Comments with no spam... Please help!

I have a site, http://www.supplement-analysis.com/ and want to give people the option of leaving comments/reviews but every time ive tried to do it before there was a bunch of spam. Can someone quote me how much they’d charge to do this development for me. I dont have the time to mess with it anymore and need to get it done.

Thanks!

Email me: mnikolic25 at gmail . com

The Askimet plug-in is used for Wordpress -- has anyone been able to integrate it with MODX? If there’s an Askimet plug-in for MODX, this would help you.

Askimet would be great, i use it for wordpress and i’m constantly impressed with how good it’s working, and what kind of heavy-hardcore-spam is filtered out - definitiveley wouldn’t want to see one of those in my comments!

cheers, j

akismet or mollum (http://mollom.com/) would be a good solution. I like the idea behind mollum, it only posts captcha if the comment looks spammy.

I was looking at mollum the other day. Looks interesting. And if Drupal can have a plugin then we must have one

Quote from: dev_cw at Feb 04, 2009, 06:45 AM

I was looking at mollum the other day. Looks interesting. And if Drupal can have a plugin then we must have one

I was toying with the idea of adding Mollom as an option for SPform (at least for Revo), then I thought maybe it might be better to make a generic Mollom component.

I’m not sure how best to implement it. It would be nice if it could be a  plugin that  any component could use, but without creating custom system events, I don’t see how to do it.

I’m thinking that maybe just a Mollom class file would be the most flexible, with the Mollum authentification stuff and server list in System Settings. That way any component could make use of it with minimal programming.

Thoughts?

Unfortunately none of the snippets that would benefit from this share any common plugin structure (something to possibly think about in the future). eForm with it’s events can handle this, Jot could use this but it would need to be hard codded, I don’t know SPForm but I imagine it also doesn’t have a common structure for this. Then again most have a hook for captcha, so maybe we could find a way to use that existing hook?

I like the idea of a custom class anything/anyone could use. Ive built up a small library of functions/classes i use a lot with eform, foxy, etc. So it would be a good start for coders at least.

Quote from: dev_cw at Feb 04, 2009, 02:26 PM

Unfortunately none of the snippets that would benefit from this share any common plugin structure (something to possibly think about in the future). eForm with it’s events can handle this, Jot could use this but it would need to be hard codded, I don’t know SPForm but I imagine it also doesn’t have a common structure for this. Then again most have a hook for captcha, so maybe we could find a way to use that existing hook?

Right. And the snippets would need a placeholder for the Mollom output. I think a class is probably the best bet.

I’ve done this the other way around - I’ve written a MODxIntegration plugin for Wordpress. This allows you to run MODx snippets and parse chunks from inside a Wordpress template. This in turn allows you to easily create a Wordpress theme that matches the rest of your MODx site and seamlessly integrates on the frontend.

This allows you to use Wordpess for what it’s good at - blogging (including akismet and any other Wordpress plugins you like) in that part of the site, and MODx for what it’s good at - i.e. everything else!

My site (http://www.codeistry.com/) is using this at the moment: the whole site is MODx, except the /blog section which is pure Wordpress, using my MODxIntegration plugin and a custom Codeistry theme.

I’m about to deploy this for a client as well and I’d be happy to help you out if you want to use it. When I get chance, I’ll be tidying this up and releasing it to the community & repository etc... but I doubt that will be for a week or two, as I’m pretty busy at the moment.

Sound like this would be any use to you?