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Dandello Forum Administrator Offline I Love YaBB 2! Posts: 125 Joined: Apr 25^th, 2012	Anti-spam Honeypot Aug 19^th, 2012 at 10:00pm	Print Post
	Another Anti-spam measure - This creates an 'invisible' field that spam-bots will fill in but users using CSS enabled browsers will not. For YaBB 2.5 (not tested on 2.4 but it should work) Zip Package: ---------------- honeypot.mod Installation: ---------------- 1) Modify YaBB files manually or use Boardmod. (The two css files need to be copied to the folder you're directing BoardMod to under /Templates/Forum/ so BoardMod will find them - You'll probably have to create that folder as it isn't a yabb2 folder.) 2) Upload modified files to their proper places on your server in ASCII mode. Files to edit: ----------------- cgi-bin/yabb2/Admin/Modlist.pl cgi-bin/yabb2/Sources/Register.pl cgi-bin/yabb2/Languages/English/Error.lng cgi-bin/yabb2/Languages/English/Register.lng yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default.css yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/yabb21.css Note: the additions to Register.lng are generic form labels to trick the the spambots by making the field look like one that might have been created by Extended Profiles. You should probably edit these for your own forum. Mod History: ---------------- 1.0 Alpha - First Release - 19th August 2012 Edited to make directions clearer.
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Derek Barnstorm God Member Offline Posts: 1146 Location: Warwickshire Joined: Mar 23^rd, 2008 Gender:	Re: Anti-spam Honeypot Reply #1 - Aug 19^th, 2012 at 10:48pm	Print Post
	Hi Dandello, Not tested with BoardMod then? BoardMod can only modify files in the 'yabb2' directory, so the install will fail on the CSS edits. If you want to modify files in the 'yabbfiles' directory through BoardMod, then you'll need to add notes to the mod file or first post telling users they need to copy the CSS files from the 'yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/' directory to the 'yabb2' directory before installing the mod, and then change your 'edit file' steps to: Code <edit file> default.css </edit file> <edit file> yabb21.css </edit file> Or, you could just include the CSS code in the first post or a separate text file and tell users they'll need to add it to their style sheets.

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Dandello Forum Administrator Offline I Love YaBB 2! Posts: 125 Joined: Apr 25^th, 2012	Re: Anti-spam Honeypot Reply #2 - Aug 19^th, 2012 at 10:59pm	Print Post
	Or I could remember to remind people to put those two files under Templates/Forum/ (which is where I kinda assumed they should go) and then Board Mod can find them, too. Hey - at least I got BoardMod to work. Finally, after much swearing.


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Derek Barnstorm God Member Offline Posts: 1146 Location: Warwickshire Joined: Mar 23^rd, 2008 Gender:	Re: Anti-spam Honeypot Reply #3 - Aug 19^th, 2012 at 11:02pm	Print Post
	Dandello wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 10:59pm: Templates/Forum/ But there's no such directory under the 'yabb2' folder...

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Dandello Forum Administrator Offline I Love YaBB 2! Posts: 125 Joined: Apr 25^th, 2012	Re: Anti-spam Honeypot Reply #4 - Aug 19^th, 2012 at 11:14pm	Print Post
	But BoardMod can't find them in yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/, so why not just copy /Forum into yabb2/Templates and then remember to put it where it belongs when you FTP it? or... I could change it to just putting those two files into the yabb2 directory - but they still have to remember to put them back.


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Derek Barnstorm God Member Offline Posts: 1146 Location: Warwickshire Joined: Mar 23^rd, 2008 Gender:	Re: Anti-spam Honeypot Reply #5 - Aug 19^th, 2012 at 11:20pm	Print Post
	Dandello wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 11:14pm: But BoardMod can't find them in yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/, so why not just copy /Forum into yabb2/Templates and then remember to put it where it belongs when you FTP it? That's fine - anywhere will work as long as they are in the 'yabb2' folder. I didn't think that was what you meant because you said put those files "under Templates/Forum/". Dandello wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 10:59pm: Or I could remember to remind people to put those two files under Templates/Forum/ (which is where I kinda assumed they should go) and then Board Mod can find them, too.

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Dandello Forum Administrator Offline I Love YaBB 2! Posts: 125 Joined: Apr 25^th, 2012	Re: Anti-spam Honeypot Reply #6 - Aug 20^th, 2012 at 12:56am	Print Post
	Changed the instructions to (hopefully) make them clearer.


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