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JLA Board Member
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 1:50 pm Post subject: [RC] Registration Auth Code - 0.0.3 - RAC |
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MOD Title: Registration Auth Code (RAC)
MOD Author: JLA FORUMS - http://www.jlaforums.com
MOD Description: This MOD is based on the "VIP Code MOD" by Martin Aignesberger. and an update of verion 0.0.2 by Marshalrusty < marshalrusty@phpbb.com > (Yuriy Rusko) http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=427852 . A number of improvements have been made to the aforementioned MODs including:
1) Proper usage of language variables
2) Proper usage of the phpBB MOD Template
3) The removal of 2 unnecessary steps
4) More detailed instructions
5) Configuration of Question Title, Question, Answer and Error message via the Admin Control Panel (ACP)
This MOD will require users to enter an auth code or answer a question during registration, which is defined by the administrator in the ACP. Alternatively, the administrator may wish to ask a question which can be answered to let the registration proceed.
Here are two examples of what this screenshots of what this looks like:
http://www.jlaforums.com/images/JLARAC1.jpg
http://www.jlaforums.com/images/JLARAC2.jpg
MOD Version: 0.0.3
Installation Level: Easy
Installation Time: ~10 Minutes
(4) MYSQL Insert Statements on phpbb_config
Files To Edit:
includes/usercp_register.php
language/lang_english/lang_main.php
templates/subSilver/profile_add_body.tpl
language/lang_english/lang_admin.php
templates/subSilver/admin/board_config_body.tpl
admin/admin_board.php
MOD History:
2011-09-30 - Version 0.0.3 - JLA UPDATE VERSION
2007-07-22 - Version 0.0.2
- More user friendly error
2007-01-01 - Version 0.0.1
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Salvatos Board Member
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 4:00 pm Post subject: Re: [RC] Registration Auth Code - 0.0.3 - RAC |
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Does it do anything more/better than ABQ?
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JLA Board Member
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 4:27 pm Post subject: Re: [RC] Registration Auth Code - 0.0.3 - RAC |
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Salvatos wrote: | Does it do anything more/better than ABQ? |
Actually, this is an update to the original RAC mod adding ACP configuration that wasn't originally included.
I would say that this MOD is probably alot easier to install and uses less resources to run that the ABQ mod you linked.
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 4:47 pm Post subject: Re: [RC] Registration Auth Code - 0.0.3 - RAC |
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But ABQ can choose from multiple questions randomly and be applied to Guest posting. RAC does neither, I think?
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 7:41 pm Post subject: Re: [RC] Registration Auth Code - 0.0.3 - RAC |
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Salvatos wrote: | But ABQ can choose from multiple questions randomly and be applied to Guest posting. RAC does neither, I think? |
No, this mod is very specific to just registration and specification of one static question and answer.
You can configure, the question, answer, question type title, error message and appearance in the ACP.
The previous version had all of this hard coded. We just made it so it can be configured completely via the ACP.
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lumpy burgertushie Board Member
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 11:23 pm Post subject: Re: [RC] Registration Auth Code - 0.0.3 - RAC |
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and just as in the way phpbb3 q&a captcha works, there is no need for multiple questions. one question that can not be googled for the answer is all you need.
for instance:
type the last four letters of the word beetle in the box:
answer: etle
no register bot will be able to answer this so you stop them before they can complete the registration form so they don't even show up as having attempted to register.
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 11:39 pm Post subject: Re: [RC] Registration Auth Code - 0.0.3 - RAC |
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What do you mean by "can't be Googled"? Stuff like equations, or general knowledge?
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JLA Board Member
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:12 am Post subject: Re: [RC] Registration Auth Code - 0.0.3 - RAC |
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Salvatos wrote: | What do you mean by "can't be Googled"? Stuff like equations, or general knowledge? |
I think something a bot could automatically query google and generate an answer to post to the form.
Have any of you tried our new version out?
