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:

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

[WHC_Luke]

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?

[Aurous]

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?

[Noiz Pollution]

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.

[Aurous]

any help with the [img] code?

[Aurous]

*bump*

[Noiz Pollution]

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

[Aurous]

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!

[Noiz Pollution]

Confirmed this is working as normal with 3.0.3.

Cheers,
Robert

[Dras]

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.

[Malke]

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...