Excessive Smilies overloading Servers

[Xenon]

yes admin/functions.php

its line 658 in a unhacked functions.php

[Danny]

oh yeah your right so it is, sorry a find did not find it hmmmm.

[Danny]

oops wrong thread

[FWC]

Good job Logician and Xenon.

[Rushy]

I really need this as we are getting spammed badly. I added the hack but it still posts the message and then You cant get into the thread it just says there was too many images inthe previous post so the thread effectively gets ruined by the spammer as noone can open it.

Is there a way to check before it actually posts the message?

[Logician]

Originally posted by Rushy
I really need this as we are getting spammed badly. I added the hack but it still posts the message and then You cant get into the thread it just says there was too many images inthe previous post so the thread effectively gets ruined by the spammer as noone can open it.

Is there a way to check before it actually posts the message?

My code above checks the message before it is inserted into the database so it shouldnt behave like you said if you applied the code correctly and used "exit" command as I suggested.

If it's a common problem, the best practise will be changing the spammer's usergroup to banned/ moderated or restricted users inside the code to get rid of them easy and quick.

Don't forget to use "exit" command, otherwise the script will not stop and it will write the post to the database which will cause problems like you mentioned..

[Xenon]

hmm, standarderror has included the exit since a few versions pal

but i have to agree, banning those users who abuse their rights is the better way

[Rushy]

I tried the code above but for some reason it posts the message and then brings up the error message. If you try and then go into the thread aferwards it just syays ' you last post had too many blah blah' so I'm not sure why this is not working for us.

Originally posted by Logician

My code above checks the message before it is inserted into the database so it shouldnt behave like you said if you applied the code correctly and used "exit" command as I suggested.

If it's a common problem, the best practise will be changing the spammer's usergroup to banned/ moderated or restricted users inside the code to get rid of them easy and quick.

Don't forget to use "exit" command, otherwise the script will not stop and it will write the post to the database which will cause problems like you mentioned..

[Logician]

Originally posted by Rushy
I tried the code above but for some reason it posts the message and then brings up the error message. If you try and then go into the thread aferwards it just syays ' you last post had too many blah blah' so I'm not sure why this is not working for us.

ok then there is one possibility left and that is your "Maximum images per post/signature" settings in Admin CP/vb settings is set to 0.

Change it to any value except 0 and the hack will work..

[Boofo]

Glad I stumbled on to this thread. I see the geniuses are hard at work again.

What code would I need to warn someone with a PM telling them that they will be banned if it happens again? And can I do it for a particular user if he does it more than once?