following edit which is for PM's:

In private.php find:

PHP Code:


		
			
        // process errors if there are any

        if (!empty($errors))

Add BEFORE:

PHP Code:


		
			
$errors = array_merge($errors, verify_message_urls($pm['message']));

Phrases to add:

In Front-End Error Messages add:
Varname: x_contains_urls
Text:

Code:

Your $typephrase contains one or more URLs, please remove them before submitting your message again.

Can we get a text install file for this? And, good work there. ;)

Another one let out of the bag. Good work. This will hopefully stop my rivals advertising their sites to my members lol.

Nice hack :) this one will really help prevent spamming no?

instead of

PHP Code:


		
			
$url_errors = verify_message_urls($post['message']); 

    foreach($url_errors AS $url_error) { 

        $errors[] = $url_error; 

    }

i'd use

PHP Code:


		
			
$errors = array_merge($errors, verify_message_urls($post['message']));

but rather than that, nice one Lee :)

I had that origionally but it didn't seem to work, although I think that was due to me using $post['pagetext'] which doesn't exisit :P

Thanks for the comments Stefan :) I've updated the first post with this change.

What is a good recommended setting for this?

I've had this running on my site for 2 years now. But I use a much shorter piece of code to achieve a similar result.

Great hack!
Is there a similar one to 2.3.x versions?

Erwin, wanna share with us? :)

Erwin released and alternative version for vB2.

Quote:

Originally Posted by NTLDR

Erwin released and alternative version for vB2.

Whats it called? :)

Check his profile, you'll see it listed there :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by NTLDR

Check his profile, you'll see it listed there :)

i think im going blind, i don't see it.. :(

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigdaddy04

i think im going blind, i don't see it.. :(

here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=44694 :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by cirisme

here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=44694 :)

does that also disable urls in the signatures/pms?

Is there any way to add a message to the error that comes up that says they need to have so many posts before they can use links in their messages? I haven't installed this yet. Does it already do that? If not, they may wonder how many posts they DO need to have before that can use links. ;)

I kind of find that doing that would be like telling them how many messages they need to spam before they can spam there URL ;) However you can just edit the Phrase you add to change the text to something along the lines of you need X posts before you can post URLs :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigdaddy04

does that also disable urls in the signatures/pms?

No idea... since it's a different hack it would be better to ask in that thread ;)

i only want this to apply to pm's, not posts because my competition always advertises through pms ;) can you please tell me how i would go about doing that? do i just add everything after
"If you want this to apply to posts only you don't need to do the following edit which is for PM's:"
or...?

Just don't add:

PHP Code:


		
			
$errors = array_merge($errors, verify_message_urls($post['message']));

To includes/functions_newpost.php :)

hey thanks. it's working like a charm :)

is it working with vb3.0.1?

Quote:

Originally Posted by yl88

is it working with vb3.0.1?

I'm about to test it, I'll tell you how it goes

Any way to get this to work for signatures also?

Just add the code to profile.php whereever the signature is is checked.

Quote:

Originally Posted by NTLDR

Just add the code to profile.php whereever the signature is is checked.

Which code and how exactly?

I'd also like to know how to use this to stop linking in signatures. The profile.php file doesn't contain the same code, so we can't use the same instructions. I tried adding it where it seemed to fit, but it didn't work.

Thanks for any input :)

Confirmation that this is working fine in 3.0.1? :D

There is no reason why it shouldn't work.

I...don't know. I had it set to 50 and made a test username and posted a link just fine. I'm using 3.0.1...could have ben a mistake by me, but I don't think so...?

I would like to know how to limit this to specfic forums.....like so that a user has to have x amount of posts before they are allowed to post in a specfic forum? Is this possible with this bit of code or should i ask elsewhere on the board?

works fine in 3.0.1 - Installed

one thing which I dont like about this hack is the fact that new users cant use [img] tags with this :( any fix on this?

great hack, although I am looking for something similar with signature as well regardless of number of posts. I just dont want any url in the signature. Any help regarding this?

That's a bit of a bummer that it stops people from using [img] but if it stops the spammers then it's something I'll put up with.

any help with the [img] code?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aurous

*bump*

In the meantime you should probably just have your members attach images as opposed to linking to them.

Cheers,
Robert

ya, but I'd prefer not wasting my b/w on that.

Also, can we make a check so it allows internal links and only show the error if there are external links!

Confirmed this is working as normal with 3.0.3.

Cheers,
Robert

I can't get it to work on my 3.0.3 board. I can still post links and I have 2 posts and I set the min to 5.

I installed this in 3.0.1 and got an error in functions_newpost.php on line 811 when anyone tried to post anything. I re-did the whole thing and I still had the error... I did edit the nr of posts so it's not that.

Just thought I'd let you know...

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