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admin · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:07 am Post subject: ATC and phpBB2

phpBB2 is a popular forum software, and, after e-mail, is the main target of spam.

Several methods of attaching Advanced Textual Confirmation to phpBB2 are possible. The simplest is the following.

0. Download Advanced Textual Confirmation, unpack the files the files "bbantispam.php" and "bbas_config.php", and upload the files on the server.
1. In the phpBB installation directory, open the file "extension.inc".
2. After the first string, "<?php", add the string (change "...path.to..." to the correct value)

kevins · Guest

Is it possible to show this message only with new registrations? And to show the question box in het phpbb template lay-out/design?

Thank you! great anti spambot mod!

admin · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:15 am Post subject:

forumtech · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 4

"bbantispam.php" and "bbas_config.php" do I just upload them to my root directory?

admin · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:45 am Post subject:

forumtech · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 4

admin · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:40 am Post subject:

For 'require_once', please use not a web address ("http://..."), but a file path address. In your case, as "bbantispam.php" and "index.php" are in the same directory, the following should work:

forumtech · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 4

thanks got it working!

admin · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:37 am Post subject:

Glad to hear it!
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forumtech · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 4

can I change the questions withthe free version?
If I did is it still working?

admin · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:11 am Post subject:

Yes, you can change the question.

The only limitation of the free version is that you can't change the layout of the form.
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Guest · Guest

I downloaded Advanced Textual Confirmation and followed the exact same procedure as explained above. I don't understand why, but it's not working on my forum. Now instead of the forum I get the message "Warning: main(bbantispam.php) failed to open stream: No such file or directory". The forum has disappeared altegether! What could have gone wrong?

Slacker · Guest

I think you have written the wrong path to bbantispam.php, so it can't be found, so thats why you get an error message. When you ftp to your site in which folder do you have bbantispam.php?

http://www.bbantispam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=470&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

admin · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 2:08 am Post subject:

Slacker is right. Please show your 'require_once' string.
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Guest · Guest

I have the bbantispam.php in a folder named 'bbantispam' in the 'nfphpbb' folder which is in the folder 'Forum' in the root directory. So the string I used in the extension.inc was

require_once 'Forum/nfphpbb/bbantispam/bbantispam.php';

But it's not working. The message I get on the screen is

Warning: main(Forum/nfphpbb/bbantispam/bbantispam.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /mnt/w0301/d17/s43/b01c6273/www/Forum/nfphpbb/extension.inc on line 3

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'Forum/nfphpbb/bbantispam/bbantispam.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/nf/lib/php') in /mnt/w0301/d17/s43/b01c6273/www/Forum/nfphpbb/extension.inc on line 3

What should I do?