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 11:23 pm Post subject: Re: [RC] Registration Auth Code - 0.0.3 - RAC |
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Updated version 0.0.4 released.
Fixed minor bug to explain in ACP that answers must be entered in lower case characters since answers in registration are case insensitive.
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 2:27 am Post subject: Re: [RC] Registration Auth Code - 0.0.3 - RAC |
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Isn't that contradictory? Case-insensitive means that whichever case is used won't affect the outcome.
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 3:32 am Post subject: Re: [RC] Registration Auth Code - 0.0.3 - RAC |
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Salvatos wrote: | Isn't that contradictory? Case-insensitive means that whichever case is used won't affect the outcome. |
We found that if the answer was entered into the ACP in upper case, then the user would received the error message that the answer was incorrect even through they entered it corrected (either upper, lower or exact match combination). When we entered the answer in ACP lower case, it worked correctly for the user provided they entered the corrected answer (either upper lower or any combination)
So it appears that the answer has to be specified lower case in ACP.
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:38 am Post subject: Re: [RC] Registration Auth Code - 0.0.3 - RAC |
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That is quite peculiar! Wouldn't this solve it?
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if (strtolower($HTTP_POST_VARS['RAC']) != $board_config['registration_question_answer'])
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if (strtolower($HTTP_POST_VARS['RAC']) != strtolower($board_config['registration_question_answer'])) |
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JLA Board Member
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:03 am Post subject: Re: [RC] Registration Auth Code - 0.0.3 - RAC |
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Salvatos wrote: | That is quite peculiar! Wouldn't this solve it?
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if (strtolower($HTTP_POST_VARS['RAC']) != $board_config['registration_question_answer'])
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if (strtolower($HTTP_POST_VARS['RAC']) != strtolower($board_config['registration_question_answer'])) |
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I'd imagine so. It was late so didn't have time to hunt down that line. I'll test it and make sure.
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 8:31 am Post subject: Re: [RC] Registration Auth Code - 0.0.3 - RAC |
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JLA, why do you lock out visitors from your Site using the Opera browser?
You cannot regulate visitors which browser(s) they have to use to visit your site (apart from very old versions).
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 3:57 pm Post subject: Re: [RC] Registration Auth Code - 0.0.3 - RAC |
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StarWolf3000 wrote: | JLA, why do you lock out visitors from your Site using the Opera browser?
You cannot regulate visitors which browser(s) they have to use to visit your site (apart from very old versions). |
After analyzing data for the past three years with the past year holding the most importance we have found that over 90% of visitors with a reported user agent of Opera are related to scraping or other undesired activities which violate our Terms of Service. The remaining users usually understand to either change their user agent or use an alternate browser. The others (bots, etc) are usually are not aware enough to do so which is consistent with why they were blocked to begin with.
Keep in mind that users with those reported user agents are just an extremely small fraction of the total visitors to the site. The block makes sense considering this along with the fact that the great majority of them are undesirable and have potential to effect the viewing experience for the much larger (and important) majority.
One thing you have to understand is the overwhelming amount of attempts and undesired activity which takes place against a site such as a large forum. Most board owners are either completely oblivious and have absolutely no concept of the sheer amount of this type of activity that takes place 24 hours a day/7 days a week. There are so many companies/entities and individuals out there taking part in these activities that to completely understand the scope of it all would really leave many site owner's/webmaster's heads spinning. 1st there are companies such as Brandwatch, Brand Dimensions, brandprotect, Radian R6, SalesForce, Alterian, Techridgy along with multitudes of other claimed legitimate "social media monitoring" outfits who are constantly attempting to scrape your data and content to resell it at a profit (all without your knowledge, permission or regard). Add to that individuals originating directly from/or from proxies in China, India, Brazil, Latin America, Africa, Russia, Eastern Europe, France, Spain, Germany, UK, US Data Centers among others - you are just starting to scrape the tip of the iceberg. Where do you think the growing pollution epidemic of the search space (and part of the reason for events such as the Google Panda update) originates?
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