Well since I need it fixed, I'll take a look at it and provide a fix if I found one but I'm not taking maintenance of it.
A fix would be really great. For me this plugin is meanwhile the most important on my site.
I have realized that Spam prevention has become a very significant issue so I have started a new plugin called My Spam Ninja that I hope will eventually become a complete anti-spam package. I can't give you any time-frame as I am pretty busy at the moment but I'll work on it when I can.
You can follow the progress here:
https://github.com/Tim-B/My-Spam-Ninja
Please
DO NOT run the code on GitHub on a live site, it is currently only in a pre-alpha state.
Currently My Spam Ninja only performs the same functionality as this plugin except without any settings yet, and it does log/cache denied registrations. I'll obviously be extending it to include other anti-spam techniques too.
I'll post a dedicated thread once the plugin is closer to completion.
That sounds good. To log the denied registrations is a very good idea, i think.
Wow this is perfect... Thanks.
Thank you so much I install new modication
Alright so after some researching I found out the problem is on the actual XML output by Stop Forum Spam website so there isn't much you can do besides placing a @ before simplexml_load_file(...), it's the actual site that outputs invalid XML so you can't do anything.
In my new plugin I used json rather than XML which doesn't seem to have a problem.
You can look at my _checkSFS function here:
https://github.com/Tim-B/My-Spam-Ninja/b...s_user.php
When I get a minute I think I'll update the original SFS plugin to use json so it can be used in the mean time until My Spam Ninja is ready.
Okay, I just updated this plugin to use json to parse information from stopforumspam.com and also to make it compatible with 1.6.
I have also added a simple logging tool that will log rejected registrations and errors. When a log is made a file called sfs_log.php will be created in your root MyBB directory which you can open and look at.
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for this.
Has anyone encountered real users getting blocked as spammers?