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Akismet @ Pastebin

posted by cimnine @ 9:42pm, Thursday 20 November 2008.

Today I strungled over Akismet, which is a webservice designed for classifing your comments as SPAM, rsp. as "No SPAM". And I missuse this function to let the postings of my public Pastebin (which is based on PasteBox) rush through that service.
I've implemented it today and I'm testing it now for a while. If it's a success, I'll implement it for this EggBlog too.

But first, the implementation for PasteBox:

        $entry->date = time();

        #SPAM detection
        require_once("akismet/Akismet.class.php");
        $apikey = "xxxxxx";
        $url = url_generate('entry');

        $akismet = new Akismet($url,$apikey);
        $akismet->setCommentAuthor($entry->name);
        $akismet->setCommentContent($entry->content);

        if(!$akismet->isCommentSpam()) {
                $id = $entry->save();
                header('Location: '.url_generate('entry.view', $id));
        } else {
                require_once("views/new.php");
                return;
        }

That's it. Just change the end of "sys/new.php" to this and get the PHP5-Class from here and extract it, so that Akismet.class.php's path is "sys/akismet/Akismet.class.php".

Ooh. And yes. You have tho change the $apikey to your own. Look here for an explanation how to get an API Key.

~cimnine

PS: Yesterday I found a blog useing nearly the same design as I have. (Nearly, because I modified it a bit ^^) ~cimnine

UPDATE:
The test failed. :(
But: I implemented a new textbrowser-friendly CAPTCHA-Method.
The user has just to press the correct submit button.
There is one hidden button too.

It's like that:

        {Formfields}
        Press button [random(1,2)]:
        [submit hidden] {Submit 1} {Submit 2}

You'll find an example on http://pastebin.ch/new.

Maybe this works.... I hope so.
~cimnine