[pmwiki-users] need to require password for guestbook

Ben Wilson dausha at gmail.com
Mon Jan 15 13:22:01 CST 2007


Perhaps a captcha is what you're looking for? That should mitigate the
non-human spamming.

http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Captchas

On 1/15/07, Tegan Dowling <tmdowling at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Sandy:  I did try to install that on one of my wikis, but
> whenever I enter test comment text in the comment-box, the screen just
> refreshes, without posting the comment.  I speculated that it requires
> a later version than I'm using, so turned to the guestbook recipe.
>
> But looking again at the commentbookplus recipe says it requires
> 2.1.x, and I'm running 2.1.26, so it ought to work.  I dunno where to
> begin to trouble-shoot.  I'll try some stuff and report/ask more
> again, later.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On 1/15/07, Sandy <sandy at onebit.ca> wrote:
> > Tegan Dowling wrote:
> > > Is there a configuration, or can someone come up with a variation, on
> > > the Guestbook recipe http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Guestbook
> > > that will require a password for an entry?  I want to display the
> > > password prominently on the page as the simplest method of avoiding
> > > spam-bot entries.
> > >
> > > Is the recipe somehow over-riding the authorization requirement, and
> > > if so, is there some way to over-ride the over-ride?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > Try commentboxplus. It shows a random, 3-digit number to enter with your
> > comment.
> >
> > Sandy
> >
> >
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