UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V5 Mod Questions Simple Hack to Limit # of New Threads Users Can Create per Day(s)

If you're like any other webmaster, you hate spammers. Here's a simple hack I recently implemented on my board to limit my users to 1 new topic per every 48 hours in each forum in a certain category. For example, if you apply this hack to forums "A" and "B," posting in forum A will not affect your ability to post in forum B, but you will not be able to post a new topic in forum A until 2 days (adjustable) pass. Replies are unaffected, this only applies to new threads. Anyway, here's the hack:

In the DoPostTheTopic subroutine of postings.cgi find (around line 1340):Right under that insert the following:Replace YourCategoryNumber with the number of the category you want this to affect. (Open your forums.cgi file in the UBB CGI directory on your web server and look at the very first number of one of the lines that contains one of the forum names in that category. DON'T EDIT THE FILE!) Alternatively, you can change

$thisforum[0] == YourCategoryNumber
to
$number == YourForumNumber

and replace YourForumNumber with the number of the forum you want this to affect (look at the links to messages on your board if you don't know the numbers). To have it affect multiple forums, change

if ($number == YourForumNumber) {
to
if (($number == YourForumNumber1) | | ($number == YourForumNumber2)) {

Be sure to remove the spaces between the pipes "| |".

Finally, to change the time a user has to wait to post another new topic, change the value of $numDaysToWait to some other number of days.

That's it. May your fight against spam be a winning one.

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Leshrac
leshrac@magictraders.com
Founder, Owner - Magic Online Trading League (MOTL)
http://www.magictraders.com
MOTL Bulletin Board

Nice hack

Just a thought

It seems there was a small error in the placement of this code, please check the first post in this thread for the correct placement. Sorry about that.

great idea Leshrac (this thread is highly underrated, considering the usefulness of this hack)

ok, i understand that you can change the number of days before posting, and the forum it takes place in...but can you change the actual number of posts they can make? The way I see it, the limit is automatically set to one post per given time period. Even in the text, it says "Sorry, but you may only post one new topic..." How would I go about changing this to 2, 3, or 4?

That's a little more complicated, you'd have to add a hash table to count the number of times the poster's UserName appears on the list.

FYI, I'll no longer be supporting this hack on this site because I don't have time go checking more than one UBB hacking site, so if you're looking for updates or have questions, please visit the thread located here .

Thanks.

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Leshrac
leshrac@magictraders.com
Founder, Owner - Magic Online Trading League (MOTL)
http://www.magictraders.com
MOTL Bulletin Board

Anyone know if this works?? I did everything as says. But I kept it as original

With forum # than the category #

And for days I put 365, is that the problem??

anyone know the problem??

Anyone know if Leshrac still comes here?? Or does anyone have this hack??