Thread creation rate-limiting hack

Well, my forum was being spammed by a lot of idiots who felt the need to create a large amount of threads, and generally disrupt the flow of our bb.

I knew I could rate limit their posts, but it wasn't so much the posts that bothered me (they were easily pruned), but the irritation of seeing all those new threads until a mod could delete them all.

I decided to rate-limit it so users could only create a certain number of threads per hour.

Drop me a line if you find this useful or have an problems!

-Kyle

[mute]

eww! :laugh:

[mute]

Posted a small change which would fix a stupid bug on my part, it just changes the one line.

PHP Code:

Change

$lastthreads=$DB_site->query("SELECT dateline FROM thread WHERE dateline > UNIX_TIMESTAMP(NOW())-3600 AND postusername='$bbuserinfo[username]'");

to 
        $lastthreads=$DB_site->query("SELECT dateline FROM thread WHERE dateline > UNIX_TIMESTAMP(NOW())-3600 AND postusername='".addslashes($bbuserinfo[username])."'"); 


[Boofo]

Excellent idea. Is there a way to add a setting that you can change in the Admin CP?

[mute]

I suppose there is

I'll look into how everyone else did it, I took the easy way out because I didn't feel like touching the database at all (aside from adding the template), but I'll see what I can do.

[Dean C]

Here you go Boofo. To work with admin options simply go to forums/admin/setting.php then add a setting to the relevant group - it generates a qury and it allows you to work with a variable which is an option when creating the setting

Then this variable with its value (e.g. 5) can be used throughout every php page which includes global.php

[Boofo]

Thanks, Mist.

[Dean C]

Your Welcome Boofo

_ miSt

[Mathiau]

Can this hack be made some people can only post some many times ina CERTAIN forum? as opposed to the entire forum? and have the time extened to say a person can only post twice in 24 hours (from their first post) in Forum A - but can post all they want as often as they want in Forum B?

[mute]

This hack is now obsolete, please check out the new improved version of this hack @ https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=54596

-Kyle