A plugin to stop spammers
 

Okay we all hate random spammers posting in your forums.

We hear people crying everyday.
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=210325

I have looked at some of the plugins posted on vbulletin.org and they are quite neat plugins.

On my board I have a custom field for everyone to write something in the box, all these spammers have their name in this box so that I can identify these accounts pretty easy.

My request is that could someone build me a small plugin so that people cannot sign up on my board when their nickname(alias) is the same as what they have in the custom field?

if you already have a custom field to do this it shouldnt be too hard.
Can you post what you have for that.
basically it would be a check before they sign up. If custom field = the name field then spit an error out.

??? I think in the options I created a custom field for everyone to write something, in this case "Organization".
Organization
field5

That's exactly what I need. Thank you kungfu.

gotcha. you would need to find out what that fields name is called. Im guessing
organization maybe.

In register.php file in the root directory you can hard code it.

if ($_POST['do'] == 'addmember')
find that. You can add the organization to the cleanarray as well.

if($vbulletin->GPC['username'] == $vbulletin->GPC['organization'])
{
eval(standard_error(fetch_error('noregister')));
}

you can use that error, its tells them there is no registration. Or make a new phrase in the error category and call that. you can add that sometime after the cleanarray.

to add organization just add
'organization' => TYPE_STR,
to the end

Kung Fu, I did it but i could still register when my name(alias) is equal to "organization"..