Miscellaneous Hacks - Smilie Abuse Protection

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What this hack does:
This hack make it so that your users cannot add a huge number of smilies to a post and hope to bring your server down.
The way vb currently filters smilies is that it parses them into the <img tags and counts the total number of html <img tags.
What this hack does is counts the number of smilies before vb even parses the smilies.
The parsing of the smilies can put a great load on a server and bring it down if they use enough smilies.

This hack will take your max image amount and add 15 images over the limit before this hack will actualy activate and warn the member. This hack will not work properly for thoose who have set the max image option to 0.

Features:
when system is activate user will be show an error page for to many images. User will also get a Private message telling them that they went over the limit and how many images they posted. The webmaster will get an email as well telling him the users ip,host,username,userid,how many images they tried to post.
Plus the user account you setup in the file will also get a private message containing this info as well.

I will provide support in this thread hear and on my site. If you have any reason to need support right away please ask for it at my site. http://www.extremescripts.com you will have to register to post there. I am almost always on my site so I will be able to notice any problems you guys have faster if they are posted there. I will try and support it as much as i can here.


Support thread on my site: http://www.extremescripts.com/forum/...hp?threadid=52

[eXtremeTim]

This hack will no longer be supported at vb.org If you are using this hack and need support please use this thread http://www.vbhacks.us/forum/showthread.php?t=38