[Submitted] Visual Confirmation Inst. Guide [Latest: 1.1.2]

[ycl6]

Thank you tbartold for the advice
I just moved and using dialup at the moment
When I upgrade to ADSL a month later, I will then update the guide

~Mac

[JohninLA]

Does this mod work alright with 2.08? Before I attempt it, I want to confirm it will work. I tried using EasyMod, but it won't even recoginize it in my Admin/Mod folder. I changed the folder name to "visualconfirmation" removing the under score, but it still won't find it. Any other tricks in installing this, than what tbartold suggested above.

Last, is this the best Mod of this type to use? I just want to prevent unauthorized users (SPAMMERS) from joining my forum and collecting email addresses.

Thanks!

[ycl6]

JohninLA

before attempt this MOD, you should read the documentations in the CONTRIB folder. It will better explain why & how this MOD came from, i.e. it is a back-port feature from phpBB 2.2

I would say this IS the best Visual Confirmation that is available and it works with 2.0.6 ~ 2.0.8a. It should also work without much additional modification with 2.0.4+

p.s. I've never mention any where in the guide that is work with EasyMOD, so don't assume it will. For the "original" installation guide, read docs in contrib folder

~Mac

[JohninLA]

Thanks ycl6, since this was a fairly big mod, I was hoping EM would work. My record getting mods to work needs some help!

I'll read the docs as you suggested, and go from there. Thanks for the help.

[ycl6]

it's considered one of the easy-mid difficulty modifications out there & you shouldn'd spend more than 10 minute with this MOD, average you only need ~5 minutes

~Mac

[rubenski]

Hi there,

I installed this mod here: www.tekstenuitleg.net/forum and it works great!

I use a dutch language pack on my forum. Those of you that use an alternative language pack should remember to manually update their language files. I kinda forgot that and couldn't find the visual confirmation option anywhere in the admin panel

Works great btw. I hope I will lose those horrible spambots now. There is one thing I would like to know still: where can I set the "registration attempts for this session" value?

[JuggoPop]

I got this installed, but I get a broken image for the Visual Confirmation...
can someone tell me where I need to look to fix this? I think I must have missed something small somewhere.

thanks.

[ycl6]

There is one thing I would like to know still: where can I set the "registration attempts for this session" value?

Hi rubenski

Look into includes/usercp_register.php

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		$sql = 'SELECT COUNT(session_id) AS attempts 
			FROM ' . CONFIRM_TABLE . " 
			WHERE session_id = '" . $userdata['session_id'] . "'";
		if (!($result = $db->sql_query($sql)))
		{
			message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, 'Could not obtain confirm code count', '', __LINE__, __FILE__, $sql);
		}

		if ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result))
		{
			if ($row['attempts'] > 3)
			{
				message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, $lang['Too_many_registers']);
			}
		}
		$db->sql_freeresult($result);

~Mac

[ycl6]

I got this installed, but I get a broken image for the Visual Confirmation...

Hi JuggoPop

The images are generated by PHP & zlib, so I don't understand why image is not displaying correctly. So far, images have been generated by many Visual Confirmation users on their server with the code provided by phpBB Group

~Mac

[DianaRae]

Hi there,

Im using the following mods:

-Categories hierarchy
-Keep Unread Flags
-Split topic type
-Announces Suite
-Last Visit Mod
-Junior Admin
-Color Groups

I tried to install the visual confirmation tonight. I did it step by step & even verified that the sql is there.

I can go into the Admin Panel & check yes. It does change the # to 1 in the mySQl database, but when you look again in the ACP the box is no longer checked.

On the actual registration page it looks like this:



Could one of the above mods be the reason this doesn't work?

==solved==

I had missed some important code in the usercp_register.php. When I added it it worked just fine.

[ycl6]

==solved==

I had missed some important code in the usercp_register.php. When I added it it worked just fine.

Great!

~Mac

[boon.cc]

What is this???

Sorry for asking but I dont undestand well.

[ycl6]

What is this???
Sorry for asking but I dont undestand well.

Hi This is a step-by-step Guide to how to install Visual Confirmation MOD, especially for modded forums

If you want to know what is Visual Confirmation, then read the first post or contrib/README.html

So what is Visual Confirmation:
Quote from contrib/README.html

Visual Confirmation System
Author: psoTFX

Unfortunately there are people "out there" who have nothing better to do than cause other people trouble. Even worse are groups that write applications which cause problems. One very annoying (and pointless) way in which people can cause you trouble is by mass registering users. This Mod, back-ported from the forthcoming phpBB 2.2 helps eliminate or reduce this problem. It generates a random series of six alphanumeric characters as a png image. The user must then input these characters before they can register a new user. Should they fail three times in a row they will be locked out for the rest of that session

~Mac

[boon.cc]

Where can I download this MOD ???

[ycl6]

Where can I download this MOD ???

Please read carefully:

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############################################################## 
## Author Notes:
##	This is only the installation guide,
##		the actually author for Visual Confirmation MOD is phpBB Group
##
##	The original Visual Confirmation files can be found in 
##		contrib/visual_confirmation.zip
##	
##	includes/usercp_confirm.php can be found after you unzip
##		contrib/visual_confirmation.zip
##
##	* from phpBB 2.0.6 onwards, this code should have been added
## 
##############################################################