Blocking recent comment spam
There are a ton of ways to stop spam on blogs. This is my dirty (and not pretty) solution that I am adding to stop the recent wave of crap that is getting through the front end checks.
The long term plan is to put a back-end on this but for now here is v.00001
1<!--- Seperate with a pipe "|" as this is a regex list --->
2<cfset commentBlacklist = "coachoutletmall|wowgold" />
3<!---
4All the fields that we are going to check.
5Don't really need to check the email field as its not displayed.
6--->
7<cfset checkFields =trim(form.name) & trim(form.email) & trim(form.website) & trim(form.comments) />
8<!--- reFind to check the fields as they are past the other rules i.e. captcha --->
9<cfif reFindNoCase("#commentBlacklist#", checkFields, 1) >
10<cfoutput>Sorry deadbeat, I don't allow comment spam. If you feel you were wrongly blacklisted
11<a href="http://www.andyjarrett.com/blog/page.cfm/Contact-Me">Contact Me</a>
12</cfoutput>
13<cfabort>
14</cfif>
2<cfset commentBlacklist = "coachoutletmall|wowgold" />
3<!---
4All the fields that we are going to check.
5Don't really need to check the email field as its not displayed.
6--->
7<cfset checkFields =trim(form.name) & trim(form.email) & trim(form.website) & trim(form.comments) />
8<!--- reFind to check the fields as they are past the other rules i.e. captcha --->
9<cfif reFindNoCase("#commentBlacklist#", checkFields, 1) >
10<cfoutput>Sorry deadbeat, I don't allow comment spam. If you feel you were wrongly blacklisted
11<a href="http://www.andyjarrett.com/blog/page.cfm/Contact-Me">Contact Me</a>
12</cfoutput>
13<cfabort>
14</cfif>
n.b. If you are on BlogCFC then this is for addcomment.cfm
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Where in addcomment.cfm would I place this code?
@Eric You know what, I had an after thought that it might when I was adding this snippet of code. I'll have a look in to that later! Cheers for the tip!
I have a (FOSS) solution that takes pretty much the same approach but is a bit more robust. Also, you can take advantage of updated spam definitions (I try to update them at least once a month) by just reinitializing BlogCFC.
http://www.bryantwebconsulting.com/blog/index.cfm/...